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  • Helen’s Birds

    by Sara Cassidy ...
    Illustrated by Sophie Casson ...
    From Sara Cassidy, acclaimed author of A Boy Named Queen, comes a stunning wordless graphic novel about friendship, loss and hope.For as long as Saanvi can remember, she has been friends with her elderly neighbor Helen. They play cards and garden together and, especially, care for the wild birds that visit Helen’s yard. When Helen dies suddenly, a “For Sale” sign goes up, and movers arrive, ... Read more

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  • The Entrepreneur in History

    From Medieval Merchant to Modern Business Leader

    by M. Casson ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Covering the period c.1200-c.2000, this book provides an innovative investigation of entrepreneurship in a long-run historical perspective, presenting new insights into the personal characteristics of successful business people and deepening our understanding of the roots of industrialization and economic growth. ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD

  • The History of the Telephone

    The History of the Telephone by Herbert Newton Casson libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles! ... Read more

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  • Do Straw Men Evolve from Red Herrings

    Evolution, Creation and Intelligent Design

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the biodiversity on Earth and describes the journey of humanity across the globe. It provides a vision of the multiple expansions of the human form in multiple waves of archaic and then anatomically modern humans from Africa to every continent on the planet. It discusses the many ways by which humans and human societies have sought to explain how they and the diverse living ... Read more

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  • Life in Ancient Rome

    by Lionel Casson ...
    ". . . gracefully written" - The New York Times. Award-winning historian Lionel Casson paints a vivid portrait of life in ancient Rome - for slaves and emperors, soldiers and commanders alike - during the empire's greatest period, the first and second centuries A.D. ... Read more

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  • Life in Ancient Egypt

    by Lionel Casson ...
    ". . . gracefully written" - The New York Times. Award-winning historian Lionel Casson paints a vivid portrait of the people of ancient Egypt - from peasants and pharaohs to soldiers and scribes and artists and priests - and what life was like beyond the splendors and treasures that remain with us today. ... Read more

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  • Compassionate Capitalism

    Business and Community in Medieval England

    It may seem like a recent trend, but businesses have been practising compassionate capitalism for nearly a thousand years.Based on the newly discovered historical documents on Cambridge’s sophisticated urban property market during the Commercial Revolution in the thirteenth century, this book explores how successful entrepreneurs employed the wealth they had accumulated to the benefit of the ... Read more

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  • Evolutions of Capitalism

    Historical Perspectives, 1200–2000

    This ambitious collection follows the evolution of capitalism from its origins in 13th-century European towns to its 16th-century expansion into Asia, Africa and South America and on to the global capitalism of modern day.Written by distinguished historians and social scientists, the chapters examine capitalism and its critics and the level of variation and convergence in its operation across ... Read more

    Was $53.89 CAD Now $41.59 CAD

  • Murder by Burial

    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    In the peaceful English village of Kynchester, rivalry between two local archaeologists is reaching breaking point. Colonel Cackett has formed a body of local young men into the 'Roman Guard' - an organisation which reflects the Colonel's belief that a return to Roman values will raise Britain from the degeneration of permissive twentieth-century society. Canon Burbery finds the Colonel's ideas ... Read more

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  • Business and Community in Medieval England

    The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Source Volume

    One of the most important manuscripts surviving from thirteenth-century England, the corpus of documents known as the Hundred Rolls for Cambridge have been incomplete until the recent discovery of an additional roll.This invaluable volume replaces the previous inaccurate transcription by the record commission of 1818 and provides new translations and additional appendices.Shedding new light on ... Read more

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  • Medieval Statistics

    Accounting, Record-Keeping and Financial Management, 1066-1525

    Edited by Mark Casson, John S. Lee ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is the first to systematically examine the sources of medieval statistics. It will be useful as a handbook for researchers in financial and cultural history, as a history of financial record-keeping, and as a review of recent research into medieval finance and accounting based on statistical sources.Medieval statistics provide a unique window on the past. Medieval documents produced by ... Read more

    $280.49 CAD

  • Words Matter

    The Story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, and the White Rose Resistance

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    Words are powerful. Words spread truth. Words turn to action. Words matter in this lyrical account of the White Rose Resistance.The White Rose Resistance was the German student movement that used the power of the written word to speak out against the Nazis during World War II. They worked in secret to distribute leaflets condemning the government’s actions at a time when doing so meant putting ... Read more

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