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  • Theodora

    Portrait in a Byzantine Landscape

    by Antony Bridge ...
    " First rate popular history/biography, evoking the Byzantine empire at its peak. A remarkable story in an entertaining, informative book." — The Wall Street JournalThis is the biography of a Byzantine courtesan who rose from the gutter to the throne of an empire. It is a romantic and improbable story, and Theodora is an extraordinary woman, indeed. Her background and her many actions were ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants

    Seen but Not Heard

    by Mary Grace Antony, Carlos Aguilar, Heather L. Bridges, Alexa M. Dare, Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman, Keith Greenwood, Marouf Arif Hasian, M. Gail Hickey, Zac D. Johnson, Kimberly Kelling0, Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager1, Iuliia Kononenko2, Linda D. Manning3, Raquel R. Marquez4, Stephanie Marek Muller5, Harriett D. Romo6, Otto Santa Ana7, Tara Suwinyattichaiporn8, J. David Wolfgang9, Ryan J. Thomas0 ...
    As societies grapple with an unprecedented refugee and migration crisis, child refugees and migrants—who constitute a particularly vulnerable immigrant category—have been surprisingly overlooked in immigration scholarship. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants: Seen but Not Heard addresses this lapse by presenting analyses of child refugees and migrants. This comprehensive overview ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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    The Many Lives of the Multiverse

    by Mary-Jane Rubenstein ...
    A religion professor elucidates the theory of the multiverse, its history, and its reception in science, philosophy, religion, and literature.Multiverse cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Mary-Jane Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners and explores the reasons for ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Tragedy of American Science

    From Truman to Trump

    by Clifford D. Conner ...
    A look at the destructive history of science-for-profit, including its toll on the US pandemic response, by the author of A People's History of Science.Despite a facade of brilliant technological advances, American science has led humanity to the brink of interrelated disasters. In The Tragedy of American Science, historian of science Clifford D. Conner describes the dual processes by which this ... Read more

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  • The Real World of Victorian Steampunk

    Steam Planes & Radiophones

    by Simon Webb ...
    A look at the surprising nineteenth-century technology that inspires this literary and cultural movement: "I was very impressed by this book." — SF CrowsnestIn recent decades, steampunk has grown from a rather obscure subgenre of science fiction into a striking and distinctive style of fashion, art, design, and even music. It is in the written word, however, that steampunk has its roots—and in ... Read more

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  • The Brilliant Abyss

    Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It

    by Helen Scales ...
    A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist known for "nature writing at its most engaging" ( Sunday Express).A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway as revolutionary studies rewrite the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is possible. In the process, the abyss is being revealed as perhaps the most amazing part of our ... Read more

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  • Whose Middle Ages?

    Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past

    by Geraldine Heng ...
    Series series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
    "An ethical and accessible introduction to a historical period often implicated in racist narratives of nationalism and imperialism." —Sierra Lomuto, Assistant Professor of Global Medieval Literature, Rowan UniversityA collection of twenty-two essays, Whose Middle Ages? gives nonspecialists access to the richness of our historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about the ... Read more

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  • How to Love the Universe

    A Scientist's Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World

    by Stefan Klein ...
    The bestselling author of The Science of Happiness delivers a book "suffused with genuine wonder and affection for the beauty of particle physics" ( Foreword Reviews).A single rose suggests the sublime interdependence of all life. A sudden storm points to the world's unpredictability. A marble conjures the birth of the cosmos.How to Love the Universe shows us how everyday objects and events can ... Read more

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  • The ABC of Relativity

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    The Nobel Prize winner offers "an ideal introduction to the theories of special and general relativity" in clear, comprehensible language ( Nature ).A renowned mathematician and philosopher , and as well as recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bertrand Russell was acclaimed for his ability to address complex subjects in accessible ways. In this classic reference book, Russell delve... ... Read more

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  • Future Humans

    Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution

    by Scott Solomon ...
    An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the changing nature of Homo sapiens in this "important and an entertaining read" ( Choice).In Future Humans, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on recent discoveries to examine the future evolution of our species. Combining knowledge of our past with current trends, Solomon offers convincing evidence that evolutionary forces are ... Read more

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  • All These Worlds Are Yours

    The Scientific Search for Alien Life

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    An astronomer explores the science of astrobiology in this " serious but accessible examination of the prospects for finding life elsewhere in the universe" (Sean Carroll, author of The Big Picture ).Describing the most recent discoveries made with space exploration technology, including the Kepler space telescope, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the New Horizons probe, astronomer Jon Willi... ... Read more

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