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  • Odds and Ends

    by Maija Hurme ...
    Translated by Mia Spangenberg ...
    In this charming translated work from Finland, an imaginative child makes a scrapbook of "lasts" instead of "firsts," inviting readers to reflect on what they hold onto and save.Some people collect pens, shells, or stamps. Others collect friends, trips, or world records. This picture book shares one girl’s unusual collection: a collection of lasts.With a feel for the poignant, the bittersweet, and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Justice Innovation in Africa

    Edited by Viljam Engström, Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Laura Stark ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Development
    Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book discusses the potential of social innovation in the pursuit of social justice in Africa. In the twenty-first century, social innovation and entrepreneurship have attracted renewed attention as a way of promoting social justice and addressing challenges of poverty and inequality.Drawing on perspectives from human rights, economics, business, ... Read more

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  • Democracy and the Future

    Edited by Michael K. MacKenzie, Maija Setala, Simo P Kyllonen ...
    This book brings together political philosophers, democratic theorists, empirical political scientists and policy experts to examine how democratic systems might be designed so that the long-term consequences of our decisions are considered in policymaking processes. It examines these topics from many different perspectives - it is interdisciplinary and globally oriented - but it also explores ... Read more

    $132.99 CAD

  • Human Rights-Based Change

    The Institutionalisation of Economic and Social Rights

    Edited by Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Hans-Otto Sano ...
    This book provides different analytical perspectives into how human rights-based approaches to development (HRBADs) contribute to change. Based on the understanding that HRBADs are increasingly integrated into development and governance discourse and processes in many societies and organisations, it explores how the reinforcement of human rights principles and norms has impacted the practices and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Rescaling Sustainability Transitions

    Unfolding the Spatialities of Power Relations, Governance Arrangements, and Socio-Economic Systems

    Edited by Maija Halonen, Moritz Albrecht, Irene Kuhmonen ...
    This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. The societal changes induced by sustainability transitions are expected to assemble as a variegated and heterogeneous process reproduced by different spatial contexts and scales. Hence, the ... Read more

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    Dammed

    The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory

    by Brittany Luby ...
    Narrated by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 39 min

    Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River.Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler populations. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A Painter in Paradise

    Edited by Anna Maija ...
    He came to Paris to become a famous Painter, but he got way more than he could ever bargain for.Walking Among Giants is an epic love story that crosses oceans and time capturing the history of the modern art era, Jazz, flappers, and wild all- night parties witnessed through the memoirs of a young painter in the 1920’s. Artist Robert Tauney was always a dreamer. After serving in the Great War, He ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Neither Fish nor Fowl: Educational Broadcasting in Sweden 1930-2000

    Edited by Maija Runcis, Bengt Sandin ...
    Educational media has been a contested arena in the creation and communication of the Swedish welfare system – it was an important instrument of modernization. In Neither Fish nor Fowl historians Bengt Sandin and Maija Runcis have a close look on how the educational broadcasting was negotiated between government agencies, public inquiries, political and professional interests.The state authorities ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Development of Eco-Phenomenology as An Interpretative Paradigm of The Living World

    Applications in Pandemic Times

    Edited by Daniela Verducci, Maija Kūle ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume presents eco-phenomenology’s role in pandemics and post-pandemics and takes up the task of eco-phenomenology as a unified project by not focusing on naturalizing phenomenology but rather exploring the full range of possibilities - such as creative acts and self-individualization – in dealing with ecological threats. Eco-phenomenological developments are based on the main concepts of ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Values Education in Early Childhood Settings

    Concepts, Approaches and Practices

    Edited by Eva Johansson, Anette Emilson, Anna-Maija Puroila ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is about values education in early years settings and discusses theory and concepts, as well as methodological and empirical perspectives. It explores issues such as the kinds of values that are communicated between educators and children and the kind of future citizens we foster in early childhood settings. It illustrates by way of cases involving many participants, including children, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context

    Discourse, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Päivi Siivonen, Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret, Michael Tomlinson, Maija Korhonen, Nina Haltia ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book offers critical, multidisciplinary analyses on graduate employability. The book examines employability at the macro, meso and micro levels: higher education policy, the labour market, higher education institutions, organisations, individuals and social groups, in European, North American and Australian contexts. The contributors provide social and contextual analysis of ... Read more

    Free

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe

    Edited by Anna-Maija Castrén, Vida Česnuitytė, Isabella Crespi, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Rita Gouveia, Claude Martin, Almudena Moreno Mínguez, Katarzyna Suwada ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main theoretical and methodological approaches in addition to issues such as families as relationships, parental arrangements, parenting ... Read more

    $306.99 CAD