Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • 'Twas the Time of Prayer

    Illustrated by JD Hornbacher ...
    This virus caused sadness, stress and fear,But with You all things are possible—and we must keep You near.We don't know when or if Covid will be gone,But we know it's You we can depend on.Did you know that anxiety and depression are at all-time highs for children? While the COVID-19 pandemic is receding, many children are still drowning in fear, uncertainty, and isolation.Shepherding her own ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Plant Diseases Caused by Dickeya and Pectobacterium Species

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a detailed review of many different aspects of pathogens, from the effects of single base pair mutations to large-scale control options, bringing into a single volume over 100 years of findings from thousands of researchers worldwide. Diseases caused by soft rot Pectobacteriaceae (SRP) are a major cause of loss to crop, vegetables and ornamental plants worldwide, and have been ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Winters of Discontent

    The Winter Olympics and a Half Century of Protest and Resistance

    Series series Sport and Society
    Every four years, the Winter Olympics become a focal point for activism and resistance. But in the modern era, mere bids to host the Games have sparked fierce opposition from groups motivated by local or global concerns. Russell Field edits a collection that charts the evolution of protest around the Winter Games and illuminates the issues at the heart of anti-Olympic activism.The essays ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Contemporary Practice and Theory of Organizations – Part 1.

    Understanding the Organization

    Organizations are the central entities of the business world, comprising multiple people pursuing a collective goal while being linked to an external environment. Both academics and practitioners have kept up a continuing interest in advancing their understanding of organizations. This is the first of two volumes dedicated to the state of the art of theories and practices of organizations. It is ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • La Belle, the Ship That Changed History

    After two decades of searching for La Salle’s lost ship La Belle, Texas Historical Commission (THC) divers in 1995 located a shipwreck containing historic artifacts of European origin in the silty bottom of Matagorda Bay, off the coast of Texas. The first cannon lifted from the waters bore late seventeenth-century French insignias. The ill-fated La Belle had been found.Under the direction of then ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Next Hundred Million

    America in 2050

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper.In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • White Riot

    The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver

    by Henry Tsang ...
    Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment.White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver exploresthe conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city’s Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Runner’s Journey

    by Bruce Kidd ...
    In the 1960s, Bruce Kidd was one of Canada’s most celebrated athletes. As a teenager, Kidd won races all over the globe, participated in the Olympics, and started a revolution in distance running and a revival in Canadian track and field. He quickly became a symbol of Canadian youth and the subject of endless media coverage.Although most athletes of his generation were cautioned to keep their ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Montreal Olympics

    An Insider's View of Organizing a Self-financing Games

    Paul Howell, a planning consultant and key player in the Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee, offers an insider's perspective on how a vast, complex, expensive, and highly politicized event was organized within the constraints imposed by limited resources, an unyielding deadline, and intense pressures from international and local special interest groups. He looks at both the struggles and what ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The New Geography

    How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come, and why. He examines the new role of cities in America and takes us into the new American neighborhood. The New ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Creator’s Game

    Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood

    by Allan Downey ...
    A gift from the Creator – that is where it all began. The game of lacrosse has been a central element of many Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it became a site of appropriation – then reclamation – of Indigenous identities. Focusing on the history of lacrosse in Indigenous communities from the 1860s to the 1990s, The Creator’s Game explores ... Read more

    $25.19 USD