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  • How Came It Yours?

    Black South Carolinians and the Making of America

    Edited by Simon Lewis, Kameelah L. Martin ...
    Uncovering, uplifting, and reframing Black South Carolinians' place in American HistoryIn 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, confronted with the arrogance of white claims to the United States, famously burst out in one of his most ringingly memorable paragraphs in The Souls of Black Folk. "Your country?" he asks, affronted, incredulous, "How came it yours?" insisting that African Americans were an essential ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Following My Path

    Growing up Gay in a Christian, Fundamentalist, Right - Wing, Conservative Family During the 1940'S - 1960'S

    by Bernard Martin ...
    Imagine growing up in small Indiana towns in the 1940s in a very strict religious family and then realizing at the age of six that there was something sexually wrong with you. You had no name for it, and you didn't really understand it, but you knew it all the same. By the time you were seven and eight years old, you heard adults talk about sexual perversion and teenagers using the terms faggot or ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Gerard Manley Hopkins

    A Very Private Life

    by Robert Bernard Martin ...
    'Will surely rank as one of the foremost literary biographies of our time.'John Carey, Sunday TimesIn his lifetime Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) published just a single poem - only a few close friends were aware he wrote. Much of his work was burnt by fellow Jesuits on his death. And yet Hopkins is today a huge figure in English literature. Homosexual but terribly repressed, he channeled his ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Metamorphoses: A New Translation

    A New Translation

    by Ovid ...
    Translated by Charles Martin ...
    "A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard."—Washington PostOvid's epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin combines ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Engineering-Business Nexus

    Symbiosis, Tension and Co-Evolution

    Edited by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Bernard Delahousse, Christelle Didier, Martin Meganck, Mike Murphy ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Fascinating and compelling in equal measure this volume presents a critical examination of the multilayered relationships between engineering and business. In so doing the study also stimulates ethical reflection on how these relationships either enhance or inhibit strategies to address vital issues of our time. In the context of geopolitical, economic, and environmental tendencies the authors ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • A Clash of Kings: The Illustrated Edition

    by George R. R. Martin ...
    Series Book 2 - A Song of Ice and Fire Illustrated Edition
    A stunning illustrated edition of the second book in the beloved A Song of Ice and Fire series, for fans of HBO's Game of ThronesContinuing the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of George R. R. Martin’s landmark series, this gorgeously illustrated special edition of A Clash of Kings features over twenty all-new illustrations from Lauren K. Cannon, bringing glorious new life to this modern ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • AI and Common Sense

    Ambitions and Frictions

    Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Bernard Schiele ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Common sense is the endless frontier in the development of artificial intelligence, but what exactly is common sense, can we replicate it in algorithmic form, and if we can – should we?Bauer, Schiele and their contributors from a range of disciplines analyse the nature of common sense, and the consequent challenges of incorporating into artificial intelligence models. They look at different ways ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Popular Culture

    Past and Present

    Edited by Tony Bennett, Graham Martin, Bernard Waites ...
    This book surveys popular culture in Britain from the early nineteenth-century to the present. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Internal Migration in the Countries of Asia

    A Cross-national Comparison

    Edited by Martin Bell, Aude Bernard, Elin Charles-Edwards, Yu Zhu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how population mobility varies among the countries of Asia. While much attention has been given to international migration, movement within countries is numerically much more significant. Coupling innovative methods developed in the global IMAGE project with the contextual knowledge of experts on 15 Asian countries, the book measures and explains how people across Asia differ in ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Generalized Models and Non-classical Approaches in Complex Materials 2

    Edited by Holm Altenbach, Joël Pouget, Martine Rousseau, Bernard Collet, Thomas Michelitsch ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book is the 2nd special volume dedicated to the memory of Gérard Maugin. Over 30 leading scientists present their contribution to reflect the vast field of scientific activity of Gérard Maugin. The topics of contributions employing often non-standard methods (generalized model) in this volume show the wide range of subjects that were covered by this exceptional scientific leader.The topics ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Science Cultures in a Diverse World: Knowing, Sharing, Caring

    Edited by Bernard Schiele, Xuan Liu, Martin W. Bauer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Science and technology culture is now more than ever at the very heart of the social project, and all countries, to varying degrees, participate in it: raising scientific literacy, improving the image of the sciences, involving the public in debates and encouraging the young to pursue careers in the sciences. Thus, the very destiny of any society is now entwined with its ability to develop a ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth

    The Roles of Sociohistorical Context, Community Forces, School Influence, and Individual Agency

    by Danny Bernard Martin ...
    Series series Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series
    No matter how mathematics achievement and persistence are measured, African Americans seem to lag behind their peers. This state of affairs is typically explained in terms of student ability, family background, differential treatment by teachers, and biased curricula. But what can explain disproportionately poor performance and persistence of African-American students who clearly possess the ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD