Robert Alexander: 82 books

In the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains were relatively small multicultural communities that actively maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional kinship practices. These practices were governed by the Law of the People as described in the traditional stories...

Passed by Congress in July 1787, the Northwest Ordinance laid out the basic form of government for all U.S. territory north of the Ohio River. That summer, the Constitutional Convention drafted the defining document of the American Republic as a whole. A bargain struck between Congress and the Convention...

This concise survey, based on a series of lectures delivered before the distinguished Royal Society of Arts in 1914, takes readers from the invention of printing and moveable type in the fifteenth century to innovations with wood-block printing, photogravure, and color printing in the nineteenth century.

This book is the definitive study of the life and works of one of Britain's most important inventors who, due to a cruel set of circumstances, has all but been overlooked by history. Alan Dower Blumlein led an extraordinary life in which his inventive output rate easily surpassed that of Edison,...

John Pride is a forensic accounting investigator for the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He lives on a Puget Sound island west of Seattle enjoying the quiet life between cases. When he receives an unexpected phone call with unfortunate news it sends him packing his bag and flying to the...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

TESSERACTS FOURTEEN: Strange Canadian Stories, edited by John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, features innovative short stories and poetry by 23 of Canada’s finest speculative fiction writers. This anthology joins a 20+ year Canadian literary legacy that features the writing and...

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Imagination' was one of the most successful science fiction magazines of its time. While many of it contemporaries tried to push literary boundaries, 'Imagination' focused on adventure and space opera, assuring its financial success. Here are some of the finest stories ever to appear in its pages....

November 2037: Perry Rhodan kehrt nach zahlreichen Abenteuern ins Sonnensystem zurück. Entsetzt muss der Raumfahrer feststellen, dass die Position der Erde nicht mehr geheim ist - mittlerweile sind die Arkoniden gelandet. Die Soldaten des Großen Imperiums haben die Erde besetzt und überall ihre...

This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...

Dieses eBook ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Die geheimnisvolle Insel (Jules Verne) 20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer (Jules Verne) Moby Dick (Herman Melville) Benito Cereno (Herman Melville) Gullivers Reisen (Jonathan...