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  • Pharmacology Handbook for Physiotherapists

    Edited by Jacqueline E. Reznik, Ofer Keren, Joanne Morris, Iftah Biran ...
    Endorsed by Australian Physiotherapy Association! APA is the national body for physiotherapy in Australia and is a not for profit membership organisation with 24.4K members. The APA and Elsevier work together on reviewing and endorsing physiotherapy publications that are then promoted to the membership. Pharmacology Handbook for Physiotherapists is an essential quick-reference guide to common ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia

    Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals

    Edited by Prof. Dr. Michal Biran ...
    During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending from Korea to Hungary and from Iraq, Tibet, and Burma to Siberia. Ruling over roughly two thirds of the Old World, the Mongol Empire enabled people, ideas, and objects to traverse immense geographical and cultural boundaries. Along the Silk ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • African Meditations

    by Felwine Sarr ...
    Translated by Drew S. Burk ...
    Series series Univocal
    An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on reacclimating to his native Senegal as a young academic after years of study abroadThe call to morning prayer. A group run at daybreak along the Corniche in Dakar. A young woman shedding tears on a beach as her friends take a boat to Europe. In African Meditations, paths to enlightenment collide with tales of loss and ruminations, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • From Language to Language

    The Hospitality of Translation

    by Souleymane Bachir Diagne ...
    Translated by Dylan Temel ...
    In this engaging humanist text, a renowned Senegalese philosopher explores the power of translation to bridge cultural divides.Informed by his own multicultural background—African, French, and American—Souleymane Bachir Diagne interrogates the practice of translation in this thoughtful text. Although translation often produces a relationship of profound inequality between dominant and dominated ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire 2 Volumes

    Edited by Michal Biran, Hodong Kim ...
    In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural contacts and triggering the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities. The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire studies the Empire holistically in ... Read more

    $304.99 CAD

  • Gamify

    How Gamification Motivates People to Do Extraordinary Things

    by Biran Burke ...
    Organizations are facing an engagement crisis. Regardless if they are customers, employees, patients, students, citizens, stakeholders, organizations struggle to meaningfully engage their key constituent groups who have a precious and limited resource: their time. Not surprisingly, these stakeholders have developed deflector shields to protect themselves. Only a privileged few organizations are ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • African Art as Philosophy

    Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude

    by Souleymane Bachir Diagne ...
    Translated by Chike Jeffers ...
    This critically acclaimed study offers a distinct, incisive look at how Senegalese philosopher Senghor sees in African art the most acute expression of Bergson’s philosophy.Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) was a Senegalese poet and philosopher who in 1960 also became the first president of the Republic of Senegal. In African Art as Philosophy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne uses a unique approach to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • In Search of Africa(s)

    Universalism and Decolonial Thought

    by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Jean-Loup Amselle ...
    Translated by Andrew Brown ...
    This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postcolonial the first phase of a new universalism, one which would be truly universal because it would be fully inclusive, or is it on the contrary the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Limits of Universal Rule

    Eurasian Empires Compared

    Edited by Yuri Pines, Michal Biran, Jörg Rüpke ...
    All major continental empires proclaimed their desire to rule 'the entire world', investing considerable human and material resources in expanding their territory. Each, however, eventually had to stop expansion and come to terms with a shift to defensive strategy. This volume explores the factors that facilitated Eurasian empires' expansion and contraction: from ideology to ecology, economic and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Spiritualism and Phenomenology

    The Case of Maine de Biran

    by Emmanuel Falque ...
    Translated by Sarah Horton ...
    Series series The Things Themselves
    The conflict between spiritualism and phenomenology will no longer take place. Better, it is through their encounter and their backlash that a new fruitfulness for thought will develop. The case of Maine de Biran thus comes to exemplify a new beginning a la francaise for metaphysics on the one hand and for phenomenology on the other. But the philosopher from Bergerac (in the Dordogne) is most ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Animals and Human Society in Asia

    Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives

    Edited by Rotem Kowner, Guy Bar-Oz, Michal Biran, Meir Shahar, Gideon Shelach-Lavi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, this book examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish — real and metaphorical– have played in Asian history, society, and culture.Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Chinggis Khan

    by Michal Biran ...
    Series series Makers of the Muslim World
    In this novel perspective on a much-maligned figure, Michal Biran explains the monumental impact Chinggis Khan has had upon the Islamic World, both positive and negative. Often criticised as a mass-slaughterer, pillager, and arch-enemy of the faith, Biran shows that his constructive influence upon Islam was also considerable - his legacy apparent in Central Asia even today. Covering Chinggis Khan ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD