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  • No Place Like Home

    Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment

    by David Staples ...
    Series series New Approaches in Sociology
    No Place Like Home examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. Far from an isolated or contingent situation, home-based work constitutes today an enormous arena of 'invisible' social and political struggles of subaltern and ethno-racially subordinated women. ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

  • The Tribulation

    Through the Eyes of the Fallen

    by David Staples ...
    Enter into the tribulation as the Holy Bible foretells. In this revealing novel, follow the Staples family alongside other surviving Christians on the run from a hostile superstate. Come along as Dinah, who is given special powers as never given by the Almighty before, interprets all language of the fallen angels to expose the diabolical plan of a takeover of Earth--the human race as we know it. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Modern Theatres 1950–2020

    Edited by David Staples ...
    Modern Theatres 1950–2020 is an investigation of theatres, concert halls and opera houses in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America.The book explores in detail 30 of the most significant theatres, concert halls, opera houses and dance spaces that opened between 1950 and 2010. Each theatre is reviewed and assessed by experts in theatre buildings, such as architects, acousticians, ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD

  • The Swiss Family Robinson

    by Johann David Wyss ...
    Series series Aladdin Classics
    Originally written to entertain his four young sons, Johann David Wyss based The Swiss Family Robinson on Daniel Defoe's classic shipwreck story, Robinson Crusoe (1719). Upon its initial publication in 1812, The Swiss Family Robinson was received with great enthusiasm not only as a first-rate adventure story, but also as a practical guide to self-sufficiency. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • No Excuses

    Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

    by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom ...
    Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 ... Read more

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  • Blood Knot and Other Plays

    by Athol Fugard ...
    Three plays that solidified Athol Fugard's indelible mark on theatre.The brothers of Blood Knot—one dark-skinned, one light—betray their dreams of a better future with the impossible wish of passing for white. In Hello and Goodbye, a poor white brother and sister churn through their once-promising past to comprehend their bleak present. Boseman and Lena, a black husband and wife, trudge through a ... Read more

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    How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality

    by Thomas M. Shapiro ...
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    Seeking Truth at Rattlesnake Mountain

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    This true crime history reveals the harrowing story of a black man brutally murdered by a lynch mob in 1932 Virginia.In 1932, a black man was found hanging on Rattlesnake Mountain in Fauquier County, Virginia. Though a mob set fire to his body, officials were able to identify him as Shedrick Thompson, who had been wanted for the abduction and rape of a local white woman. Some claimed Thompson ... Read more

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  • For Discrimination

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