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  • The Akron Story Circle Project

    Rethinking Race in Classroom and Community

    by Carolyn Behrman, Bill Lyons, Patricia Hill, James Slowiak ...
    Cultures around the world have long employed storytelling to transmit important values and beliefs and to build community. Further, some research has indicated that individuals retain more from stories than other forms of information transmission like lectures. The pedagogical use of storytelling might have even more relevance in our digital society in which communication is shorter and less ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jerzy Grotowski

    by James Slowiak, Jairo Cuesta ...
    Series series Routledge Performance Practitioners
    Master director, teacher, and theorist, Jerzy Grotowski’s work extended well beyond the conventional limits of performance. Now revised and reissued, this book combines:● an overview of Grotowski’s life and the distinct phases of his work● an analysis of his key ideas● a consideration of his role as director of the renowned Polish Laboratory Theatre● a series of practical exercises offering an ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

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    Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation

    by James Howard Kunstler ...
    The author of The Long Emergency explains why technology can't solve all our problems, and how excessive optimism can endanger our future .The Long Emergency quickly became a grassroots hit, offering a shocking vision of our post-oil future and capturing the attention of environmentalists and business leaders alike. As discussion about our dependence on fossil fuels and our dysfunctional financial ... Read more

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  • Community Conversations

    Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passion of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People, Second Edition

    by Paul Born ...
    Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building.Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging people from all sectors as never before to work together as equals to improve their quality of life.At the heart of this engagement are community ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Addiction--What's Really Going on?

    Inside a Heroin Treatment Program

    by Deborah McCloskey, Barbara Sinor ...
    Series series Reflections of America
    Addiction: What's Really Going On? contains powerful true-life stories woven together to form a tapestry filled with pain, joy, defeat, and success. The entire book is molded around Deborah McCloskey's heartfelt desire for her clients to be free of drugs. Her counseling methods both endeared her as "the counselor to get" and locked her into a decade of searching for better ways to help those she ... Read more

    $6.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Worktown

    The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation

    by David Hall ...
    In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ordinary working people at work and play - in the pub, dance hall, factory and on holiday. Their aim was to create an 'anthropology of ourselves'. The first of its kind, it later grew into the Mass ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Gentrifier

    by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, Marc Lamont Hill ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the clichés, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue. In this lively yet rigorous book, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at the socioeconomic factors and individual decisions behind gentrification and their implications for the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • New York's New Edge

    Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side

    by David Halle, Elisabeth Tiso ...
    The story of New York’s west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it’s a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York’s most dominant neighborhood for contemporary art, and the streets of the west side are filled with gallery owners, art collectors, and tourists. Developments like the High ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Hey, Shorty!

    A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets

    by Girls for Gender Equity, Joanne Smith, Meghan Huppuch, Mandy Van Deven ...
    At every stage of education, sexual harassment is common, and often considered a rite of passage for young people. It’s not unusual for a girl to hear Hey, Shorty!” on a daily basis, as she walks down the hall or comes into the school yard, followed by a sexual innuendo, insult, come-on, or assault. But when teenagers are asked whether they experience this in their own lives, most of them say it’s ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

    The Urban Link

    by Michele Acuto ...
    Series series Routledge New Diplomacy Studies
    This book illustrates the importance of global cities for world politics and highlights the diplomatic connections between cities and global governance.While there is a growing body of literature concerned with explaining the transformations of the international order, little theorisation has taken into account the key metropolises of our time as elements of these revolutions. The volume seeks to ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Gendered Paradoxes

    Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador

    by Amy Lind ...
    Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, ... Read more

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  • Housing the Homeless

    by Jon Erickson, Charles Wilhelm ...
    Homelessness has become a lasting issue of vital social concern. As the number of the homeless has grown, the complexity of the issue has become increasingly clear to researchers and private and public service providers. The plight of the homeless raises many ethical, anthropological, political, sociological, and public health questions. The most serious and perplexing of these questions is what ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD