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Who We Are: Four Questions For a Life and a Nation

Who We Are: Four Questions For a Life and a Nation

Author: Murray Sinclair ,  Sara Sinclair
ISBN: 9780771099106
Format: Hardback
$69.84

For decades, Senator Sinclair has fearlessly educated Canadians about the painful truths of our history. He was...  Read More >>

What Does It Mean to 'Make' Love?: A Psychoanalytic Study of Sexuality and Phantasy

What Does It Mean to 'Make' Love?: A Psychoanalytic...

Author: Gérard Pommier
ISBN: 9781032856599
Format: Hardback
$273.00

What Does It Mean to Make Love? shows how the choice of gender does not conform to anatomy and is based on an often-unrecognised...  Read More >>

Criminology: The Basics

Criminology: The Basics

Author: Sandra Walklate (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9781032695204
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The fourth edition of Criminology: The Basics has been fully revised and updated to offer an engaging and concise...  Read More >>

Voice and Identity

Voice and Identity

Author: Rockford Sansom
ISBN: 9781032863726
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Voice and Identity draws from the knowledge and expertise of leading figures to explore the evolving nature of voice...  Read More >>

Kinship as Fiction: Exploring the Dynamism of Intimate Relationships in India

Kinship as Fiction: Exploring the Dynamism of Intimate...

Author: Anindita Majumdar ,  Yoko Taguchi
ISBN: 9781032870601
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Bringing together emerging ethnographies on kinship in South Asia, this book explores the idea of kinship as ‘fiction’...  Read More >>

China's Agricultural Investment in Australia: Uneven Geographies of Agri-Food Globalization

China's Agricultural Investment in Australia: Uneven...

Author: Michaela Boehme
ISBN: 9781032755854
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the driving forces, discourses, and conflicts surrounding Chinese investments in overseas farmland,...  Read More >>

Social Constructions of Migration in Nigeria and Zimbabwe: Discourse, Rhetoric, and Identity

Social Constructions of Migration in Nigeria and Zimbabwe:...

Author: Kunle Musbaudeen Oparinde (Durban University of Technology, South Africa) ,  Rodwell Makombe (North-West University, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781835491690
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Examining this pressing field of study in an underexplored regional context, this book takes a refreshing new angle...  Read More >>

Transforming Presidential Healthcare: Ensuring Comprehensive Care for the Commander in Chief Amid 21st Century Threats

Transforming Presidential Healthcare: Ensuring Comprehensive...

Author: Jeffrey Kuhlman, MD MPH
ISBN: 9781964934150
Format: Hardback
$79.17

With the impending presidential election, there is more interest than ever around the most significant figure in...  Read More >>

I'm Divorced Now: Embracing Soul-Nourishing Solitude (4-Year Anniversary Edition)

I'm Divorced Now: Embracing Soul-Nourishing Solitude...

Author: Umm Zakiyyah
ISBN: 9798227504920
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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Why We Worry: A Sociological Explanation

Why We Worry: A Sociological Explanation

Author: Roland Paulsen (Lund University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781032847795
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In Why We Worry, Roland Paulsen paints a broad picture of the cultural variations and historical evolution of anxiety....  Read More >>

Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule

Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls...

Author: Fang Yu Hu ,  James Lin
ISBN: 9780295752631
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Traces Japan's efforts to modernize Taiwan through gendered educational practices In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female...  Read More >>

Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love

Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love

Author: Sarah Leavitt
ISBN: 9781551529516
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A poignant graphic memoir about the power of art to transform and heal after the death of a loved one. In April...  Read More >>

From Harm to Healing: Sanctuary Stories of Rescue, Resilience, and Recovery

From Harm to Healing: Sanctuary Stories of Rescue, Resilience,...

Author: Ruth Montiel Arias (Ruth Montiel Arias) ,  Liz Tyson (Liz Tyson)
ISBN: 9781590567326
Format: Hardback
$105.47

A moving and engrossing photographic narrative exploring the lives-past and present-of some of the rescued monkeys...  Read More >>

The Complete Kerner Report: The Groundbreaking 1968 Federal Indictment of Racial and Economic Inequality in the U.S.

The Complete Kerner Report: The Groundbreaking 1968...

Author: Cory Booker ,  Elizabeth Hinton
ISBN: 9780807786093
Format: Hardback
$293.04

Given the present-day threats to American democracy and the deep political divisions ahead of the 2024 presidential...  Read More >>

The Magnitude of Us: An Educator’s Guide to Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms

The Magnitude of Us: An Educator’s Guide to Creating...

Author: Marlee S. Bunch ,  Joyce A. Ladner
ISBN: 9780807769898
Format: Hardback
$308.88

A guidebook that will help educators navigate emerging best practices to center historically marginalized voices...  Read More >>

Why Play?: How to Make Play an Essential Part of Early Education

Why Play?: How to Make Play an Essential Part of Early...

Author: Rae Pica
ISBN: 9780807786215
Format: Hardback
$253.44

In an age when play is often seen as frivolous or unproductive, this book explains the importance of play in early...  Read More >>

Heidegger on Eastern/Asian Thought

Heidegger on Eastern/Asian Thought

Author: Lin Ma (Renmin University of China, Beijing)
ISBN: 9781009536691
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element elucidates the metamorphoses of Heidegger's comportment toward Eastern/Asian thought from the 1910s...  Read More >>

Beyond the Throne: Epic Journeys, Enduring Friendships, and Surprising Tales

Beyond the Throne: Epic Journeys, Enduring Friendships,...

Author: Kristian Nairn
ISBN: 9780306834899
Format: Hardback
$79.20

Beyond the Throne is the first memoir to share behind-the-scenes stories of the perils and triumphs of Game of Thrones--from...  Read More >>

Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism

Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism

Author: Clenora Hudson (Weems)
ISBN: 9781032720012
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism is a short and powerful book, advocating unity/collectivity as a panacea...  Read More >>

Prophets, Poets and Scholars: The Collections of the Middle Eastern Library of Leiden University

Prophets, Poets and Scholars: The Collections of the...

Author: Arnoud Vrolijk ,  Kasper van Ommen
ISBN: 9789087284077
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Currently, the Leiden University Library is the custodian of the largest Middle Eastern and Islamic cultural collection...  Read More >>

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of...

Author: Hetta Howes
ISBN: 9781399420082
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the mind and lives of medieval women.  Read More >>

The Deprivation of Liberty of Children and Young People

The Deprivation of Liberty of Children and Young People...

Author: Chloe Lee (Barrister, Spire Barristers, UK) ,  Pippa Pudney (Barrister, Spire Barristers, UK)
ISBN: 9781526530059
Format: Paperback
$100.00

This unique text is an accessible and practical guide addressing legal and related issues stemming from the deprivation...  Read More >>

Modern Magic: Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Contemporary Witches

Modern Magic: Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Contemporary...

Author: Michelle Tea
ISBN: 9780063378193
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Critical Muslim 51: Desire

Critical Muslim 51: Desire

Author: Ziauddin Sardar
ISBN: 9781911723844
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Looks at the concept of ""desire"" in the Islamic tradition  Read More >>

Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It

Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy...

Author: Natalie Fenton
ISBN: 9781509548477
Format: Hardback
$113.95

A free media is inextricably linked to a healthy democracy, but in many parts of the world liberal democracies are...  Read More >>

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