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    The Egalitarians - Human and Chimpanzee: An Anthropological View of Social Organization

    Margaret Power (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    Challenges the perceived view of chimpanzees as being aggressive and fiercely territorial.

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    Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State

    Tamir Moustafa (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    Constituting Religion examines how activists work to expand or challenge the reach of the shariah court system, and how these legal struggles shape popular understandings of Islam, liberal rights. This…

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    Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State

    Tamir Moustafa (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    Constituting Religion examines how activists work to expand or challenge the reach of the shariah court system, and how these legal struggles shape popular understandings of Islam, liberal rights. This…

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    Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising

    Leith Davis (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    This is the first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology of early eighteenth-century Britain. It examines the initial inscription of five…

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    Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image

    Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University)

    An examination of experimental cinema and media art from the Arabic-speaking world that explores filmmakers’ creative and philosophical inventiveness in trying times.

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    William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture

    Ian Dyck (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    The first major study of the rural and cultural career of William Cobbett engages Cobbett’s own writings, and other innovative sources such as popular songs, to tie Cobbett’s radical politics…

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    The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    The Professionalisation of Women Writers in Eighteenth Century Britain is a full study of a group of women who were actively and ambitiously engaged in a range of innovative publications…

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    Foundations of Theoretical Phonology

    James Foley (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    The ‘standard theory’ of Chomsky and Halle has dominated phonology in recent years. It has been subject to modification and to criticism but not of a really fundamental kind. Dr…

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    Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracies

    Paul Warwick (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    A highly puzzling phenomena in politics is why some parliamentary democracies, such as Britain, manage to produce highly durable governments, whereas others, such as Italy, experience instability. This book uses…

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    Rommel’s Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943

    Martin Kitchen (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    The first comprehensive English-language history of the Axis campaign in North Africa offers an account of the battles of 1941-3, Rommel’s generalship, the divisions that undermined the Axis coalition and…

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    The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    The Professionalisation of Women Writers in Eighteenth Century Britain is a full study of a group of women who were actively and ambitiously engaged in a range of innovative publications…

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    A Modern Approach to Critical Phenomena

    Igor Herbut (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    This 2007 book provides a thorough introduction into the theory of critical phenomena and the renormalization group. It discusses gauge field fluctuations in superconductors, and the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. It is…

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    Control Theory for Physicists

    John Bechhoefer (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    Control theory, an interdisciplinary topic within the study of dynamical systems, is an important but often overlooked part of a physicist’s education. This is the first broad and complete treatment…

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    June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989

    Jeremy Brown (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    In this vivid new social history of the Tiananmen protests, Beijing massacre, and nationwide crackdown of 1989, Jeremy Brown explores the key turning points of the crisis in China and…

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    Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy

    Paul Garfinkel (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    Drawing on a vast array of archival, legal and official sources, the author explains the sustained and wide-ranging interest in penal-law reform that defined this era in Italian legal history…

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    City Versus Countryside in Mao’s China: Negotiating the Divide

    Jeremy Brown (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China’s most intractable problems. This powerful work of grassroots history traces the origins of…

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    June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989

    Jeremy Brown (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    In this vivid new social history of the Tiananmen protests, Beijing massacre, and nationwide crackdown of 1989, Jeremy Brown explores the key turning points of the crisis in China and…

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    The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress

    Mark Jaccard (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    Concerned citizens can drive the energy transition needed to prevent climate change by their personal choices and their identification and support of climate-sincere politicians. Jaccard explains the simplicity and modest…

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    The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress

    Mark Jaccard (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    Concerned citizens can drive the energy transition needed to prevent climate change by their personal choices and their identification and support of climate-sincere politicians. Jaccard explains the simplicity and modest…

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    Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure

    Eldritch Priest (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

    Highly original in form and content, this radical work redefines the aesthetics of failure through the prism of contemporary sound and composition.

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    Economic Prehistory: Six Transitions That Shaped The World

    Gregory K. Dow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia),Clyde G. Reed (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

    Uses economic logic and archaeological evidence to explain six crucial transitions in human prehistory: sedentism, agriculture, inequality, warfare, cities, and states. These developments were the foundations for modern global civilization…

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    Rabbit Medicine and Surgery for Veterinary Nurses

    Mary Fraser,Simon J. Girling

    A book devoted to the care of both sick and healthy rabbits from a nursing perspective. It contains information about rabbits, including a brief natural history and chapters on nutrition…

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    Moral Philosophy for Education (RLE Edu K)

    Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)

    Teachers and students are frequently confused as to the relevance of abstract philosophical theorising to the reality of the classroom and this book is distinctive for the attention it devotes…

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    Radical Education: A Critique of Freeschooling and Deschooling

    Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)

    This volume is a comprehensive critique of the radical tradition in educational theory. It traces the development of the key ideas in radical literature from Rousseau to the present day.

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    Plato And Education

    Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)

    This introduction to Plato’s philosophical and educational thought examines Plato’s views and relates them to issues and questions that occupy philosophers of education. Robin Barrow stresses the relevance of Plato…

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    Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street

    Professor Clint Burnham (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

    An exploration of Fredric Jameson’s film theory and how it explicates Martin Scorsese’s film The Wolf of Wall Street –

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    Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Zizek and Digital Culture

    Professor Clint Burnham (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

    Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? is both an introduction to the work of Slavoj Zizek and an investigation into how his work can be used to think about the…

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    Plato And Education

    Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)

    This introduction to Plato’s philosophical and educational thought examines Plato’s views and relates them to issues and questions that occupy philosophers of education. Robin Barrow stresses the relevance of Plato…

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    Injustice, Inequality and Ethics: A Philisophical Introduction to Moral Problems

    Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)

    Abortion, distribution of wealth, civil disobedience, reverse discrimination, sex-role stereotyping, censorship - what does philosophy have to contribute to these practical moral issues? In this important book, first published in…

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    Moral Philosophy for Education (RLE Edu K)

    Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)

    Teachers and students are frequently confused as to the relevance of abstract philosophical theorising to the reality of the classroom and this book is distinctive for the attention it devotes…

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    Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Vol. 2: Serve You

    Al Ewing,Rob Williams

    The eleventh doctor returns in an all-new ongoing series, with a time-twisting leap into the unknown! Geronimo! The second volume of the ongoing Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor comics series.

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    Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Vol. 5: The One

    Si Spurrier,Rob Williams

    The Doctor struggles to clear his name, and rediscovers more of what his War Doctor incarnation got up to during the Time War! Plus: the Squire uncovers her true past…

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    Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Vol. 4: The Then and The Now

    Si Spurrier,Rob Williams

    Accused of terrible war crimes that he can’t remember committing, the Eleventh Doctor goes on the run’ with his companion Alice Obiefune, along with a mysterious amnesiac who calls herself…

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    Common Sense and the Curriculum

    Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)

    This book addresses the question ‘What should be taught in schools and why?’. The book begins by stressing the way in which such a question should be approached and goes…

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    Happiness (RLE Edu K)

    Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)

    This title reviews work relating to happiness, claims made in an educational context and postwar philosophical treatment of the concept. The author elucidates the concept of happiness and considers the…

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    Radical Education: A Critique of Freeschooling and Deschooling

    Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)

    This volume is a comprehensive critique of the radical tradition in educational theory. It traces the development of the key ideas in radical literature from Rousseau to the present day.

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    Happiness (RLE Edu K)

    Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)

    This title reviews work relating to happiness, claims made in an educational context and postwar philosophical treatment of the concept. The author elucidates the concept of happiness and considers the…

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    State, Nationalism, and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece

    Dr Evdoxios Doxiadis (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

    By looking at the very specific case of the Greek-speaking Romaniote and the Ladino-speaking Sephardic communities in Southern Greece, Epirus and Macedonia, this book explores the attitudes and policies of…

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    The Genius Hour Guidebook: Fostering Passion, Wonder, and Inquiry in the Classroom

    Denise Krebs,Gallit Zvi (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

    In the second edition of this popular, practical book, authors Denise Krebs and Gallit Zvi show you how to implement Genius Hour, a time when students can develop their own…

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    Quantum Mechanics: A Modern Development (2nd Edition)

    Leslie E Ballentine (Simon Fraser Univ, Canada)

    There are specialized treatises on various aspects of the foundations of quantum mechanics, but none that integrate those topics with the standard material. This work aims to remove this dichotomy…

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    Quantum Mechanics: A Modern Development (2nd Edition)

    Leslie E Ballentine (Simon Fraser Univ, Canada)

    There are specialized treatises on various aspects of the foundations of quantum mechanics, but none that integrate those topics with the standard material. This work aims to remove this dichotomy…

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    Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Vol. 4: The Then and The Now

    Si Spurrier,Rob Williams

    This un-missable volume collects together cast and crew interviews, in-depth features and behind the scenes pictures and secrets, making it an essential read for Angel fans old and new.

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    Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Vol. 5: The One

    Si Spurrier,Rob Williams

    The Doctor struggles to clear his name, and rediscovers more of what his War Doctor incarnation got up to during the Time War! Plus: the Squire uncovers her true past…

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    Symmetric Properties of Real Functions

    Brian thomson,Brian thomson (Simon Fraser University, Seattle, Washington, USA)

    This work offers detailed coverage of every important aspect of symmetric structures in function of a single real variable, providing a historical perspective, proofs and useful methods for addressing problems…

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    Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies

    Dal Yong Jin (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

    This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective.

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    Common Sense and the Curriculum

    Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada)

    This book addresses the question ‘What should be taught in schools and why?’. The book begins by stressing the way in which such a question should be approached and goes…

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    Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Vol. 1: After Life

    Al Ewing,Rob Williams

    With a force of personality capable of bending time itself and all the energy of a star’s exploding heart, the Doctor blasts into the hollow, tragic life of a woman…

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    Grounding the Analysis of Cognitive Processes in Music Performance: Distributed Cognition in Musical Activity

    Linda Kaastra (University of British Columbia; Simon Fraser University)

    Through the systematic analysis of data from music rehearsals, lessons, and performances, this book develops a new conceptual framework for studying cognitive processes in musical activity.

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