Gavin: 705 books
A Dirty, Trifling Piece of Business
Volume 1: The Revolutionary War as Waged from Canada in 1781
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
By 1781, the sixth year of the American rebellion, British strategic focus had shifted from the northern states to concentrate in the south. Canada's governor, Frederick Haldimand, was responsible for the defence of the Crown's largest colony against the threat of Franco-American invasion, while assisting...
by Gavin McLean
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
TheNew ZealandWars of the 1840s and 1860s, other nineteenth-century military encounters, theSouth AfricanWar, the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, the Gulf War, modern-day peacekeeping ... The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War contains the best, widest range of published and...
The Burning of the Valleys
Daring Raids from Canada Against the New York Frontier in the Fall of 1780
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
In the fifth year of the War of Independence, while the Americans focused on the British thrust against the Carolinas, the Canadian Department waged a decisive campaign against the northern frontier of New York. Their primary target was the Mohawk River region, known to be the "grainbowl"...
The Longest Night
The Bombing of London on May 10, 1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
The Longest Night reveals the untold story of the horrific bombing raid that almost brought Britain to military collapse - using extensive survivors' testimony and previously classified documents to reveal just how close the Luftwaffe came to total victory. This vivid, dramatically told account depicts...
The Inner Mysteries
Progressive Witchcraft and Connection to the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
A look into the underlying principles behind modern magic in Witchcraft, this investigation provides an integrated training system for both solitary Witches and coven-based trainees in the form of magical energy practice and cosmology. By fully explaining the values of Witchcraft, this work makes...
The Invention of English Criticism
1650–1760
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Early literary criticism was undisciplined. Unlike the staid essays and monographs of later academic scholarship, English criticism first appeared in the contentious world of the London theater: dramatists and other poets argued about their craft in contending prefaces and dedications, and their disputes...
by Gavin Lyall
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
'Lean and literate suspense' Guardian
It seemed like money for old rope. All Kemp had to do was arrange the smooth passage of a Cezanne across the border to Switzerland, and anything was preferable to London in January.
But on awaking in a Zurich park with a bump the size of a burial...
War of the Encyclopaedists
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
“A captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) about two best friends as their post-grad lives diverge—one into liberal academia, the other into the American military occupation of Iraq.
On a summer night in 2004,...
by Gavin Electric
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book covers several topics including:
- What Are Binaural Beats? - Binaural Beats Entrain the Brain - How do Binaural Beats Work? - Who Should use Binaural Beats? - Will they Really Make a Difference?
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Shine Your Eyes, Mama Africa!
Memoir of an Enlightened African
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
THIS IS A BOOK LIKE MANY OTHERS WE SEE, REPRESENTS A FLOWERING OF AFRICAN TALENT, WHICH HAS BEEN A RECENT AND WELCOME PHENOMENON.THIS BOOK IS PASSIONATE AND LITERATE AND MAKES A STRONG CASE. ATHENA PRESS. THIS IS A WONDERFUL FIRST BOOK BY THE AUTHOR. IT IS FUNNY AND YET INFORMATIVE! IT CHALLENGES...
The Wave Watcher's Companion
Ocean Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life's Undulations
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Get ready for a global journey like none other-a passionate enthusiast's exploration of waves that begins with a massive surfable cloud and ends with the majestic Pacific ocean, making side trips along the way to reveal the ups and downs of brain waves, radio waves, infrared waves, microwaves, shock waves, light waves, and much more.
Signor Marconi's Magic Box
The Most Remarkable Invention Of The 19th Century & The Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked A Revo
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The world at the turn of the twentieth century was in the throes of "Marconi-mania"-brought on by an incredible invention that no one could quite explain, and by a dapper and eccentric figure (who would one day win the newly minted Nobel Prize) at the center of it all. At a time when the...
Epilepsy
If You Can’T Do It Right, Just Do It Properly
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Living with epilepsy has its ups and downs, the funny times and the not so funny times, but throughout, there is always hope. By just getting on with it one can make life genuinely easier. Learning to laugh helps, as does realizing that others have a similar condition.
by Terry Gavin
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Three kids. Three best friends who spent a large portion of their lives together, who promised each other that the three of them would always come first and the world second. Its their college graduation day from the University of Wisconsin, and Zach, Kevin, and Mike reminisce and reflect on their...