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  • MY LIFE AS A KID

    Growing Up In The Great Depression

    by John C. Cairns ...
    My Life As A Kid is a lively autobiography written from the perspective of an imaginative, spirited young boy growing up in the pre-depression and Great Depression years of the 1920s and 30s in Galt, a small town in Southern Ontario, Canada. In the background are the sturdy immigrant Scottish family, with their ethic of hard work and simple, frugal living. The story gains additional depth and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Warfare in the Medieval World

    by Brian Todd Carey, Joshua B. Allfree, John Cairns ...
    Warfare in the Medieval World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe in the period between the fall of Rome and the introduction of reliable gunpowder weapons during the Thirty Years War. Through an exploration of thirty-three selected battles, military historian Brian Todd Carey surveys the changing tactical relationships between the four ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Road to Manzikert

    Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527–1071

    by Joshua B. Allfree, John Cairns, Brian Todd Carey ...
    " Take[s] us through 500 years of conflict from Justinian through the rise of Islam to the coming of the Turks . . . good chapters on Islamic warfare."— Balkan Military HistoryIn August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the Anatolian heartland of the Empire.Outmaneuvered by the Turkish sultan, Alp ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Matters of Life and Death

    Perspectives on Public Health, Molecular Biology, Cancer, and the Prospects for the Human Race

    by John Cairns ...
    Cancer has become the scourge of the twentieth century. It was always part of the human condition, but until recently it was not a common cause of death because most people died from the infectious diseases. Now that so many of us will live long enough to develop cancer, we need to learn as much about it as we can. This requires some understanding of molecular biology. John Cairns has made ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • Warfare in the Ancient World

    by Brian Todd Carey, Joshua B. Allfree, John Cairns ...
    "An interesting study of the development of military organization and strategy across several millennia, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia to the last days of Rome." — The Pegasus ArchiveWarfare in the Ancient World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe between the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium BC and the fall ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Principal Cairns

    Enriched edition. Navigating Power and Ethics in the World of Education

    by John Cairns, Rachel Kirk ...
    In "Principal Cairns," John Cairns presents a profound exploration of the complexities inherent in educational leadership during a transformative period in modern education. The narrative unfolds through a blend of poignant anecdotes and analytical discussions, showcasing Cairns' unique literary style that combines vivid storytelling with insightful commentary. Set against the backdrop of the late ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hannibal's Last Battle

    Zama & The Fall of Carthage

    by Brian Todd Carey, Joshua B. Allfree, John Cairns ...
    A "crisply written, well researched . . . superb piece of scholarship about one of the most dramatic and decisive battles in the ancient world" ( Journal of Military History).At Zama (in what is now Tunisia) in 202 BC, the armies of two great empires clashed: the Romans under Scipio Africanus and Carthaginians, led by Hannibal. Scipio's forces would win a decisive, bloody victory that forever ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Law, Lawyers, and Humanism

    Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1

    by John W. Cairns ...
    Series series Edinburgh Studies in Law

    $140.99 CAD

  • Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique

    Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2

    by John W. Cairns ...
    Series series Edinburgh Studies in Law

    $140.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Ecotoxicology

    Edited by David J. Hoffman, Barnett A. Rattner, G. Allen Burton Jr., John Cairns Jr. ...
    Completely revised and updated with 18 new chapters, this second edition includes contributions from over 75 international experts. Also, a Technical Review Board reviewed all manuscripts for accuracy and currency. Focusing on toxic substance and how they affect the ecosystems worldwide, the book presents methods for quantifying and measuring ecotoxicological effects in the field and in the lab, ... Read more

    $604.99 CAD

  • O BE

    by John Stevenson Cairns ...
    The one aim in creating the AI was to make life more comfortable for the rich who created the machines to replace the expensive human workforce. The unwise programmers did not install safeguards in their pet computer which made rapid self-improvements. It designed new ways to extend the lives of the biological units and created the diagnostic mind controlling chip to be implanted into every ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Connectionist Models of Memory and Language (PLE: Memory)

    Edited by Joseph P. Levy, Dimitrios Bairaktaris, Paul Cairns, John Bullinaria ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Memory
    Connectionist modelling and neural network applications had become a major sub-field of cognitive science by the mid-1990s. In this ground-breaking book, originally published in 1995, leading connectionists shed light on current approaches to memory and language modelling at the time.The book is divided into four sections: Memory; Reading; Computation and statistics; Speech and audition. Each ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD