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  • Owners of the Sidewalk

    Security and Survival in the Informal City

    Series series Global Insecurities
    Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in the marginal spaces of the Latin American city. Collaborating with the Cancha's legal and permanent ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Manual of Insight

    The most comprehensive manual of the practice of insight meditation (vipassana), written by one of its foremost 20th century proponents, is translated into English for the first time.Manual of Insight is the magnum opus of Mahasi Sayadaw, one of the originators of the “vipassana movement” that has swept through the Buddhist world over the last hundred years. The manual presents a comprehensive ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Spectacular City

    Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia

    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Since the Bolivian revolution in 1952, migrants have come to the city of Cochabamba, seeking opportunity and relief from rural poverty. They have settled in barrios on the city’s outskirts only to find that the rights of citizens—basic rights of property and security, especially protection from crime—are not available to them. In this ethnography, Daniel M. Goldstein considers the significance of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Outlawed

    Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City

    Series series A John Hope Franklin Center book
    In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with rights. Feeling abandoned to the crime and violence that grip their communities, they sometimes turn to vigilante practices, including lynching, to apprehend and punish suspected criminals. Goldstein describes those in this precarious position as ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden

    A First Historical Assessment

    Leading historians offer the first look at Biden’s four years in the White HouseThe Presidency of Joseph R. Biden presents a first draft of history by providing insights into how this one-term president fits within the broader historical forces shaping the United States in the twenty-first century. Acclaimed political historian Julian Zelizer brings together some of today’s leading scholars to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Textbook of Transplantation and Mechanical Support for End-Stage Heart and Lung Disease, 2 Volume Set

    Textbook of Transplantation and Mechanical Support for End-Stage Heart and Lung DiseaseComprehensive textbook covering all aspects of the care of patients with advanced heart or lung diseaseTransplantation and Mechanical Support for End-Stage Heart and Lung Disease is the most comprehensive and contemporary textbook available that addresses the medical and surgical treatment options for patients ... Read more

    $435.99 CAD

  • Can Legal Weed Win?

    The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics

    Two economists take readers on a tour of the economics of legal and illegal weed, showing where cannabis regulation has gone wrong and how it could do better.Cannabis "legalization" hasn't lived up to the hype. Across North America, investors are reeling, tax collections are below projections, and people are pointing fingers. On the business side, companies have shut down, farms have failed, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Decolonizing Ethnography

    Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science

    In August 2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia López Juárez and Mirian A. Mijangos García—two local immigrant workers from Latin America—joined Alonso Bejarano and Goldstein as research assistants and quickly ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Psychological Assessment

    The fourth edition of the Handbook of Psychological Assessment, provides scholarly overviews of the major areas of psychological assessment, including test development, psychometrics, technology of testing, and commonly used assessment measures. Psychological assessment is included for all ages, with new coverage encompassing ethnic minorities and the elderly. Assessment methodology discussed ... Read more

    $132.99 CAD

  • Cluster Analysis in Neuropsychological Research

    Recent Applications

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Cluster analysis is a multivariate classification technique that allows for identification of homogenous subgroups within diverse samples based on shared characteristics. In recent years, cluster analysis has been increasingly applied to psychological and neuropsychological variables to address a number of empirical questions. This book provides an overview of cluster analysis, including ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In 1962, Thomas Kuhne coined the term “paradigm shift” while arguing that human knowledge advances by quantum leaps with interspersed smaller steps. Preparation for the major advance is generally not a concerted effort by thought leaders. Rather, a few (or one) visionaries gain insights into a process and are able to definitely demonstrate the accuracy of their worldview. Often, the epiphany does ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Futureproof

    Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life

    Series series Global Insecurities
    Security is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles, CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD