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Transforming Learning

Don't Let School Interfere with Your Laughing

by Peter M. Jonas ...

Many authors have researched the connection between humor and education but as E .B. White said: “Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. However, Dr. Peter Jonas takes a broad and practical approach examining the connection between humor and learning. The book uses a meta-analysis and meta-synthesis to identify nine areas where humor ... Read more

$45.99 CAD

Many authors have researched the connection between humor and education but as E .B. White said: “Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. However, Dr. Peter Jonas takes a broad and practical approach examining the connection between humor and learning. The book uses a meta-analysis and meta-synthesis to identify nine areas where humor
... Read more
The Raven's Hat

Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games

by Jonas Peters, Nicolai Meinshausen ...

Try to solve a series of unusual math games in this playful, illustrated guide that breaks down important math concepts for everyday adult readers.“A wonderful book for someone who likes mathematics and likes to be challenged!” —Chris Bernhardt, author of Quantum Computing for EveryoneThis book presents a series of engaging math games that seem unsolvable—but can be solved when they are translated ... Read more

$27.19 CAD

Try to solve a series of unusual math games in this playful, illustrated guide that breaks down important math concepts for everyday adult readers.“A wonderful book for someone who likes mathematics and likes to be challenged!” —Chris Bernhardt, author of Quantum Computing for EveryoneThis book presents a series of engaging math games that seem unsolvable—but can be solved when they are translated
... Read more
Advanced Techniques in Shoulder Arthroscopy

Edited by Peter J. Millett, Jonas Pogorzelski ...

This book is written for the benefit of all surgeons who have an interest in arthroscopic shoulder surgery. It is a compendium of different aspects of shoulder surgery that have been learned over the last 25 years. While there has been a rapid progression of shoulder surgery over the last two decades, particularly with the advancement of operative arthroscopic surgery, certain principles remain. ... Read more

$115.99 CAD

This book is written for the benefit of all surgeons who have an interest in arthroscopic shoulder surgery. It is a compendium of different aspects of shoulder surgery that have been learned over the last 25 years. While there has been a rapid progression of shoulder surgery over the last two decades, particularly with the advancement of operative arthroscopic surgery, certain principles remain.
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Barbarian Spring

by Jonas Lüscher ...

Translated by Peter Lewis ...

On a business trip to Tunisia, Preising, a leading Swiss industrialist, is invited to spend the week with the daughter of a local gangster. He accompanies her to the wedding of two London city traders at a desert luxury resort that was once the site of an old Berber oasis. With the wedding party in full swing and the bride riding up the aisle on a camel, no one is aware that the global financial ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

On a business trip to Tunisia, Preising, a leading Swiss industrialist, is invited to spend the week with the daughter of a local gangster. He accompanies her to the wedding of two London city traders at a desert luxury resort that was once the site of an old Berber oasis. With the wedding party in full swing and the bride riding up the aisle on a camel, no one is aware that the global financial
... Read more
Justice and Peace

The Role of Justice Claims in International Cooperation and Conflict

Edited by Caroline Fehl, Dirk Peters, Simone Wisotzki, Jonas Wolff ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This book studies the justice concerns of political actors in important international regimes and international and domestic conflicts and traces their effects on peace and conflict. The book demonstrates that such justice concerns play an ambivalent role for the resolution of conflicts and maintenance of order. While arrangements that actors perceive as just will provide a good basis for peaceful ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

This book studies the justice concerns of political actors in important international regimes and international and domestic conflicts and traces their effects on peace and conflict. The book demonstrates that such justice concerns play an ambivalent role for the resolution of conflicts and maintenance of order. While arrangements that actors perceive as just will provide a good basis for peaceful
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Elements of Causal Inference

Foundations and Learning Algorithms

by Jonas Peters, Dominik Janzing, Bernhard Scholkopf ...

Series series Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series
A concise and self-contained introduction to causal inference, increasingly important in data science and machine learning.The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduction to causal models and how to learn them from data.After explaining the ... Read more

$51.99 CAD

A concise and self-contained introduction to causal inference, increasingly important in data science and machine learning.The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduction to causal models and how to learn them from data.After explaining the
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Reconstructing Wind Fields from Gravitational Data on Gas Giants

An Investigation of Mathematical Methods

by Tim-Jonas Peter ...

