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  • Adventures with the Ancient Crystal Skulls

    by Jill Gurr ...
    "Adventures with the Ancient Crystal Skulls" is an inspirational memoir by Joky ("YOH kee") van Dieten. She shares stories about her fascinating journeys around the world, and the spiritual awakening that transformed her life.As a child, she helped her father hide from the Nazis. Joky was one of the first female Ferrari race car drivers in Europe. She became an international celebrity after ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dolphin Healing

    by Jill Gurr ...
    DOLPHIN HEALING includes 18 detailed illustrations by artist Valerie Woelk.Being bullied makes 10-year old Julie feel miserable, but she has a bigger challenge to overcome when she discovers that she has cancer. It's scary being in the hospital for treatment. Her older sister is jealous of all the attention that she receives from their single mother. Julie returns to school after losing all her ... Read more

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  • Mentor Youth Now - A Guidebook for Transforming Young Lives

    by Jill Gurr ...
    Nearly half of the U.S. youth population (17.6 million kids to be exact) is "at-risk" for getting into trouble or "high-risk" and already in trouble. Youth today must deal with all kinds of tough issues. Teen pregnancy, substance abuse and gangs are prevalent, especially in poor communities. This breeds all kinds of crime. Action needs to be taken fast or our future generation may not survive ... Read more

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  • Casualisation, the Gig Economy, and Piece Work in Education

    Dilemmas for Leaders in Times of Increasing Precarity

    Edited by Jess Harris, Nerida Spina, Kathleen Smithers, Jill Blackmore, Sarah K. Gurr ...
    This book examines a range of ethical complexities associated with precarious work across educational sectors internationally.Our aim is to examine the experiences of the increasing reliance on casual and temporary employment in education settings for all educators. This volume brings together academic chapters, focused on the affective, ethical, and practical challenges faced by all educators ... Read more

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  • Furious Feminisms

    Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road

    by Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill, Barbara Gurr ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative powerWhile both fans and foes point to Mad Max: Fury Road’s feminist credentials, Furious Feminisms asks: is there really anything feminist or radical happening on the screen? The four authors—from backgrounds in art history, American literature, disability studies, and sociology—ask what is possible ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

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    Understanding and Responding to Complex Challenges

    by Brian W. Head ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is an open access book.This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and the preferred ‘solution’ being strongly contested. It contextualises the debate using a wide range of relevant policy examples, explaining why these issues attract so much attention.There is an increasing ... Read more

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  • Co-Production and Co-Creation

    Engaging Citizens in Public Services

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere, Trui Steen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more ... Read more

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  • Promoting Health

    The Primary Health Care Approach

    by Lyn Talbot, Glenda Verrinder ...
    The new edition will provide readily accessible material for public health educators and practitioners, in a number of professions, who are increasingly being required to address the challenges emerging from the inter-related impacts of the social and environmental factors impacting on health in an era of globalisation. ... Read more

    $100.79 CAD

  • The Flexibility Paradox

    Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation

    by Heejung Chung ...
    Does flexible working really provide a better work-life balance?Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, flexible working has become the norm for many workers. This volume offers an original examination of flexible working using data from 30 European countries and drawing on studies conducted in Australia, the US and India. Rather than providing a better work-life balance, the book reveals how flexible ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Public Value

    Deepening, Enriching, and Broadening the Theory and Practice

    Edited by Adam Lindgreen, Nicole Koenig-Lewis, Martin Kitchener, Timo Meynhardt, John Brewer, Mark Moore ...
    Over the last 10 years, the concept of value has emerged in both business and public life as part of an important process of measuring, benchmarking, and assuring the resources we invest and the outcomes we generate from our activities. In the context of public life, value is an important measure on the contribution to business and social good of activities for which strict financial measures are ... Read more

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  • Leadership in the Public Sector

    Promises and Pitfalls

    Edited by Christine Teelken, Ewan Ferlie, Mike Dent ...
    In view of the approaching age of austerity for the public sector, leadership is likely to continue to become a key theme. This edited volume brings together a host of material from the public sector to analyze the issue internationally.Teelken, Dent & Ferlie lead a team of contributors in examining three key aspects of this increasingly important theme:the meaning of public sector leadership, and ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Modernising social work

    Critical considerations

    Edited by John Harris, Vicky White ...
    New Labour's modernisation agenda has produced an avalanche of change that has posed formidable challenges for everyone involved in social work, whether as service users, practitioners or managers."Modernising Social Work" provides a radical appraisal of the far-reaching changes in their theoretical, historical and policy contexts. The book is organised into three sections that consider: the inter ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD