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  • The Corporatization and Environmental Sustainability of Australian Universities

    A Critical Perspective

    by Hans Baer ...
    Analysing the juxtaposition of two trends in universities – corporatisation and environmental sustainability – this book explores how they are more contradictory than compatible.Hans A Baer argues that this contradiction is unavoidable because of the capitalist parameters in which they operate, including a commitment to on-going economic growth which contributes to social inequality, environmental ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • African American Religion

    Varieties of Protest and Accommodation

    by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer ...
    Now in an updated second edition, African American Religion remains an invaluable overview of the great diversity of religious groups within the modern African American community. This plethora of forms reflects a tension that has characterized African American religion since its beginnings—a tension between accommodation to and protest against white society’s domination.Viewing African American ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complementary Medicine in Australia and New Zealand

    Its popularisation, legitimation and dilemmas

    by Hans Baer ...
    In the late nineteenth century on the eve of the formation of Australia as a nation-state in 1902, the Australian medical system could be best described as a pluralistic one in the sense that while regular medicine constituted the predominant medical system, it was not clearly the dominant one in that regular physicians faced competition from a wide array of alternative practitioners. As regular ... Read more

    $174.99 CAD

  • Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia

    An Eco-Socialist Vision for the Future

    by Hans A. Baer ...
    Recognizing that climate politics has been an increasingly contentious and heated topic in Australia over the past two decades, this book examines Australian capitalism as a driver of climate change and the nexus between the corporations and Coalition and Australian Labor parties.As a highly developed country, Australia is punching above its weight in terms of contributing to greenhouse gas ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Toward an Integrative Medicine

    Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine

    by Hans A. Baer ...
    This book chronicles the transformation of the holistic health movement over the past three decades, as it increasingly influences the delivery of health care in America. In it, he describes the battle for legitimacy by alternative therapeutic practitioners, and the biomedical profession's increasing interest in the possibilities of a complementary and integrative medical system. Baer examines a ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Introducing Health Anthropology

    A Discipline in Action

    by Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer, Debbi Long, Alex Pavlotski ...
    With a new title that reflects the broad scope and primary concerns of the field, Introducing Health Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, Fourth Edition, provides students with a first look at the dynamic discipline of medical and health anthropology.The narrative is guided by four unifying themes. First, health anthropologists are heavily involved in the process of helping to better understand ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Grappling with Societies and Institutions in an Era of Socio-Ecological Crisis

    Journey of a Radical Anthropologist

    by Hans A. Baer ...
    Grappling with Societies and Institutions in an Era of Socio-Ecological Crisis is an autobiographical ethnography of the journey through various societies and institutions and how they function in the midst of an era of socio-ecological crises. The volume traces the steps of the author in becoming a radical anthropologist, namely through the experience of immigration and naturalization from Peru ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Airplanes, the Environment, and the Human Condition

    by Hans A. Baer ...
    The number of airplane flights worldwide continues to grow and is one of the many drivers of climate change. This book examines the aviation industry from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the sector’s environmental impact and the challenges facing attempts to shift to more sustainable solutions. Hans Baer outlines how airplanes have become a key component of modern cultural and social ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia

    Transitioning to an Alternative World System

    by Hans A. Baer ...
    As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Global Capitalism and Climate Change

    The Need for an Alternative World System

    by Hans A. Baer ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    Now in its second edition, Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System examines anthropogenic climate change in the context of global capitalism, a political economy that emphasizes profit-making, is committed to on-going economic growth, results in massive social inequality, fosters a treadmill of production and consumption, and is heavily reliant on fossil ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia

    by Hans A Baer, Verity Burgmann ...
    Climate change is the hottest topic of the twenty-first century and the climate movement a significant global social movement. This book examines the broad context of Australian climate politics and the place of the climate movement within it. Acting 'from above' are the most powerful forces; corporations and governments, both Labor and Coalition; with the media framing the issues. Climate ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition

    Driving to Extinction

    by Hans A. Baer ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in their adoption of the culture of automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic climate change to which ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD