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  • The Suez Canal

    by S. C. Burchell ...
    Critics said Ferdinand de Lesseps's ambitious scheme to link the waters of the Mediterranean and Red seas - thus cutting 5,800 miles off the India to Europe ocean voyage - was impractical, unwise, and even foolish. The hostile, empty desert of the Isthmus of Suez posed a seemingly insurmountable geographical challenge to the builder's ingenuity and persistence. During the ten years of its ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self

    Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980

    by Michel Foucault ...
    Translated by Grahama Burchell ...
    Lectures on truth and subjectivity from Foucault's later years, featuring a transcripts of an interview and a discussion with the philosopher.In 1980, Michel Foucault began a vast research project on the relationship between subjectivity and truth, an examination of conscience, confession, and truth-telling that would become a crucial feature of his life-long work on the relationship between ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abnormal

    Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975

    by Michel Foucault ...
    Translated by Graham Burchell ...
    Series Book 4 - Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France
    In this seminal work, Foucault examines the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice and its method of categorizing individuals who "resemble their crime before they commit it."From 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous Collège de France. Attended by thousands, these were pivotal events in the world of French letters. Abnormal, the first of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Corporate Social Responsibility Reader

    Edited by Jon Burchell ...
    In the age of global capitalism, shareholders, and profits are not the only concerns of modern business corporations. Debates surrounding economic and environmental sustainability, and increasing intense media scrutiny, mean that businesses have to show ethical responsibility to stakeholders beyond the boardroom. A commitment to corporate social responsibility may help the wider community. It ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Planning Theory

    A Search for Future Directions

    Edited by Robert Burchell ...
    Theory and practice in city planning have never been known for their compatibility. The planner, dealing with stresses such as the personalities at work in a board meeting and coping with the realities of fund raising, political realities, and the like, can find little guidance in the theory of the trade. The issues of poverty groups, whether rural or urban, the provision of services, and the ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Carbon Materials for Advanced Technologies

    Edited by T.D. Burchell ...
    The inspiration for this book came from an American Carbon Society Workshop entitled "Carbon Materials for Advanced Technologies" which was hosted by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1994. Chapter 1 contains a review of carbon materials, and emphasizes the structure and chemical bonding in the various forms of carbon, including the four allotropes diamond, graphite, carbynes, and the ... Read more

    $273.59 CAD

  • What Is Philosophy?

    by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari ...
    Translated by Hugh Tomlinson, Graham Burchell ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Félix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy. The long-awaited publication of What Is Philosophy? in English marks the culmination of Deleuze's career.Deleuze and ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Cratering in Marine Environments and on Ice

    Edited by Henning Dypvik, Mark J. Burchell, Philippe Claeys ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Despite their global importance, little is known about the few existing examples of impacts into marine environments and icy targets. They are among the least understood and studied parts of impact crater geology. The icy impacts are also of great importance in understanding the developments of the outer planets and their satellites such as Mars or Europa. Furthermore, the impact mechanisms, ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Make Work Healthy

    Create a Sustainable Organization with High-Performing Employees

    by Michael J. Burchell, John S. Ryan ...
    Reach new levels of organizational productivity and achievement by redefining the phrase “workplace health”In Make Work Healthy, a team of distinguished organizational transformation professionals delivers an insightful how-to manual for improving organizational performance with a new approach to workforce management. The book offers organizations, leaders, and managers with the knowledge, data, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Decoding a Royal Marine Commando

    The Militarized Body as Artefact

    by Mark Burchell ...
    Series series Material Culture and Modern Conflict
    With a heritage dating back to the mid-seventeenth century, the Royal Marines have accrued a rich history of rituals, artefacts and material culture that is consciously deployed in order to define and shape the institution both historically and going forward into an uncertain future. Drawing upon this heritage, Mark Burchell offers a unique method of understanding how the Royal Marines draw upon ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Cambridge IGCSE™ English Student’s Book (Collins Cambridge IGCSE™)

    by Keith Brindle, Julia Burchell, Julia Burchell, Steve Eddy, Mike Gould, Ian Kirby ...
    Series series Collins Cambridge IGCSE™
    The third edition of the Collins Cambridge IGCSE® English Student Book covers in depth every skill and topic in the Cambridge IGCSE® and IGCSE® (9–1) First Language English syllabuses (0500 and 0990), showing students how to make progress.This Student Book supports the syllabuses for first examination in 2020.Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International EducationFirst teaching: September 2018 ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Punitive Society

    Lectures at the Collège de France, 1972-1973

    Translated by Graham Burchell ...
    by Michel Foucault ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and truth that govern modern penal law were forged, and question what links them to the emergence of a new punitive regime that still dominates contemporary society. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD