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  • Habitant Customs

    Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914

    by Mary Alice Downie, Barbara Robertson, Elizabeth Jane Errington, Friederike Charlotte Louise von Massow, Baroness von Riedesel ...
    This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Injustice

    Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change

    by Friederike Otto ...
    Translated by Sarah Pybus ...
    **“I can’t recommend this book highly enough. It will change how you think about the most important story of our time."—JEFF GOODELL, New York Times bestselling author of The Heat Will Kill You FirstFrom one of the world’s most celebrated thinkers on climate change comes a groundbreaking investigation into the human costs of extreme weather.**Climate change concerns everyone, but it does not ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Angry Weather

    Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change

    by Friederike Otto ...
    Translated by Sarah Pybus ...
    Series series World Weather Attribution
    Timely and topical. Major weather events are becoming more common—and more severe—and Friederike Otto and her team at World Weather Attribution have developed the science to show us how our actions influence extreme weather events.Angry weather uses cutting-edge science, and a gripping story centred primarily around Hurricane Harvey, to bring the socially and scientifically important information ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dispossessed Generation

    Youth in the Middle East and North Africa

    Edited by Jörg Gertel, David Kreuer, Friederike Stolleis ...
    The Arab uprisings of the early 2010s raised hopes for the development of more democratic structures and better living conditions for millions in the region. Instead, they were followed by authoritarian backlash, civil wars, economic collapse and food and energy insecurity.Young people are often the ones hit hardest by the conjunction of these problems. How do they cope with insecurities and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Leading Brain

    Neuroscience Hacks to Work Smarter, Better, Happier

    by Friederike Fabritius, Hans W. Hagemann ...
    **A cutting-edge guide to applying the latest research in brain science to leadership - to sharpen performance, encourage innovation, and enhance job satisfaction.**Featured on NPR, Success, Investor Business Daily, Thrive Global, MindBodyGreen, The Chicago Tribune, and more****There's a revolution taking place that most businesses are still unaware of. The understanding of how our brains work has ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Communicating Vessels

    by Friederike Mayröcker ...
    Translated by Alexander Booth ...
    For the first time available in English, two portraits of grief by Friederike Mayröcker, one of the significant European writers of our time.Friederike Mayröcker met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the experimental Vienna Group of German writers and artists. It was an encounter that would alter the course of their lives. Jandl's death in 2000 ended a partnership of nearly half a century. As writers ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transitional Justice Theories

    Edited by Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Teresa Koloma Beck, Christian Braun, Friederike Mieth ...
    Series series Transitional Justice
    Transitional Justice Theories is the first volume to approach the politically sensitive subject of post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice from a theoretical perspective. It combines contributions from distinguished scholars and practitioners as well as from emerging academics from different disciplines and provides an overview of conceptual approaches to the field. The volume seeks to refine ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Cahier

    Translated by Donna Stonecipher ...
    by Friederike Mayröcker ...
    Series series The German List
    A collection of poetic stream-of-consciousness prose meditations by Friederike Mayröcker.Friederike Mayröcker has no time. Not for summary and memory, not for excessive reviewing and reasoning, and certainly not for storytelling. She doesn’t even have time for life itself—unless it’s writing. What counts, in her view, is only the poetry and “the echoic inventions” of a life that lasted for almost ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Translation in Transition

    Poems, Theories, Conversations

    Edited by Maria Khotimsky, Friederike Reents, Henrieke Stahl-Schwaetzer, William Waters ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
    This book investigates the hybrid, multiform nature of contemporary poetry with particular emphasis on recent Russian lyric and its translations into German and English. Poetry translation, thriving and obstinately open-ended, is not so much a defined process as a practice of ongoing transit across linguistic and national borders. The book’s innovative format invites contemporary poets into ... Read more

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  • Transnational Radio Monitoring in the Twentieth Century

    Practices of Propaganda and Surveillance in Europe and Beyond, 1930-1990

    Edited by Suzanne Bardgett, Friederike Kind-Kovács, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer ...
    Radio monitoring is an important feature of broadcasting history and monitoring reports form a treasure trove for historians. This volume offers six case studies that provide new insights on the importance of radio monitoring during the Second World War and the Cold War.Radio broadcasting is not only about transmission, but also about listening. From the start of the medium’s history, radio ... Read more

    $329.99 CAD

  • Plastics in the Aquatic Environment - Part I

    Current Status and Challenges

    Edited by Friederike Stock, Georg Reifferscheid, Nicole Brennholt, Evgeniia Kostianaia ...
    Series Book 1 - Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive review of how plastic pollution is affecting fresh and marine waters, and what the current challenges in plastic waste assessment and management in the aquatic environment are. Plastic waste comprises particles with heterogeneous physicochemical properties such as large size-range, different shapes and polymer types with various additives determining their ... Read more

    $409.99 CAD

  • The Bathroom Chronicles

    100 Women. 100 Images. 100 Stories.

    Edited by Friederike Schilbach ...
    One hundred creative, intelligent, and interesting women--some well-known, some not--reveal their inner selves through candid, tender, and often humorous snapshots--both visual and textual--of a single object or corner of their bathroom.For many women, the bathroom is the most intimate of spaces. It is the place where we encounter ourselves in the mirror each morning and every night-brushing our ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD