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  • Handbook of Japanese Modern Architecture

    Edited by Ari Seligmann ...
    Series series Handbooks on Japanese Studies
    This handbook explores Japanese architecture and the built environment from diverse disciplinary and methodological perspectives, tracing the influences that have shaped modern Japanese architecture and urbanism.Divided into four thematic parts—translations, materializations, meditations, and characterizations—the handbook takes the reader on a stroll through developments of Japanese architecture ... Read more

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  • Leadership In Conflict 1914–1918

    The First World War was a conflict in which personality and character mattered. Its course and outcome were decided by determined individuals who had to make momentous decisions in very trying circumstances. As battles raged on land, sea and air across Europe, Africa and Asia, the Generals and politicians tried to steer a course to victory. It was never easy and they often disagreed on the best ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015

    Developments and Dialogues

    by Ari Seligmann ...
    Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 uses a series of thematic lenses to explain the rich history of Japanese architectural developments from the 1920s foundation of modern architecture to contemporary permutations of modern and post-modern architecture. The book introduces the diversity of Japanese architecture and traces the evolution of Japanese architecture in the context of domestic and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Lymphoid Neoplasias II

    Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects

    Edited by G. Mathe, M. Seligmann, M. Tubiana ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    We have studied 24 cases of secondarily leukemic (stage V) lymphosarcoma (LS), 31 cases of "d'emblee" leukemic LS, and ten cases of lymphoid leukemic neoplasias transitional between "d'emblee" leukemic LS and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (eLL). These cases only concern the common types ofthe WHO classification ofLS, i.e., the prolymphocytic, the lymphoblastic, and the immunoblastic. Some cases ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Andean World

    Series series Routledge Worlds
    This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the region, and addresses key themes such as cosmology, aesthetics, gender and household relations, modes of ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Broken Links, Enduring Ties

    American Adoption across Race, Class, and Nation

    Family-making in America is in a state of flux—the ways people compose their families is changing, including those who choose to adopt. Broken Links, Enduring Ties is a groundbreaking comparative investigation of transnational and interracial adoptions in America. Linda Seligmann uncovers the impact of these adoptions over the last twenty years on the ideologies and cultural assumptions that ... Read more

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  • Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares

    This innovative volume studies women as economic, political, and cultural mediators of space, gender, value, and language in informal markets. Drawing on diverse methodologies—multisited fieldwork, linguistic analysis, and archival research—the contributors demonstrate how women move between and knit together household and marketplace activities. This knitting together pivots on how household ... Read more

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  • The Mirror of Magic

    A History of Magic in the Western World

    A collector’s edition of the classic, illustrated, and comprehensive history of magic and the occult• Written by renowned Surrealist and magic scholar Kurt Seligmann (1900-1962)• Includes all 250 illustrations from the original 1948 edition• Explores magical practices and beliefs from their origins in the ancient world through the heyday of secret societies in the 18th centuryIn the occult classic ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Rum, Sodomy, Prayers, and the Lash Revisited

    Winston Churchill and Social Reform in the Royal Navy, 1900-1915

    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 28 min

    "Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash." This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in it were ones that were subject to major reform initiatives while Churchill was in charge of the Royal Navy between October 1911 and May 1915. ... Read more

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  • The Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914

    Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War Against Germany

    When and why did the Royal Navy come to view the expansion of German maritime power as a threat to British maritime security? Contrary to current thinking, Matthew S. Seligmann argues that Germany emerged as a major threat at the outset of the twentieth century, not because of its growing battle fleet, but because the British Admiralty (rightly) believed that Germany's naval planners intended to ... Read more

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  • Quinoa

    Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands

    Series series Interp Culture New Millennium
    Quinoa’s new status as a superfood has altered the economic fortunes of Quechua farmers in the Andean highlands. Linda J. Seligmann journeys to the Huanoquite region of Peru to track the mixed blessings brought about by the surging worldwide popularity of this “exquisite grain.” Focusing on how Indigenous communities have confronted globalization, Seligmann examines the influence of food politics, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD