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  • Religious Myths and Visions of America

    How Minority Faiths Redefined America's World Role

    by Christopher Buck ...
    At the heart of American studies is the idea of America itself. Here, Buck looks at the religious significance of America by examining those religions that have attached some kind of spiritual meaning to America. The author explores how American Protestantism-and nine minority faiths-have projected America into the mainstream of world history by defining-and by redefining-America's world role. ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Bahá’í Faith and African American History

    Creating Racial and Religious Diversity

    by Loni Bramson, Christopher Buck, Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, Louis Venters, Mike McMullen, June Manning Thomas ...
    This book examines the intersection of African American history with that of the Bahá’í Faith in the United States. Since the turn of the twentieth century, Bahá’ís in America have actively worked to establish interracial harmony within its own ranks and to contribute to social justice in the wider community, becoming in the process one of the country’s most diverse religious bodies. Spanning from ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Baha’i Faith: The Basics

    by Christopher Buck ...
    Series series The Basics
    Bahá’í Faith: The Basics provides a thorough and accessible introduction to a fascinating, independent world religion. Examining its historical development, current “community-building” efforts and the social contributions of the Bahá’í Faith in the world today, this introduction covers:Beliefs: Bahá’í spiritual teachingsPrinciples: Bahá’í social teachingsHistory: Bahá’u’lláh and his covenant ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Champlain

    by Christopher Moore ...
    Illustrated by Francis Back ...
    “One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat at Quebec and began a great adventure.” So begins Christopher Moore’s riveting account of the life of the extraordinary, daring “father of New France.”Samuel de Champlain helped found the first permanent French settlement in the New World; he established the village that eventually became the great city of Quebec ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Teaching and Learning Languages

    A practical guide to learning by doing

    by Jemma Buck, Christopher Wightwick ...
    This publication provides essential reading for any language teacher. Pupil engagement in the language-learning process is key to success, and with this in mind the authors provide a comprehensive list of ideas as well as explaining the underlying principles of successful language-learning.Neil Jones, Assistant HeadteacherLearning a language, especially in a class or group, is an intensely ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Engineering the Climate

    The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management

    by Wylie Carr, Maialen Galarraga, Benjamin Hale, Marion Hourdequin, Ashley Mercer, Konrad Ott, Clare Palmer, Ronald Sandler, Holly Jean Buck, Patrick Taylor Smith, Kyle Powys Whyte, Albert Borgmann, Forrest Clingerman, Dane Scott, Bronislaw Szerszynski ...
    Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering (also known as geoengineering) has recently experienced a surge of interest given the growing likelihood that the global community will fail to limit the temperature increases associated with ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Evolution Strategies

    by Christophe Foussette, Peter Krause, Thomas Bäck ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Evolution strategies have more than 50 years of history in the field of evolutionary computation. Since the early 1990s, many algorithmic variations of evolution strategies have been developed, characterized by the fact that they use the so-called derandomization concept for strategy parameter adaptation. Most importantly, the covariance matrix adaptation strategy (CMA-ES) and its successors are ... Read more

    $51.29 CAD

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  • A Practical Guide to Teaching Foreign Languages in the Secondary School

    Edited by Norbert Pachler, Ana Redondo ...
    Series series Routledge Teaching Guides
    How can you effectively motivate young people to engage with foreign language learning?How can young people engage with new ideas and cultural experiences within and outside the classroom?The new edition of A Practical Guide to Teaching Foreign Languages in the Secondary School offers straightforward advice and inspiration for training teachers, NQTs and teachers in their early professional ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • ESL Role Plays: 50 Engaging Role Plays for ESL and EFL Classes

    by Larry Pitts ...
    Do you teach English as a foreign or second language? Are your students at an intermediate or advanced level? If so, this book will save you a lot of lesson prep time. With 50 role plays that span a wide variety of topics, you’ll almost always be able to find a role play that will fit your lesson topic.Inside are role plays that cover everything from government regulation to messy roommates. With ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Letters From The American Desert. Signposts Of A Journey, A Vision.

    by Frederick Glaysher ...
    Twenty years in the making, in Letters from the American Desert, Glaysher reflects on the cultural, political, and religious history of Western and non-Western civilizations,pondering the dilemmas of postmodernity, in a compelling struggle for spiritual knowledge and truth. In what is a highly autobiographical work, fully cognizant of the relativism and nihilism of modern life, Glaysher finds a ... Read more

    $26.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hope For A Global Ethic

    by Brian D Lepard ...
    The events of September 11, 2001 forever punctured any illusions that Americans are safe from the fanaticism and terrorism so depressingly familiar to residents of the Middle East and other troubled areas of the globe. Numerous wars, including in Iraq, but particularly in the underdeveloped areas of the world, such as Africa, claim countless lives annually and leave many others horribly injured ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Taming the Gods

    Religion and Democracy on Three Continents

    by Ian Buruma ...
    For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style liberal democracy. And even in polytheistic Asia, the development of democracy has been hindered in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD