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  • Kalmann

    by Joachim Schmidt ...
    Translated by Jamie Lee Searle ...
    An atmospheric crime thriller laced with humor: Kalmann is the self-appointed Sheriff of Raufarhöfn, a village in the far north of Iceland, and he has everything under control. There’s no need to worry. Day by day, he hunts Arctic foxes and catches gigantic Greenland sharks. But inside Kalmann’s head, the wheels sometimes spin backwards. After he discovers a pool of human blood in the winter snow ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The President And I

    The President And I

    by Joachim Schmidt ...
    Series Book 1 - 1
    This book explores the properties of space travel in the vicinity of strong gravitational fields. It is a concept approved by the American government. The book presents this concept to a general public on a popular scientific level, which includes mathematical explanations understandable with the knowledge of standard school mathematics. ... Read more

    $8.25 CAD

  • Andelkrag Castle, Minas Tirith, and Kospoda

    by Joachim Schmidt ...
    Andelkrag Castle and Minas Tirith are well known in the fantasy literature. This book explores the legends connected with these castles and traces them back to a real castle and a real story behind it. A thorough investigation allows to reconstruct how this real castle came into existence in an attempt to shelter Europe during the Hun attack, and what happens with the successful defenders after ... Read more

    $6.88 CAD

  • Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain

    by Joachim B. Schmidt ...
    Translated by Jamie Lee Searle ...
    The return of Kalmann, the oddball hero of the bestselling novel of the same name. Set first in West Virginia and Washington at the time of the 2021 riots at the US Capitol Building and then in the far north of Iceland where Kalmann, the self-appointed Sheriff of a small fishing village, is faced with murders leading back to US shenanigans in Iceland during the Cold War.It all begins with Kalmann ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • What Makes a Man?

    Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin

    by Rashid al-Daif, Joachim Helfer ...
    Translated by Ken Seigneurie, Gary Schmidt ...
    Series series CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
    In 2003, Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif spent several weeks in Germany as part of the “West-East Divan” program, a cultural exchange effort meant to improve mutual awareness of German and Middle Eastern cultures. He was paired with German author Joachim Helfer, who then returned the visit to al-Daif in Lebanon. Following their time together, al-Daif published in Arabic a literary reportage of his ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China

    The End of Naivety

    by Joachim Schild, Dirk Schmidt ...
    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    This book examines EU and US bilateral trade and investment relations with China, their attempts to level the economic playing field and to narrow the ‘reciprocity gap’ in market openness.It explores the extent of EU and US policy change, the underlying factors accounting for this change and compares EU and US foreign economic policy answers to an adversary increasingly perceived as an unfair ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control

    Interests, Conflicts, and Justice

    by Alexis Below, Andrea Hellmann, Annette Schaper, Carsten Rauch, Elvira Rosert, Franziska Plümmer, Friederike Klinke, Giorgio Franceschini, Gregor Hofmann, Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Judith Reuter0, Marco Fey1, Simone Wisotzki2, Tabea Seidler-Diekmann3, Una Becker-Jakob4, Carmen Wunderlich7, Daniel Müller8 ...
    Series series
    This volume comprehensively covers a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological,and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines. Arms control policies of all of the key established and rising state actors are considered, as well as those of nonaligned countries, ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Comparisons in Global Security Politics

    Representing and Ordering the World

    by Keith Krause, Christian Bueger, Gabi Schlag, Nike Retzmann, Bastian Giegerich, Anja P. Jakobi, Madeleine Myatt, Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Steven Ward, Paul Musgrave, James Hackett, Paul Beaumont, Lena Herbst ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Comparative practices are integral to global security politics. The balance of power politics, status competitions and global security governance would not be possible without them. Yet, they are rarely treated as the main object of study.Exploring the varied uses of comparisons, this book addresses three key questions:• How is comparative ... Read more

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    by Liam McIlvanney ...
    In the chilling new crime novel from award-winning author Liam McIlvanney, a serial killer stalks the streets of Glasgow and Detective Inspector McCormack follows a trail of devastating secrets to uncover the truth …Glasgow, 1969. In the grip of the worst winter for years, the city is brought to its knees by a killer whose name fills the streets with fear: The Quaker. He takes his next victim — ... Read more

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  • The Harbor

    by Katrine Engberg ...
    This “must-read for fans of Nordic noir” (BookPage, starred review) follows detectives Korner and Werner as they search for a missing teenager and uncover the web of lies that has threatened his life—and may prevent him from ever being found.When fifteen-year-old Oscar Dreyer-Hoff disappears in this “masterpiece” (Booklist, starred review), the police assume he’s simply a runaway—a typically ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Edge of the Grave

    Winner of The Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year

    by Robbie Morrison ...
    Series Book 1 - Jimmy Dreghorn series
    Winner of The Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the YearShortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2021 and the CWA Historical Dagger 2022Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison is a dark historical crime novel set in 1930s Glasgow. A city still recovering from the Great War; split by religious division and swarming with razor gangs. For fans of William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw ... Read more

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  • Nine Lives

    A Novel

    by Peter Swanson ...
    “[A] smartly entertaining reimagining of Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… Swanson cunningly plays with readers’ heads as we hope so-and-so gets it next.”— Washington PostIf you’re on the list, someone wants you dead.From the New York Times bestselling author of Eight Perfect Murders comes the heart-pounding story of nine strangers who receive a cryptic list with... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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