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  • Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities

    Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?

    by Alette Smeulers ...
    The 9/11 attacks, as well as the ones in Madrid, London, Paris and Brussels; the genocides in Nazi Germany, Rwanda and Cambodia; the torture in dictatorial regimes; the wars in former Yugoslavia, Syria and Iraq and currently in Ukraine; the sexual violence during periods of conflict, all make us wonder: why would anyone do something like that? Who are these people? Drawing on 30 years of research, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Perpetrators of International Crimes

    Theories, Methods, and Evidence

    Edited by Alette Smeulers, Maartje Weerdesteijn, Barbora Holá ...
    Why would anyone commit a mass atrocity such as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, or terrorism? This question is at the core of the multi- and interdisciplinary field of perpetrator studies, a developing field which this book assesses in its full breadth for the first time. Perpetrators of International Crimes analyses the most prominent theories, methods, and evidence to determine ... Read more

    $77.09 CAD

  • Essence of Mind

    An Approach to Dzogchen

    by Jes Bertelsen ...
    Translated by Marianne Bentzen ...
    This handbook to spirituality gathers together Danish meditation teacher Jes Bertelsen's advice on training the mind through wordless prayer and meditation to realize the essence of consciousness. Bertelsen has been teaching philosophy and meditation since the early 1970s; in 1989, he met the Tibetan lama Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, who authorized Jes Bertelsen to teach Dzogchen, and to do so using his ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Implementing Reflective Practice in the K–12 Classroom

    How to Easily Structure Teaching and Learning Reflections into Your Day

    Edited by Joanna C. Weaver, Cynthia D. Bertelsen ...
    This resource offers teachers a simple framework to seamlessly add reflective practice to their day and encourages educators to critically reflect on instructional planning and practice. Commonly used in other busy professions, the SOAP Notes structure makes it easy to reflect on student progress through any lesson or learning activity, regardless of grade band or content area. Each category ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Crisis of the State

    War and Social Upheaval

    Edited by Bruce Kapferer, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen ...
    Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here as an embedded part of lived reality. This relationship ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Who Will Rule the Trees?

    by Eric A. Kimmel ...
    Illustrated by Alette Straathof ...
    The work of Creation is finished. Now is the time for the trees to select a ruler. The oak brings strength. The pine brings presence. The maple brings magnificent color. The fig and date trees provide food. What can the poor olive tree offer? She is not strong or tall or colorful. Olives, though tasty, are not as sweet and filling as dates and figs. Yet the olive tree can offer something that none ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Violent Reverberations

    Global Modalities of Trauma

    Edited by Vigdis Broch-Due, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked – as an analytical tool, a therapeutic term or as a discursive trope. By doing so, we critically engage the far too often individuating aspects of trauma, as well as the assumption of a universal somatic that is globally applicable to contexts of human suffering. The volume takes the reader ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference

    Edited by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Synnøve Bendixsen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how one measures and analyzes human alterity and difference in an interconnected and ever-globalizing world. This book critically assesses the impact of what has often been dubbed ‘the ontological turn’ within anthropology in order to provide some answers to these questions. In doing so, the book explores the turn’s empirical and theoretical limits, accomplishments, and ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus

    Edited by Olav W. Bertelsen, Luigina Ciolfi, Maria Antonietta Grasso, George Angelos Papadopoulos ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW 2013, the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Each conference offers an occasion to critically review our research field, which has been multidisciplinary and committed to high scientific standards, both theoretical and methodological, from its beginning. The papers this year focus on work and the enterprise as well as on ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Scavenger Hunt (A Finny Aletter Mystery, Book 1)

    by Yvonne Montgomery ...
    Series Book 1 - A Finny Aletter Mystery
    Denver stockbroker, Finny Aletter, dreams of quitting her cutthroat job to restore historic houses, but the murder of her boss—and ex-lover—Elliot Fulton keeps her in the world of scavengers.When a prized manuscript that once belonged to Elliot surfaces, Finny tops the list of possible killers. Now, Finny must find Elliot's killer by tracing the manuscript's origin and stay one step ahead of ... Read more

    $5.49 CAD

  • empathy

    it's what holds the world together

    by Steen Hildebrandt, Peter Høeg, Jes Bertelsen, Jesper Juul, Michael Stubberup, Helle Jensen ...
    This book is a concise theoretical and practical guide on how to help people improve contact with themselves and each other. Its authors met for the first time in 2007. We represent widely divergent professions, but we share an interest in the circumstances of children with regard to the rapid changes and drastic breakdown of values we all are currently experiencing, the great opportunities that ... Read more

    $4.69 CAD

  • Vincent van Gogh

    by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara ...
    Illustrated by Alette Straathof ...
    Series series Little People, BIG DREAMS
    Learn about the life of Vincent van Gogh, one of the world's most influential and best-loved artists.Little Vincent was a quiet child. He loved spending time in nature and playing with his brother Theo. After leaving school, he began working as an art dealer. Vincent showed promise, but he found it more and more difficult to control his emotions and eventually had to leave. He had a go at many ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD