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  • 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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  • 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

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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

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  • Warrior of two Kings

    A captivating historical coming-of-age adventure set during the Norman Conquest

    by Birgit Constant ...
    Series Book 1 - The Northumbria Trilogy
    Entangled in shifting alliances, a young English warrior fights for love, honour and survival in blood-soaked Northumbria.England, 1066. In a remote Northumbrian village, young Oswulf is to become an elite warrior for the English king.But as English, Norse and Norman forces wage war against each other to secure control over Northumbria, Oswulf is caught in a perilous web of fickle loyalities and ... Read more

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Theorising Media and Time

    Temporalities, Media Practices and Politics of Time in a Digital Era

    Edited by Birgit Bräuchler, Nina Grønlykke Mollerup ...
    Series Book 13 - Anthropology of Media
    Digital media perpetuates every aspect of our lives, including our temporal perceptions. Time and attention have become one of the most precious resources, for users as well as corporate business. This book sheds light on these critical connections and how they influence not only our daily lives, but also how they exist in emerging power structures. It brings advances in the anthropological ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Protest in Hitler's “National Community”

    Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response

    Edited by Nathan Stoltzfus, Birgit Maier-Katkin ...
    Series Book 14 - Protest, Culture & Society
    That Hitler’s Gestapo harshly suppressed any signs of opposition inside the Third Reich is a common misconception. This book presents studies of public dissent that prove this was not always the case. It examines circumstances under which “racial” Germans were motivated to protest, as well as the conditions determining the regime’s response. Workers, women, and religious groups all convinced the ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • 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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  • Locality and Agency in the Iron Age Mediterranean

    Edited by Erich Kistler, Christian Heitz, Birgit Öhlinger, Peter Van Dommelen ...
    Against the background of the interest in ancient Mediterranean connectivity and globalization, the present volume examines local places and local communities. Exploring the interplay between the local and the global, the focus shifts from long-distance connections and 'global' trends to the local dimensions of Mediterranean interactions, highlighting how local contexts engaged with their long ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • Voith Schneider Propeller (englische Ausgabe)

    An Ingenious Invention

    Edited by Birgit Jürgens, Dirk Jürgens ...
    A propulsion system that made ships maneuverable in a new way—this groundbreaking invention was achieved in 1926 by the Austrian engineer Ernst Schneider. His idea for a novel type of propeller was first proven in model tests at the Vienna Model Basin. Today, the Voith Schneider Propeller (VSP) ranks among the most significant maritime inventions of the 20th century and has be-come indispensable ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD