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Raskolnikov: Murder with an Axe - a novel This novel is an imaginative re-creation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. After killing the old pawnbroker, Ilyona Ivanovna, and her sister, Lizabeta, the young student, Raskolnikov, is haunted by the savagery of the double-murder. As he tosses and turns in his misery - reviewing his situation, his motives and his view of himself as an "Extraordinary Man" - Raskolnikov's preconscious mind forms t...

Power has become the common currency of training discussions amongst the growing number of cyclists who have splashed out on a power meter. This book shows that you don't have to be a pro cyclist, triathlete, or coach to reap the benefits of training with a power meter.

This journal, a companion book to the novel, Inside the Wright Brothers: Flight is Possible, is a record of the thoughts that occur to a writer while in the process of writing a novel. In recording these thoughts, the journal provides an exploration of a number of topics: the working out of a pattern, in novel form, to reflect the author's conception of the meaning of the Wright Brothers' experience, a consideration of the achievement of the W...

This journal, a companion book to the novel, Inside the Wright Brothers: Flight is Possible, is a record of the thoughts that occur to a writer while in the process of writing a novel. In recording these thoughts, the journal provides an exploration of a number of topics: the working out of a pattern, in novel form, to reflect the author's conception of the meaning of the Wright Brothers' experience, a consideration of the achievement of the W...

This novel, Inside the Wright Brothers: Flight is Possible, presents the Wright Brothers as idealists who build a dream out of the nuts and bolts of their everyday reality. There is a hard core of steel in the Wrights that, however compassionate, polite, accommodating and modest they appear to be to other people, is the straight arrow that allows them to see their life's work clearly, to make every decision and action move towards the achievem...

This novel, Inside the Wright Brothers: Flight is Possible, presents the Wright Brothers as idealists who build a dream out of the nuts and bolts of their everyday reality. There is a hard core of steel in the Wrights that, however compassionate, polite, accommodating and modest they appear to be to other people, is the straight arrow that allows them to see their life's work clearly, to make every decision and action move towards the achievem...

The story of the Rideau canal is told through contemporary paintings and sketches of the waterway along its route, illustrating the engineering techniques, the settlements and landmarks, and the life of the men who built it.