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  • Going Places

    Slovenian Women's Stories on Migration

    Edited by Mirjam Milharcic Hkadnik, Jernej Mleku ...
    Going Places is a narrative of a century of Slovenian Women's immigration stories. The book traces the migration of these Eastern European women to several destinations including Argentina, Egypt, Italy, and the United States. The research has been carefully culled from the subjects' letters, personal diaries, and oral interviews. What results is a story that covers the span of three or four ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ¡Hola, Ola!

    an illustrated guide to the Spanish surf lingo

    by Angie Ringleb, Mirjam Loosli ...
    "Her scream of joy was only stopped by the sudden realization that her good old friend gravity had shown up, and she ended up straight in the flats. When the whitewash behind her hit, Miri prepared for the lavadora..." Surfers are a special breed of people. Not only do they centre their lives around chasing waves, they even have their own language. ¡Hola, Ola! is an innovative and creative ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe

    The Far Right and Narratives of Islam in Contemporary and Historical Perspective

    Edited by Liriam Sponholz, Anna-Maria Meuth, Mirjam Weiberg, Sabrina Zajak, Stefan Berger ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This Open Access book offers a mixed-method approach to analysing anti-Muslim narratives in interactions between the far right and the Western European mainstream. By exploring narratives that portray Islam as inherently other, the essays in this collection interrogate the effects of such narratives on the targeted group and mainstream society. Authors explore mechanisms, such as historical ... Read more

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  • Crime Wave 3: Dangerous Games

    Crime Wave, #3

    by Sandra Benson, Catherine Bianco, Pam Barnsley, Charlotte Morganti, Kim Bannerman, Joanna Vandervlugt, Susan Wright, PJ Donison, K.L. Abrahamson, Linda Sanche, C. J. Papoutsis, Marcelle Dube, Mirjam Dikken, Jayne Barnard, Winona Kent, vicki delany ...
    Series Book 3 - Crime Wave
    "... all the cunning, intrigue, dark humour and darker deeds anyone could want, perfectly plotted and sublimely rendered!" —Iona Whishaw, award-winning author of the Lane Winslow MysteriesThe deadly games people play are on full display in fifteen short stories in the third anthology from Sisters in Crime—Canada West.Old friends feature in several, such as "On The Internet Nobody Knows You're a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evidence-Informed Learning Design

    Creating Training to Improve Performance

    by Mirjam Neelen, Paul A. Kirschner ...
    Learning and Development (L&D) programmes are too often based on fads, the latest trends or learning designers' personal preferences without critical evaluation. Evidence-Informed Learning Design allows learning professionals to move away from this type of approach by showing them how to assess and apply relevant scientific literature, learning science research and proven learning techniques to ... Read more

    $50.59 CAD

  • Gold and Slaves

    Real Life in Africa, 1700

    by Willem Bosman ...
    1701. A Dutch chief merchant is stationed in the heart of West Africa. And he writes everything down.Willem Bosman was no mere visitor. For thirteen years, he served as chief merchant of the WIC and second-in-command at Fort Elmina. He bought gold, inspected ivory, and calculated the purchase price of slaves. Between 1688 and 1702, he wrote twenty letters home, not for his bosses but for a friend. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Oom Schalk Lourens Stories

    by Herman Charles Bosman ...
    The entire sequence of Bosman’s famous Oom Schalk Lourens stories, in one volume for the first time. Edited from authoritative sources, and accompanied by original illustrations, this gathering represents a feast of South Africa’s best-loved tales. The sixty pieces include all-time favourites like “In the Withaak’s Shade”, “Makapan’s Caves” and “Willem Prinsloo’s Peach Brandy”, the Boer War ... Read more

    $19.39 CAD

  • Rembrandt Seen Through Jewish Eyes

    The Artist’s Meaning to Jews from His Time to Ours

    Edited by Mirjam Knotter, Gary Schwartz ...
    The earliest painting by Rembrandt whose owner is documented depicts the prophet Balaam, on his way to blessing Israel. The man who bought it was a Sephardi Jew in the service of Cardinal Richelieu of France. The first known buyer of an etching plate by Rembrandt, depicting Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael, was a Sephardi Jew of Amsterdam. Seen through their eyes, Rembrandt was the creator of ... Read more

    $78.32 CAD

  • Intertextuality Between Biblical Texts and Contemporary Culture

    Essays in Honor of Caroline H. C. M. Vander Stichele

    Edited by Frank G. Bosman, Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, Maurits J. Sinninghe Damsté ...
    This edited collection argues that the Bible remains culturally relevant within our contemporary, secular society.Frank G. Bosman, Maurits J. Sinninghe Damsté, Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, and their contributors trace how biblical imagery and phrasing are not only traceable but immanent in understanding our present-day cultural and spiritual status quo. Mapping numerous examples of these ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • The Rule of Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran

    Power, Institutions, and the Limits of Reform

    Edited by Hadi Enayat, Mirjam Künkler ...
    After Iran's 1979 Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini denounced the secular legal system of the Pahlavis and pledged his commitment to distinctly Islamic conceptions of law and justice: the application of both the shariʿa and the rule of law (hākemiyat-e qānun) became major ideological pillars of the Islamic Republic. This precipitated the Islamization of the legal system, the judiciary and the courts, ... Read more

    $138.39 CAD

  • First Contact

    Aliens and Humans in Contemporary Science Fiction

    Edited by Frank G. Bosman, Mathilde van Dijk, Kjelda Glimmerveen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Are we alone in the universe? Or are there more planets like ours, which support life, including intelligent life? What will be the impact of the encounter with extraterrestrial life on us and vice versa? From the 16th century, scientists and authors have imagined extraterrestrial life and our encounters with it. In science fiction, a genre which became increasingly popular from the 19th century, ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Performing Citizenship

    Bodies, Agencies, Limitations

    Edited by Paula Hildebrandt, Kerstin Evert, Sibylle Peters, Mirjam Schaub, Kathrin Wildner, Gesa Ziemer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter ... Read more

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