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  • The Social Self and Everyday Life

    Understanding the World Through Symbolic Interactionism

    by Kathy Charmaz, Leslie Irvine, Scott R. Harris ...
    An engaging text that enables readers to understand the world through symbolic interactionismThis lively and accessible book offers an introduction to sociological social psychology through the lens of symbolic interactionism. It provides students with an accessible understanding of this perspective to illuminate their worlds and deepen their knowledge of other people’s lives, as well as their own ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Filling the Ark

    Animal Welfare in Disasters

    by Leslie Irvine ...
    Series series Animals and Ethics
    When disasters strike, people are not the only victims. Hurricane Katrina raised public attention about how disasters affect dogs, cats, and other animals considered members of the human family. In this short but powerful book, noted sociologist Leslie Irvine goes beyond Katrina to examine how disasters like oil spills, fires, and other calamities affect various animal populations—on factory farms ... Read more

    $34.69 CAD

  • If You Tame Me

    Understanding Our Connection With Animals

    by Leslie Irvine ...
    Series series Animals Culture And Society
    Nearly everyone who cares about them believes that dogs and cats have a sense of self that renders them unique. Traditional science and philosophy declare such notions about our pets to be irrational and anthropomorphic. Animals, they say, have only the crudest form of thought and no sense of self at all. Leslie Irvine's If You Tame Me challenges these entrenched views by demonstrating that our ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Regarding Animals

    by Arnold Arluke, Clinton Sanders, Leslie Irvine ...
    Series series Animals Culture And Society
    Winner of the Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1997The first edition of Regarding Animals provided insight into the history and practice of how human beings construct animals, and how we construct ourselves and others in relation to them. Considerable progress in how society regards animals has occurred since that time. However, shelters continue to ... Read more

    $35.49 CAD

  • All Creatures Safe and Sound

    The Social Landscape of Pets in Disasters

    by Sarah E. DeYoung, Ashley K. Farmer ...
    Some of the most striking news stories from natural disasters are of animals tied to trees or cats swimming through murky flood waters. Although the issue of evacuating pets has gained more attention in recent disasters, there are still many failures throughout local and national systems of managing pets and accommodating animals in emergencies.All Creatures Safe and Sound is a comprehensive study ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Translational Criminology and Counterterrorism

    Global Threats and Local Responses

    by Leslie W. Kennedy, Yasemin Irvin-Erickson, Alexis R. Kennedy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This brief focuses on translational criminology practices as they relate to counter-terrorism and homeland security. The work provides a detailed and practical examination of how global threats (such as, terrorism and cybercrime) are managed through local response. It covers emerging strategies in data collection procedures, inter-agency cooperation, and new analytical techniques including risk ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • Messy

    The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

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    **“Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world.” —Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take“Engrossing.” —New York TimesFrom the award-winning columnist and author of the national bestseller The Undercover Economist comes a provocative big idea book about the genuine benefits ... Read more

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  • Black Code

    Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet

    by Ronald J. Deibert ...
    In 2009, a group of digital technology experts at the Citizen Lab uncovered an espionage network affecting more than 100 countries and targeting ministries of foreign affairs, embassies, international organizations, and media outlets. The investigation was but one example of a contest for the future of cyberspace that was becoming more intense with each passing year. Drawing on the first-hand ... Read more

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  • On Freedom

    Four Songs of Care and Constraint

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom ... Read more

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  • The Human Factor

    Revolutionizing the Way We Live with Technology

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    What links the frustrations of daily life, like VCR clocks and voicemail systems, to airplane crashes and a staggering “hidden epidemic” of medical error?Kim Vicente is a professor of human factors engineering at the University of Toronto and a consultant to NASA, Microsoft, Nortel Networks and many other organizations; he might also be described as a “technological anthropologist.” He spends his ... Read more

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    Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

    by Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen ...
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