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  • Crime Before Our Time

    Crime Fiction and Mystery Inspired by History

    Murder, theft, betrayal, and deception are as old as civilization itself.In Crime Before Our Time, journey across thousands of years and into multiple cultures to discover the mysteries of the past. From the courts and temples of Ancient Egypt and Rome to medieval China and Japan, through Elizabethan England to North America during colonial times until the 1800s, these captivating stories show how ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Why?

    Explaining the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    **Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein"Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources." —Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal**Why? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Politics of American Foreign Policy

    How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs

    This "eye-opening analysis" explains how and why America's culture wars and partisan divide have led to dysfunctional US policy abroad ( The Atlantic).In this provocative book, Peter Gries challenges the view that partisan elites on Capitol Hill are out of touch with a moderate American public. Dissecting a new national survey, Gries shows how ideology powerfully divides Main Street over both ... Read more

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  • Assessment in Physical Education

    A Sociocultural Perspective

    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
    Assessment has widely been acknowledged as a central element of institutional education, shaping curriculum and pedagogy in powerful ways and representing a critical reference point in political, professional and public debates about educational achievement and policy directions. Within physical education there remains significant debate regarding the subject knowledge, skills and understandings ... Read more

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  • Profits and Persecution

    German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest industrial and financial enterprises played a key part in the catastrophes and crimes of their nation in the first half of ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies

    Edited by Peter Hayes, John K. Roth ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Few scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple academic disciplines and a touchstone of public and intellectual discourse in such diverse fields as politics, ethics and religion. ... Read more

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  • Inventing ELIZA

    How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI

    Series series Software Studies
    How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s groundbreaking chatbot system through the lens of critical code studies. Drawing on extensive archival research at MIT, Stanford, and UCLA, this book presents the ... Read more

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  • Theory of Modern Drama

    A Critical Edition

    by Peter Szondi ...
    Translated by Michael Hays ...
    Theory of the Modern Drama is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. Szondi shows how the rise of modern drama was linked to broader social processes and expressed some of the beliefs characteristic of early modern Europe. This was manifested in the convention that form was ahistorical and it simply required the appropriate ... Read more

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  • Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

    Series series Education (R0)
    The book presents a cross-disciplinary overview of critical issues at the intersections of biology, information, and society. Based on theories of bioinformationalism, viral modernity, the postdigital condition, and others, this book explores two inter-related questions: Which new knowledge ecologies are emerging? Which philosophies and research approaches do they require?The book argues that the ... Read more

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  • Endoscopy in Liver Disease

    Liver disease is an increasingly common cause of mortality, and its management is often complex and challenging. Endoscopy has in recent times undergone a period of rapid progress, with numerous novel and specialized endoscopic modalities that are of increasing value in the investigation and management of the patient with liver disease. As the technology in endoscopy expands, both as a diagnostic ... Read more

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  • How Was It Possible?

    A Holocaust Reader

    Edited by Peter Hayes ...
    As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, future generations will no longer come face-to-face with Holocaust survivors. But the lessons of that terrible period in history are too important to let slip past. How Was It Possible?, edited and introduced by Peter Hayes, provides teachers and students with a comprehensive resource about the Nazi persecution of Jews. Deliberately resisting the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Reading Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

    Glossary and Commentary

    Series series Reading Hemingway
    The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare bones of the fish—a Monday morning “fish story.” But much lies beneath the surface. The action is condensed and presented in carefully crafted images, in words and details selected because of their ... Read more

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