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  • Field Guide Book of Geology of Kutch (Kachchh) Basin, Gujarat, India

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book represents a detailed introduction to the geology, structure, and stratigraphy of Kutch Basin, known for its rich fossilized megafauna and the wide range of condensed sections exposing Bathonian to Pleistocene. With its vast assortment of geological features, geomorphology, and geoheritage, the Kutch Basin shows geology, stratigraphy, and paleontology almost as a textbook. Besides the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Gendered War

    Evaluating Feminist Ethnographic Narratives of the 1971 War of Bangladesh

    The book rereads the historiography of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 documented by Bangladeshi, Indian, and Western historians to trace the position of women who share a negligible place in the gendered war history. It analyses how contemporary novels of South Asia have dealt with the war and highlights women's issues like their subordination through blame, their agency in the war, and ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Invisible Wins

    The Quiet Practices That Can Change Your Life

    by Sanjib Biswas ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Amara E ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 44 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In a world that rewards and celebrate loud triumphs, performance, and constant reaction, many people feel quietly exhausted, even when everything looks “fine” from the outside. They follow the guidance, worked on themselves, yet something beneath the surface remains unresolved.Invisible Wins explores a powerful truth most self-help books overlook: The ... Read more

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    4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

    by Henry Gee ...
    **The Royal Society's Science Book of the Year"[A]n exuberant romp through evolution, like a modern-day Willy Wonka of genetic space. Gee’s grand tour enthusiastically details the narrative underlying life’s erratic and often whimsical exploration of biological form and function.” —Adrian Woolfson,**The Washington PostIn the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester—An ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh

    Remembering 1971

    by Yasmin Saikia ...
    Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act of betrayal by the Bengalis. None of these nationalist histories convey the human cost of the war. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North America

    The Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North America focuses on freshwater invertebrates that can be identified using at most an inexpensive magnifying glass. This Guide will be useful for experienced nature enthusiasts, students doing aquatic field projects, and anglers looking for the best fish bait, lure, or fly. Color photographs and art, as well as the broad geographic coverage, set ... Read more

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  • The 1947 Partition of British India

    Forced Migration and Its Reverberations

    The 1947 Partition of British India remains the largest instance of forced migration in the recorded human history. Despite the passage of time, it is still widely seen as a process of singular distress and sorrow. Yet, for those in the subcontinent, the Partition also offers a process of self-exploration for subsequent generations. This book is the first collection of chapters related to the ... Read more

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  • The Evolution Underground

    Humans have "gone underground" for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold War-era bunkers. But our burrowing roots go back to the very beginnings of animal life on Earth. Many animal lineages alive now—including our own—only survived a cataclysmic meteorite strike 65 million years ago because they went underground.On a grander scale, the chemistry of the planet ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Isma'ili Modern

    Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community

    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of Tajikistan and Pakistan as well as in Europe, Jonah Steinberg investigates Isma'ili Muslims and the ... Read more

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  • The Botany of Mangroves

    Mangroves are distinctive tropical plant communities that occupy the intertidal zone between sea and land. They are of major ecological importance, have economic value as a source of food and raw materials, and serve as a buffer from flooding and climate change-induced sea level rise. Mangroves are under threat from pollution, clearance and over-exploitation, and increasing concern has driven ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Spectral Wound

    Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971

    Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women”). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this celebration of birangonas as heroes keeps them in the public memory, they exist in the public consciousness as what Mookherjee calls a spectral wound. ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Mesozoic Era

    Age of Dinosaurs

    Series series The Geologic History of Earth
    Dinosaurs have captured the imaginations of children and adults alike since the first fossil discoveries mapped them onto our general body of knowledge. This book journeys to an era long before humans, where dinosaurs were once masters of land, sky, and sea. In addition to accounts of significant dinosaur species and their extinction, readers will learn about the major life forms, both plant and ... Read more

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