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  • Contested Land, Contested Memory

    Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe

    by Jo Roberts ...
    1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward the new State of Israel, Arab refugees are fleeing, many under duress. Sixty years later, the memory of trauma has shaped both peoples' collective understanding of who they are.After a war, the victors write history. How was the story of the exiled Palestinians erased -- from textbooks, maps, even the land? How do Jewish and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Those Infinities and the Periodic Table

    by J O Roberts ...
    This book is informative, entertaining, educational and thought provoking for scientists of all ages professional, amateur and enthusiast alike.Travel with Reason and Intuition on a journey of the mind along a number ofseries and infinities.Stumble almost by accident on a possible route to the holy grail of science – that of a link between the Periodic Table, The Standard Model Theory and the four ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Gendered Justice?

    How Women’s Attempts to Cope With, Survive, or Escape Domestic Abuse Can Drive Them into Crime

    by Jo Roberts ...
    Series series Feminist Developments in Violence and Abuse
    Women who encounter the criminal justice system are far more likely to have experienced domestic or sexual abuse than the wider female population. Despite widespread recognition of the link between a woman’s victimisation and her involvement in crime, the relationship between the two is still not well understood. Gendered Justice? illustrates how a woman’s involvement in crime can manifest as a by ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

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    The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

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    $8.99 USD

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  • The War That Ended Peace

    The Road to 1914

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and MailFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had ... Read more

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  • The Luminaries

    by Eleanor Catton ...
    The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries.It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has ... Read more

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  • The Secret of the Blue Trunk

    by Lise Dion ...
    Translated by Liedewij Hawke ...
    In this true story, Armande Martel, a young nun from Quebec, is arrested by the Germans in 1940 during a stay at her religious order’s mother house in Brittany. She spends the war years in a German concentration camp. After her return to Canada, she leaves the Church, finds the love of her life in Montreal, and adopts Lise Dion.Growing up, Lise is familiar with only a few facts of her mother’s ... Read more

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  • The Unfinished Child

    by Theresa Shea ...
    Marie finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at 39. Meanwhile, her best friend, Elizabeth, has never been able to conceive, despite years of fertility treatments. In a genetic test routinely offered to older mothers, Marie discovers that the child she is carrying has Down syndrome. Intertwined throughout the novel is the story of Margaret, a woman who gave birth to a daughter with Down syndrome in ... Read more

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  • All the Light We Cannot See

    A Novel

    by Anthony Doerr ...
    *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to ... Read more

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  • Criminal Psychology

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Ray Bull, Claire Cooke, Ruth Hatcher ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    From the body language of a liar to profiling serial killers – the ultimate introduction to criminal psychology'Interesting, comprehensive, and informative.' Dan Yarmey, Professor Emeritus of Pyschology, University of GuelphIt is a conundrum that has vexed societies throughout history: how do you deal with those that break the law? If their aim is to evade you, how do you identify them? If their ... Read more

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  • Disability Studies

    A Student′s Guide

    Edited by Colin Cameron ...
    This textbook brings together a wide range of expert voices from the field of disability studies and the disabled people′s movement to tackle the essential topics relevant to this area of study. From the outset disability is discussed from a social model perspective, demonstrating how future practice and discourse could break down barriers and lead to more equal relationships for disabled people ... Read more

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  • Need, Risk and Protection in Social Work Practice

    Edited by Steve Hothersall, Mike Maas-Lowit ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    This book provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to working with risk. It begins by looking at notions of need, vulnerability and protection and looks at the theoretical concepts of each before applying them to practice. By using this combination of theory and practice the authors are able to integrate policy for a wide range of services users, from older people to children, families and ... Read more

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