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  • Limits of the Numerical

    The Abuses and Uses of Quantification

    Edited by Dr. Christopher Newfield, Dr. Anna Alexandrova, Dr. Stephen John ...
    This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health.Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy, figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. At the same time, they are frequent objects of obfuscation, manipulation, or outright denial. This timely collection by a diverse group of humanists and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Scaling Physiological Processes

    Leaf to Globe

    by Jacques Roy, James R. Ehleringer, Christopher B. Field ...
    Series series Physiological Ecology
    Traditional plant physiological ecology is organism centered and provides a useful framework for understanding the interactions between plants and their environment and for identifying characteristics likely to result in plant success in a particular habitat. This book focuses on extending concepts from plant physiological ecology as a basis for understanding carbon, energy, and biogeochemical ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Local and Universal

    A Free Church Account of Ecclesial Catholicity

    by Christopher Ryan Fields, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Daniel J. Treier ...
    Series series Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture
    In the words of the creeds, the church is the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic body of Christ.Of those features, perhaps none is as misunderstood as the church's catholicity (that is, its universality)—because while the church is universal, it is also radically local, connected to a particular community or even found on a specific street corner. How might we reclaim the universality of the ... Read more

    $59.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes

    Edited by Sue Starfield, Christoph A. Hafner ...
    Series series Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics
    A field-defining survey of research in the rapidly growing field of English for Specific Purposes, now in its second editionThe Handbook of English for Specific Purposes provides an up-to-date account of the origins, development, current state, and future directions in the study of English as used in its specific contexts, including medical English, business English, and academic English. ... Read more

    $203.99 CAD

  • "I'm Just a Comic Book Boy"

    Essays on the Intersection of Comics and Punk

    Edited by Keegan Lannon, Michael David MacBride, Christopher B. Field ...
    Comics and the punk movement are inextricably linked--each has a foundational do-it-yourself ethos and a nonconformist spirit defiant of authority. This collection of new essays provides for the first time a thorough analysis of the intersections between comics and punk. The contributors expand the discussion beyond the familiar U.S. and UK scenes to include the influence punk has had on comics ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Consuming Passion

    Essays on Hell and Immortality in Honor of Edward Fudge

    Edited by Ron Highfield, Christopher M. Date ...
    This diverse collection of essays in honor of Edward William Fudge explores the topics of hell and immortality, for which Fudge has been widely known through his magnum opus, The Fire That Consumes. Most Christians believe people will live and suffer in hell forever, but Fudge defends a view known historically as "conditional immortality." He and a growing minority of Christians believe God will ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation

    Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Edited by Christopher B. Field, Vicente Barros, Thomas F. Stocker, Qin Dahe ...
    This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate change adaptation. Extreme weather and climate events, interacting with exposed and vulnerable human and natural systems, can lead to disasters. Changes in the frequency and severity of the physical events affect disaster ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Mutant Neoliberalism

    Market Rule and Political Rupture

    by Étienne Balibar, Sören Brandes, Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Julia Elyachar, Michel Feher, Megan C. Moodie, Christopher Newfield, Dieter Plehwe, Lisa Rofel, Leslie Salzinger, Quinn Slobodian ...
    Tales of neoliberalism’s death are serially overstated. Following the financial crisis of 2008, neoliberalism was proclaimed a “zombie,” a disgraced ideology that staggered on like an undead monster. After the political ruptures of 2016, commentators were quick to announce “the end” of neoliberalism yet again, pointing to both the global rise of far-right forces and the reinvigoration of ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Harvard Classics Volume 41

    English Poetry 2: Collins To Fitzgerald

    by William Collins, Golden Deer Classics, George Sewell, Alison Rutherford Cockburn, Jane Elliot, Christopher Smart, Anonymous, John Logan, Henry Fielding, Charles Dibdin, Samuel Johnson, Robert Graham of Gartmore, Adam Austin, William Cowper, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Isobel Pagan, Lady Anne Lindsay, Thomas Chatterton, Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, Alexander Ross, John Skinner, Michael Bruce, George Halket, William Hamilton of Bangour, Hector MacNeil, William Jones, Susanna Blamire, Anne Hunter, John Dunlop, Samuel Rogers, William Blake, John Collins, Robert Tannahill, William Wordsworth, William Lisle Bowles, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, James Hogg, Robert Surtees, Thomas Campbell, J. Campbell, Allan Cunningham, George Gordon, Thomas Moore, Charles Wolfe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, James Henry Leigh Hunt, John Keats, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Hood, Aubrey De Vere, Hartley Coleridge, Joseph Blanco White, George Darley, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Hugh Miller, Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin, Charles Tennyson Turner, Samuel Ferguson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edward Fitzgerald ...
    Series Book 41 - Harvard Classics
    Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics) ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tell Me a Story

    Using Narratives to Break Down Barriers in Composition Courses

    by Anthony Tate Fulton, Christopher B. Field, Michael MacBride ...
    Stories have great power. This book attempts to harness that power to help students grow and develop as writers. It argues that stories and narratives can be utilized in the composition classroom, specifically first-year composition (FYC) to break down barriers. Throughout a given semester, stories and narratives can help students in composition courses to overcome academic, personal, and creative ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Going to Hell to Get the Devil

    The 1972 Charlotte Three Case and the Freedom Struggle in a Sunbelt City

    by J. Christopher Schutz, David Goldfield ...
    Series series Making the Modern South
    The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice beyond coverage in local media. By the mid-1970s, however, the fire had become the center of a contentious and dubious arson case against a trio of Black civil rights activists, who became known as the “Charlotte Three.” The charges against the men garnered interest from federal law enforcement agents, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • A New Deal for the Humanities

    Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education

    by Gordon Hutner, Feisal G. Mohamed, Roger L. Geiger, Sheldon Rothblatt, Kathleen Woodward, Yolanda Moses, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Charlotte Melin, Bethany Nowviskie0, John McGowan1, Jeffrey J. Williams2, Christopher Newfield3 ...
    Series series The American Campus
    Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about “crisis” is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD