Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“mina ishizu”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mina ishizu”
Skip side bar filters

  • History by Numbers

    An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches

    by Mina Ishizu, Prof. Pat Hudson ...
    Fully updated and carefully revised, this new 2nd edition ofHistory by Numbers stands alone as the only textbook on quantitative methods suitable for students of history. Even the numerically challenged will find inspiration.Taking a problem-solving approach and using authentic historical data, it describes each method in turn, including its origin, purpose, usefulness and associated pitfalls. The ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship—Titanic

    The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship—Titanic

    by Walter Lord ...
    Series Book 2 - The Titanic Chronicles
    Three decades after his landmark work A Night to Remember, Walter Lord revisits the TitanicYears after A Night to Remember stoked the fires of public interest in the doomed RMS Titanic, the clamor for details about April 14, 1912, has not abated. As die-hard professional and amateur historians—“rivet counters,” they are called—puzzle over minute details of the ship’s last hours, a wealth of facts ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Firsts

    150 World-Changing People and Events, from Caesar Augustus to the Internet

    by Peter D'Epiro ...
    The Book of Firsts is an entertaining, enlightening, and highly browsable tour of the major innovations of the past twenty centuries and how they shaped our world.Peter D’Epiro makes this handy overview of human history both fun and thought-provoking with his survey of the major “firsts”—inventions, discoveries, political and military upheavals, artistic and scientific breakthroughs, religious ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Historians In Trouble

    Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower

    by Jon Wiener ...
    Historians in Trouble is investigative journalist and historian Jon Wiener's "incisive and entertaining" (New Statesman, UK) account of several of the most notorious history scandals of the last few years.Focusing on a dozen key controversies ranging across the political spectrum and representing a wide array of charges, Wiener seeks to understand why some cases make the headlines and end careers, ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History and Its Limits

    Human, Animal, Violence

    by Dominick LaCapra ...
    Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme cases, specifically events and experiences involving violence and victimization. He asks how ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • In the Margin of History

    by L. B. Namier ...
    In "In the Margin of History," L. B. Namier presents a compelling exploration of the complex socio-political landscapes that have shaped modern Europe. With a keen eye for detail and an erudite prose style, Namier employs a historical lens to dissect the intricate interplay of power, culture, and ideology during pivotal moments. His analysis of lesser-known figures and events illuminates the often ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thinking About History

    by Sarah Maza ...
    What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Writing the History of Memory

    Edited by Prof. Stefan Berger, Bill Niven ...
    Series series Writing History
    How objective are our history books? This addition to the Writing History series examines the critical role that memory plays in the writing of history.This book includes:- Essays from an international team of historians, bringing together analysis of forms of public history such as museums, exhibitions, memorials and speeches- Coverage of the ancient world to the present, on topics such as oral ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Essential Founding Fathers Reader

    by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin ...
    Series series The Essential Readers
    A collection of writings by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America containing: The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton & John Jay & James Madison The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine The Writings Of Thomas Paine - Volume 3 (1791-1804) by ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • Debunking History

    152 Popular Myths Exploded

    by Ed Rayner, Ron Stapley ...
    History is full of myths, legends, fables, folklore, misinformation and misconceptions. Whether they have come about inadvertently or deliberately, many have become part of the public imagination. This book presents some of the most popular and enduring of these myths from the time of the American and French revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. Arranged within well defined geographical or ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anthology of Philosophical and Cultural Issues

    An exploration into new frontiers

    by Yijie Tang ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book argues that a general understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy can be achieved by a concise elaboration of its truth, goodness and beauty; that goodness and beauty in Chinese philosophy, combined with the integration of man and heaven, knowledge and practice, scenery and feeling, reflect a pursuit of an ideal goal in traditional Chinese philosophy characterized by the thought mode ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World

    Edited by M. Beyen, B. Deseure ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political élites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states. In contrast, this book asserts that collective memories develop out of a never-ending, triangular negotiation between local, national and transnational actors. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD