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  • Halloween

    From Pagan Ritual to Party Night

    by Nicholas Rogers ...
    Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look at the cultural origins and development of one of the most popular holidays of the year. Drawing on a fascinating array of ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Stoicism Unbound: Navigating the Modern World with Ancient Wisdom

    by Priscilla Rogers, Nicholas Donovan ...
    Embark on a transformative journey with "Stoicism Unbound," a book that seamlessly weaves ancient wisdom into the fabric of the modern world. In this compelling exploration, discover how the timeless philosophy of Stoicism adapts to contemporary challenges, offering practical insights for individuals seeking meaning, resilience, and ethical guidance in a rapidly changing society.Dive into the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mayhem

    Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53

    by Nicholas Rogers ...
    After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this fascinating book Nicholas Rogers explores the moral panic associated with this rapid demobilization.Through interlocking stories of duels, highway robberies, smuggling, ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Unheard Voices

    by Nicholas Rogers ...
    I started to write this work in 1994, my first serious attempt at writing creatively. I discovered that I just had to get them down onto paper and out of my head. In this collection I try to reveal the range of intimate emotions and thoughts that are trapped inside of me. Often our ‘Unheard Voices’ never see the light of day. I have the strength to share with you the voices I hear in my mind and ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Blood Waters

    War, Disease and Race in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean

    by Professor Nicholas Rogers ...
    This book paints a picture of the eighteenth-century British Caribbean as a frontier zone in which war, international rivalry, disease and slavery are paramount themes. It explores the lure of the region as a vaunted site of potential wealth and derring-do, the fragility of tropical campaigns, the nature of slave insurrection, and the efforts of indigenous peoples (here, the Miskito of the ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Peripheral Centralities

    The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs

    Edited by Nicholas A. Phelps, Roger Keil, Paul Maginn ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    The term ‘peripheral centralities’ may seem something of an oxymoron and yet the spatial peripheries of cities have often been more central to urban development processes than is appreciated. To better understand the nature of peripheral centrality, Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs brings together a wide variety of examples of lost and forgotten peripheral ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Economic Reform in India

    Challenges, Prospects, and Lessons

    Edited by Nicholas C. Hope, Anjini Kochar, Roger Noll, T. N. Srinivasan ...
    The essays in this volume are written by leading economists working on the Indian economy. They collectively emphasize the importance of policies and institutions for sustained growth and poverty reduction, stressing that the success of sector-specific policies is vitally dependent on the nature of markets and the functioning of institutions such as those charged with regulating and overseeing ... Read more

    $68.79 CAD

  • Homelessness and Social Policy

    Edited by Roger Burrows, Nicholas Pleace, Deborah Quilgars ...
    The problem of homelessness is deeply emblematic of the sort of society Britain has become. What other social phenomena could better epitomise the end of modernity than our seeming inability to adequately respond to the most basic needs - shelter, warmth, food - of substantial numbers of our 'citizens'? Homelessness and Social Policy offers a dispassionate analysis of the problem of homelessness ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Marine Mammals: Fisheries, Tourism and Management Issues

    Fisheries, Tourism and Management Issues

    Edited by Nicholas Gales, Mark Hindell, Roger Kirkwood ...
    Marine Mammals: Fisheries, Tourism and Management Issues brings together contributions from 68 leading scientists from 12 countries to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date review on the way we manage our interactions with whales, dolphins, seals and dugongs. The book examines how we have fared conserving the world’s marine mammal populations, with a focus on the key issues of fisheries and tourism. ... Read more

    $159.49 CAD

  • Destructive Trends in Mental Health

    The Well Intentioned Path to Harm

    Edited by Rogers H. Wright, Nicholas A. Cummings ...
    This book takes as its inspiration the assumption that the atmosphere of intellectual openness, scientific inquiry, aspiration towards diversity, and freedom from political pressure that once flourished in the American Psychological Association has been eclipsed by an "ultra-liberal agenda," in which voices of dissent, controversial points of view, and minority groups are intimidated, ridiculed ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • New Jazz Conceptions

    History, Theory, Practice

    Edited by Roger Fagge, Nicolas Pillai ...
    Series series Warwick Series in the Humanities
    New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice is an edited collection that captures the cutting edge of British jazz studies in the early twenty-first century, highlighting the developing methodologies and growing interdisciplinary nature of the field. In particular, the collection breaks down barriers previously maintained between jazz historians, theorists and practitioners with an emphasis on ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World

    Edited by Paul E. Lovejoy, Nicholas Rogers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
    This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West. ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD