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  • Relocating Eden

    The Image and Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic

    by Alan Rudolph Marcus ...
    In the early 1950s, a number of Inuit men, women, and children were loaded on ships and sent to live in the cold and barren lands of the Canadian High Arctic. Spurred by government agents’ promises of plentiful game, virgin land, and a lifestyle untainted by Western Influences, these “voluntary migrants,” who soon numbered nearly ninety, found instead isolation, hunting limited by game preserve ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Beyond Cybersecurity

    Protecting Your Digital Business

    by James M. Kaplan, Tucker Bailey, Derek O'Halloran, Alan Marcus, Chris Rezek ...
    Move beyond cybersecurity to take protection of your digital business to the next levelBeyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business arms your company against devastating online security breaches by providing you with the information and guidance you need to avoid catastrophic data compromise. Based upon highly-regarded risk assessment analysis, this critical text is founded upon ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Science as Service

    Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930

    by Alan I Marcus, Robert B. Fairbanks, Dr. Roger L. Geiger, Dr. Mark R. Finlay, Dr. Paul K. Nienkamp, Ph.D., Dr. Sara E. Morris, Dr. Nathan M. Sorber, Micah Rueber, Dr. Debra A. Reid, Ph.D., Richard F. Hirsh0, Dr. Bruce E. Seely1 ...
    Series Book 1 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded account of the successes and set-backs of these institutions during the first sixty-five years of ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

    A New Geography of the Atlantic World

    by Alan P. Marcus ...
    The diaspora of Portuguese Jews and New Christians, known as Gente da Nação (People of the Nation), is considered the largest European diaspora of the early modern period. Portuguese Jews not only founded the first congregations and synagogues in Brazil (Recife and Olinda), but when they left Brazil they played an imperative role in establishing the first Jewish communities in Suriname, throughout ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Teaching History with Film

    Strategies for Secondary Social Studies

    by Alan S. Marcus, Scott Alan Metzger, Richard J. Paxton, Jeremy D. Stoddard ...
    Teaching History with Film provides a fresh, engaging, and clear overview of teaching with film to effectively enhance social studies instruction. Using cases of experienced teachers to illustrate accomplished history teaching through movies, this text provides pre- and in-service teachers with ideas for implementing film-based lessons in their own classrooms and offers a deeper understanding of ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Service as Mandate

    How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015

    by Alan I Marcus, Amy Sue Bix, Gwen Kay, Valerie Grim, Anne B. Effland, David L. Harmon, Donald Alexander Downs, Erinn McComb, Robert C. McMath, R. Douglas Hurt0, Mr. Hamilton Cravens1, Stephanie Statz2, Mr. Melissa Walker3 ...
    Series Book 2 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these universities have adapted to meet the challenges of the past sixty-five years and how, having done so, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Land of Milk and Money

    The Creation of the Southern Dairy Industry

    by Alan I. Marcus ...
    In Land of Milk and Money*,* Alan I Marcus examines the establishment of the dairy industry in the United States South during the 1920s. Looking specifically at the internal history of the Borden Company—the world’s largest dairy firm—as well as small-town efforts to lure industry and manufacturing south, Marcus suggests that the rise of the modern dairy business resulted from debates and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Technology in America

    A Brief History

    by Alan I. Marcus, Howard P. Segal ...
    Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon technological advances, and place the evolution of American technology within the broader context of the development of systems such as ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Visualizing the City

    Edited by Alan Marcus, Dietrich Neumann ...
    Series series Architext
    This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with the city through the history of art and architecture, urban studies, environmental studies, cultural geography and screen studies.Bringing together a wide spectrum of urban contexts, Visualizing the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Confederate Exodus

    Social and Environmental Forces in the Migration of U.S. Southerners to Brazil

    by Alan P. Marcus ...
    While Americans have been deeply absorbed with the topic of immigration for generations, emigration from the United States has been almost entirely ignored. Following the U.S. Civil War an estimated ten thousand Confederates left the U.S. South, most of them moving to Brazil, where they became known as “Confederados,” Portuguese for “Confederates.” These Southerners were the largest organized ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Malignant Growth

    Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915

    by Alan I Marcus ...
    An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915, Alan I Marcus explores a relatively understudied period in the history of cancer by providing a careful investigation of the first public crusade to determine the cause of cancer. The search for cancer’s cause ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Monsters We Deserve

    by Marcus Sedgwick, Marcus Sedgwick ...
    Narrated by Alan Irving ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 6 min

    'Do monsters always stay in the book where they were born? Are they content to live out their lives on paper, and never step foot into the real world?'The Villa Diodati, on the shore of Lake Geneva, 1816: the Year without Summer.As Byron, Polidori, and Mr and Mrs Shelley shelter from the unexpected weather, old ghost stories are read and new ghost stories imagined. Born by the twin brains of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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