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  • Environment through Time

    Diachronic Studies in Ecolinguistics

    by Robert Poole ...
    Environment through Time: Diachronic Studies in Ecolinguistics is a nuanced and engaging study of the changing way we talk about the environment and why it matters.Drawing on large collections of temporally structured, naturally occurring English language use, this book investigates whether patterns of language and the ways we talk about a variety of ecological keywords such as wilderness, climate ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • Beyond Engineering

    How Society Shapes Technology

    by Robert Pool ...
    Series series Sloan Technology
    We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. The invention of the printing press initiated the Reformation. The development of the compass ushered in the Age of Exploration and the discovery of the New World. The cotton gin created the conditions that led to the Civil War. Now, in Beyond Engineering, science writer Robert Pool turns the question ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Peak

    Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

    by Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool ...
    “This book is a breakthrough, a lyrical, powerful, science-based narrative that actually shows us how to get better (much better) at the things we care about.”—Seth Godin, author of Linchpin**“Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read [Peak]. Rest assured that the book is not mere theory. Ericsson’s research focuses on the real world, and he explains in detail, with examples, how all ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • On Hallowed Ground

    The Story of Arlington National Cemetery

    by Robert M. Poole ...
    On Hallowed Ground opens with the long-delayed funeral of four servicemen, brought home for final honors at Arlington National Cemetery almost forty years after they disappeared in Vietnam. To understand how this tradition of extraordinary care for our war dead began, Robert Poole traces the founding of Arlington Cemetery on what had been the family plantation of Robert E. Lee. After resigning his ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Guide to Using Corpora for English Language Learners

    by Robert Poole ...

    $29.99 CAD

  • Peterloo

    The English Uprising

    by Robert Poole ...
    On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some of them children. The 'Peterloo massacre', the subject of a recent feature film and a major commemoration in 2019, is famous as the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Fat

    Fighting the Obesity Epidemic

    by Robert Pool ...
    When the leptin gene was discovered in 1994, news articles predicted that there might soon be an easy, pharmaceutical solution to the growing public health crisis of obesity. Yet this scientific breakthrough merely proved once again how difficult the fight against fat really is. Despite the many appetite-suppressants, diet pills, and weight-loss programs available today, approximately 30 percent ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Advances in Microbial Physiology

    by Robert K. Poole, David J. Kelly ...
    Series Book 88 - Advances in Microbial Physiology
    Advances in Microbial Physiology, Volume 88 explores the latest research and developments in microbial physiology, providing a comprehensive overview on how microorganisms function, adapt, and interact with their environments. This volume brings together leading experts to discuss fundamental processes such as metabolism, growth, gene regulation, signal transduction, stress responses, and cellular ... Read more

    $176.99 CAD

  • Advances in Microbial Physiology

    by Robert K. Poole, David J. Kelly ...
    Series Book 86 - Advances in Microbial Physiology
    Advances in Microbial Physiology, Volume 86, the latest release in this ongoing series, continues the tradition of topical, important, cutting-edge reviews in microbiology. The editors have always strived to view microbial physiology in the broadest sense. In this volume, chapters deal with Diversity in the physiology and metabolism of chlorophototrophic bacteria, Copper homeostasis in ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness

    Conversations in a Cameroon Village

    by Robert Pool ...
    Series series Explorations in Anthropology
    The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication. During the course of numerous dialogues, witchcraft, a highly ambivalent force, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ecolinguistics

    Edited by Dr Robert Poole, Daniela Francesca Virdis, Jessica Hampton, Amir Ghorbanpour ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ecolinguistics is a comprehensive guide focusing upon the expanding field of ecolinguistics and its investigations of the role of language in the life-sustaining interactions of humans, other species, and the more-than-human world. The collection explores topics such as climate change discourse, representations of plants and animals, relationships with land, ecotourism, ... Read more

    $199.79 CAD

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  • Section 60

    Arlington National Cemetery

    by Robert M. Poole ...
    Gifted writer and reporter Robert Poole opens Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery with preparations for Memorial Day when thousands of families come to visit those buried in the 624-acre cemetery, legions of Rolling Thunder motorcyclists patrol the streets with fluttering POW flags, and service members place miniature flags before each of Arlington's graves. Section 60, where many of those ... Read more

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