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  • Computing and Technology Ethics

    Engaging through Science Fiction

    by Judy Goldsmith, Nicholas Mattei, Sara-Jo Swiatek, Emanuelle Burton, Molly Siler ...
    A new approach to teaching computing and technology ethics using science fiction stories.Should autonomous weapons be legal? Will we be cared for by robots in our old age? Does the efficiency of online banking outweigh the risk of theft? From communication to travel to medical care, computing technologies have transformed our daily lives, for better and for worse. But how do we know when a new ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Green Exercise

    Linking Nature, Health and Well-being

    Edited by Jo Barton, Rachel Bragg, Carly Wood, Jules Pretty ...
    The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature. This book provides a balanced overview and synthesis text on all aspects of Green Exercise and integrates evidence from many different disciplines including physiology, ecology, psychology, sociology and the environmental sciences, and across a wide range of ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Nature and Health

    Physical Activity in Nature

    Edited by Eric Brymer, Mike Rogerson, Jo Barton ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Health, Nature and the Environment
    Experiences in nature are now recognised as being fundamental to human health and well-being. Physical activity in nature has been posited as an important well-being facilitator because the presence of nature augments the benefits of physical activity while also enhancing motivation and adherence. This volume brings together a mix of cutting edge ideas in research, theory and practice from a wide ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Grammar Survival for Secondary Teachers

    A Practical Toolkit

    by Geoff Barton, Jo Shackleton ...
    This third edition of Grammar Survival brings the content fully up-to-date with the new National Curriculum and GCSEs, making it current and relevant for all secondary school English teachers.Grammar Survival for Secondary Teachers combines knowledge about grammar with pedagogical approaches. Each left-hand page sets out the knowledge teachers need about different aspects of grammar, incorporating ... Read more

    $61.82 CAD

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    Little Blighty on the Down: Series 1-5

    A BBC Radio 4 political comedy satire

    by Mark Burton, John O’Farrell, Mike Coleman ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Alistair McGowan, Michael Troughton, Jo Kendall, Andrew Sachs, Nick Hancock ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 34 min

    All five series of the political satirical soap opera set in the strangely familiar village of Little Blighty - plus Christmas Specials'A comic microcosm of a country not a million miles away' Radio TimesLittle Blighty is an idyllic part of the world, with a church, a market, a small school and a pub, The Cock and Bull. Village life is pretty uneventful, though the humdrum happenings include ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Race After Technology

    Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

    by Ruha Benjamin ...
    From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Positive Psychology: Theory, Research And Applications

    by Kate Hefferon, Ilona Boniwell ...
    This new textbook combines a breadth of information about positive psychology with reflective questions, critical commentary and up to date research. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Stand out of our Light

    Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

    by James Williams ...
    Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this 'attention economy', we ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Superminds

    The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

    by Thomas W. Malone ...
    From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together.If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent animals on our planet. But there's another kind of entity that can be far smarter: groups of people. In this ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Social Work Practice in Mental Health

    An Introduction

    by Robert Bland, Gabrielle Drake, John Drayton, Ann Tullgren ...
    This new edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health builds on the underpinning principles of the previous editions whilst reflecting how the context for practice has steadily evolved.Organised into two parts and 11 chapters, the book focuses on recovery theory, the importance of relationship and examining the social context and the consequences of illness. It explores the perspectives of ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • The Internet of Us

    Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

    by Michael P. Lynch ...
    "An intelligent book that struggles honestly with important questions: Is the net turning us into passive knowers? Is it degrading our ability to reason? What can we do about this?" —David Weinberger, Los Angeles Review of BooksWe used to say "seeing is believing"; now, googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world’s information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Your Computer Is on Fire

    Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip ...
    Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley-led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD