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  • Splicing Modern Ropes 2nd edition

    A Practical Handbook

    by Jan-Willem Polman ...
    The definitive guide to making strong, reliable splices in braided rope, using step-by-step photographs and clear instructions to help readers master this important but tricky skill.For any seafarer, splicing rope is an essential skill. But the traditional 3-strand rope is fast disappearing. So how do you splice braided rope?This is the ultimate guide to this crucial knowledge. Most of the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Net Positive

    How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

    by Paul Polman, Andrew Winston ...
    A Financial Times Best Business Book of the YearNamed one of 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 by Thinkers50"An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done" — The Economist"Polman's new book with the sustainable business expert Andrew Winston…argues that it's profitable to do business with the goal of making the world better." — The New York Times... ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • War Games

    The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times

    by Linda Polman ...
    From Rwanda to Afghanistan, from Sudan to Iraq, this devastating expose shows how the humanitarian aid industry, the media and warmongers are locked in a cycle of mutual dependency on battlefields around the world.'Polman shines a light on the multibillion dollar juggernaut that is today's humanitarian aid network. A disturbing account that raises profound questions' Financial Times'One of the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Splicing Modern Ropes

    A Practical Handbook

    by Jan-Willem Polman ...
    The time when every vessel going to sea made use of 3-strand rope has gone. Splicing that type of rope and cord is relatively straightforward. Nowadays the most common type of rope used on board yachts, dinghies, motorboats, working boats and ferries is braided rope. Few people have the knowledge to splice it, or even where to start.Splicing Modern Ropes is the first guide to this essential skill. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Situating Data Science

    Exploring How Relationships to Data Shape Learning

    Edited by Michelle Hoda Wilkerson, Joseph L. Polman ...
    The emerging field of Data Science has had a large impact on science and society. This book explores how one distinguishing feature of Data Science – its focus on data collected from social and environmental contexts within which learners often find themselves deeply embedded – suggests serious implications for learning and education.Drawing from theories of learning and identity development in ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Scale-Sensitive Governance of the Environment

    Edited by Frans Padt, Paul Opdam, Nico Polman, Catrien Termeer ...
    Sensitivity to scales is one of the key challenges in environmental governance. Climate change, food production, energy supply, and natural resource management are examples of environmental challenges that stretch across scales and require action at multiple levels. Governance systems are typically ill-equipped for this task due to organisational and jurisdictional specialisation and short-term ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman

    by Jeroen Smit ...
    Translated by Jenny Watson ...
    When Paul Polman became the CEO of the multinational Unilever in 2009, he set out on a quest to convince his colleagues, his board, and the outside world that companies do not have the right to exist if their only purpose is making money. More importantly, he set out to prove that a company could in fact be both profitable and sustainable. The Great Battle or The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Reeds Splicing Handbook

    by Jan-Willem Polman ...
    Series series Reeds Handbooks
    For any seafarer, splicing rope is an essential skill. But the traditional 3-strand rope is fast disappearing. So how do you splice braided rope? This is the definitive pocket-sized guide to all rope splicing techniques. Most of the techniques are quite easy to master – and also fun to do. See why splices are better – and stronger – than knots or shackles for joining or shortening rope, and follow ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • We Did Nothing

    Why the truth doesn't always come out when the UN goes in

    by Linda Polman ...
    Linda Polman's We Did Nothing: Why the truth doesn't always come out with the UN goes in is an eye-opening account of peace-keeping operations across the globe.In recent years our newspapers and televisions have brought us stories of the failure of the UN to keep the peace in the modern world. How often have our journalists, our politicians and charity workers turned around and accused the UN of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Science of Esports

    by Craig McNulty, Remco Polman, Matthew Watson, Kabir Bubna ...
    The Science of Esports draws from contemporary research and coach expertise to examine esports athlete health and performance from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including physiology, psychology, sociology, and nutrition. The rapid expansion of the esports industry has elevated competitive video gaming into the realm of high performance, requiring players, coaches, and practitioners to ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Flyn Starman and the Realm of the Seventh Sense

    by Honnie Polman ...
    After their bus breaks down on a remote road while heading to a school camp and their phones stop working, Flyn Starman, four other students, and their teachers soon realize they are lost. While desperately searching for a way back home, they are unwittingly drawn into a bizarre world where the normally invisible can be seen and thoughts can be heard by others. As they are immersed in the strange ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Red Jacarandas

    Three Weird Tales of Los Angeles

    by Jeff Polman ...
    Three chilling tales set in and around the City of Angels, a region with dark secrets baked into its past... AFTERSHOCK: Suzanna Bristol, well-known psychiatrist and self-help author, is emotionally rattled and displaced from her condo in the Valley by a sudden late-night earthquake. After an odd encounter in a Santa Monica Canyon bar with a mysterious young man watching her from a corner table, ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus