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  • What to Talk About

    On a Plane, at a Cocktail Party, in a Tiny Elevator with Your Boss's Boss

    by Christopher Colin, Robert Baedeker ...
    Homo sapiens have been speaking for hundreds of years—and yet basic communication still stymies us. We freeze up in elevators, on dates, at parties, under Dumpsters. We stagger through our exchanges merely hoping not to crash, never considering that we might soar. We go home sweaty and eat a birthday cake in the shower.But no more. With What to Talk About you'll learn to speak—fluently, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Moscow’s Mercenaries

    The Rise and Fall of the Wagner Group

    by Christopher M. Faulkner, Raphael Parens, Colin P. Clarke ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
    The Wagner Group emerged from Russia’s shadowy criminal underworld in 2014 and soon became one of the world’s most infamous private military companies. Led by the provocative oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner developed into a key instrument of Russian power projection, with deep and direct ties to the Kremlin. Its mercenaries fought on the front lines in Ukraine, propped up regimes in the Middle ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Case Studies in Emergency Medicine

    LEARNing Rounds: Learn, Evaluate, Adopt, Right Now

    Edited by Colin G. Kaide, Christopher E. San Miguel ...
    This book contains a variety of medical case studies from actual patients presenting to the emergency department. It includes not only typical cases that present to the ED but also less common, yet very important cases that one can't afford to miss.Each chapter begins with a case – or set of cases with typical and atypical aspects – of the disease in question. This is followed by high-value ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Unbundled Government

    A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation

    Edited by Christopher Pollitt, Colin Talbot ...
    Public sector bureaucracies have been subjected to harsh criticism. One solution which has been widely adopted over the past two decades has been to 'unbundle government' - that is to break down monolithic departments and ministries into smaller, semi-autonomous 'agencies'. These are often governed by some type of performance contract, are at 'arm's length' or further from their 'parent' ministry ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Environment and Society

    A Reader

    Edited by Christopher Schlottmann, Colin Jerolmack, Anne Rademacher, Dale Jamieson ...
    Environment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and debates of the twenty-first century.In an era marked by climate change, rapid urbanization, and resource scarcity, environmental studies has emerged as a crucial arena of study.Assembling canonical and contemporary texts, this volume presents a systematic survey of concepts and issues central to the ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design

    Proceedings of the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) 2021

    Edited by Christopher Gorse, Beth Jones, Darryl Newport, Colin Booth, Lloyd Scott, Mohammad Dastbaz, Saheed Ajayi, Bianca Drotleff ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) brings together global experts to focus on a sustainability agenda and the positive and detrimental changes that are taking place. Papers presented at the conference come from across a broad spectrum of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and bring forward practices to tackle the climate emergency ... Read more

    $280.49 CAD

  • Sustainability Across the Built and Natural Environments

    Selected Papers from the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) 2022

    Edited by Colin Booth, Christopher Gorse, Beth Jones, Leonie Parkinson, Darryl Newport, Lloyd Scott, Mohammad Dastbaz, Saheed Ajayi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The International Conference for Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) brings together experts from around the world to focus on a sustainability agenda and the positive and detrimental changes that are taking place. In addition to addressing technical issues, measuring, monitoring, and evaluating change, emphasis is placed on our environment, infrastructure, and buildings, ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Toward Sustainable Relations Between Agriculture and the City

    Edited by Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, Coline Perrin, Elodie Valette ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean. Its originality lies in the analysis of urban food systems sustainability from an actors’ perspective. All the chapters consider the key role of actors in the definition of innovations and pathways, which enhance ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Climate Emergency – Managing, Building , and Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals

    Selected Proceedings from the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) 2020

    Edited by Christopher Gorse, Lloyd Scott, Colin Booth, Mohammad Dastbaz ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Through research and proven practice, the aim of the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) is to foster ideas on how to reduce negative impacts on the environment while providing for the health and well-being of society. The professions and fields of research required to ensure buildings meet user demands and provide healthy enclosures are many ... Read more

    $306.19 CAD

  • Doctor Faustus

    by Christopher Marlowe, Colin Teevan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Faustus’s restless quest for knowledge and his insatiable desire for notoriety drive him to make a pact with the devil in return for the power to perform the black arts. The life-changing decision propels him into a heady, celebrity-obsessed world, as magician and illusionist to the rich and famous. Quenching sexual desires as his power grows, he must question whether the price was worth paying ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • The Family and Social Change

    by Christopher Harris, Colin Rosser ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume V of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1965, this study looks at family and kinship in the South Wales town of Swansea which was used as a parallel to the Institute of Community Studies 1957 study in east London at Bethnal Green. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD