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    Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice

    Short & Sweet Edition

    by Simon Foster ...
    Narrated by Brian P. Craig ...

    Abridged

    32 min

    Simon Foster’s short & sweet edition cuts out the fluff from Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen and gets straight to the good stuff. Savor the best literature of all time without spending years of your life treading through long traditional books.Simon Foster books are a suitable length for the human attention span, helping you to remember the key details of every book. By the end, you’ll be able to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hong Kong & Macau Travel Adventures

    by Simon Foster ...
    Fly into Hong Kong and spend a few days discovering its diverse attractions from shopping in bustling Kowloon to hiking along one of the islands' well-marked lush trails. Eat dim sum downtown and head up Victoria Peak for an after-dinner drink to remember. Take a boat or a train to Guangzhou and sample yet more Cantonese delights, along with some fine colonial architecture, maybe stopping off in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • China Adventure Guide

    by Simon Foster ...
    This is equivalent to the print edition, which is 640 pages. The focus is on areas likely to be most rewarding for tourists (all of China could not be seen in several lifetimes): Beijing & surroundings, Shanghai and Hong Kong, the Terracotta Warriors near Xi'an, the Yangzi River's Three Gorges, the majestic rural scenery around Guilin, the Pearl River Delta, and the island of Macau Designed to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Corrugated Steel

    The Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit and the Metal Box That Crushed the Unions and Built Globalization

    by Simon Foster ...
    The modern world was not built by the internet, the microchip, or the airplane. The true foundation of globalization is a remarkably dull, corrugated steel box measuring exactly twenty feet in length. Before its invention, moving cargo across the ocean was a slow, chaotic, and dangerous process that required armies of longshoremen to manually pack individual sacks, barrels, and crates into the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • China's Three Gorges, Xi'an & the Terracotta Warriors

    by Simon Foster ...
    This is based on our full China Adventure Guide, which is 640 pages. It's designed to enable you to gain the most from China during your trip. All the major sights in the destinations covered are described, but so are little dumpling houses, lively markets, walks through narrow old streets, places to study tai chi. The focus is on adventure in every sense of the word--from kayaking and balloon ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Beijing & Surroundings Travel Adventures

    by Simon Foster ...
    Arrive in Beijing and spend a few days soaking up the Imperial sights the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palaces and the Great Wall. Spend your evenings enjoying Beijing duck, opera and maybe a trip to the acrobats. If you have time, take a train up to Chengde and spend a couple of days enjoying the imperial retreat before returning to the capital and flying on to Xi'an. Allow a full day ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • China's Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou & Shenzhen

    by Simon Foster ...
    The economic heart of South China, the Pearl River Delta is both agriculturally and financially fertile and is one of the most developed parts of China. Intensely cultivated land is interspersed with some of China's newest and fastest-growing cities, which are linked by some of the country's best and most integrated transport services. The Delta's location makes it a popular trip from Hong Kong ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • China's Guilin, Guangxi & Beyond

    by Simon Foster ...
    This enchanting hideaway is set around the attractively revamped city of Guilin, in the heart of rural Guangxi Province. Yangshuo, a little to the south, makes for a low-key introduction to the area, and offers a picture-postcard view of what is, to many, the essence of this vast country in which 60% of the population still live on the land. Water buffaloes toil in paddies amidst towering ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Unidentified Funny Objects 10

    by Alex Shvartsman, Alan Dean Foster, Caitlin Rozakis, Simon R. Green, Jane Espenson, Jody Lynn Nye, Esther Friesner, Nick Mamatas, Gini Koch ...
    Series Book 10 - Unidentified Funny Objects
    The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! In this volume you'll find:* Space orc diplomats* Hapless necromancers* Gamification of everything* Plumbing problems at an evil wizard’s castle* Get-rich-quick schemes gone wrong* Seussian cyberpunkNo AI! Written by organic, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Classic Fairytales Re-Imagined

    Bedtime Stories for Kids & Adults

    by Shamica Latchman, Samatha Priestly, Shady Grove Oliver, Divya Tiwari, Leila Kheiry, Diana Avram-Anghel, Jacob Duarte Spiel, Kayla Kurin, Jo Steer ...
    Narrated by Thomas Jones, TK Kellman, Arif Hodzic, Abbe Opher, Nadine Brown, Simon Mattacks, Heather Foster ...
    Series Audiobook 20 - Audiobooks for Sleep

    Unabridged

    8 hours 21 min

    Immerse yourself in the charming world fairytales and folktales, re-imagined and narrated for sleep by Slumber Studios.Are you or your child struggling to fall asleep? No matter the cause, this audiobook is crafted to induce relaxation and guide you into a deep, restful slumber.Fairytales and folktales have told the cultural narratives of human society for thousands of years. They weave together ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Robot Wrote This Poetry Book, A

    by Simons Foster ...
    Narrated by Eric Nutting ...

    Unabridged

    27 min

    To bring issues to light of how startling computer based intelligence is, I'm distributing a whole book of verse composed by fake intelligence.The stunning part is that these sonnets are very great, enjoyable to pay attention to, and man-made intelligence has some insane opinions.In this book, I give simulated intelligence 1) points for verse 2) examination and critique of the poetry.Behold the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

    26th Annual Conference, TAROS 2025, York, UK, August 20–22, 2025, Proceedings

    Edited by Ana Cavalcanti, Simon Foster, Robert Richardson ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This LNAI 16045 volume constitutes the proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2025, held in York, UK, duing August 20–22, 2025.The 32 full papers and 4 short papers, together with 4 invited papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers were categorised into seven groups: Human-Robot Interaction ... Read more

    $71.99 USD