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  • Tracing the Indo-Europeans

    New evidence from archaeology and historical linguistics

    Edited by Thomas Olander, Kristian Kristiansen, Birgit Anette Olsen ...
    Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lear’s Other Shadow

    A Cultural History of Queen Lear

    by Thomas G. Olsen ...
    Lear’s Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear offers a deep cultural analysis of the figure of Queen Lear, who shadows and eventually sometimes overshadows her royal husband across the nearly one-thousand-year life of this archetypal tale. What appears to be a deliberate strategy of suppression, even erasure in Shakespeare’s King Lear later inspired dozens of stage, page, and cinematic ... Read more

    $39.09 CAD

  • Intraocular Lens Calculations

    Edited by Jaime Aramberri, Kenneth J. Hoffer, Thomas Olsen, Giacomo Savini, H. John Shammas ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Cataract surgery, with 25-30 million surgeries per year, has become one of most popular surgeries in the world. The calculation of its power is of utmost importance. As new premium intraocular lenses (IOLs) and modern surgical techniques have been developed, the demand has grown exponentially - not only for eliminating cataracts, but also for getting rid of the need for glasses.This book offers a ... Read more

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  • Massacre, Murder, and Mayhem in the Rocky Mountain West

    Regional History Series, #9

    by Tim Blevins, Dennis Daily, Sydne Dean, Chris Nicholl, William G. Thomas, Michael L. Olsen, Katherine Scott Sturdevant ...
    Series Book 9 - Regional History Series
    Each killing event was unique, but all were fueled by forces that seemed to guide the hands of the perpetrators: alcohol, fear, greed, hate, ignorance, revenge, passion, self-righteousness. Often the murderers were disenfranchised, disassociated, or disgruntled. . . .Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., fervent discussions about guns, religion, terrorism, national security, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engaging Evil

    A Moral Anthropology

    Edited by William C. Olsen, Thomas J. Csordas ...
    Series Book 36 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • A Traveler's Guide Through Suffering and Joy

    Changed by Theology that Feeds and Leads

    by Karen Thomas Olsen ...
    Both suffering and joy pursue us. Once you thought you could evade suffering, but now you know better, and you want to be prepared. When in the middle of distress, you want to know how to deal with it. You want to know how to live a meaningful life, no matter the challenges. Meaning births joy. Where is the meaning?This interactive book arms you with a biblically grounded theology of suffering and ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Higher Education Assessments

    Leadership Matters

    by Raymond Barclay, Bryan D. Bradley, Peter J. Gray, Coral Hanson, Trav D. Johnson, Jillian Kinzie, Thomas E. Miller, John Muffo, Danny Olsen, Russell T. Osguthorpe, John H. Schuh, Kay H. Smith, Trudy Bers, Vasti Torres ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment with the goal of identifying strategies that assist senior campus leaders as they respond to the challenges of a changing economic landscape and political climate. The contributors, experts in the field, bring to the forefront key issues ... Read more

    $95.79 CAD

  • The Democratic Developmental State: North-South Perspectives

    by Tor Halvorsen, Teresita Cruz-del Rosario, Chris Tapscott, Eyob Balcha Gebremariam, Sharon Penderis, Jeremy Seekings, Einar Braathen, Olle Törnquist0, John Harriss1, Ole Johnny Olsen2, Thomas Pogge3 ...
    Series Book 4 - CROP International Poverty Studies
    The idea of a democratic developmental state forms part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated on by academics, and embraced by policy makers in many emerging economies in the global South. What is noticeable in this discourse is how little attention has been paid to a discussion of the essence of a democratic developmental state, and much of what ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Worlds of Gender

    The Archaeology of Women's Lives Around the Globe

    by Sarah Milledge Nelson, Diane Lyons, Elisabeth A. Bacus, Carla M. Sinopoli, Claire Smith, Emer O'Donnell, Ruth Whitehouse, Rosemary A. Joyce, Karen Olsen Bruhns, Virginia Ebert, Thomas C. Patterson ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    In Worlds of Gender ten prominent scholars consider the research on gender and archaeology that has been conducted around the world. The authors discuss the archaeological evidence for gender distinctions from Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Australia, Europe, Mesoamerica, North America, and South America. Although some regions of the world have only been studied sporadically, this volume brings ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD

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  • Poetry 101

    From Shakespeare and Rupi Kaur to Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry

    by Susan Dalzell ...
    Series series Adams 101 Series
    Become a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series.Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civilizations across the world, poetry continues to inform the way we write now, whether we realize it or not—especially in social media—with its focus on brevity and creating the greatest possible impact with the fewest ... Read more

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  • Physics, Pharmacology and Physiology for Anaesthetists

    Key Concepts for the FRCA

    by Matthew E. Cross, Emma V. E. Plunkett ...
    A key requirement of the primary and final FRCA examinations is a sound understanding of the basic sciences behind anaesthetic practice. It is important to be able to describe these principles clearly, particularly in the viva section of the examinations. Featuring several new topics, this fully updated new edition of this best-selling book provides all the important graphs, definitions and ... Read more

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  • The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

    Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

    by Sam Harris ...
    Natalie Angier wrote in The New York Times: "The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated....Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say."This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD