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  • Octogenarian Odyssey

    Trading the Sofa for a Bicycle Seat

    by Robert D. Fletcher ...
    This book from Robert D. Fletcher is about an 80-year-old cycling on electric bike from North Pole, Alaska to Panama City, Panama. The story will tell how he's Setting Guinness World Record, and meeting people along the journey. The book will also help in solving problems, showing amazing scenery, learning about the Spanish culture, and exploring Central America. Lastly, this man will show his ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Inlands

    Empires, Contested Interiors, and the Connection of the World

    Edited by Robert S. G. Fletcher, Alec Zuercher Reichardt ...
    Series series Global America
    Conventional narratives of empires and globalization focus on oceans and coasts, supposing that global connections are seaborne and that historical change proceeds inward from port cities into continental expanses. This book offers a new perspective, examining key inland areas around the world to show how interior regions have shaped global history.Inlands brings together an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Ghost of Namamugi

    Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma War

    by Robert Fletcher ...
    In 1862, a British merchant was killed by samurai at Namamugi, a quiet village near Yokohama. One year later, a British fleet bombarded Kagoshima to extract reparations, reducing much of this south-western city to ash. This captivating re-telling, locates the story firmly within the wider context of British imperial expansion in East Asia. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Octogenarian Odyssey Part 2

    Can't Stop Pedaling

    by Robert D. Fletcher ...
    Bob Fletcher is a regular guy: a former school principal, a dad, a husband, and a friend. What makes him unique, however, is his zest for life, his courage in the face of the unknown, and his unwavering optimism. Even in the face of utter tragedy, he refuses to give up. He believes life is a gift-a gift we should all make the most of.After a typical Canadian childhood in Ontario and Alberta, Bob ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Ecolaboratory

    Environmental Governance and Economic Development in Costa Rica

    Edited by Robert Fletcher, Guntra A. Aistara, Brian Dowd-Uribe ...
    Despite its tiny size and seeming marginality to world affairs, the Central American republic of Costa Rica has long been considered an important site for experimentation in cutting-edge environmental policy. From protected area management to ecotourism to payment for environmental services (PES) and beyond, for the past half-century the country has successfully positioned itself at the forefront ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Neurodiversity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Chapman, Sue Fletcher-Watson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Neurodiversity is the idea that human brains function in a variety of ways. By understanding that people take in, process, and respond to information differently, we can appreciate how these profound differences affect the ways in which we experience the world and form relationships with one another. In spite of the central simplicity of this ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia

    Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections

    Edited by Professor Robert S.G. Fletcher, Associate Professor Robert Hellyer ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
    This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, during the 19th century. It does so by examining how Westerners 'chronicled' their overseas lives in personal letters, diplomatic dispatches, business records, and academic papers. By ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Connected Empires, Connected Worlds

    Essays in Honour of John Darwin

    Edited by Robert S.G. Fletcher, Benjamin Mountford, Simon J. Potter ...
    Connected Empires, Connected Worlds: Essays in Honour of John Darwin contains diverse essays on the expansion, experience, and decline of empires. The volume is offered in honour of John Darwin’s contribution to the study of empire and its endings. Written by his former students and colleagues, the book’s chapters discuss topics from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.While each ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • How to be German - Part 2: in 50 new steps

    A guide from Adventskranz to Tja

    by Adam Fletcher ...
    With his first book, Adam Fletcher helped more than a hundred thousand locals and little Ausländer navigate the quirks of this charismatic land. Now he’s back with fifty new and advanced integration steps that explain the sticky friendship glue of Kaffee and Kuchen, the educational superiority of wood, and the rituals of the German Weihnachtsmarkt. You’ll learn how to blame the weather for most of ... Read more

    $3.78 USD

  • Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling

    Applications with R

    by Robert Fletcher, Marie-Josée Fortin ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a foundation for modern applied ecology. Much of current ecology research and conservation addresses problems across landscapes and regions, focusing on spatial patterns and processes. This book is aimed at teaching fundamental concepts and focuses on learning-by-doing through the use of examples with the software R. It is intended to provide an entry-level, easily accessible ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Weird Crime MEGAPACK®

    25 Weird Tales of Crime and Mystery

    by Talmage Powell, Fletcher Flora, Robert Moore Williams, Rufus King, H. L. Mencken, William J. Wintle, Tom Worth, W.C. Morrow, Lillian B. Hunt, Steve Fisher, Victor Rousseau, Gerald Vance, Emil Petaja, Thomas Burke, Robert Leslie Bellem, H.B. Hickey, George T. Wetzell, Charles V. De Vet, Theodore R. Cogswell ...
    Here for your reading delectation, are 25 outre tales of crime. Since history has proven that there is nothing unusual or unexpected about the human (or inhuman) drive to break the law, it should come as no surprise that the weird, the strange, the supernatural, and the just plain odd often, in fictional form, manifest themselves allayed to the criminal element. Included are:INTRODUCTION, by Shawn ... Read more

    $1.14 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Failing Forward

    The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation

    by Robert Fletcher ...
    Failing Forward documents the global rise of neoliberal conservation as a response to biodiversity loss and unpacks how this approach has managed to "fail forward" over time despite its ineffectiveness. At its core, neoliberal conservation promotes market-based instruments intended to reconcile environmental preservation and economic development by harnessing preservation itself as the source of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD