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    Women of Wonder - Crime

    Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

    by Baroness Orczy, Lettice Galbraith, Ethel Lina White, Edith Stewart Drewery, Elizabeth Corbett, Beatrice Heron-Maxwell, Lady Eleanor Smith, Leonara Wodehouse, Elinor Mordaunt, Josephine Tey, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Winifred Holtby ...
    Narrated by Lisa Bowerman, Janet Fullerlove, Richard Mitchley ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 40 min

    Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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  • Shallow Waters Vol.9

    Shallow Waters, #11

    by Tom Deady, Jay Bechtol, Francesca Maria, Gregg Stewart, Diana Olney, Maxwell Marais, Naching T. Kassa, Amanda M. Blake, Claire Davon ...
    Series Book 11 - Shallow Waters
    Dive Deep One Last Time with Shallow Waters—Where Secrets Don't Stay Buried!Engulf yourself in 19 tales of horror and dark fiction, the final excursion beneath the surface of life, death, and the enigmatic shadows in between. This last installment unravels mysteries that dance on the delicate line between the real and the unimaginable.Shallow Waters has been the landmark flash fiction contest ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Astrology

    From Ancient Babylon to the Present

    by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart ...
    Astrology is a means of interpreting the influence which the positions of certain heavenly bodies have upon the earth and human beings. The earliest records are those of Babylon, which were designed to help its kings understand the will of their gods. It then became a way of making sense of the world as people saw themselves as integral parts of a vast but puzzling whole. Medicine, politics, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Poltergeists

    A History of Violent Ghostly Phenomena

    by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart ...
    The story of violent ghost phenomena through the ages. The poltergeist of 'noisy ghost' phenomenon is commonly thought to be the result of a dead person's angry spirit expressing that anger by violence in the physical world, or the projected energies of an emotionally volatile human being, often a teenager. In fact, poltergeists are more interesting than either of those suggested explanations, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Chemical Choir

    A History of Alchemy

    by Dr P. G. Maxwell-Stuart ...
    Beginning in China in the search for the secret of immortality, and appearing independently in Egypt as an attempt to produce gold through the arts of smelting and alloying metals, alchemy received a great boost in Europe from studies by Islamic and Jewish alchemists. Translated into Latin and then combined with what was known of Greek natural science these accounts provoked an outburst of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Satan: A Biography

    A Biography

    by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart ...
    The Devil, like the poor, is always with us. Evil has been personified in every religion and culture, and Christianity in particular developed a highly graphic view of him from its earliest period. Sometimes grotesque, sometimes beautiful, sometimes threatening, sometimes seductively helpful, sometimes comical, Satan has played a variety of roles in human existence.Feared and frightening adversary ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The British Witch

    The Biography

    by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart ...
    For over 500 years witches, male and female, practised magic for both harm and good in their communities. Most witches worked locally, used by their neighbours to cure illness, create love, or gratify personal spite against another. Margaret Lindsay from Northumberland was prosecuted for making men impotent, John Stokes in London for curing fevers, Collas de la Rue on Guernsey for killing people ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Malleus Maleficarum

    by Peter Maxwell-Stuart ...
    The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches. It was written in 1487 by a Dominican inquisitor, Heinrich Institoris, following his failure to prosecute a number of women for witchcraft, it is in many ways a highly personal document, full of frustration at official complacency in the face of a spiritual threat, as well as being a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Witch Beliefs and Witch Trials in the Middle Ages

    Documents and Readings

    by Dr P. G. Maxwell-Stuart ...
    In 1901 a rich collection of extracts from documents relating to witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages - Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung in Mittelalter - was published in Bonn. Most of the original documents are in Latin, with some in medieval German and French, and it has been left largely untranslated, making the material inaccessible, and neglected. This new translation of the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Closing Hell's Gates

    The death of a convict station

    by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart ...
    Based on an elaborate reconstruction of day-to-day life at Macquarie Harbour, one of Australia's most notorious sites of convict punishment, this is the true story of how, in 1827, nine convicts opted for 'state-assisted' escape (the death sentence) rather than endure the hardships and privations of the penal settlement on Sarah Island.In October 1827, nine convicts who had endured years of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little

    by Peggy Gifford ...
    Series Book 1 - Moxy Maxwell
    Here's the first book in the hilarious Moxy Maxwell series, which includes Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-you Notes and Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Practicing the Piano.It wasn't as if Moxy hadn't tried to do her summer reading. She and Stuart Little had been inseparable all summer, like best friends. If Stuart Little wasn't in her backpack, it was in her lap . . . or holding up the ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Cultural Imperatives in Perceptions of Project Success and Failure

    by Maxwell Chipulu, Udechukwu Ojiako, Paul Gardiner, Terry Williams, Vital Anantatmula, Caroline Mota, Stuart Maguire, Yongyi Shou, Peter Nwilo, Vachara Peansupap ...
    Global projects bring many advantages and challenges. Cultural Imperatives in Perceptions of Project Success and Failure is one of the few, if not the first, reports of research that examines the interaction of culture and views of project success in a comprehensive way. In this highly complex issue, the authors lay out their research and results in a logical, deliberate manner that does much to ... Read more

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