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“janet mcdermott”

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  • Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption, Second Edition

    by Janet McDermott, Stephen Hicks ...
    Featuring a spectrum of families from diverse backgrounds, this book reveals the joys and challenges of adoptive and foster parenting.The authors outline how the experience of adopting and fostering has changed for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people over the years, major changes in policy, and what the research can tell us about LGBT parenting. They interview families involved at ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Existere 37.2

    Journal of Arts and Literature

    by Madelaine Pries, Evan J. Hoskins, Leyli Salayeva, Sandy Green, Marie-Andrée Auclair, Matthew James Babcock, Sean Callaghan, Geza Tatrallyay, Ann-Marie Brown, Daniel McKay, Paula Kienapple-Summers, Tom Stock-Hendel, Pat Tompkins, Harvey Mitro, Eleanore Lee, Mike Ekunno, Richard Brostoff, Jeanette Vo, Kirsten Cameron, Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier, Alessio Zanelli, Terry McDermott ...
    Series Book 2 - Volume 37
    A story is never one-sided. There will always be other perspectives,other points of view, that someone can take—and why shouldn’t we?Using these different perspectives helps us observe, understand andlearn from our experiences—they help us grow. Putting forth theeffort to take on these points of view sparked Existere’s Volume 37Issue 2.From trying on your mother’s clothes to embracing some ... Read more

    $4.00 CAD

  • From Africa to Zen

    An Invitation to World Philosophy

    by Roger T. Ames, J Baird Callicott, David L. Hall, Peter D. Hershock, Oliver Leaman, Janet McCracken, Robert A. McDermott, Eric Ormsby, Thomas W. Overholt, Graham Parkes, Roy Perrett, Stephen H. Phillips, Homayoon Sepasi-Tehrani, Jacqueline Trimier, Jorge Valadez ...
    In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western philosophy, fifteen experts introduce some of the great philosophical traditions in the world. The dozen essays collected here unveil exciting, sophisticated philosophical traditions that are too often neglected in the western world. The contributors include the leading scholars in their fields, but they write for students coming to ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    Journal of Arts and Literature

    by Saima Afreen, Jodi Adamson, Michelle Boone, N. Page, Savannah Sidle, S. Lowell Soderman, Justin Carpenter, Annie Raab, Victor Altshul, Ben Leib, M. W. Jaeggle, Sally Zakariya, Michael Popp, David Reuter, Mary Rykov, Carol Wellart, Jim Zola, David Sapp, Lauren Dick, Je-an Cedric Cruz, Madelaine Pries ...
    Series Book 1 - Volume 37
    Growing up has always been hard work, but our 37.1 Fall/Winter 2017/2018 edition perfectly documents life’s strenuous journey. Though we may have had different upbringings, we have all faced adversity and milestones. Whether it was overcoming personal, academic, professional or social hurdles, life has seen us through them all. Our 37.1 edition is structured to explore and highlight key points of ... Read more

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  • How the World Thinks

    A Global History of Philosophy

    by Julian Baggini ...
    *SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'There to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' ObserverIn this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought.One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or less the s... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Quest for Meaning

    Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    In The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism, Tariq Ramadan embarks on a journey to uncover the profound truths that bind us together.In a world so full of different beliefs and viewpoints, how can we find peace in our shared humanity?Acclaimed thinker and philosopher Tariq Ramadan explores universal ideas such as love, respect, truth and tolerance, and examines questions such as ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Anti-Natalism

    Rejectionist Philosophy from Buddhism to Benatar

    by Ken Coates ...
    Every birth brings with it pain, suffering and death. Are life's joys and pleasures worth its costs? This book examines a set of perspectives - religious, philosophical, and literary - which find human existence deeply flawed and unacceptable. Its modern expression by philosophers Benatar and Zapffe as anti-natalism needs to be taken seriously in our choice whether to procreate or not. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tamil

    A Biography

    by David Shulman ...
    Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil—language, literature, and civilization—emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have understood the unique ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Sociology of Philosophies

    by Randall COLLINS ...
    Randall Collins traces the movement of philosophical thought in ancient Greece, China, Japan, India, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from this history is a social theory of intellectual change, one that avoids both the reduction of ideas to the influences of society at large and the purely contingent local construction of meanings. ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • The Way of the Gods

    Polytheism(s) Around the World

    by Edward P. Butler ...
    Polytheisms may well be the world’s most undervalued cultural resource. From the dawn of history until quite recently, the default religious orientation on the planet was to recognize an open-ended plurality of unique divinities that manifest in every realm of natural and social life. By hosting a plurality of Gods, polytheistic civilizations exhibit maximum diversity in maximum solidarity each ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Religion

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Charles Taliaferro ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    A modern take on this age-old branch of philosophyA much-needed introductory level book on this widely studied subject.Isaac Asimov said that "whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse." Such quandaries are the bread and butter of philosophy of religion. Questioning why evil exists, whether God could create a stone he couldn’t lift, and if the wonder of life ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • World Philosophies

    by Ninian Smart ...
    World Philosophies presents in one volume a superb introduction to all the world’s major philosophical and religious traditions. Covering all corners of the globe, Ninian Smart’s work offers a comprehensive and global philosophical and religious picture.In this revised and expanded second edition, a team of distinguished scholars, assembled by the editor Oliver Leaman, have brought Ninian Smart’s ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD