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  • The Emergence of Football

    Sport, Culture and Society in the Nineteenth Century

    by Peter Swain ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sports History
    The Emergence of Football fuses sports history into mainstream economic, social and cultural history, setting the development of the people’s game against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution.The book challenges conventional histories of nineteenth-century football that surrounded mass games and the public schools and extends the revisionist critique of those histories with the imaginative ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Fono

    The Contest for the Governance of Samoa

    by Peter Swain ...
    Fono: The Contest for the Governance of Samoa tells the story of the development of Samoa' s unique system of governance, and of those who have fought for power and shaped the development of the Independent State of Samoa, from first settlement through German colonisation and New Zealand' s administration, to indigenous governance, including the hard-fought 2021 General Election and its dramatic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Routledge Handbook of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Research and Policy

    Edited by Ranjula Bali Swain, Peter Dobers ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This handbook brings together a collection of seminal research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and investigates the effectiveness of the 17 goals for achieving transformative change toward sustainable development.As a collection of inter- and transdisciplinary research from around the world, this volume explores the applications, implications, and best practices of the goals at ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    The Night Monster

    by James Swain ...
    Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - The Jack Carpenter Series

    Unabridged

    10 hours 26 min

    Tough-as-nails abduction specialist Jack Carpenter is not easily spooked. But when he witnesses his daughter's college basketball teammate being violently abducted, Jack cannot suppress his horror. The kidnapper's face is one Jack recognizes from an unsolved case early in his career on the police force. With a deadly clock ticking, Jack is determined to rescue the abducted girl before it's too ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Laughter is the Best Medicine: Confessions of a Young Surgeon

    by Peter Sykes ...
    Narrated by Martyn Swain ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 29 min

    It is said that a surgeon must have ‘the eyes of a hawk, the heart of a lion, and the hands of a lady,’ but have you ever wondered how a surgeon learns to operate, how he ‘cuts his teeth’ progressing from naive newly-qualified doctor to competent surgeon?In this collection of medical tales, the training of one slightly naive young trainee is viewed through the experiences of the patients he treats ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Midnight Rambler

    by James Swain ...
    Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Jack Carpenter Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 46 min

    Years ago, South Florida cop Jack Carpenter beat up a murder suspect named Simon Skell, a dangerous predator with a penchant for playing the Rolling Stones' "Midnight Rambler" as he tortured young women. When Jack lost his temper, he lost his job and his marriage, too; so as Skell's early release from prison draws near, the tarnished hero—now a specialist in cases of missing children—sees an ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Laughter is the Best Medicine: Confessions of a Young Surgeon

    by Peter Sykes ...
    Narrated by Martin Swain ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 29 min

    It is said that a surgeon must have ‘the eyes of a hawk, the heart of a lion, and the hands of a lady,’ but have you ever wondered how a surgeon learns to operate, how he ‘cuts his teeth’ progressing from naive newly-qualified doctor to competent surgeon?In this collection of medical tales, the training of one slightly naive young trainee is viewed through the experiences of the patients he treats ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Researching Pedagogic Tasks

    Second Language Learning, Teaching, and Testing

    by Martin Bygate, Peter Skehan, Merrill Swain ...
    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    Researching Pedagogic Tasks brings together a series of empirical studies into the use of pedagogical tasks for second language learning, with a view to better understanding the structure of tasks, their impact on students, and their use by teachers. The volume starts with an introduction to the background and key issues in the topic area and is then organised into three sections:the first section ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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    The Night Stalker

    A Novel of Suspense

    by James Swain ...
    Narrated by Richard Mover ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Jack Carpenter Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    Ex-cop Jack Carpenter is the type of guy criminals avoid, so he's surprised to receive a summons from Florida state prison's death row. Staving off his rendezvous with Old Sparky one appeal at a time, notorious serial killer Abb Smith wants Carpenter to find his grandson. Even stranger, the case involves Heather Rinker, a childhood friend of Jack's daughter. After making some bad choices in her ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Dark Magic

    by James Swain ...
    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Peter Warlock Series

    Unabridged

    10 hours 48 min

    Peter Warlock is a magician with a dark secret. Every night, he amazes audiences at his private theater in New York, where he performs feats that boggle the imagination. But his day job is just a cover for his otherworldly pursuits: Peter is a member of an underground group of psychics who gaze into the future to help prevent crimes. No one, not even his live-in girlfriend, knows the truth about ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Loaded Dice

    by James Swain ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Tony Valentine

    Unabridged

    8 hours 48 min

    For ex-cop Tony Valentine, life in balmy Florida provides little R&R. In fact, he’s in demand now more than ever. Armed with a special grift sense, Valentine can spot card cheats and even bigger game whose sole purpose on earth is to relieve a casino of its cash. But when his son, who was going to card-counting school, goes missing, Valentine jets to Las Vegas. Once in town, he is pressed into ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Sucker Bet

    by James Swain ...
    Narrated by Tony Roberts ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Tony Valentine

    Abridged

    5 hours 20 min

    A hardened ex-cop, Tony Valentine now nabs hustlers who rob casinos, and the Micanopy Indian Reservation Casino in South Florida desperately needs his expertise. A blackjack dealer has rigged a game, dealt a player eighty-four winning hands in a row, and then disappeared.But the missing dealer is part of an even bigger, far deadlier scheme. Valentine’s trail leads him to Rico Blanco, a ruthless ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook