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Think about our buildings for a moment. They had one important job. It was an evolutionary bargain with our environment: we build structures to protect us from the elements and keep predators out.Objectively, however, we are failing. Somewhere along the way, we forgot the mammal inside the box. We became obsessed with the box itself, how energy, efficient it is, how airtight we can make it, and how cheaply we can stack it. In doing so, we broke the bargain. Instead of keeping dange...

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Simon Jones

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Elite

This absorbing illustrated study reveals the evolving tactics and techniques used by all sides in the underground war during 1914–18.Covering the Western Front but also the Gallipoli and Italian theatres, this study explores three aspects of World War I below ground: military mining, attack tunnels and dugouts. In 1914–17, the underground war was a product of static trench warfare, essential to survive it and part of both sides' attempts to overcome it. In 1917–18 ...

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Agatha Christie

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Simon Jones, Alison Larkin, James Warwick

Over 40 hours of pure joy from 3 narrators at the top of their game!The Murder of Roger Ackroyd read by Simon Jones
The Man in the Brown Suit read by Alison LarkinThe Secret Adversary read by Alison LarkinThe Mysterious Affair at Styles read by James WarwickThe Murder on the Links read by James WarwickThis outstanding collection includes award-winning narrator Alison Larkin’s fascinating, lively interviews with Golden Voice narrator Simon Jones, (star o...

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Simon Jones

A gripping military thriller about war, fatherhood, and the cost of survivalBy Simon JonesSome battles never end.Some consequences can't be escaped.Repercussions is a powerful and emotionally charged military thriller that explores the lasting impact of war and the impossible choices faced by those left behind.Peter Laing is a former British soldier who has spent years trying to bury a violent incident from the Gulf War. He has built a quiet life, fa...

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Simon McCarthy-Jones

Spite angers and enrages us, but it also keeps us honest. In this provocative account, a psychologist examines how petty vengeance explains human thriving.Spite seems utterly useless. You don't gain anything by hurting yourself just so you can hurt someone else. So why hasn't evolution weeded out all the spiteful people?As psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones argues, spite seems pointless because we're looking at it wrong. Spite isn't just what we feel when a ...

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Simon Jones

Simon Joness graphic history of underground warfare during the Great War uses personal reminiscences to convey the danger and suspense of this unconventional form of conflict. He describes how the underground soldiers of the opposing armies engaged in a ruthless fight for supremacy, covers the tunneling methods they employed, and shows the increasingly lethal tactics they developed during the war in which military mining reached its apotheosis. He concentrates on the struggle for ascendanc...

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Agatha Christie

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Simon Jones

Gilded Age TV star and Golden Voice narrator Simon Jones narrates this gripping Agatha Christie classic with authenticity and style.Roger Ackroyd already knows more than is good for him about the woman he’s in love with, who has tragically taken her own life.Then a letter arrives. As he is reading it, Roger Ackroyd is stabbed to death.Earphones Award Winner"..Jones delivers Agatha Christie's classic locked-room mystery to perfection...Jones's interpretation ...

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Simon Jones

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Birth of Gods - Act I

As one tribe stands against many, and the might of a kingdom works toward their ruin, a warrior and a shaman must find a way to save their people.Friends from birth, Cossak and Nova must lead the last of their tribe in a search for a safe place, surviving attacks from their own people and a kingdom intent on stripping the land of everything to get what it needs.Cossak will become chief. In doing so, he must find the strength to lead his tribe through their destruct...

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Simon Jones

Winner of the Wisden Book of the YearEighteen years, eight series, eight defeats. These are the facts. I look around the room. We’re a young team. Strauss, Flintoff, Vaughan, the new guy, Kevin Pietersen. None of us remember England holding the Ashes. We are a generation that have grown up in Australia’s shadow.In 2005 Simon Jones took part in the greatest Ashes series of all time. As a devastating fast bowler in a brave young England team, Jones w...

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Simon Jones

A twenty-something farming woman working the fields discovers there is a whole universe out there, but she is supposed to decide humanity’s fate?Leena is a young, small-town woman, known for her questioning nature yet destined to live out her life like the others: in servitude to the Bright One, under the guidance of the Vicar.Suffused with holy purpose, the Vicar demands their neighbouring towns be ‘cleansed’, for through him the Bright One speaks. His townspeople are fait...

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Stanley Bing

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Simon Jones, Philip Bosco

Stanley Bing follows his enormously successful What Would Machiavelli Do? with another subversively humorous exploration of how work would be different—if the Buddha were your personal consultant.What would the Buddha do—if he had to deal with a rampaging elephant of a boss every day? That is the premise of Stanley Bing’s wickedly funny guide to finding inner peace in the face of relentlessly obnoxious, huge, and sometimes smelly bosses. Taking the concept...

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Simon Jones

A brand new day. With all creation bathed in light after night. Young boy waking to rejoice in it.