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  • Tracing Your Ancestors Using DNA

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Graham S. Holton, John Cleary, Michelle Leonard, Iain McDonald, Alasdair F. Macdonald ...
    An easy-to-use, straightforward guide for British family historians looking to trace their ancestry using DNA testing.DNA research is one of the most rapidly advancing areas in modern science, and the practical use of DNA testing in genealogy is one of its most exciting applications. Yet there is no recent British publication in this field. That is why this accessible, wide-ranging introduction is ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Grumpy Old Cow and Other Stories

    by Iain Macdonald ...
    About the BookPascal McCready would be Iain Macdonald’s hero if he could live on an idyllic farm. His sons are his heroes!About the BookIain Macdonald was born July 28th, 1947. He has been married to his wife, Helen, for 43 years. Together, they have three sons. The Grumpy Old Cow is written by a grumpy old man! ... Read more

    $38.13 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Would Be Different

    Figures of Possibility in Adorno

    by Iain Macdonald ...
    Possibility is a concept central to both philosophy and social theory. But in what philosophical soil, if any, does the possibility of a better society grow? At the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, What Would Be Different looks to Theodor W. Adorno to reflect on the relationship between the possible and the actual. In repeated allusions to utopia, redemption, and reconciliation, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • William Alister Macdonald

    Watercolours from Thurso, the Thames, and Tahiti

    by Iain Macdonald ...
    The life of Scottish watercolourist William Alister Macdonald (1861-1956) contained more mystery and intrigue than a novel by the authors he knew as friends. Mid-life in the early 1900s he painted widely across Britain, Europe and North Africa. Aged sixty, abandoning his wife and son in London, he settled in Tahiti, where he befriended authors Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall and Zane Grey. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Hybrid Practices in Moving Image Design

    Methods of Heritage and Digital Production in Motion Graphics

    by Iain Macdonald ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book, written from the perspective of a designer and educator, brings to the attention of media historians, fellow practitioners and students the innovative practices of leading moving image designers. Moving image design, whether viewed as television and movie title sequences, movie visual effects, animating infographics, branding and advertising, or as an art form, is being increasingly ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Designing the BBC

    A History of Motion Graphics

    Edited by Iain Macdonald, Paula Williams ...
    Designing the BBC is a compelling history of the groundbreaking work of the BBC's Television Graphic Design Department from 1954 to 2021.Drawing on the unique content of the BBC Motion Graphics Archive and the first-hand perspectives of former BBC staff, this book provides a timely overview of more than 60 years of the BBC's innovative practice within motion graphics.Former BBC staff and leading ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment

    Edited by Leah F. Vosko, Martha MacDonald, Iain Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship.The editors argue that these inequalities are evident at the national level across ... Read more

    $138.78 CAD

  • Hidden Markov Models for Time Series

    An Introduction Using R, Second Edition

    by Walter Zucchini, Iain L. MacDonald, Roland Langrock ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability
    Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R, Second Edition illustrates the great flexibility of hidden Markov models (HMMs) as general-purpose models for time series data. The book provides a broad understanding of the models and their uses.After presenting the basic model formulation, the book covers estimation, forecasting, decoding, prediction, model selection, and Bayesian ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Confronting Environments

    Local Understanding in a Globalizing World

    by James G.Carrier, Donald Macleod, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, Kenneth Iain MacDonald, Peter Wynn Kirby, Eeva Berglund, Kay Milton, Josiah Heyman ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    6 x 9 ... Read more

    $51.79 CAD

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    Confessions of a Justified Sinner & The Brownie of the Black Haggs

    Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations of Two Classic Thrillers

    by James Hogg ...
    Narrated by Shauna MacDonald, John Shedden, Iain Cuthbertson, Lorn MacDonald, Wendy Seager, James Chisholm, Irene MacDougall, Hugh Douglas ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 9 min

    BBC Radio 4 adaptations of James Hogg’s classic psychological thriller and one of his best-known stories of suspense – plus a bonus docudrama about his lifeJames Hogg was a farmer, poet, novelist and self-educated genius. A friend of Sir Walter Scott, he is recognised today as one of Scotland’s great writers. His masterpiece, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, has ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Emma Jolly ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    The Pen & Sword guide to the census is detailed, accessible and authoritative, and it is one of the most comprehensive on the market. It has been written with the family historian in mind, and it is packed with advice on how to explore and get the most from the census records. As well as describing the modern censuses, it provides information on the less-known censuses dating from before 1841, and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genome

    The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

    by Matt Ridley ...
    "Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability." — The New YorkerThe genome's been mapped. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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