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  • Revolution and the Global Struggle for Modernity

    Volume 1 - The Atlantic Revolutions

    by Frank Jacob ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Intercultural Transfer Studies
    This book, as the first volume of a multiple volume endeavor to analyze several revolutions of the “long” nineteenth and “short” twentieth century to show how revolutionary processes evolved, takes a closer look at the Atlantic Revolutions, that is, the American, the French, and the Haitian Revolution. It will therefore use a comparative ten-step model to emphasize similarities with regard to the ... Read more

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  • Japanese War Crimes during World War II

    Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence

    by Frank Jacob ...
    A challenging examination of Japanese war crimes during World War II offers a fresh perspective on the Pacific War-and a better understanding of reasons for the wartime use of extreme mass violence.The 1937 Rape of Nanjing has become a symbol of Japanese violence during the Second World War, but it was not the only event during which the Japanese used extreme force. This thought-provoking book ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe

    A Revision

    by Frank Jacob, Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book challenges the premise that a ‘military revolution’ prompted the major European powers to enter into an era of global hegemony during the early modern period, and suggests that this theory is not supported if we closely examine contemporary historical events. The conquests of Mexico and Peru, arguably the two most important colonial acquisitions by a European power during that era, were ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

    by Frank Jacob ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia. However, while appearing regional, the war itself in fact had a major global impact. The conflict and Japanese victory stimulated the Russian revolutionary movement in 1905 and hence the Russian Revolution of 1917. In addition, the Peace Treaty of Portsmouth created a tension ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • War and Semiotics

    Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence

    Edited by Frank Jacob ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language. The semiotic and semantic codes are redefined, according to the need to create an enemy image, or in reference to the results of a war that are post-event defined as just or reasonable. The semiotic systems of wars are central to the discussion of the contributions within this volume, which highlight the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Prostitution

    Eine Begleiterin der Menschheit / A Companion of Mankind

    Edited by Frank Jacob ...
    Prostitution ist scheinbar genauso alt wie die Menschheit selbst und gilt nicht von ungefähr als das «älteste Gewerbe» überhaupt. Dieser Band versteht sich als interdisziplinäre, chronologisch sowie global umfassende Analyse des Phänomens und bietet dem Fachpublikum und dem interessierten Leser gleichermaßen eine breite Darstellung der Prostitution aus historischer, soziologischer, ... Read more

    $169.99 CAD

  • Pornography

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Frank Jacob ...
    Pornography can tell us many things about a society, when it is seriously considered as a topic for scientific research. The present volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the subject and shows how pornography can be studied and what we can learn from such studies, e.g., about the construction of gender roles and their representation in pornographic media. Specialists from different ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • A Word Before Dying

    Mysteries to Die For

    by TG Wolff, Jack Wolff, Judi Lynn, Frank Zafiro, Mark Edward Langley, Kyra Jacobs, KM Rockwood, Michael Penncavage ...
    Series series Mysteries to Die For
    The last word has been a common element of mysteries going back to the emergence of the genre. In Hercule Poirot's first case, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Mrs. Emily Cavendish Inglethorpe's last word was "Alfred." But was her husband's name said for comfort or as an accusation? In Nayland Smith's first engagement on British soil with The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, Sir Creighton Davey's last ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Challenges in Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials, Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials & Micro-and Nanomechanics, Volume 2

    Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

    Edited by Alireza Amirkhizi, Jacob Notbohm, Nikhil Karanjgaokar, Frank W DelRio ...
    Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, and Micro-and Nanomechanics, Volume 2 of the Proceedings of the 2021 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the second volume of four from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents ... Read more

    $343.53 CAD

  • Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492

    More than Commodities

    Edited by Martina Kaller, Frank Jacob ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and provided access to these new commodities that increasingly became important in the ‘Old World’, especially with regard to the ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Looney Limericks

    Edited by Frank Jacobs ...
    Series series Dover Kids Activity Books
    Delightful collection of 60 limericks includes famous rhymes by such masters of the form as Gelett Burgess, Oliver Herford, and Edward Lear, as well as lesser-known works by these and other humorists, including the editor himself. Fun to read, easy to memorize and great to share with family and friends, each entertaining snippet of verse is accompanied by an equally humorous illustration. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Challenges in Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials, Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials & Micro-and Nanomechanics, Volume 2

    Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

    Edited by Alireza Amirkhizi, Jacob Notbohm, Nikhil Karanjgaokar, Frank W DelRio ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials*,* Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, and Micro-and Nanomechanics, Volume 2 of the Proceedings of the 2021 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the second volume of four from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents ... Read more

    $280.49 CAD