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  • 101 Awesome Women Who Changed Our World

    Illustrated by Louise Wright ...
    by Julia Adams ...
    Discover the lives of 101 trailblazing women and the remarkable things they achieved.This beautifully illustrated book is packed with bitesize biographies of activists, leaders, athletes, artists, explorers, and STEM innovators. From the celebrated to the overlooked, these women overcame odds, defied expectations and shattered stereotypes and their stories are sure to inspire young readers and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finding Balance:

    A Step-by-Step Guide for Busy Women to Prioritize Self-Care

    by Julia Adams ...
    Finding balance is a crucial aspect of leading a healthy and fulfilling life, especially for busy women who often juggle multiple responsibilities. Achieving balance involves identifying priorities and allocating time and energy accordingly. Self-care is an essential component of this process, as it enables women to prioritize their physical, emotional, and mental well-being.To start the process ... Read more

    $18.43 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How To Manage Your Life By Eating Right

    How to control your Appetite and live an abundant life

    by Julia Adams ...
    Introducing How to manage Your Life By Eating Right- How to control your Appetite and live an abundant life!Inside this book, you will discover the topics about why we face health problems today, the solution, what is an ideal diet, benefits of eating right, losing Weight by eating right, eating right is not the only thing, managing food, family and friends,your motivations for eating right, how ... Read more

    $12.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Affective Communities

    Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship

    by Leela Gandhi, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    “If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster’s epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the “friend” stands as a metaphor for dissident cross-cultural collaboration, holds the key, Leela Gandhi argues in Affective Communities, to the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Remaking Modernity

    Politics, History, and Sociology

    by George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity assesses the field’s past accomplishments and peers into the future, envisioning changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential of historical sociology to transform understandings of social and cultural change. The volume captures an exciting new conversation among historical sociologists that ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Art of the Network

    Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence

    by Paul D. McLean, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed study of political and social patronage in fifteenth-century Florence, Paul D. McLean shows that ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Colored Amazons

    Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910

    by Kali N. Gross, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women’s crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses of urban and penal reform. Most importantly, she considers what these crimes signified about the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Markets of Dispossession

    NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo

    by Julia Adams, George Steinmetz, Julia Elyachar ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the benefits of the market and access to the rewards of globalization. Markets of Dispossession is a ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Native Sons

    West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century

    by Gregory Mann, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the “new imperial history,” Gregory Mann argues that this shared military experience between France and Africa was fundamental not only to their ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Paper Families

    Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion

    by Estelle T. Lau, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made the Chinese the first immigrant group officially excluded from the United States. In Paper Families, Estelle T. Lau demonstrates how exclusion affected Chinese American communities and initiated the development of restrictive U.S. immigration policies and practices. Through the enforcement of the Exclusion Act and subsequent legislation, the U.S. immigration ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • German Women for Empire, 1884-1945

    by Lora Wildenthal, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same time, however, they found themselves excluded from what they saw as a great nationalistic endeavor. In German Women for Empire, 1884–1945 Lora Wildenthal untangles the varied strands of racism, feminism, and nationalism that thread through German women’s efforts to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Assassination of Theo van Gogh

    From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma

    by Ron Eyerman, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to his body. The murder set off a series of reactions, including arson against Muslim schools and mosques. In The Assassination of Theo van Gogh, Ron ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD