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  • Mysteries of the sea

    by James Hancock ...
    Series series Chronicles of mystery
    Since ancient times, the sea has played a major role in mythology and legends. Ghost ships, disappearences, sea monsters have filled the chronicles of the time and have arrived with their load of mystery until today. Wich ones are fruit of the imagination of man and wich ones have a found of truth? To the readers the arduous judgment.With illustrationsJames Hancock was born in Atlanta in 1970. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spices, Scents and Silk

    Catalysts of World Trade

    by James Hancock ...
    Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Exotic luxuries such as cinnamon, ginger, pepper, saffron, clove, frankincense and myrrh. Through their international trade, humans were pushed to explore and then travel to the far corners of the earth. Almost from their inception, the earliest great civilizations - Egypt, Sumer and Harappa - became addicted to the luxury ... Read more

    $49.89 CAD

  • Turmoil in Dawnland

    European Discovery and the Wabanaki Fight for Sovereignty

    The Province of Maine has a particularly rich early history. In the early 1600s the English and the French arrived, intent on discovery and settlement and the native Wabanaki responded with valiant efforts to defend their homeland. This book describes that 150-year long period of European settlement and Wabanaki fight for sovereignty in three parts.The first outlines the discovery period (1600 to ... Read more

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  • Strawberries

    by James Hancock ...
    Series series Crop Production Science in Horticulture
    This new and updated edition of a popular text provides a broad, balanced review of the scientific knowledge of strawberries and their cultivation. The worldwide strawberry industry has grown substantially since the original book was published, and methods of culture have undergone extensive modifications. This volume incorporates important changes to the taxonomy of strawberries and new ... Read more

    $76.59 CAD

  • Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers

    Portraits of Fifty Famous Folks and All Their Weird Stuff

    This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating trivia of their lives. Artist James Gulliver Hancock depicts historical icons in quirky annotated portraits surrounded by their associated possessions, baggage, and foibles. Hemingway's hobbies, Amelia Earhart's preferred dessert, Martin Luther King Jr.'s favorite TV show—each ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Herons Handbook

    Series series Helm Identification Guides
    Everything you ever wanted to know about the world's herons.This book on herons and bitterns is an authoritative summary of what is currently known about this diverse and fascinating worldwide family of wading birds. It is the result of extensive studies carried out over many years by its distinguished authors on both sides of the Atlantic.The plumages, feeding and breeding behaviour, and ecology ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World

    Series series Helm Identification Guides
    Everything you ever wanted to know about storks, ibises and spoonbills.Some of the world's largest and most spectacular birds are to be found among this group of wading birds. Tragically, they also include many of the world's most endangered species, as changes in land use erode their wetland habitats.Some like the White Stork have lived alongside humans for hundreds of years and are well known ... Read more

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  • Clinical Perfusion for Cardiac Surgery

    A Step-by-Step Guide to the Fundamentals

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Cardiac surgery is a very complex field of medicine that continues to evolve, and cardiopulmonary bypass is an integral part of this field, it is challenging for a trainee rotating in the cardiac surgery room to acquire scientific and practical knowledge of clinical perfusion without a good reference text.This book fills the need for a clear, focused, and concise text on managing clinical ... Read more

    $89.69 CAD

  • Blueberries

    Series series Crop Production Science in Horticulture
    This new and updated edition of a highly successful practical book covers major topics of interest to blueberry breeders and researchers including: breeding, varieties, botany, physiology, nutrition, growth regulation, cultivation methods and practices, photosynthesis, plant interaction with the environment, weeds, pests, diseases and postharvest management. The focus is on the highbush blueberry, ... Read more

    $76.59 CAD

  • The Belt

    One alien's love of grav-bike racing and the racial ignorance that will stop at nothing to quash his dreams. The race of the belt is the most prestigious grav-bike race of them all. Rand stands to win more than a cash prize, trophy, and bragging rights; he will win the hearts of his people. He only has his life to lose! ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Factors in Simulation and Training

    Theory and Methods

    Human Factors in Simulation and Training: Theory and Methods covers theoretical concepts on human factors principles as they apply to the fields of simulation and training in the real world.This book discusses traditional and nontraditional aspects of simulation and training. Topics covered include simulation fidelity, transfer of training, limits of simulation and training, virtual reality in the ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • World Agriculture Before and After 1492

    Legacy of the Columbian Exchange

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The year 2022 is the 50th anniversary of Alfred Crosby’s celebrated book - The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. In the book, Crosby was the first to discuss the impact that the Spanish and Portuguese colonial period had on world agriculture and human culture. How the crops of the world became homogenized, and how an indigenous culture was destroyed by disease after ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD