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  • Why Things Matter to People

    Social Science, Values and Ethical Life

    by Andrew Sayer ...
    Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordinary belief that ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Why We Can't Afford the Rich

    by Andrew Sayer ...
    As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can’t afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others, through the control of property and money. Leading social scientist Andrew Sayer shows how the rich worldwide have increased their ability to create ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Realism and Social Science

    by Andrew Sayer ...
    Realism and Social Science offers the reader an authoritative and compelling guide to critical realism and its implications for social theory and for the practice of social science. It offers an alternative both to approaches which are overly confident about the possibility of a successful social science and those which are defeatist about any possibility of progress in understanding the social ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Method in Social Science

    Revised 2nd Edition

    by Andrew Sayer ...
    In its second edition, Method in Social Science was widely praised for its penetrating analysis of central questions in social science discourse. This revised edition comes with a new preface and a full bibliography. The book is intended for students and researchers familiar with social science but having little or no previous experiences of philosophical and methodological discussion, and for ... Read more

    $365.99 CAD

  • Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery - 28th Edition

    Edited by P. Ronan O'Connell, Andrew W. McCaskie, Robert D. Sayers ...
    Series series Bailey & Love
    The 28th edition of Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery is the leading surgical resource for medical students and surgeons in training. It encompasses the basic principles of careful history taking, observation, deductive reasoning, technical knowledge and post-operative patient care to ensure safe surgical practice.Key featuresRelevant - the content matches both undergraduate and post ... Read more

    $219.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Strong Poison

    The First Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane Mystery

    by Dorothy L. Sayers ...
    Narrated by Andrew Walsh ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Series

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    She had the motive. She had the means. And the jury is ready to hang her.Mystery novelist Harriet Vane is on trial for her life. The charge: poisoning her former lover with arsenic. The evidence is damning, the public has already decided, and the verdict looks like a formality.There's just one problem. Lord Peter Wimsey — gentleman, amateur sleuth, and the most eligible bachelor in England — has ... Read more

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    Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection

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    Only one generation in history (ours) will experience life both with and without the Internet. For everyone who follows us, online life will simply be the air they breathe. Today, we revel in ubiquitous information and constant connection, rarely stopping to consider the implications for our logged-on lives.Michael Harris chronicles this massive shift, exploring what we’ve gained—and lost—in the ... Read more

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  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    by Harper Lee ...
    Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read"One of the most—if not the most—beloved of American novels." —The New YorkerHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into mo... ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory

    by Nick Crossley ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    Clear and accessible, Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory makes difficult ideas available to an undergraduate audience.- Larry Ray, Professor of Sociology, University of KentThe SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Postmodernism and Education

    Different Voices, Different Worlds

    by Richard Edwards, Robin Usher ...
    In this book, the authors explore and clarify the nature of postmodernism and provide a detailed introduction to key writers in the field such as Lacan Derrida Foucault Lyotard They examine the impact of this thinking upon contemporary theory and practice of education, concentrating particularly upon how postmodernist ideas challenge existing concepts, structures and hierarchies. ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • Modernity and Self-Identity

    Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Luhmann Explained

    From Souls to Systems

    by Hans-Georg Moeller ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? This book is an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's social system theory which explains specific functions like economy and mass media from a cybernetic perspective. Integrating various schools of thought including sociology, philosophy and biology Luhmann Explained results in an overall analysis of "world society ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD