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  • CRESCENDO

    Poems

    by Mekyle Ali Qadir ...
    A luminous debut from one of Canada's most exciting new poetic voices.Crescendo moves between two powerful currents: Sufi mysticism and postcolonial inquiry. Born in Pakistan and writing from Canada, Mekyle Ali Qadir navigates the charged space between worlds, between the divine and the political, between the country that shaped him and the country that labelled him, between the self that prays ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity

    Deep Culture in Art and Action

    by Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir, Ali Qadir ...
    Why do people queue up and break the bank to watch fantasy movies? Why do some fictional characters and mythical creatures strangely arrest our mind and senses? Why do some images and tales affect us so deeply? From mystical heroic journeys to uncanny images and invincible goddesses, ‘Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity’ investigates the metaphoric power of symbols in human imagination today and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Epistemic Governance

    Social Change in the Modern World

    by Pertti Alasuutari, Ali Qadir ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book argues that modern governance is performed by actors who seek social change epistemically, by drawing on widespread, public views of reality. Agents of change such as parliamentarians or social movement activists will assess and affect what they believe to be people’s conceptions of what is possible, rational, and desirable. This often means that these key authority figures will invest ... Read more

    $89.69 CAD

  • National Policy-Making

    Domestication of Global Trends

    Edited by Pertti Alasuutari, Ali Qadir ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Notions of social change are often divided into local versus international. But what actually happens at the national level—where policies are ultimately made and implemented—when policy-making is interdependent worldwide? How do policy-makers take into account the prior choices of other countries? Far more research is needed on the process of interdependent decision-making in the world polity ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

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    Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

    by Coleman Barks ...
    Rumi: The Book of Love is a collection of astonishing poems for lovers from the mystic Rumi, by the translator who made him sing anew, Coleman Barks.Poetry and Rumi fans will want to own this gorgeously packaged compilation of spiritual love poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic. Rumi is best known and most cherished as the poet of love in all its forms, and renowned poet and Rumi ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

    $349.99 CAD

  • Year with Rumi, A

    Daily Readings

    by Coleman Barks ...
    A year with the sensual, mysterious, and deeply spiritual poetry of Rumi, in a translation featuring 15 debut poems—365 poems for your daily dose of inspiration, spiritual healing, and deep self-reflectionThis stunning collection is a divine journey across each month of the year, offering 365 daily poetry reflections that with leave you both breathless and hopeful. Poet Coleman Barks has played a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Great Cosmic Mother

    Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth

    by Monica Sjoo, Barbara Mor ...
    A deeply awakening yet radical exploration of the Goddess, the divine feminine, and the cultural forces that have formed the female condition—A must read for all feminists and spiritual seekers“One of the most important books I’ve ever read.” – Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of The Color PurpleFor readers of Women Who Run with the Wolves, The Great Cosmic Mother offers a sweeping ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Future of Social Movement Research

    Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes

    Edited by Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, Bert Klandermans ...
    Series series Social Movements, Protest and Contention
    Are the dynamics of contention changing? This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume, among the most influential scholars in the field of social movements. The answers, arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil, not only provide a wide-ranging and varied understanding of how social movements arise and persist, but also engender unanswered questions, pointing to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Rumi: Bridge to the Soul

    Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart

    by Coleman Barks ...
    Originally released in 2007, "Year of Rumi," to coincide with the poet's 800th birthday, by the pre-eminent Rumi poet Coleman Barks.In Rumi: Bridge to the Soul,Coleman Barks—who holds an honorary doctorate in Persian language and literature by the University of Tehran for his decades-long translations of Rumi—has collected and translated ninety new poems, most of them never published before in any ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Comparing Religions

    by Jeffrey J. Kripal ...
    Comparing Religions is a next-generation textbook which expertly guides, inspires, and challenges those who wish to think seriously about religious pluralism in the modern world.A unique book teaching the art and practice of comparing religionsDraws on a wide range of religious traditions to demonstrate the complexity and power of comparative practicesProvides both a history and understanding of ... Read more

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  • Transnational Migration

    by Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser, Eveline Reisenauer ...
    Series series Immigration and Society
    Increasing interconnections between nation-states across borders have rendered the transnational a key tool for understanding our world. It has made particularly strong contributions to immigration studies and holds great promise for deepening insights into international migration.This is the first book to provide an accessible yet rigorous overview of transnational migration, as experienced by ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD