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  • Divorce Turkish Style

    by Esmahan Aykol ...
    Translated by Ruth Whitehouse ...
    Series series Kati Hirschel Murder Mystery
    Praise for Esmahan Aykol:"Kati could be the love child of Miss Marple and NPR's Andrei Codrescu. It doesn't matter who done it. What matters is that Aykol uses the genre to tell us more about the world than we're used to."—Newsday"An offbeat amateur sleuth with a distinctive narrative voice. Fans of Amanda Cross's Kate Fansler and Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher will find a lot to like." ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Writing Matters

    Italy in the First Millennium BCE

    by Professor Ruth Whitehouse ...
    Series series UCL World Archaeology Series
    The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in the inscriptions and their semantic meanings. This book takes a more holistic approach that looks not only at content, but also the archaeological contexts of the inscriptions and the materiality of their 'supports': the artefacts and monuments on which ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Gender & Italian Archaeology

    Challenging the Stereotypes

    Edited by Ruth D Whitehouse ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    The original research papers in this volume represent the first attempt to address issues of gender in the archaeology of Italy. Ranging from prehistoric to early classic periods, the authors address theoretical and methodological issues, as well as present a series of cases using both traditional and feminist research methods. ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Archaeology and Women

    Ancient and Modern Issues

    Edited by Sue Hamilton, Ruth D Whitehouse, Katherine I Wright ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section of this collection of original articles addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. Another attempts to link contemporary archaeological theory and practice to work on women and gender in other fields. Finally, ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Hotel Bosphorus

    by Esmahan Aykol ...
    Translated by Ruth Whitehouse ...
    Series series Kati Hirschel Murder Mystery
    First novels this funny and self-assured come along rarely; in equal parts astute and raunchy. The gutsy heroine is the owner of Istanbul’s only mystery book store, a fact which should trigger empathy from CBSD customers.This is a crime story but also a wonderful book about Istanbul and Turkish society. It uses humour, social commentary and even erotic fantasy to expose Western European prejudices ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Baksheesh

    by Esmahan Aykol ...
    Translated by Ruth Whitehouse ...
    Series series A Kati Hirschel Istanbul Mystery
    Novels this funny and self-assured come along rarely; in equal parts astute and raunchy. The gutsy heroine is the owner of Istanbul’s only mystery book store, a fact which should trigger empathy from CBSD customers.This is a crime story but also a wonderful book about Istanbul and Turkish society. It uses humor, social commentary and even erotic fantasy to expose Western European prejudices about ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Worlds of Gender

    The Archaeology of Women's Lives Around the Globe

    by Sarah Milledge Nelson, Diane Lyons, Elisabeth A. Bacus, Carla M. Sinopoli, Claire Smith, Emer O'Donnell, Ruth Whitehouse, Rosemary A. Joyce, Karen Olsen Bruhns, Virginia Ebert, Thomas C. Patterson ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    In Worlds of Gender ten prominent scholars consider the research on gender and archaeology that has been conducted around the world. The authors discuss the archaeological evidence for gender distinctions from Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Australia, Europe, Mesoamerica, North America, and South America. Although some regions of the world have only been studied sporadically, this volume brings ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Gender in Archaeology

    by Benjamin Alberti, Bettina Arnold, Wendy Ashmore, Elisabeth A. Bacus, Diane Bolger, Karen Olsen Bruhns, Hetty Jo Brumbach, Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Bonnie J. Clark, Pam Crabtree, Virginia Ebert, Julia A. Hendon, Sandra E. Hollimon, Robert Jarvenpa, RosemaryA Joyce, Janet E. Levy, Diane Lyons, Emer O'Donnell, Thomas C. Patterson, Jane D. Peterson, Carla M. Sinopoli, Claire Smith, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, Barbara L. Voss, Kathryn Weedman, Ruth Whitehouse, Laurie A. Wilkie ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    The pursuit of gender in the archaeological record is explored in this exciting new collection of essays by renowned archaeologists and gender theorists. These essays place gender in the context of the past, by approaching the data in light of the previous decades of gender research. Issues such as tool-making, hunting, and evolution take on new meaning as the contributors examine the impact of ... Read more

    $276.99 CAD

  • The Last Tram

    by Nedim Gürsel, Ruth Whitehouse (translator) ...
    'What I know about is absence; the endless geography of yearning...’For Nedim Gürsel, the state of exile isn’t a static condition, applying to a single person in a specific place, but an entire landscape of longing, through which he, and countless other émigrés, must travel; a mobile experience, a moveable feast.In these stories Gürsel crisscrosses modern Europe, settling in some cities — like ... Read more

    $9.32 CAD

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  • The Sleeper

    by J. Robert Janes ...
    A schoolteacher enters a war of shadows to save his daughter from the 3rd ReichDavid Ashby spent the last war killing Germans, and the years after falling in love with one. By the time Hitler comes to power, David has a half-German daughter, Karen, whom he loves more than life itself. So when Europe begins to slide toward war, and it becomes unsafe for an American to stay in the Fatherland, David ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Midsummer's Equation

    A Detective Galileo Mystery

    by Keigo Higashino ...
    Series Book 3 - Detective Galileo Series
    Detective Galileo, international bestselling author Keigo Higashino's most beloved creation, returns in the next thrilling installment, A Midsummer's Equation.Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hariguara, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Governor's Wife

    A Michael Kelly Thriller

    by Michael Harvey ...
    Series series Michael Kelly Series
    In the latest installment in Michael Harvey’s beloved Michael Kelly series, Chicago’s favorite Ovid-reading, gun-toting private investigator takes on Illinois’s first family in a blistering thriller that charts the border where ambition ends and evil begins.It’s been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD