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  • The Other Face of the Moon

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist’s dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another.Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Lévi-Strauss’s early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World is the first English translation of a series of lectures Claude Lévi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986. Written with an eye toward the future as his own distinguished career was drawing to a close, this volume presents a synthesis of the author’s major ideas about structural anthropology, a field he helped establish. Critiquing insights of ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Understanding the Boundary between Disability Studies and Special Education through Consilience, Self-Study, and Radical Love

    by David I. Hernández-Saca, Holly Pearson, Brittany Aronson, Christina A. Bosch, M. Nickie Coomer, Danielle M. Cowley, Deborah J. Gallagher, JPB Gerald, Shehreen Iqtadar0, Ashley Cartell Johnson1, Gloshanda Lawyer2, Amanda L. Miller3, Martin Musengi4, Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg5, Amy J. Petersen6, Ganiva Reyes7, Sarah Schlessinger8, Chelsea Stinson9, Jane Strauss0, Maria T. Timberlake1, Sarah Arvey Tov2, Ananí M. Vasquez3, David J. Connor4, Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides6 ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Disabilities and Education
    In Understanding the Boundary between Disability Studies and Special Education through Consilience, Self-Study, and Radical Love, the authors explore what it means to engage in boundary work at the intersection of traditional special education systems and critical disability studies in education. The book consists of fifteen groundbreaking accounts that challenge dominant medicalized discourses ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • We Are All Cannibals

    And Other Essays

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own custom barbarism," said Montaigne. In these essays, Claude Lévi ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    by Claire Battershill ...
    The CBC Literary Award–winning title story from Claire Battershill’s debut collection, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award and the PEN International / New Voices Award.For as long as Susan can remember, the circus has been part of her family’s DNA – her mother was a gifted contortionist, and her ... Read more

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  • In the Mirror of the Past

    Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990

    by Ivan Illich ...
    During the 1980s Ivan Illich added another dimension to his thought through the study of Medieval history. In the current volume he aims to demonstrate the extent to which the groundwork for the institutions that characterize our world today was laid in the twelfth century. The topics with which Illich engages center on health, housing, schooling, literacy, technology, peace and ethical values, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Practical Ethics

    by Peter Singer ...
    For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Monaghan, Peter Just ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Evolving Self

    A Psychology for the Third Millennium

    by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ...
    The renowned author of Flow shares a "wise, humane inquiry" into the evolution of consciousness—and how we can rewire our minds for contemporary life ( Publishers Weekly).In Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's bestselling Flow, he introduced readers to a radical new theory of happiness. Now in The Evolving Self—his breakthrough sequel—he demonstrates how we can understand and overcome our evolutionary ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Expanding Circle

    Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

    by Peter Singer ...
    What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism?In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues ... Read more

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  • Facing Gaia

    Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. ... Read more

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  • We Have Never Been Modern

    by Bruno Latour ...
    With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD