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  • The Shape of Normal

    A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect

    by Catherine Shields ...
    "Brave and heartbreaking... will resonate with all parents." Jen Pastiloff, author of On Being HumanAs a young suburban mother in the early 1980s, Cathy had a loving husband, a sweet toddler, and a vision of life laid out before her. Pregnant for the second time, with twins, she imagined creating the warm, affectionate home she'd craved as a child. Her family would flourish, and she would be the ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Into my Hands

    A Midwife’s Memoir

    by Catherine Rae Shields ...
    Narrated by Catherine Rae Shields ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 32 min

    "Into My Hands" is an intimate and inspiring memoir that delves into the life of a passionate midwife, tracing her path from childhood to her fulfilling career in midwifery. This poignant narrative was born from a transformative moment in the author's early twenties, following a traumatic birth experience with her own daughter. It was then that she resolved to put an end to birth trauma and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Family Mobility

    Reconciling Career Opportunities and Educational Strategy

    by Catherine Doherty, Wendy Patton, Paul Shield ...
    Series series Changing Mobilities
    Family mobility decisions reveal much about how the public and private realms of social life interact and change. This sociological study explores how contemporary families reconcile individual members’ career and education projects within the family unit over time and space, and unpacks the intersubjective constraints on workforce mobility.This Australian mixed methods study sampled Defence Force ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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    by Kevin Wilson ...
    Wilson’s ambition alone is exciting. . . . [His] writing has a Houdini-like perfection, wherein no matter how grim the variables, each lovely sentence manages to escape with all its parts intact.” —Boston GlobeThe eagerly-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Family Fang—a warm-hearted and moving story about a young woman making a family on her own terms.When Isabelle Poole ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Educational Leadership for the 21St Century

    Building a Capacity for Change

    by Peter J. Zsebik ...
    Public education, once considered a dogmatic institution in the 20th century, now finds itself challenged at almost every level in todays sociopolitical environment. New realities, as evidenced by the political complexities of the global village, widespread technological advances that undermine established educational practices, and ever mounting pressures on the curriculum to appease corporate ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • One More Day

    by Kelly Simmons ...
    "Beautifully dark, totally devastating and so riveting you might find yourself gripping the pages"—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of YouDon't look awayNo one wants to be the mother whose child disappears. It's unthinkable, every parent's worst nightmare. But when she turns her back to pay a parking meter, Carrie Morgan becomes that mother. Ben ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Is That True?

    Critical Thinking for Sociologists

    by Joel Best ...
    Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond.With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Tackling Wicked Problems

    Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination

    Edited by John Harris, Valerie A Brown, Jacqueline Russell ...
    From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Liar, Liar

    The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception

    by Gary Paulsen ...
    Series series Liar Liar
    Kevin doesn't mean to make trouble when he lies. He's just really good at it, and it makes life so much easier. But as his lies pile up, he finds himself in big—and funny—trouble with his friends, family, and teachers. He's got to find a way to end his lying streak—forever. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation

    by Madeleine Leonard ...
    Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children’s everyday lives.Examining children’s involvement in areas such as the ... Read more

    $86.39 CAD

  • Learning Outside the Academy

    International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher, Susan Whittaker ...
    This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other.The contributions to this book are based on material ... Read more

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  • Managing Complex Governance Systems

    Edited by Geert Teisman, Arwin van Buuren, Lasse M. Gerrits ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Advances in public management sciences have long indicated the empirical finding that the normal state of public management systems is complex and that its dynamics are non-linear. Complex systems are subject to system pressures, system shocks, chance events, path-dependency and self-organisation. Arguing that complexity is an ever-present characteristic of our developed societies and governance ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD