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  • Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal

    The Long-Suppressed Story of One Woman's Discoveries and the Man Who Stole Credit for Them

    by Alan Kaiser ...
    Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal tells the hidden tale behind one of the great American excavations in Greece. In the 1930s, David Robinson’s project on ancient houses became the first of its kind and fundamentally altered what classical archaeologists’ study. Alan Kaiser documents previously unknown details of the Olynthus project through lively photographs and enthusiastic letters of one of ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Quantum Legacies

    Dispatches from an Uncertain World

    by David Kaiser ...
    "Engrossing . . . Leave[s] us with a richer picture of physics as a lived activity." — Los Angeles Review of BooksIn Quantum Legacies, David Kaiser introduces readers to iconic episodes in physicists' still-unfolding quest to understand space, time, and matter at their most fundamental. In a series of vibrant essays, Kaiser takes us inside moments of discovery and debate among the great minds of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roman Urban Street Networks

    Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities

    by Alan Kaiser ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Archaeology
    The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman colonial cities. Roman Urban Street Networks is the first volume to sift through the ancient literature to determine how authors used the Latin ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Graphene

    Properties, Preparation, Characterisation and Devices

    Edited by Viera Skakalova, Alan B. Kaiser ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
    Graphene: Properties, Preparation, Characterisation and Devices reviews the preparation and properties of this exciting material. Graphene is a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon with properties, such as the ability to conduct light and electrons, which could make it potentially suitable for a variety of devices and applications, including electronics, sensors, and photonics. Chapters in part one ... Read more

    $220.99 CAD

  • Graphene

    Properties, Preparation, Characterization and Applications

    Edited by Viera Skakalova, Alan B. Kaiser ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
    Graphene: Properties, Preparation, Characterization and Devices, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive look at the methods used to prepare and analyze graphene. Since the first edition's publication, there have been many advances in the understanding of graphene, in particular, its key properties and most relevant applications. Updates to this new edition include chapters on liquid exfoliation ... Read more

    $234.99 CAD

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  • A Measure of Intelligence

    One Mother's Reckoning with the IQ Test

    by Pepper Stetler ...
    In a quest to advocate for her daughter, Pepper Stetler uncovers the dark history of the IQ test, leading her to question what exactly we are measuring when we measure intelligence.When Pepper Stetler learned that her daughter, Louisa, who has Down Syndrome, would be required to take periodic IQ tests to secure support in school, she asked a simple question: Why? The hunt for an answer set Stetler ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865–1890

    The Struggle for Apacheria

    Edited by Peter Cozzens ...
    This volume explores the history of the Apache Wars of the late 19th century Southwest through diaries, army reports, and other primary sources.Stretching from the Colorado River to the mountains east of the Rio Grande, and from northern Arizona into Sonora, Mexico, is the sprawling region once known as Apacheria. By the time the first Americans ventured into the region, the indigenous peoples ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zero-Sum Victory

    What We're Getting Wrong About War

    by Christopher D. Kolenda ...
    2021 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner for War & HistoryWhy have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in the United States' favor, significant capacity-building efforts, and repeated tactical victories by what many observers call the world's best military, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq turned intractable. The US government's fixation on ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Curiosities Revealed

    Astonishing Facts for the Inquisitive Mind

    by Seraphina Lewis ...
    Hungry for a treasure trove of weird and wonderful facts beyond your wildest imagination? Then keep on reading...Did you know that trees collaborate, communicate, and engage in chemical warfare?Or that humans are better at smelling rain than sharks are at smelling blood?Or that Napoleon once fought a pack of tame rabbits... and lost?Sometimes, life gets boring. Your sense of wonder often gets lost ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Earthly Materials

    Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations

    by Cutter Wood ...
    An “UNEXPECTEDLY PROFOUND,” “DEEPLY STRANGE,” and “UTTERLY UNIQUE tour of the human body” (Publishers Weekly)"A must read for anyone who’s ever been amazed or aghast at what just came out." — Rachel Yoder, author of NightbitchTo live, our bodies must continuously shed materials. Stop urinating, stop defecating, stop expelling breath, and death is near. While we often think of these materials as ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Ancient Christianities

    The First Five Hundred Years

    by Paula Fredriksen ...
    How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and pietyThe ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities, Paula Fredriksen traces ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Gather and Graze

    Globally Inspired Small Bites and Gorgeous Table Scapes for Every Occasion

    by Mumtaz Mustafa, Laura Klynstra ...
    "[This book] is a vibrant testament to the power of cross-cultural friendships in deepening our understanding of the world. As diverse backgrounds meld in the kitchen, each recipe becomes a dialogue, a celebration of unique cultural heritages, and a bridge between seemingly disparate worlds."—From the foreword by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Academy Award–winning directorIn Gather & Graze, authors ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD