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  • War of Nerves

    Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda

    by Jonathan Tucker ...
    In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present.At the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of synthetic chemistry made the large-scale use of toxic chemicals on the battlefield both feasible and cheap. Tucker explores the long debate over the military ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran

    A Travel Companion

    by Jonathan Tucker ...
    Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 1,500 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world. Along a multitude of routes everything was exchanged: exotic goods, art, knowledge, religion, philosophy, disease and war. From the East came silk, precious stones, tea, jade, paper ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Silk Road - China and the Karakorum Highway

    A Travel Companion

    by Jonathan Tucker ...
    Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 1,500 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world. Along a multitude of routes everything was exchanged: exotic goods, art, knowledge, religion, philosophy, disease and war. From the East came silk, precious stones, tea, jade, paper ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Innovation, Dual Use, and Security

    Managing the Risks of Emerging Biological and Chemical Technologies

    Edited by Jonathan B. Tucker ...
    A framework for assessing the security risks of emerging dual-use technologies and devising tailored governance strategies is proposed and applied to contemporary case studies.Recent advances in disciplines such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and neuropharmacology entail a “dual-use dilemma” because they promise benefits for human health and welfare yet pose the risk of misuse for hostile ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Modeling in Materials Processing

    by Jonathan A. Dantzig, Charles L. Tucker III ...
    Mathematical modeling and computer simulation are useful tools for improving materials processing. While courses in materials processing have covered modeling, they have traditionally been devoted to one particular class of materials, that is, polymers, metals, or ceramics. This text offers a different approach, presenting an integrated treatment of metallic and non-metallic materials. The authors ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

  • Runner's World The Runner's Body

    How the Latest Exercise Science Can Help You Run Stronger, Longer, and Faster

    by Ross Tucker, Jonathan Dugas, Matt Fitzgerald, Editors of Runner's World Maga ...
    Series series Runner's World
    Every day scientists learn more about how the body adapts to the stress of running—and how various body systems contribute to running performance. Leading the charge is a fresh generation of brilliant young exercise physiologists including Ross Tucker and Jonathan Dugas, whose work has demolished many long-standing beliefs about running. Now Tucker and Dugas, whose blog, Science of Sport, has ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Scourge

    The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox

    by Jonathan B. Tucker ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    Smallpox, the only infectious disease to have been eradicated, was one of the most terrifying of human scourges. It covered the skin with hideous, painful boils, killed a third of its victims, and left the survivors disfigured for life. In this riveting, often terrifying look at the history of smallpox, Jonathan B. Tucker tells the story of this deadly disease, the heroic efforts to eradicate it ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Behavioral Neurology

    by Jonathan H. Pincus, Gary J. Tucker ...
    This is a thorough revision of one of the landmark books in the field of neuropsychiatry. The authors, one a distinguished neurologist and the other an eminent psychiatrist, provide a clear, well-integrated account of the behavioral aspects of neurological conditions and the neurological aspects of psychiatric disorders. Earlier editions presented the view, then provocative, that disordered brain ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Topics in Topological Graph Theory

    by Jonathan L. Gross, Thomas W. Tucker ...
    Series Book 128 - Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications
    The use of topological ideas to explore various aspects of graph theory, and vice versa, is a fruitful area of research. There are links with other areas of mathematics, such as design theory and geometry, and increasingly with such areas as computer networks where symmetry is an important feature. Other books cover portions of the material here, but there are no other books with such a wide scope ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Tank Battles of the Cold War 1948-1991

    by Anthony Tucker-Jones ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    As Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in this wide-ranging history, for most of the Cold War the tank retained its pre-eminence on the battlefield. The Arab-Israeli wars witnessed some of the biggest tank battles of all time, and tanks played key roles in conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan as well as in the Iran-Iraq War and the wars fought between India and Pakistan. But then in the mid-1960s ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    One Shot

    by Jonathan Fly ...
    Narrated by Allan Tucker ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    In the heartland of rural Kansas, young Josh Bailey, shaped by domestic violence, finds refuge with Aunt Lo and Uncle Woody. Riding his Harley into adulthood, Josh faces high school, first love, and tests of courage. As he uncovers family secrets and the pain of loss, he forges deep bonds and seeks justice, all under the vast Kansas sky. "One Shot" weaves a tale of resilience, love, and the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Synagogues in a Time of Change

    Fragmentation and Diversity in Jewish Religious Movements

    by Zachary I. Heller, Lawrence Grossman, Rodney L. Petersen, Jonathan Woocher, Arthur Green, Gordon Tucker, David B. Starr, Sanford Seltzer, Rela Mintz Geffen, Carl A. Sheingold0, Sanford Cardin1, Judy Beck2, Clifford Kulwin3, Cheri Scheff Levitan4, Moshe Waldoks5, Jeremy S. Morrison6, Rabbi David Ellenson7, Arnold M. Eisen8, Dr. David M. Gordis9, Hayim Herring0 ...
    The synagogue remains a central institution in Jewish life as a place of study, worship, and assembly, but each day brings word of a new challenging development within each of the larger movements to which synagogues belong—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist. Jewish religious communities today share a number of challenges, from the increase in secular or unaffiliated Jews to ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD