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  • Tracing the Indo-Europeans

    New evidence from archaeology and historical linguistics

    Edited by Thomas Olander, Kristian Kristiansen, Birgit Anette Olsen ...
    Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • German Calendar No December

    by Sylvia Ofili ...
    Olivia Evezi's childhood is a happy one; her days are spent listening to highlife records and poring over the colourful postcards from Germany. When she leaves her hometown of Warri behind to live out her Enid Blyton fantasies in a boarding school in Lagos, instead of adventure and lacrosse, she is met with punishments, endless chores and hazing rituals. Olivia's restlessness takes her to Germany, ... Read more

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  • You Would Have Missed Me

    by Birgit Vanderbeke ...
    Translated by Jamie Bulloch ...
    'I can't remember what it was like being born, but from what they used to tell me it seemed almost as if everything had been fine up to that point.'Standing in her family's two-bedroom flat in the Promised Land, a little girl realizes that once again she won't be getting a cat for her birthday. She's been wanting one ever since she was five – all the way back to when they were living in the ... Read more

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  • Even Without Blood

    The remarkable story of an orphaned boy in WWII Java

    by Birgit Treipl ...
    How would you feel if, at eight years old, you lost your parents, a war began, and you were declared an enemy of the state? This is the reality for a young boy named Victor on the brink of WWII. Even Without Blood is a profoundly moving debut novel based on a true story of familial displacement spanning Indonesia, Austria, Holland, and Canada. This novel was first published in Dutch as Schuilen ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bewitching Birgit

    Magic New Mexico / Zolon Warriors

    by Tianna Xander ...
    Series series Magic New Mexico / Zolon Warriors
    Birgitta Anderson, or Birgit, as she is known has three problems in her life: a lousy sense of direction, a broken-down car, and a strange mechanic named Reno. The first problem she was born with; the second a good junkyard could take care of, but the last might be a little more difficult to deal with—especially when it comes with three matchmaking brothers.Reno Brewerigeron has his hands full ... Read more

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  • The Book of Eels

    Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

    by Patrik Svensson ...
    Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is a captivating work of narrative nonfiction that is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish—the eel—and a reflection on the human conditionRemarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has become ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • African Philosophy and the Politics of Food Systems

    Edited by Birgit Boogaard, Mogobe Ramose, Sally Diop, Yeshewas Ebabu Worku, David Ludwig ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access edited volume argues that food systems need to be questioned on ethical and epistemic grounds, and firmly posits African philosophy as a valuable and much-needed source in doing so. It presents critical perspectives on the ethical and epistemic complexities of food systems whilst also providing a practical outlook through success stories of food systems underpinned by African ways ... Read more

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  • Squire and Sword

    by Birgit Constant ...
    Series Book 0.5 - The Northumbria Trilogy
    All he needs is the sword of a true warrior – or so he thinks.England AD 1070. In the fenlands of East Anglia, the Saxon resistance against the Norman king smoulders.Loïc, a young squire, knows that every man has to stand their ground against the rebels, but he only attracts the scorn and spite of the other squires during fighting practice. He must prove himself in combat if he wants to teach the ... Read more

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  • CBRN Protection

    Managing the Threat of Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear Weapons

    Edited by Andre Richardt, Bernd Niemeyer, Frank Sabath, Birgit Hülseweh ...
    Originating in the armed forces of the early 20th century, weapons based on chemical, biological or nuclear agents have become an everpresent threat that has not vanished after the end of the cold war. Since the technology to produce these agents is nowadays available to many countries and organizations, including those with terrorist aims, civil authorities across the world need to prepare ... Read more

    $106.99 CAD

  • The Mussel Feast

    by Birgit Vanderbeke ...
    Translated by Jamie Bulloch ...
    The modern German classic that has shaped an entire generation.A mother and her two teenage children sit at the dinner table. In the middle stands a large pot of cooked mussels. Why has the father not returned home? As the evening wears on, we glimpse the issues that are tearing this family apart.'I wrote this book in August 1989, just before the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I wanted to understand how ... Read more

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  • The Father

    Made in Sweden, Part I

    by Anton Svensson ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel ...
    How does a child become a criminal? How does a father lose a son?An epic crime novel with the excitement of Jo Nesbo's Headhunters and the narrative depth of We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Father is inspired by the extraordinary true story of three brothers who committed ten audacious bank robberies in Sweden over the course of just two years.None had committed a crime before. All were under ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change

    Legal developments in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland

    Edited by Anne Hellum, Ingunn Ikdahl, Eva-Maria Svensson, Vibeke Strand ...
    The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index –but they have still not succeeded in closing the gender gap. This book draws a diverse and complex picture of the long, uneven, and unfinished process towards ... Read more

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