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  • Participation, Responsibility and Choice

    Summoning the Active Citizen in Western European Welfare States

    Edited by Janet Newman, Evelien Tonkens ...
    Series series Care & Welfare
    Responsibility, participation and choice are key policy framings of active citizenship, summoning the citizen to take on new roles in welfare state reform. This volume traces the emergence of new discourses and the ways in which they take up and rework struggles of social movements for greater independence, power and control. It explores the changing cultural and political inflections of active ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • The Culturalization of Citizenship

    Belonging and Polarization in a Globalizing World

    Edited by Jan Willem Duyvendak, Peter Geschiere, Evelien Tonkens ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The notion of citizenship has gradually evolved from being simply a legal status or practice to a deep sentiment. Belonging, or feeling at home, has become a requirement. This groundbreaking book analyzes how 'feeling rules' are developed and applied to migrants, who are increasingly expected to express feelings of attachment, belonging, connectedness and loyalty to their new country. More than ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Crafting Citizenship

    Negotiating Tensions in Modern Society

    by M. Hurenkamp, E. Tonkens, J. Duyvendak ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighbourhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of active citizenship and the actual conditions that hinder social cohesion. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • King of Cons

    Exposing the Dirty, Rotten Secrets of the Washington Elite and Hollywood Celebrities

    by Aaron Tonken ...
    "In a LAND of MORAL IMBECILES,I knew I could be KING."He was one of the most prominent producers of fundraising events in the country, throwing monumental charity bashes, securing millions of dollars in donations for the sick and needy. The trouble was, some of the people profiting were greedy politicians, and many of the "charity cases" were really only pampered Hollywood stars. It's a true-life ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend

    by Martin Short ...
    “Short’s endearing memoir is, of course, funny, but it’s also a rare thing: the tale of a genuine human being who’s thrived on planet Hollywood.” — Washington PostIn this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt celebrity memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Governance

    Edited by David Levi-Faur ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. The volume presents the core concepts and knowledge that have evolved in the study of governance in different levels and arenas of politics and policymaking. In doing so it establishes itself as the essential point of reference for all those studying ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Going There

    by Katie Couric ...
    This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name.For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Journalism and Society

    by Denis McQuail ...
    Every serious student of journalism should read this book... Denis McQuail has succeeded in producing a work of scholarship that shows what journalists do and what they should do.- Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds"For a half century we have spoken earnestly of journalism′s responsibility to society instead of to business and government. Now this concept is given sophistication unmatched, by ... Read more

    $86.39 CAD

  • Audition

    by Barbara Walters ...
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An inspiring and riveting memoir from the most important woman in the history of television journalism.“A delightful tale of the golden age of television.... Juicy behind-the scenes details of the celebrities she’s interviewed, mixed in with stories of her own trials and tribulations.” —The Washington PostAfter more than fifty years of interviewing heads of state, world ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Ethics

    Edited by Sarah Banks ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    The past few years have seen a renewed interest in the subject of social work ethics. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Sarah Banks argues that this can be seen as reflecting two very different agendas. On the one hand, it is part of a progressive movement which offers a critique of New Public Management (NPM), or managerialist, approaches ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Andy Cohen Diaries

    A Deep Look at a Shallow Year

    by Andy Cohen ...
    The New York Times Bestseller“Cable TV's dishiest guy at his dishy best. . . a glamorous, goofy look at 365 days of a charmed showbiz life.” — Kirkus ReviewsThe Andy Cohen Diaries chronicles a year in the whirlwind life of the beloved pop icon, in his own cheeky, candid, and irreverent words**.**As a TV Producer and host of the smash late night show Watch What Happens Live, Andy C... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Rat Pack Confidential

    Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz Party

    by Shawn Levy ...
    For the first time, the full story of what happened when Frank brought his best pals to party in a land called VegasJanuary 1960. Las Vegas is at its smooth, cool peak. The Strip is a jet-age theme park, and the greatest singer in the history of American popular music summons a group of friends there to make a movie. One is an insouciant singer of Italian songs, ex-partner to the most popular film ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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