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  • Reconfiguring Relations in the Empty Nest

    Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

    Edited by Magdalena Żadkowska, Marta Skowrońska, Christophe Giraud, Filip Schmidt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume traverses the spectrum of experiences that take place after children leave the family home and parents find themselves in the "empty nest" stage of life. Rather than focusing on measuring the intensity of empty nest syndrome or asking whether parents' marital satisfaction increases or decreases in this phase, the authors present rich qualitative data from across Poland and ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

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  • What about Me?

    the struggle for identity in a market-based society

    by Paul Verhaeghe ...
    Translated by Jane Hedley-Prole ...
    According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today’s pay-for-performance mentality is turning institutions such as schools, universities, and hospitals into businesses — even ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The End of Love

    A Sociology of Negative Relations

    by Eva Illouz ...
    Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our spine at the mere thought of him or her. Yet, a culture that has so much to say about love is virtually silent on the no less mysterious moments ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Ecology of Attention

    by Yves Citton ...
    Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit.In this new book, cultural theorist Yves Citton goes against the tide of these standard laments to offer a new perspective on the problem of attention in the digital age. Phrases like �paying ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • They Shoot School Kids, Don't They?

    by Peter Gumbel ...
    71% of French school children “regularly suffer from irritability.”63% are nervous.One in four has stomach or headaches once a week or more.40% complain of frequent insomnia.Why is France the only nation in the world that discourages its children for what they aren’t, rather than encouraging them to be who they are? ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland

    by Joanna Mizielińska ...
    Series series Transforming LGBTQ Lives
    Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland explores ways in which queer families from Central and Eastern Europe complicate the mainstream picture of queer kinship and families researched in the Anglo-American contexts.The book presents findings from under-represented localities as a starting point to query some of the expectations about queer kinship and to provide insights on the ... Read more

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  • Another End of the World is Possible

    Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It)

    by Pablo Servigne, Gauthier Chapelle, Raphaël Stevens ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it.As individuals, we are faced with a daily deluge of bad news about the worsening situation, preparing ourselves to live with years of deep ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Emotions as Commodities

    Capitalism, Consumption and Authenticity

    Edited by Eva Illouz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Emotions
    Capitalism has made rationality into a pervasive feature of human action and yet, far from heralding a loss of emotionality, capitalist culture has been accompanied with an unprecedented intensification of emotional life. This raises the question: how could we have become increasingly rationalized and more intensely emotional?Emotions as Commodities offers a simple hypothesis: that consumer acts ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Still Living the Edges: A Disabled Women's Reader

    A Disabled Women's Reader

    Edited by Diane Driedger ...
    Living the Edges: A Disabled Woman’s Reader, the lives of women with disabilities have not changed much. Still Living the Edges provides a timely follow-up that traces the ways disabled women are still on the edges, whether that be on the cutting edge, being pushed to the edges of society, or challenging the edges—the barriers in their way. This collection brings together the diverse voices of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Framing

    The social art of influence

    by Mikael Klintman ...
    A smart, incisive toolkit for understanding how the framing of information influences the way we see the world.In today’s chaotic media landscape, working out who and what to believe is a daunting task. Lies and misinformation are only part of the problem – often the way a story is presented has just as much effect on us as what the story is.In Framing, sociologist Mikael Klintman ... ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Risky Play

    An Ethical Challenge

    by Øyvind Kvalnes, Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book brings together current childhood research and contemporary ethical theory to draw attention to how children depend upon a scope of action for risky play for their mental and physical development. In many countries, the opportunities for children to play away from adults' close attention have decreased. At both school and home, protection and avoidance of harm take increasing ... Read more

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  • The Radicalization of Pedagogy

    Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt

    Edited by Simon Springer, Marcelo Lopes de Souza, Richard J. White ...
    Series series Transforming Capitalism
    How do activists learn radical politics? Does the increasing neoliberalisation of education limit the possibilities of transgressive pedagogies? And in what contexts have anarchist geographers successfully shaped alternative pedagogic practices?Pedagogy is central to geographical knowledge and represents one of the key sites of contact where anarchist approaches can inform and revitalize ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD