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  • Voicing Consent

    Sex Workers, Sexual Violation and Legal Consciousness in Cross-National Contexts

    Edited by Teela Sanders, Jane Scoular, Barbara G. Brents, Susie Balderston, Gillian Abel ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access book draws on an international research project, using extensive and multiple methods to explore unwanted sexual contact and violence in sex work populations. A project delivered by a large team of sex workers, peer researchers, and academics, and with practitioner input over a four-year period, the central question they explore is: how do social, legal, and judicial contexts ... Read more

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  • The State of Sex

    Tourism, Sex and Sin in the New American Heartland

    by Barbara Brents, Crystal Jackson, Kathryn Hausbeck ...
    Series series Sociology Re-Wired
    The State of Sex is a study of Nevada’s brothels that situates the nation's only legal brothel industry in the political economy of contemporary tourism. Nevada is part of the "new American heartland," as its pastimes, people, and politics have become more central to the nation. The rise of a service and leisure economy over the past sixty years has propelled sexuality into the heart of ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Sex Work Today

    Erotic Labor in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Bernadette Barton, Barbara G. Brents, Angela Jones ...
    A cutting-edge volume on current trends in sex work, from sugar relationships and cyber brothels to financial domination, sex worker activism, and feminist pornSex is for sale in more ways than ever. It can be bought and sold online, in sex clubs, on the street, and around the world. As with many industries, discrimination, exploitation, and inequality persist in sex work. Yet it also offers ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • 1,000 Things to Love About America

    Celebrating the Reasons We’re Proud to Call the U.S.A. Home

    by Brent Bowers, Barbara Bowers, Henry Gottlieb, Agnes Gottlieb ...
    From journalists Agnes Hooper Gottlieb and Henry Gottlieb, and Brent Bowers and Barbara Bowers, the acclaimed co-authors of 1,000 Years, 1,000 People, comes a new book that celebrates the reasons we’re proud to call America home—from jazz and the Gettysburg Address to baseball and the White Castle hamburger. Chock full of anecdotes and often surprising insights and historical information, 1,000 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hurricane Pilot

    The Wartime Letters of W.O. Harry L. Gill, D.F.M., 1940-1943

    Edited by Brent Wilson, Barbara J. Gill ...
    Series Book 10 - New Brunswick Military Heritage Series
    Harry L. Gill, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940 at the age of 18. During his short but adventure-filled career, he flew a Hurricane fighter bomber over France, England, and India and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal. In 1943 his airplane was shot down over Burma, and he died in the crash.Hurricane Pilot captures the perspective of a young ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Sex Work Matters

    Exploring Money, Power, and Intimacy in the Sex Industry

    by Mindy S. Bradley-Engen, Giulia Garofalo, Mashrur Shahid Hossain, Kerwin Kaye, Patty Kelly, Juline Koken, Barbara G. Brents, Rebecca Pates, Maggie O'Neill, Melissa Petro, Jane Pitcher, Daniel Schmidt, Jo Weldon, Carrie M. Hobbs, Kate Hausbeck, Anne Dölemeyer, Laura Mara Agustn ...
    Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by the police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers new theoretical frameworks for understanding the ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Paying for Sex in a Digital Age

    US and UK Perspectives

    by Teela Sanders, Chris Wakefield, Barbara Brents ...
    Providing one of the first comprehensive, cross-cultural examinations of the dynamic market for sexual services, this book presents an evidence-based look at the multiple factors related to purchasing patterns and demand among clients who have used the internet.The data is drawn from two large surveys of sex workers’ clients in the US and UK. The book presents descriptive baseline data on client ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Talent Management in Education

    by Brent Davies, Barbara J Davies ...
    Talent management is a critical factor in developing successful organizations. There is a need for organisations to develop ′talent pools′ of great staff for the future direction and leadership of our schools.This book explains the key concepts and provides frameworks for leaders to apply ideas of talent management in their organizations. The authors focus on talent management and how this ... Read more

    $97.59 CAD

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    Englisch lernen mit Spaß Audio - Kalifornien

    Spot on Audio 9/10 2011 - California

    by Judith Gilbert, Carrie Andrews, Dorle Matussek ...
    Narrated by Emma Begley, Owen Connors, Barbara Hiller, Brent Kenji Kitahama, Talitha Linehan, Anne Alexander Sieder ...
    Series series Spot on Audio

    Unabridged

    38 min

    In der September/Oktober-Ausgabe von Spot on Audio geht es auf Entdeckungstour in Kalifornien. Was macht das typische Lebensgefühl aus? Wie lebt es sich in Los Angeles? Welche Songs prägen das Bild von Kalifornien? Außerdem: Star-Interview mit der Sängerin Adele aus London; der haarsträubende Kampfruf des Neuseeländischen Rugby-Teams; Abgefahrenes rund um Australiens Kängurus; pünktlich zu ... Read more

    $15.11 CAD

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    by Mark Stein ...
    "[A] wonderfully entertaining account of an often-overlooked oddity of America's history: how the jigsaw-puzzle layout of the United States emerged." —VogueThe New York Times BestsellerWhy does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake?We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities ... Read more

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  • America's Hidden History

    Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Davis's dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and bringing to light little-known but fascinating facts from a time when the nation's fate hung in ... Read more

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  • First Families

    The Impact of the White House on Their Lives

    by Bonnie Angelo ...
    A deeply revealing look at presidential family members through history: "Full of sparkling anecdotes . . . [written] with humor and humanity." — Richmond Times-DispatchWhat is it like when the White House is home? In this book, Time correspondent and author of First Mothers Bonnie Angelo tells the real-life stories of how presidents and their wives, children, and extended families lived day-to-day ... Read more

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