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  • Going Places

    Slovenian Women's Stories on Migration

    Edited by Mirjam Milharcic Hkadnik, Jernej Mleku ...
    Going Places is a narrative of a century of Slovenian Women's immigration stories. The book traces the migration of these Eastern European women to several destinations including Argentina, Egypt, Italy, and the United States. The research has been carefully culled from the subjects' letters, personal diaries, and oral interviews. What results is a story that covers the span of three or four ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kenneth Burke and His Circles

    Edited by Jack Selzer, Robert Wess ...
    Kenneth Burke and His Circles consists of original papers focusing on the intellectual circles in which Burke participated during his long career. Instead of concentrating on Burke himself, as most recent scholarship has done, this book considers Burke as one participant in a host of important overlapping intellectual movements that took place over the course of the twentieth century. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mortal Lessons

    Notes on the Art of Surgery

    by Richard Selzer ...
    A surgeon shares true stories of life, death, and the human body in an essay collection that "will nail you to your chair" ( Saturday Review).With settings ranging from the operating theater to a Korean ambulance, and topics as varied as the disposition of a corpse and the author's own childhood, these nineteen captivating, wry, and intimate vignettes offer a poignant examination of health, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • H. H. Holmes

    The True History of the White City Devil

    by Adam Selzer ...
    Shares with readers America’s first and most infamous serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World’s Fair in ChicagoThe first comprehensive book following the life and career of H. H. HolmesA fascinating true story about a dark moment in Chicago’s historyH. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil uncovers not only the true story of Holmes but also how the legend ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe

    The Far Right and Narratives of Islam in Contemporary and Historical Perspective

    Edited by Liriam Sponholz, Anna-Maria Meuth, Mirjam Weiberg, Sabrina Zajak, Stefan Berger ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This Open Access book offers a mixed-method approach to analysing anti-Muslim narratives in interactions between the far right and the Western European mainstream. By exploring narratives that portray Islam as inherently other, the essays in this collection interrogate the effects of such narratives on the targeted group and mainstream society. Authors explore mechanisms, such as historical ... Read more

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  • Economists and Economics in Policymaking

    Historical Episodes and Methodological Perspectives

    Edited by Ivan Boldyrev, Esther-Mirjam Sent ...
    This book examines how economic knowledge shapes policy and society, challenging readers to consider not whether economics influences the real world, but how—through which models, experts, and institutions, and with what underlying assumptions and power dynamics. Drawing on the history and philosophy of economics, it moves beyond simplistic assessments of success or failure to explore the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Letters To A Young Doctor

    by Richard Selzer ...
    Highly candid, insightful, and unexpectedly humorous essays on both the brutality and the beauty of the profession in which saving and losing lives is all in a day’s work. A timeless collection by the “best of the writing surgeons” (Chicago Tribune). With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The War of Words

    Edited by Anthony Burke, Kyle Jensen, Jack Selzer ...
    When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated “Motivorum” project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents.A Rhetoric of Motives was originally intended to be a two-part book. Here, at last, is the second volume*,* ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Rule of Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran

    Power, Institutions, and the Limits of Reform

    Edited by Hadi Enayat, Mirjam Künkler ...
    After Iran's 1979 Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini denounced the secular legal system of the Pahlavis and pledged his commitment to distinctly Islamic conceptions of law and justice: the application of both the shariʿa and the rule of law (hākemiyat-e qānun) became major ideological pillars of the Islamic Republic. This precipitated the Islamization of the legal system, the judiciary and the courts, ... Read more

    $138.99 CAD

  • Crime Wave 3: Dangerous Games

    Crime Wave, #3

    by Sandra Benson, Catherine Bianco, Pam Barnsley, Charlotte Morganti, Kim Bannerman, Joanna Vandervlugt, Susan Wright, PJ Donison, K.L. Abrahamson, Linda Sanche, C. J. Papoutsis, Marcelle Dube, Mirjam Dikken, Jayne Barnard, Winona Kent, vicki delany ...
    Series Book 3 - Crime Wave
    "... all the cunning, intrigue, dark humour and darker deeds anyone could want, perfectly plotted and sublimely rendered!" —Iona Whishaw, award-winning author of the Lane Winslow MysteriesThe deadly games people play are on full display in fifteen short stories in the third anthology from Sisters in Crime—Canada West.Old friends feature in several, such as "On The Internet Nobody Knows You're a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Independence and Collectivity

    Configurations of Dis/ability Performance

    Edited by Elena Backhausen, Mirjam Kreuser, Benjamin Wihstutz ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    What do independence and collectivity have to do with dis/ability performance? This book offers a groundbreaking interdisciplinary exploration of how these two concepts intersect, challenge, and reshape our understanding of performance within disability contexts.Inside, readers will find a rich collection of essays that examine dis/ability performance both as artistic and activist practice and as ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Evidence-Informed Learning Design

    Creating Training to Improve Performance

    by Mirjam Neelen, Paul A. Kirschner ...
    Learning and Development (L&D) programmes are too often based on fads, the latest trends or learning designers' personal preferences without critical evaluation. Evidence-Informed Learning Design allows learning professionals to move away from this type of approach by showing them how to assess and apply relevant scientific literature, learning science research and proven learning techniques to ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD