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  • Wiring the World

    The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks

    by Simone Müller ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    The successful laying of a transatlantic cable in 1866 remade world communications. A message could travel across the ocean in minutes, shrinking the space between continents, cultures, and nations. An eclectic group of engineers, entrepreneurs, politicians, and media visionaries then developed this technology into a telecommunications system that spread a particular vision of civilization—but not ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Toxic Ship

    The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade

    by Simone M. Müller, Paul S. Sutter ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    **Winner of the 2025 Hagley Prize for the Best Book in Business History from the Business History Conference and the Hagley LibraryWinner of the 2025 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award from the International Studies AssociationAn infamous voyage explores the hazardous waste trade and environmental justice**In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Facing the Sea

    Essays in Swedish Maritime Studies

    Edited by Simon Ekström, Leos Müller ...
    The sea has many faces. Some are calm and welcoming, others ferocious and death-dealing. For centuries of human history, the sea has seen peaceful trade and war, life and death and failure. In Facing the Sea we meet Swedish experiences of the sea. We can read about smugglers from the Åland Islands, about British privateers seizing Swedish ships, and about Swedish naval officers defending the honor ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecological Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change

    Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities

    Edited by Simone M. Müller, Matthias Schmidt, Kirsten Twelbeck ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    This book provides a systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the conflicts, issues, and tensions associated with today’s ecological transformation processes from an Environmental Humanities perspective. It explores the notion of ecological ambivalence, where conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings toward public policies or private practices for "saving planet Earth" threaten to produce a ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Toxic Timescapes

    Examining Toxicity across Time and Space

    Edited by Simone M. Müller, May-Brith Ohman Nielsen ...
    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet.While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining, monitoring, or generally coming to terms with them. This volume’s ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gene Therapy

    Legal, Ethical and Scientific Aspects

    Edited by Stefan Müller, Jürgen W. Simon, Jan W. Vesting ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Current therapies for most human genetic diseases are inadequate. In response to the need for effective treatments, modern molecular genetics is providing tools for an unprecedented new approach to the treatment of diseases; e.g. the direct manipulation of mutant genes or the input on new therapeutic genes. The treatment of human disease by gene transfer has now moved from the theoretical to the ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Social Voices

    The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe

    by Jeff Todd Titon, Ruth Hellier, Anthony Seeger, Treva B. Lindsey, Nancy Guy, Carol Muller, Elijah Wald, Andrew Simon, John Lie0, Eric Lott1, Christina D Abreu2, Carol Silverman3, Michael K Bourdaghs4, Kwame Dawes5, Natalie Sarrazin6, Katherine Meizel7 ...
    Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly SillsAround the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • A New Ecology

    Systems Perspective

    by Simone Bastianoni, Joao C. Marques, Felix Muller, S. Nors Nielsen, Bernard D. Patten, Enzo Tiezzi, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Sven Erik Jørgensen, Brian D. Fath ...
    A New Ecology presents an ecosystem theory based on the following ecosystem properties: physical openness, ontic openness, directionality, connectivity, a complex dynamic for growth and development, and a complex dynamic response to disturbances. Each of these properties is developed in detail to show that these basic and characteristic properties can be applied to explain a wide spectrum of ... Read more

    $159.99 CAD

  • Facing the Sea: Essays in Swedish Maritime Studies

    by Mirja Arnshav, Henrik Arnstad, Niklas Eriksson, AnnaMaria Forssberg, Ida Hughes Tidlund, Hanna Jansson, Fredrik Kämpe, Anders Linderoth ...
    Havet har flera ansikten. Ofta rofyllt och välkomnande, men också våldsamt och dödsbringande. I årtusenden har havet varit en scen för liv, handel och krig och misslyckanden.I Facing the Sea får vi ta del av svenska erfarenheter av havet. Vi får läsa om smugglare från Åland, brittiska kapare som beslagtar svenska skepp och marinofficerare som kämpar för flaggans heder. Vi ser också vad en ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • A New Ecology

    Systems Perspective

    by Soeren Nors Nielsen, Simone Bastianoni, Joao C. Marques, Felix Muller, Bernard D. Patten, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Enzo Tiezzi, Brian D. Fath ...
    A New Ecology: Systems Perspective, Second Edition, gives an overview of the commonalities of all ecosystems from a variety of properties, including physical openness, ontic openness, directionality, connectivity, a complex dynamic for growth and development, and a complex dynamic response to disturbances. Each chapter details basic and characteristic properties that help the reader understand how ... Read more

    $145.99 CAD

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    The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador

    by Gerhard P. Bassler ...
    Series Book 46 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
    Vikings to U-Boats explores the colony's hidden multicultural history, examining both sides of the German-Newfoundland/Labrador experience. From first recorded contacts to the end of World War II, Bassler traces the lives of German-speaking fishermen, musicians, doctors, engineers, and entrepreneurs. He reconstructs the historical reality behind U-Boat and spy stories and analyses the change in ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Keywords for Environmental Studies

    Edited by Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, David Pellow ...
    Series Book 3 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, quantitative and qualitative research, debates, and histories for Environmental and Nature StudiesUnderstandings of “nature” have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics, and aesthetics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the interdisciplinary field of ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD