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Rueben George, Michael Simpson

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CITY OF VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD**LONGLISTED FOR THE SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS OF CANADA AWARD*A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry, colonial government, and threats to the life-giving Salish Sea.**

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Rueben George, Michael Simpson

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Rueben George

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CITY OF VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD**LONGLISTED FOR THE SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS OF CANADA AWARD*A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry, colonial government, and threats to the life-giving Salish Sea.**

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George Eaton Simpson

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Social Sciences (R0)

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George Gaylord Simpson, Anne Roe, Richard C. Lewontin

This classic focuses on the gathering, handling, and interpretation of numerical data from zoological investigations. Contents include types and properties of numerical data, mensuration, frequency distributions and grouping, patterns of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and variability, populations and samples, and probability. "Excellent." — Florida Scientist.

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John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim

A classic book about the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists.Emile Durkheim’s Suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes. Written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists, this classic argues that suicide primarily results from a lack of integration of the individual into society. Suicide provides readers with an understanding of the impetus for s...

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George Eaton Simpson, J. Milton Yinger

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Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

We need scarcely note that the topic of this book is the stuff of headlines. Around the world, political, economic, educational, military, religious, and social relations of every variety have a racial or ethnic component. One cannot begin to understand the history or contemporary situation of the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Great Britain, Lebanon, Mexico, Canada-indeed, almost any land-without careful attention to the influence of cultural and racial di...

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Rodney Hui, George Simpson

This is a story that needs to be told and I thank the Lord that Rodney Hui who
 lives on Logo Hope and who has been one of the main leaders of OM in Asia 
has written it, together with George Simpson.It was on the night of 10 Sept 2001 while Logos II was in London that we launched the next ship project at the Emmanuel Centre. I was sailing out of London the
 next day, the 11th, when that fateful event took place in New York City.Only eternity will tell the...

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Eric Simpson, George Robertson

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Through Time

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Dunfermline has changed and developed over the last century

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Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo, Opolot Okia, Peter Waweru, Paul Chiudza Banda, Gift Wasambo Kayira, John M. Lonsdale, Anne Kisaka Nangulu, Peter Odhiambo Ndege, Joseph M. Snyder, Nicholas K. Githuku, Robert M. Maxon, George L. Simpson, Betty Wambui

In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a geopolitically transcendent lens that brings African countries into conversation with other pert...

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George T. Todd

In the blood-soaked fields of Virginia, where the fate of a nation hung in the balance, one Texas regiment carved its name into Civil War legend with unprecedented courage and sacrifice. The First Texas Regiment of Hood's Brigade stood as a thunderbolt in the Army of Northern Virginia, their battle flags torn by bullets, their ranks decimated by devotion to duty that bordered on the supernatural. This extraordinary military history captures the raw essence of these frontier warriors who ma...

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Nick Rumens, Patricia Lewis, Evgenniia Kuziner, Nyk Robertson, Nicholas Hill, Katherine Johnson, Anna Hickey-Moody, Troy Innocent, Daniel Harris, Jessica Horne, Murray Lee, Paul McGuinness, Alison Hirst, Christina Schwabenland, Corina Sheerin, Rachel Morgan, Melissa Tyler, Rajeshwari Chennangodu, George Kandathil

Drawing on affect theory and the key themes of attachment, disruption and belonging, this book examines the ways in which our placed surroundings – whether urban design, border management or organisations – shape and form experiences of gender.Bringing together key debates across the fields of sociology, geography and organisation studies, the book sets out new theoretical ground to examine and consolidate shared experiences of what it means to be in or out of place.Contrib...

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Eric Simpson, George Robertson

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Through Time

Inverkeithing was created a royal burgh in the twelfth century owing to its importance as a port and its strategic position on the King's Highway linking north and south. This strategic position owed much to its proximity to its wee neighbour of North Queensferry at the northern end of the Queensferry Passage. From the time of Queen Margaret the Queensferry Passage, now replaced by rail and road bridges, has been a vital artery of traffic.Inverkeithing, now bereft of other former industrie...