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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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crime Before Our Time

    Crime Fiction and Mystery Inspired by History

    Edited by Deborah Well, Peter W. J. Hayes ...
    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

  • Space Power Interests

    by Peter Hayes ...
    In this unique volume, an international cast of leading scholars from several disciplines offers a comprehensive assessment of the current status of space-based weaponry. Regional and technical experts offer their analysis of the major powers' special interests in space and also examine the broader issues of ICBM proliferation, testing, monitoring, and verification as well as possible ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Peace and Security in Northeast Asia

    Nuclear Issue and the Korean Peninsula

    by Peter Hayes, Young Whan Kihl ...
    This work provides an analysis of North Korea's nuclear controversy from a variety of perspectives, including: nuclear reactor technology and technology transfer; economic sanctions and incentives; confidence-building measures; environmental challenges; and the views of Korea and the major powers. ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • Adoption in Japan

    Comparing Policies for Children in Need

    by Peter Hayes, Toshie Habu ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan. The book places special adoption in the context of a liberal reformist agenda that has challenged traditional concepts of the family through the efforts to place children with difficult family backgrounds, including mixed ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • The Politics of American Foreign Policy

    How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs

    by Peter Hays Gries ...
    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

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Why?

    Explaining the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    Narrated by Don Hagen ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    Featured in the PBS documentary The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah BotsteinA bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the ... Read more

    Was $54.99 CAD Now $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 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

    $50.39 CAD

  • Reading Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

    Glossary and Commentary

    by Sylvester, Larry Grimes, Peter Hays ...
    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

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Profits and Persecution

    German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    Narrated by Todd McLaren ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    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

    $26.10 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

    Edited by Michael A. Peters, Petar Jandrić, Sarah Hayes ...
    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

    $179.39 CAD