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Value Realization in the Phygital Reality Market: Consumption and Service Under Conflation of the Physical, Digital, and Virtual Worlds

Value Realization in the Phygital Reality Market: Consumption...

Author: Lin Huang ,  Biao Gao
ISBN: 9789819941315
Format: Paperback
$422.37

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Great Britain: Our Road to Disaster

Great Britain: Our Road to Disaster

Author: Brian Stanyer
ISBN: 9781669891024
Format: Hardback
$82.34

There is serious discontent in Great Britain with our government. Many feel let down; wishes ignored. Covid, living...  Read More >>

More-than-Human Aging: Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life

More-than-Human Aging: Animals, Robots, and Care in...

Author: Cristina Douglas ,  Andrew Whitehouse
ISBN: 9781978840935
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans –...  Read More >>

Losing It: Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre

Losing It: Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia...

Author: Dorothy Chansky
ISBN: 9783031209048
Format: Paperback
$369.57

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Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston

Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston

Author: Els de Graauw ,  Shannon Gleeson
ISBN: 9781439924402
Format: Paperback
$39.47

""Shows that the advancement of immigrant rights in Houston has necessitated a diverse, and at times unusual, set...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Dystopia: Prophecies and Provocations in the Anthropocene

The Rhetoric of Dystopia: Prophecies and Provocations...

Author: Christopher Carter
ISBN: 9781666941487
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The Rhetoric of Dystopia develops an idea of “emergent metalepsis” that describes the uncanny moments where fictive...  Read More >>

Stronger: What Didn't Kill Me, Made Me

Stronger: What Didn't Kill Me, Made Me

Author: Nicola Hanney
ISBN: 9781785375293
Format: Paperback
$43.96

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Creating a Lasting Impact: The Amazing Life of Joy Esther Karp

Creating a Lasting Impact: The Amazing Life of Joy Esther...

Author: R W Karp
ISBN: 9781038312983
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This is Joy's story-the story of her struggles and her incredible contributions, along with a bit about Rick Karp,...  Read More >>

Making It: Success in the Commercial Kitchen

Making It: Success in the Commercial Kitchen

Author: Ellen T. Meiser
ISBN: 9781978840126
Format: Paperback
$71.15

The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise...  Read More >>

Walking East Harlem: A Neighborhood Experience

Walking East Harlem: A Neighborhood Experience

Author: Christopher Bell
ISBN: 9781978836532
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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Pandemonium Logs: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 2020–2022

Pandemonium Logs: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 2020–2022...

Author: Ben Miller
ISBN: 9781978835276
Format: Paperback
$71.15

In 2015, Ben Miller moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to focus on his writing. Working a day...  Read More >>

From SHOWGIRL to GOD'S GIRL

From SHOWGIRL to GOD'S GIRL

Author: Penny Pryor
ISBN: 9798890439604
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Got a bad case of the blahs? This book has just the prescription for you. In telling her life's story, Penny Pryor,...  Read More >>

pain as penance

pain as penance

Author: Ravyn Wells
ISBN: 9798891573765
Format: Paperback
$39.47

While this book has quite a few poems, it is the culmination of three years and two completed journals with over...  Read More >>

Remittance as Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home

Remittance as Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism,...

Author: Hasan Mahmud
ISBN: 9781978840409
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Conceptualizing remittance as an expression of migrants' belonging, this book presents detailed accounts of the...  Read More >>

War Refugees and the Labour Market: Crisis-Driven Mobility in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland

War Refugees and the Labour Market: Crisis-Driven Mobility...

Author: Ewa Łaźniewska ,  Joanna Kurowska-Pysz
ISBN: 9781032749440
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book addresses the complex socioeconomic situation in the Polish-Ukrainian borderland, in the context of the...  Read More >>

Action, Property and Beauty: Planning with and for Emergent Urban Complexity

Action, Property and Beauty: Planning with and for Emergent...

Author: Stefano Cozzolino ,  Stefano Moroni
ISBN: 9781032586892
Format: Hardback
$103.00

What are the challenges and potential of complex and emergent urban systems? This book answers this question by...  Read More >>

The Hand of Addiction: A Transcontextual and Autoethnographic Becoming

The Hand of Addiction: A Transcontextual and Autoethnographic...

Author: Weston Robins
ISBN: 9781032738109
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The Hand of Addiction maps out addiction from an innovative and holistic perspective. Using the metaphor of a hand,...  Read More >>

The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression

The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power...

Author: Vanya Leilani
ISBN: 9781910559963
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Revisiting the story of Eve, Vanya Leilani uncovers what is hidden in its shadows: the Goddess in the Garden. Part...  Read More >>

Dependency Theories in Latin America: An Intellectual Reconstruction

Dependency Theories in Latin America: An Intellectual...

Author: André Magnelli ,  Felipe Maia (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
ISBN: 9781032543116
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book offers a discussion of the origins of Latin American dependency theories and their implications for contemporary...  Read More >>

Education and Upward Social Mobility in China: Imagining Positive Sociology with Bourdieu

Education and Upward Social Mobility in China: Imagining...

Author: Jin Jin (East China Normal University, China)
ISBN: 9781032603063
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in...  Read More >>

‘Dying' to be White: The Obsession with Fair Skin in India and the Global South

‘Dying' to be White: The Obsession with Fair Skin in...

Author: Purnima Mehta Bhatt
ISBN: 9781032187372
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the phenomenon of colourism in India and the Global South and critically analyses the obsession...  Read More >>

Pandemic, Event, and the Immanence of Life: Critical Reflections on Covid-19

Pandemic, Event, and the Immanence of Life: Critical...

Author: Manoj NY (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.) ,  Saima Saeed (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.)
ISBN: 9781032564814
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume reflects on different regional and national experiences of the COVID 19 pandemic, with contributions...  Read More >>

Flashing Lights

Flashing Lights

Author: Kelly Brown
ISBN: 9781917425162
Format: Paperback
$65.97

In the depths of unimaginable grief, Kelly Brown found the strength to transform tragedy into a powerful force for...  Read More >>

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