Particular Places: An Intro to English Local History

Lewis, Christopher

The British Library Publishing Division

Dr. Boucher describes Bridley’s engineering pupils as a "college of engineers," among them talented individuals such as Hugh Henshall, Thomas Dadford, Josiah Clowes, Samuel Simcock, Robert Whitworth, and Samuel Weston. Together these engineers went on to complete Brindley’s life’s work and set out much of the canal system throughout the "Canal mania" years. Their great works included developing canal and lock systems around the country, from the Forth & Clyde to the Bridgewater Canal, the Trent & Mersey to the Thames Navigation and into Wales. This illustrated book chronicles the lives of these engineers as well as their varied achievements and an insight into their other entrepreneurial activities. Also featuring a detailed gazetteer, it provides opportunities for the reader to visit many of these significant sites around Britain and gain a greater understanding of the interconnected world of these engineers.

The Canal Pioneers: Brindley's School of Engineers

History

Europe

The History Press

It is 1530, and life can be as dangerous as it is short, especially for a soldier. In the majestic capital city of Casile, Captain Arathin Briar is content with his life. After taking a beautiful bride six months earlier, he has just completed his training as a soldier when his peaceful existence is abruptly uprooted. Captain Briar has been called to war. In this age of kings, tyranny and injustice run rampant across the world. After a village is attacked just outside Casile, the country's foundation is shaken to the core. With little time to assemble a sizable force, Captain Briar and two other captains set out with a small army to gain entry to the village. But little do the soldiers know that they are about to uncover an earth-shattering conspiracy from an unknown adversary that leaves Arathin torn between his vastly different loves-his beloved king and the country he has vowed to serve and his loving wife and the unborn child she now carries. The Soldier's Oath is an action packed tale of warfare, conspiracy, and honor as a general and his brave soldiers fight their way out of a vast conspiracy that shakes their nation's moral foundation.

The Soldier's Oath: A Sedition Rising

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

iUniverse

<p>Pai, the beautiful 300-year-old amnesiac mystic, and her companion-cum-immortal slave, Tokyo student Yakumo Fujii, search China for ancient relics to provide clues to the location of Pai's hidden Tibetan homeland, where Pai's memories can be restored. But the two are not the only ones in search of these objects. Both the dashing relic-hunter Jake McDonald and the nefarious Choukai, are trying to get their mitts on a certain mystic incense burner. And when Choukai traps Pai within a sorcerous binding circle, Yakumo is torn by the fateful decision of whether or not to pay the artifact as ransom to free Pai and by doing so, dooming Pai's memories and his own chance of returning to his mortal existence.</p>

3 x 3 Eyes, Vol. 6: Key to the Sacred Land

Comics & Graphic Novels

Takada, Yuzo

Hernandez, Lea

Smith,Toren

Manga

Dark Horse

<p>Four decades of developing a narrative style are compressed into this short collection of fiction. These little tales parallel a larger body of work composing novels, with the purpose of crafting a unique vision of the mystery of human existence. An unbridled idealism confronted by reality, the large and small catharses that shape characters still do not quite prepare them to meet the challenges that come. Portrayed sometimes with humor, sometimes by the devastating tragedy so deeply part of our experience, they offer glimpses through a window, at unexpected moments, into something eternal, promising a breathtaking transfiguration of our nature.</p>

The Old Church in the Hemlocks: and other tales for the fireside

Short Stories & Anthologies

Anaphora Press

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