Series series Life Science and Basic Disciplines (German Language)
Understanding the interior dynamics of gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn has long been a focus of planetary science. These planets exhibit prominent east-west banded structures, called zonal winds, clearly visible through telescopes and spacecraft observations. A central question is whether these wind patterns extend into the deep interior and, if so, to what extent and strength. Recent satellite ... Read more

$108.99 CAD

Understanding the interior dynamics of gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn has long been a focus of planetary science. These planets exhibit prominent east-west banded structures, called zonal winds, clearly visible through telescopes and spacecraft observations. A central question is whether these wind patterns extend into the deep interior and, if so, to what extent and strength. Recent satellite
... Read more
Movie Journal

The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971

by Jonas Mekas ...

Series series Film and Culture Series
In his Village Voice "Movie Journal" columns, Jonas Mekas captured the makings of an exciting movement in 1960s American filmmaking. Works by Andy Warhol, Gregory J. Markapoulos, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Robert Breer, and others echoed experiments already underway elsewhere, yet they belonged to a nascent tradition that only a true visionary could identify. Mekas incorporated the most essential ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

In his Village Voice "Movie Journal" columns, Jonas Mekas captured the makings of an exciting movement in 1960s American filmmaking. Works by Andy Warhol, Gregory J. Markapoulos, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Robert Breer, and others echoed experiments already underway elsewhere, yet they belonged to a nascent tradition that only a true visionary could identify. Mekas incorporated the most essential
... Read more
Audiobook

Baltic Sea, The

A Geopolitical History

by Tobias Boestad, Axel Boltenberg, Hugo Bromley, Christian Bueger, Bogusław Dybaś, Kjell Engelbrekt, Tuomas Forsberg, Kristian Gerner, Peter Haldén, Martin Hall, Mats Hallenberg, Jonas Kjellén, Peter Krönvik, Henrik Meinander, Magnus Petersson, Johan Rönnby, Brendan Simms, Veronika Slakaityte, Izabela Surwillo, Peteris Vanags, Jurgita Verbickiené, Kurt Villads Jensen, Rolf Fabricius Warming, Justyna Wubs Mrozewicz, Rasmus Glenthoj, Morten Nordhagen Ottosen ...

Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

Unabridged

12 hours 3 min

The Baltic Sea is more than an inland sea – it is a historic geopolitical stage. From maritime travel in the Viking era toa NATO-dominated region, this brackish inland sea has been a lifeline for people and countries in northern Europe. The Baltic Sea has served as a hub for economic and political relations – with the dominance of the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages, the Great Power Battles ... Read more

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The Baltic Sea is more than an inland sea – it is a historic geopolitical stage. From maritime travel in the Viking era toa NATO-dominated region, this brackish inland sea has been a lifeline for people and countries in northern Europe. The Baltic Sea has served as a hub for economic and political relations – with the dominance of the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages, the Great Power Battles
... Read more
Audiobook

The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden

by Jonas Jonasson ...

Narrated by Peter Kenny ...

Unabridged

11 hours 53 min

Jonas Jonasson's picaresque tale of how one person's actions can have far-reaching—even global—consequences, written with the same light-hearted satirical voice as his bestselling debut novel, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.On June 14th, 2007, the King and Prime Minister of Sweden went missing from a gala banquet at the Royal Castle. Later it was said that both had ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

Jonas Jonasson's picaresque tale of how one person's actions can have far-reaching—even global—consequences, written with the same light-hearted satirical voice as his bestselling debut novel, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.On June 14th, 2007, the King and Prime Minister of Sweden went missing from a gala banquet at the Royal Castle. Later it was said that both had
... Read more
Audiobook

The Prophet and the Idiot

A Novel

by Jonas Jonasson ...

Narrated by Peter Kenny ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

Obsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse, a mismatched trio sets off on a globe-trotting road trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and DisappearedIn the fading days of summer 2011, self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse in a few weeks’ ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

Obsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse, a mismatched trio sets off on a globe-trotting road trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and DisappearedIn the fading days of summer 2011, self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse in a few weeks’
... Read more

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Communicating the North

Media Structures and Images in the Making of the Nordic Region

by Peter Stadius ...

Series series The Nordic Experience
What makes a magazine in South Africa promote Scandinavian unity among its immigrant readers and why does a Swedish king endorse attempts to influence pan-Scandinavian opinion through a transnational media event in Sweden, Norway and Denmark? Can portraits of exotic Lapplanders in the British press, enthusiastic accounts of the welfare state in post-war travel literature and descriptions of the ... Read more

$100.30 CAD

What makes a magazine in South Africa promote Scandinavian unity among its immigrant readers and why does a Swedish king endorse attempts to influence pan-Scandinavian opinion through a transnational media event in Sweden, Norway and Denmark? Can portraits of exotic Lapplanders in the British press, enthusiastic accounts of the welfare state in post-war travel literature and descriptions of the
... Read more

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