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  • Civilians at the Sharp End

    First Canadian Army Civil Affairs in Northwest Europe

    by David A. Borys ...
    Mitigating the destruction and chaos wrought upon the civilian populations of northwest Europe during the latter years of the Second World War became the focus of Civil Affairs, a little-known branch of the First Canadian Army. Comprising a motley collection of civilians-turned-soldiers – too old for combat yet too valuable to remain off the front lines – the members of Civil Affairs served as ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Punching Above Our Weight

    The Canadian Military at War Since 1867

    by David A. Borys ...
    **THE HILL TIMES TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2024Punching Above Our Weight takes readers on a riveting exploration spanning one hundred and fifty years of Canadian forces.**This photograph-rich history of 150 years of the Canadian military traces the evolution of the country’s armed forces from a small, underfunded, poorly trained militia to the modern, effective military it is today. From the Red River ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Frontier of Patriotism

    Alberta and the First World War

    by David Borys, Juliette Champagne, Brett Clifton, Catherine C. Cole, Rory Cory, Duff Crerar, Michael Dawe, L. James Dempsey, Antonella Fanella, Alvin Finkel, Ryan Flavelle, David Gallant, Stephen Greenhalgh, Jarett Henderson, Mark Osborne Humphries, Chris Hyland, Kathryn Ivany, Allan Kerr, Norman Knowles, J. Whitney Lackenbauer, Robert Lampard, Michale Lang, Kassandra Luciuk, Rod McLeod, John Matthews, Peter McKenzie-Brown, Sean Moir, Patricia Myers, Allan Rowe, Robert Rutherdale, Amy Shaw, Donald J. Smith, Paul Stortz, Doug Styles, Ken Tingley, Aritha van Herk, Donald G. Wetherell, Anthony Worman ...
    Series Book 6 - Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies
    With the centenary of the First World War, communities across Canada arranged commemorations of the war experience to honour local servicemen who, through their triumphs and sacrifices, were presented as laying the foundation for a free and independent country. Often overlooked are the triumphs and sacrifices of those who supported those soldiers, and the war effort in general, back at home. The ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Helix Structures in Quantum Cohomology of Fano Varieties

    by Giordano Cotti, Boris A. Dubrovin, Davide Guzzetti ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This research monograph provides a comprehensive study of a conjecture initially proposed by the second author at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). This conjecture asserts the equivalence, for a Fano variety, between the semisimplicity condition of its quantum cohomology and the existence of full exceptional collections in its derived category of coherent sheaves. ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Regenerative Agriculture

    What’s Missing? What Do We Still Need to Know?

    Edited by David Dent, Boris Boincean ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The food system is our last coal-fired power station, our last diesel engine. This book is a trans-disciplinary approach to what needs to be done to make our food system sustainable and to regenerate soil and water resources, habitat, economy and society. The book brings back classical principles of agronomy and integrates economic, agro-ecological and social perspectives, drawing on a wealth of ... Read more

    $421.99 CAD

  • Resilience

    How your inner strength can set you free from the past

    by Boris Cyrulnik ...
    Translated by David Macey ...
    Many of us experience pain in our childhoods, and young people face trauma all over the world. How is it possible to recover? Do those abused always go on to hurt others? This incredible bestseller has overturned the way we view trauma, by showing how the extraordinary power of resilience can heal damaged lives.Renowned psychoanalyst Boris Cyrulnik has dealt with many young victims of distress and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Social Work and Social Transformation between Exclusion and Inclusion

    Analyses and Perspectives

    Edited by Boris Friele, Mehmet Kart, David Kergel, Jens Rieger, Bärbel Schomers, Katrin Sen, Martin Staats, Patrick Trotzke ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The volume provides a theoretically grounded and practice-oriented perspective on socio-technical transformation processes in the field of social work. It focuses on the potentials for inclusion as well as the dynamics of exclusion that arise from these socio-technical transformation processes. Although the analytical focus is committed to the paradigms of social work, these analyses are relevant ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Mutiny

    The Inside Story of the True Events That Inspired The Hunt for Red October—from the Soviet Naval Hero Who Was There

    by David Hagberg, Boris Gindin ...
    The amazing true story behind the mutiny that inspired Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, by USA Today bestselling author David Hagberg and Boris Gindin, a Senior Lieutenant in the Russian navy, who stopped the mutiny and lived to tell about it.In 1984, Tom Clancy released his blockbuster novel, The Hunt for Red October, an edge-of-your seat thriller that skyrocketed him into international ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Transparency and Apperception

    Exploring the Kantian Roots of a Contemporary Debate

    Edited by Boris Hennig, David Hunter, Thomas Land ...
    Transparency and Apperception: Exploring the Kantian Roots of a Contemporary Debate explores the links between the idea that belief is transparent and Kant’s claims about apperception.Transparency is the idea that a person can answer questions about whether she, for instance, believes something by considering, not her own psychological states, but the objects and properties the belief is about. ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXXIX

    Edited by Howard J. Halpern, Joseph C. LaManna, David K. Harrison, Boris Epel ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume presents all aspects of delivery of oxygen to tissues and tumors in peer reviewed short articles. Both overview and the most recent, advanced techniques for oxygen measurement are presented. Articles and peer reviewers include those from leaders in their field. Topics such as molecular signaling in the organismal and tumor response to low levels of local oxygenation, hypoxia inducible ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes

    8th and 9th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2020 + IPAW 2021, Virtual Event, July 19–22, 2021, Proceedings

    Edited by Boris Glavic, Vanessa Braganholo, David Koop ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th and 9th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2020 and IPAW 2021 which were held as part of ProvenanceWeek in 2020 and 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PropvenanceWeek 2020 was held as a 1-day virtual event with brief teaser talks on June 22, 2020. In 2021, the conference was held virtually during July 19-22, 2021.The 11 full ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Price of Victory

    The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War

    by Lev Lopukhovsky, Boris Kavalerchik ...
    Translated by Harold Orenstein ...
    "A stark picture of war between the Germans and the Soviets, including some very interesting illustration . . . fascinating, if chilling, reading."— FiretrenchThe Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a key element in any assessment of the conflict on the Eastern Front. Since the war ended over seventy years ago, the ... Read more

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