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  • Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660-1860

    Globalization and Maritime Knowledge in the Atlantic World

    by Karel Davids ...
    This book looks to fill the 'blue hole' in Global History by studying the role of the oceans themselves in the creation, development, reproduction and adaptation of knowledge across the Atlantic world. It shows how globalisation and the growth of maritime knowledge served to reinforce one another, and demonstrates how and why maritime history should be put firmly at the heart of global history ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Power, Mobility and Voice

    Jan Blommaert's Unfinished Business

    Edited by Karel Arnaut, Ico Maly, David Parkin, Dr. Massimiliano Spotti ...
    Series Book 27 - Encounters
    Builds on the profound and challenging legacy of sociolinguist Jan Blommaert, one of the most important thinkers in contemporary sociolinguistics, who dismantled the theoretical and ideological orthodoxies of his time.This volume honours the influential work of Jan Blommaert, furthering his critical and constructive engagement with power dynamics across numerous domains. It takes Blommaert’s work ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The World and The Netherlands

    A Global History from a Dutch Perspective

    Edited by Karel Davids, Prof. Dr. Marjolein 't Hart, Prof. Dr. Manon van der Heijden, Dr Lex Heerma van Voss, Leo Lucassen, Professor Jeroen Touwen ...
    This is the first book to examine the history of the country in a way that connects global processes to local developments. Taking account of social, political and economic dynamics over the last thousand years, the book addresses key questions that get to the heart of the Netherlands' role in the world, both historically and in more recent times:· Why did the 'West' become such a significant ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Transformation of Maritime Professions

    Old and New Jobs in European Shipping Industries, 1850–2000

    Edited by Karel Davids, Joost Schokkenbroek ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book deals with the economic impact of technological changes and the rise of passenger shipping on social relations on board and ashore in European shipping industries between c.1850 and 2000. The changes in motive power, communication techniques and positioning technologies and the rise of passenger shipping went together with the creation of new tasks and functions and the marginalization ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities

    Edited by Karel Davids, Bert De Munck ...
    Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century northwestern Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Why did cities rather than rural environments produce new artistic genres, new products and new techniques? How did ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Diagnostic and Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine for Neuroendocrine Tumors

    Edited by Karel Pacak, David Taïeb ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Based on the most novel approaches and cutting-edge clinical and scientific information regarding radionuclide imaging and therapies for neuroendocrine tumors, this clinical guidebook represents a unique collaborative effort between endocrinologists, nuclear physicians, oncologists, surgeons, physicists, radio-pharmacists and geneticists. It begins with the embryology, classification and molecular ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Exodus and Exile

    A Concise Biblical Theology

    by Karel Deurloo ...
    Translated by David E. Orton ...
    Series series Explorations in Theological Interpretation
    Exodus and Exile is a masterpiece of biblical theology, newly available in English. The capstone work of legendary Dutch teacher Karel Deurloo, the book makes a brief and accessible argument: that the themes of exodus and exile constitute the dual center of all Scripture. These events disclose the person of God, the One who is powerful to liberate and merciful to restore.The book begins with a ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Structural Bioinformatics Tools for Drug Design

    Extraction of Biologically Relevant Information from Structural Databases

    by Jaroslav Koča, Radka Svobodová Vařeková, Lukáš Pravda, Karel Berka, Stanislav Geidl, David Sehnal, Michal Otyepka ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The book describes the individual steps necessary for biomacromolecular fragments analysis, as well as a list of essential software tools. For each step, it also shows corresponding web-based tools in detail and provides practical examples of their use.All tools and databases mentioned in the examples are available free of charge, platform-independent, web-based, user-friendly and do not require a ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Everyday Spooks

    by Karel Michal ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    Prague-born Karel Michal (1932–84) lived a significant part of his adult life under Czechoslovakia’s oppressive communist regime. Prevented from studying at the university as a young man, he fruitlessly cycled through a number of professions before finally turning to writing in the early 1960s. Michal’s works—which include detective fiction, historical novels, short stories, and screenplays—offer ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Almost Real - R.U.R.

    by Karel Čapek, Matt Borne ...
    Narrated by David Brittner ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 33 min

    In this electrifying reimagining of Karel Čapek’s 1920 play that coined the word robot, Helena Glory infiltrates Rossum’s Universal Robots with a daring agenda. As she unravels the factory’s dark secrets, enhanced robots worldwide begin to revolt, plunging humanity into chaos.Trapped on an island of rogue machines, Helena uncovers a shocking truth about herself that blurs the line between human ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Political Order and Political Decay

    From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

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