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  • The Rose Bird

    A Mother's Perspective on Loving and Losing Her Daughter to Fentanyl

    by Helen Davies ...
    The Rose Bird is a personal account of what goes on behind closed doors in a family coping with severe mental illness. Told as only a mother can, this is the true story of loving and losing a daughter affected by mental illness and addiction. Although author Helen Davies begins the story with the fentanyl-related death of her twenty-three-year-old daughter Katie on the streets of Kitchener, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    Thumbelina and other Fairy Tales

    by Hans Christian Andersen ...
    Narrated by Eleanor Buchan, Richard Cuthbertson, Helen Davies, Michael Head, Julian McDonnell, Paul Rew, Bob Rollett, Howard Wolfin, Elizabeth Rickards ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 34 min

    This delightful selection of stories by one of the classic masters of the genre includes some well-known and lesser known tales, presented in lively Naxos AudioBooks style with music and sound effects. This recording is also unique in that the stories are read by the finalists in the Naxos AudioBooks/The Times Voice of the Year competition which offered a recording opportunity to talented readers ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sars

    Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities

    Edited by Deborah Davis, Helen F. Siu ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fatality rate and sheer speed at which this disease spread prompted the World Health Organization to ... Read more

    Free

  • The Parenting Column

    A Calendar of Tips, Trips and Falls

    by Helen Davis ...
    I have previously published a hardcopy parenting book "Why Have Babies?" with Sid Harta In Australia ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Good Death

    by Helen Davis ...
    ‘A good death is better than a bad conscience,’ said Sophie.1983 - Georgie, Theo, Sophie and Helena, four disparate young Cambridge undergraduates, set out to scale Ausangate, one of the highest and most sacred peaks in the Andes.Seduced into employing the handsome and enigmatic Wamani as a guide, the four women are initiated into the mystically dangerous side of Peru, Wamani and themselves as ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Understanding Stuart Hall

    by Helen Davis ...
    ′This is the most lucid and engaged account of Stuart Hall′s work. Meticulously, and with an exemplary generosity, Helen Davis patiently unravels the threads of Hall′s intellectual history. The result is a most useful and thoughtful book, which could prove to be indispensable for students of cultural studies′- Graeme Turner, University of QueenslandUnderstanding Stuart Hall traces the development ... Read more

    $100.79 CAD

  • Neo-Victorian Freakery

    The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show

    by Helen Davies ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Neo-Victorian Freakery explores the way in which contemporary fiction, film, and television has revisited the lives of nineteenth-century freak show performers. It locates the neo-Victorian freak show as a crucial forum for debating the politics of disability, gender, sexuality and race within the genre more broadly. ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • Critical Conversations in Teacher Education

    Contemporary Australian Perspectives

    Edited by Helen Stokes, Larissa McLean Davies ...
    This is a time of challenge for teachers with burgeoning workloads and unsustainable conditions, parental demands and challenging student behaviour. Within this climate of challenge, including that of teacher retention, education systems around the world have had to develop strategies to professionalise and improve the status of teaching.Divided into three distinct sections covering the future of ... Read more

    $115.49 CAD

  • Developmental Pathways Through Middle Childhood

    Rethinking Contexts and Diversity as Resources

    Edited by Catherine R. Cooper, Cynthia T. Garc¡a Coll, W. Todd Bartko, Helen M. Davis, Celina Chatman ...
    When can contexts and diversity be resources, rather than risks, for children's developmental pathways? Scholars, policy makers, and practitioners increasingly realize that middle childhood matters as a time when children's pathways diverge, as they meet new and overlapping contexts they must navigate on their way to adolescence and adulthood. This volume shines new light on this important ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Working with Children, Young People and Families

    Edited by Graham Brotherton, Helen Davies, Gillian McGillivray ...
    Written from a unique interprofessional perspective, this book is an essential introduction to working with children, young people and families. It covers policy, practice and theory, exploring key themes and developments, including:- poverty and disadvantage- ethical practice- child development- education- child protection- children and young people′s rights- doing research.The book introduces ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture

    Femininity, Masculinity and Recession in Film and Television

    Edited by Helen Davies, Dr Claire O’Callaghan ...
    Series series Library of Gender and Popular Culture
    From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book explores how transatlantic visual culture has represented and reconstructed ideas of gender in times of financial crisis. Drawing on social, cultural and feminist theory, these writers explore how men and women experience austerity differently and ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Comedy and the Politics of Representation

    Mocking the Weak

    Edited by Helen Davies, Sarah Ilott ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which “humorous” constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular culture. Should there be limits to free speech when humour is aimed at marginalised social groups? What are the limits of free ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD