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  • A History of Writing

    by Steven Roger Fischer ...
    Series series Globalities
    From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book offers a global overview in a form that everyone can follow. The author also reveals his own discoveries made since the early 1980s, making it a ... Read more

    $25.09 CAD

  • Witchbringer

    by Steven B Fischer ...
    Series series Warhammer 40,000
    An Astra Militarum NovelOnce a Cadian captain, Glavia Aerand's psychic talents see her pressed into service in a new role, to fight and die as a sanctioned psyker.READ IT BECAUSEThis story offers a rare glimpse into the mysterious process of becoming a sanctioned psyker in the service of the Golden Throne, and you'll learn what that means for those who are found strong enough to serve.THE ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Consecrated Ground

    by Steven B Fischer ...
    Series series Warhammer 40,000
    A Black Templars Short StoryA Black Templar Castellan leads his brothers in answering an age-old oath… but the enemy they expect is not the one they find when the uprising they're sent to put down proclaims them as saviours.READ IT BECAUSEIn a bizarre twist of fate, the enemy marked for death by the Black Templars hails the Space Marines as their heroes.THE STORYThe Black Templars are among the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Soldiers of the Imperium

    by Steve Lyons Edoardo Albert Steven B Fischer ...
    Series series Warhammer 40,000
    An Astra Militarum OmnibusThe Imperium of Man calls daily upon the sacrifice of millions soldiers who go gladly unto death, the inevitable and only release from service most are likely to get. It is the duty of the Astra Militarum to ensure the alien and the heretic alike are put to the sword, and the worlds on which they fight are often as dangerous as the foes themselves.READ IT BECAUSEThis ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Broken Crusade

    by Steven B Fischer ...
    Series series Warhammer 40,000
    A Black Templars NovelThe Black Templars of the Second Dornean Crusade attempt to join the rest of their fleet to relieve a siege on the shrine world, Tempest. Thrown off course by a warp storm, and beset by doubt, can they cling to their faith and come to their brothers’ aid?READ IT BECAUSEThis story offers insight into the relationship the Black Templars have with faith, and their sense of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A History of Language

    by Steven Roger Fischer ...
    It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, as he analyses the emergence ... Read more

    $22.09 CAD

  • Island at the End of the World

    The Turbulent History of Easter Island

    by Steven Roger Fischer ...
    Famed for its breathtaking isolation, Easter Island was a verdant South-Sea idyll when a small canoeful of Polynesians arrived in c. AD 700. Centuries later the island's statues were famous throughout the world. This book presents a comprehensive history of Easter Island told by a writer who is intimately familiar with the island, its people and their extraordinary story.When voyaging in the South ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Islands

    From Atlantis to Zanzibar

    by Steven Roger Fischer ...
    Our planet hosts over a million islands. From Britain to Japan, Mauritius to Manhattan, they are small living geological, biological and cultural laboratories. Ranging from the ancient continents to the accretions of an ocean sandbank, they can lie in the sea, in a river, in a lake. Some are entire countries: Madagascar, Jamaica, Iceland. Other countries are multiple large islands: Japan, the ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD

  • A History of Reading

    by Steven Roger Fischer ...
    Steven Roger Fischer’s fascinating book, now available in an updated B-format edition, traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day. Describing ancient forms of reading, Fischer turns to Asia and the Americas and discusses the forms and developments of completely divergent writing systems and scripts.With the ... Read more

    $25.09 CAD

  • Glyph-Breaker

    by Steven R. Fischer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    1 IN ODYSSEUS'S WAKE 1 1 LOGOS 13 3 THE NEW LABYRINTH 47 4 THE SKEIN OF ARIADNE 65 S "HEAR YE, CRETANS AND GREEKS!" 93 6 THE BATTLE OF NAXOS 119 7 RAPANUI 139 8 TALKI NG BOARDS OF TH E PACI FIC 153 9 ATOP TERE VAKA 167 10 "ALL THE BIRDS ... " 187 11 SURFING THE RONGORONGO 205 Suggested Reading 223 Index 227 A "glyph" (short for hieroglyph) is a sign in a script. And a "breaker" is a person who ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies

    Edited by Steven Seidman, Nancy Fischer, Chet Meeks ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    As the field of sexuality studies has become a growth area in academia and classes on sexuality studies are incorporated into various disciplines, the expanding book market has been filled with specialist oriented texts which are often theoretically focused and contain too many summaries for an undergraduate audience. Addressing this imbalance, this key new volume presents the field of sexuality ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • A History of the Pacific Islands

    by Steven Roger Fischer ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Essential Histories
    This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning over 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our planet – Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia – the narrative follows the development of the region, from New Guinea's earliest settlement to the ... Read more

    $38.89 CAD