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  • Ancient Egyptian Warfare

    Tactics, Weaponry and Ideology of the Pharaohs

    by Ian Shaw ...
    Series series Casemate Short History
    A concise introduction to the military history of Ancient Egypt, from battle tactics to weaponry and more.The excellent preservation of Egyptian artifacts—including bows, axes, and chariots—means that it is possible to track the changing nature of Egyptian military technology from the Neolithic period up to the Iron Age, and identify equipment and ideas adopted from other civilizations of the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

    by Ian Shaw ...
    Series series
    The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt from the stone age to the Roman conquest. The story of the ancient Egyptians, from their prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians, Greeks, and Romans makes for fascinating reading, with subjects ranging from the changing nature of life and death in the Nile valley to some of the earliest masterpieces of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Christianity: The Biography

    Two thousand years of the global church

    by Ian Shaw ...
    Christianity: the Biography charts the life-story of Christianity from its birth and infancy among a handful of followers of Jesus Christ, through its years of development into a global religious movement, spanning continents and cultures, transcending educational and social backgrounds, with over two billion adherents. Ian Shaw offers an introductory orientation to the richness of the Christian ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Ancient Egypt

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Shaw ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination -- mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured the imagination of generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt, but is it the right one? How much do we really know about this great civilization? This second edition of Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Exploring Ancient Egypt

    by Ian Shaw ...
    Series series Places in Time
    Exploring Ancient Egypt, the fifth volume in the Places in Time series, reveals the excitement of science and history as it tours archaeological discoveries from ancient Egypt. Each of twenty chapters treats a particular site, reflecting a variety of site types (pyramids, rock tombs, temples, and most of the major settlements such as el-Amarna and Alexandria) and offering a balance between daily ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Quill of the Dove

    by Ian Shaw ...
    Series Book 21 - MiroLand
    French journalist Marc Taragon is at the apex of his career in 2007. A tenacious idealist, Taragon has spent the last thirty years attempting to bring to readers the truths about the wars and political intrigues of the region. He is unsparing in his criticism of extremists and has earned many enemies. He agrees to be interviewed in Cyprus, by a young Canadian journalist, Marie Boivin, not knowing ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Operation Babylift

    The incredible story of the inspiring Australian women who rescued hundreds of orphans at the end of the Vietnam War

    by Ian W. Shaw ...
    In late March 1975, as the Vietnam War raged, an Australian voluntary aid worker named Rosemary Taylor approached the Australian Embassy seeking assistance to fly 600 orphans out of Saigon to safety.Rosemary and Margaret Moses, two former nuns from Adelaide, had spent eight years in Vietnam during the war, building up a complex of nurseries to house war orphans and street waifs as the organisation ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Ghosts of Roebuck Bay

    by Ian W. Shaw ...
    The Japanese attack on Broome is the second most deadly air raid on Australia soil in our history and yet it's almost entirely overlooked.On 3 March 1942, nine Japanese Zero planes strafed the small town planning to destroy the aerodrome and American planes. With no notice, the townsfolk could only put up minimal opposition and in an attack that lasted only an hour, almost one hundred men, women ... Read more

    $8.17 CAD

  • Research and Social Work in Time and Place

    Crossing Boundaries

    by Ian Shaw ...
    This volume, which brings together chapters and journal articles published by renowned academic Ian Shaw, focusses on the practice/research relationship within social work – a theme that has preoccupied much of his writing over the last 40 or more years. These pieces show the academic development of his understanding of the complexity and challenge of that relationship, as well as the shifts which ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • Ancient Egyptian Technology and Innovation

    by Ian Shaw ...
    Series series BCP Egyptology
    This book examines the fundamental evidence for many different aspects of change and evolution in ancient Egyptian technology. It includes discussion of the wider cognitive and social contexts, such as the Egyptian propensity for mental creativity and innovation, and the pace of change in Egypt in comparison with other African, Mediterranean and Near Eastern states.This book draws not only on ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

  • Into the Sunset

    Emmett Dalton and the End of the Dalton Gang

    by Ian W. Shaw ...
    On October 5, 1892, the last of the major outlaw gangs of the Old West was destroyed in a gun battle in Coffeyville, a small town in southeastern Kansas. When the smoke cleared, eight men were dead and three others were seriously injured. Four of the dead were members of the notorious Dalton Gang: Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, and two brothers, Bob and Grat Dalton. A fifth outlaw, twenty-one-year ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Evaluating in Practice

    by Ian Shaw ...
    Evaluation is not a self-contained phase of social work practice - one more dimension of the process - but a dimension of every phase. In this fully rewritten and updated second edition of his groundbreaking text Evaluating in Practice, Ian Shaw demonstrates how evaluation and inquiry are just as much practice tasks as planning, intervention and review. By demonstrating that good evaluating in ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD