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  • The Return of Curiosity

    What Museums are Good For in the Twenty-first Century

    by Nicholas Thomas ...
    Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they may now be good for. Nicholas Thomas argues that what is special about museums are their collections, which are not just rich resources for reflection, but creative technologies that enable people to ... Read more

    $25.09 CAD

  • Voyagers

    The Settlement of the Pacific

    by Nicholas Thomas ...
    An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Photography's Other Histories

    by Nicholas Thomas, Jo-Anne Driessens, Michael Aird ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    Moving the critical debate about photography away from its current Euro-American center of gravity, Photography’s Other Histories breaks with the notion that photographic history is best seen as the explosion of a Western technology advanced by the work of singular individuals. This collection presents a radically different account, describing photography as a globally disseminated and locally ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Tommy Come Lately

    by Nicolas Thomas ...
    A story about an optimistic young man that eventually loses everything as a result of the dissolution of a Fortune 1000 corporation. 401K, IRA, home, and nearly life itself. Standing alone fighting some of the top executives. It takes twenty years to get there and another twenty years to get from there. It describes power games of executives and survival games of employees. And how both contribute ... Read more

    Was $6.99 CAD Now $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Towards Inclusive Social Policies?

    Southeast Asia after the Pandemic

    by Diego Fossati, Nicholas Thomas, Mark Thompson ...
    Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies and upended lives – but did it also open the door to more inclusive policies?Focusing on both attitudinal and institutional repercussions of the pandemic, and transcending Western-centric narratives and case studies, this book asks the question: has the COVID-19 pandemic facilitated the adoption of more ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Comets

    Post-Rosetta Perspectives

    by Nicolas Thomas ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Written by a leading expert on comets, this textbook is divided into seven main elements with a view to allowing advanced students to appreciate the interconnections between the different elements. The author opens with a brief introductory segment on the motivation for studying comets and the overall scope of the book. The first chapter describes fundamental aspects most usually addressed by ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • Gauguin and Polynesia

    by Nicholas Thomas ...
    Paul Gauguin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest modern artists. He is renowned for resplendent, mythic imagery from Oceania, for a life of restless travel and for his supposed immersion in Polynesian life. But he has long been regarded ambivalently, and in recent years both Gauguin's sexual behaviour, and his paintings, have been considered exploitative.Gauguin and Polynesia offers a ... Read more

    $40.89 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 1 Corinthians

    An Introduction and Commentary

    by Thomas R. Schreiner, Nicholas Perrin, Eckhard J. Schnabel ...
    Series Book 7 - Tyndale New Testament Commentaries
    The cosmopolitan city of Corinth was the site of one of the apostle Paul's greatest evangelistic successes. However, the church he founded was full of contention, ranging from questions about leadership to incest. Some Christians were taking fellow believers to court. There were issues concerning marriage, celibacy, food offered to idols, public worship, and spiritual gifts. In response, Paul ... Read more

    $44.52 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • If the World Didn’T Suck We’D All Fall Off

    by Nicholas Thomas ...
    This is a deeply personal life story and situations that have made me the unique individual I am in life. These short poems touch on many parts of life that are disturbing and are hard to deal with. The only way to express them was to write them down in these poems and hope people would one day read them and experience emotional change for the betterment of their lives ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Bad Colonists

    The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke

    by Nicholas Thomas, Richard Eves ...
    In Bad Colonists Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late-nineteenth-century British colonists of the South Pacific: Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke. Thomas and Eves frame the letters—addressed mostly to the colonists’ mothers—with commentary that explores colonial degeneration in the ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Democracy Denied

    Identity, Civil Society and Illiberal Democracy in Hong Kong

    by Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1999, this book is designed to provide the reader with a detailed understanding of Hong Kong’s social and political development. It offers a contemporary, holistic understanding of Hong Kong, which will not only complement existing works but also provide the reader with a solid foundation for understanding future developments in the territory. The book is divided into three sections: ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific

    by Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Studies in Anthropology and History
    It is striking that in many Pacific nations, 'national' narratives are subordinate to other fundamental historical imaginings, such as those concerning local political dynasties and conversion to Christianity. While leaders in Pacific states have frequently sought to legitimate new nations through local 'tradition' and 'custom', these constructions of identity frequently mask divisions arising ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD