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One Health

The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches

by Angela Cassidy, David H M Cumming, Vanessa Racloz, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Vreni Jean-Richard, Rea Tschopp, Monique Lechenne, Simon Reid, Susan C Welburn, Solveig Danielsen, Mahamat Bechir, Karin Hediger, Bonnie Buntain, Bassirou Bonfoh, Andrea Meisser, Eric Boa, Martin Bunch, Professor Craig Stephen, Carol Rubin, Susan Cork ...

The One Health concept of combined veterinary and human health continues to gain momentum, but the supporting literature is sparse. In this book, the origins of the concept are examined and practical content on methodological tools, data gathering, monitoring techniques, study designs, and mathematical models is included. Zoonotic diseases, with discussions of diseases of wildlife, farm animals, ... Read more

$89.99 CAD

The One Health concept of combined veterinary and human health continues to gain momentum, but the supporting literature is sparse. In this book, the origins of the concept are examined and practical content on methodological tools, data gathering, monitoring techniques, study designs, and mathematical models is included. Zoonotic diseases, with discussions of diseases of wildlife, farm animals,
... Read more
Sound Pedagogy

Radical Care in Music

by Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright, Molly M Breckling, William Everett, Kate Galloway, Sara Haefeli0, Eric Hung1, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton2, Mark Katz3, Nathan A Langfitt4, Matteo Magarotto5, Mary Natvig6, Frederick A Peterbark7, Laura Moore Pruett8, Amanda Christina Soto9, Reba A Wissner0 ...

Series series Music in American Life
Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education. But, as the essayists in Sound Pedagogy show, the structural aspects of music study in higher education present obstacles to caring and kindness like the entrenched master-student model, a neoliberal individualist and ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education. But, as the essayists in Sound Pedagogy show, the structural aspects of music study in higher education present obstacles to caring and kindness like the entrenched master-student model, a neoliberal individualist and
... Read more
Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias

Toward a New Dialogue across Boundaries

by Jooyeon Rhee, Eric Ping Hung Li, Russell Belk, Shelley W. Chan, Su Young Choi, Jonathan Deschenes, Dandan Fang, Guojun (Sawyer) He, Nathan Hopson0, Matt M. Husain1, Olga Khomenko2, Somin Lee3, Maria Osetrova4, Chien-wei Pan5, Violetta Ravagnoli6, Gabriel F. Y. Tsang7, Ame´lie Keyser-Verreault8, Yuko Minowa9, Chikako Nagayama0 ...

Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias illustrates how the production and consumption of food impacts the changing social positions of individuals and their relationships with their families, the state, and their work, as well as shapes their gender, sexual, ethnic, and national identities. The transnational movement of food and people between East Asia and the rest of the world is ... Read more

$128.99 CAD

Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias illustrates how the production and consumption of food impacts the changing social positions of individuals and their relationships with their families, the state, and their work, as well as shapes their gender, sexual, ethnic, and national identities. The transnational movement of food and people between East Asia and the rest of the world is
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Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing

Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon

by Elizabeth A. Clendinning, Steve Halfyard, Amanda Howell, Eric Hung, Linda Jencson, Cynthea Masson, Jeffrey Middents, Matthew Mills, Christopher Wiley, Stanley C. Pelkey II, Jacqueline Bach ...

When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow. Now with three hugely popular television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the ... Read more

$71.99 CAD

When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow. Now with three hugely popular television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the
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Emotional Intelligence

Includes: Emotional Intelligence for Anger Management, the Polyvagal Theory, Complex PTSD Trauma and Recovery

by Daniel Sorensen, Elise Van Der Kolk ...

Narrated by Eric Draven, Hung Land, Erica Olsen ...

Unabridged

17 hours 36 min

Want to overcome negative feelings? Feel like you aren’t good enough? Need help dealing with stress, anger, or trauma?Have you ever been so consumed by negative and powerful emotions like anger that you thought they’d never go away?The solution to deal with these emotions is to understand how your emotions work and apply specific techniques to ensure you manage them as effectively as possible ... Read more

$23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Want to overcome negative feelings? Feel like you aren’t good enough? Need help dealing with stress, anger, or trauma?Have you ever been so consumed by negative and powerful emotions like anger that you thought they’d never go away?The solution to deal with these emotions is to understand how your emotions work and apply specific techniques to ensure you manage them as effectively as possible
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Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies

Canada, Taiwan, and the United States

Edited by Eric Fong, Lan-Hung Nora Chiang, Nancy Denton ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
As a result of international immigration, ethnic diversity has increased rapidly in many countries, not only in major cities, but also in smaller cities. This trend is not limited to the traditional immigrant receiving countries, such as the United States and Canada, but occurs also in many other countries where doors are gradually opening to immigration, especially in Asia. This combination of a ... Read more

$89.31 CAD

As a result of international immigration, ethnic diversity has increased rapidly in many countries, not only in major cities, but also in smaller cities. This trend is not limited to the traditional immigrant receiving countries, such as the United States and Canada, but occurs also in many other countries where doors are gradually opening to immigration, especially in Asia. This combination of a
... Read more

The Slow Professor

Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy

by Maggie Berg, Barbara K. Seeber ...

If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship.In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship.In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of
... Read more
Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World

Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice

by Nyama McCarthy-Brown ...

Issues of race, class, gender and religion permeate the study of contemporary dance, resulting in cultural clashes in classrooms and studios. The first of its kind, this book provides dance educators with tools to refocus teaching methods to celebrate the pluralism of the United States. The contributors discuss how to diversify ballet technique classes and dance history courses in higher education ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

Issues of race, class, gender and religion permeate the study of contemporary dance, resulting in cultural clashes in classrooms and studios. The first of its kind, this book provides dance educators with tools to refocus teaching methods to celebrate the pluralism of the United States. The contributors discuss how to diversify ballet technique classes and dance history courses in higher education
... Read more
Dance and Ethics

Moving Towards a More Humane Dance Culture

by Naomi M. Jackson ...

Dance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Culture is an introductory study of ethical issues as applied to the history and field of Western theatrical dance. It is the first sustained work of its kind, inspired by the belief that there are serious issues to be illuminated by examining dance in relation to ethics and to the changing values in the dance world itself, especially as faced by ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

Dance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Culture is an introductory study of ethical issues as applied to the history and field of Western theatrical dance. It is the first sustained work of its kind, inspired by the belief that there are serious issues to be illuminated by examining dance in relation to ethics and to the changing values in the dance world itself, especially as faced by
... Read more
Globalizing Music Education

A Framework

by Alexandra Kertz-Welzel ...

Series series Counterpoints: Music and Education
How do globalization and internationalization impact music education around the world? By acknowledging different cultural values and priorities, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel's vision challenges the current state of international music education and higher education, which has been dominated by English-language scholarship. Her framework utilizes an interdisciplinary approach and emphasizes the need for ... Read more

$17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

How do globalization and internationalization impact music education around the world? By acknowledging different cultural values and priorities, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel's vision challenges the current state of international music education and higher education, which has been dominated by English-language scholarship. Her framework utilizes an interdisciplinary approach and emphasizes the need for
... Read more
Dance Education

A Redefinition

by Dr Susan R. Koff ...

Winner of the 2021 Ruth Lovell Murray Book AwardDance Education redefines the nature of dance pedagogy today, setting it within a holistic and encompassing framework, and argues for an approach to dance education from a soci-cultural and philosophical perspective.In the past, dance education has focused on the learning of dance, limited to Western-based societies, with little attention to how ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

Winner of the 2021 Ruth Lovell Murray Book AwardDance Education redefines the nature of dance pedagogy today, setting it within a holistic and encompassing framework, and argues for an approach to dance education from a soci-cultural and philosophical perspective.In the past, dance education has focused on the learning of dance, limited to Western-based societies, with little attention to how
... Read more
Get Free

Antibias Literacy Instruction for Stronger Readers, Writers, and Thinkers

by Tricia Ebarvia ...

Series series Corwin Literacy
What would it mean to truly "get free" as an educator? How can we identify and challenge bias in our reading and writing curriculum and instruction? How can we support students in becoming empathetic, engaged individuals who can communicate with the world through reading and writing skills developed with compassion and critical thinking?Answering these questions requires deep personal reflection ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

What would it mean to truly "get free" as an educator? How can we identify and challenge bias in our reading and writing curriculum and instruction? How can we support students in becoming empathetic, engaged individuals who can communicate with the world through reading and writing skills developed with compassion and critical thinking?Answering these questions requires deep personal reflection
... Read more

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