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  • Other Americans

    The Art of Latin America in the US Imaginary

    by Matthew Bush ...
    Series series Illuminations
    Grounded in perspectives of affect theory, Other Americans examines the writings of Roberto Bolaño and Daniel Alarcón; films by Alfonso Cuarón, Claudia Llosa, Matt Piedmont, and Joel and Ethan Coen; as well as the Netflix serials Narcos and El marginal. These widely consumed works about Latin America—equally balanced between narratives produced in the United States and in the region itself—are ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Pragmatic Passions: Melodrama and Latin American Social Narrative

    by Matthew Bush ...
    Series Book 74 - Ediciones de Iberoamericana
    From the era of the wars for independence onward, the emotionally heightened and ethically charged theatrics of melodrama have played a substantial role in the framing of Latin American fictional narrative. Over that same time period, melodramatic reasoning has influenced the critical models through which the countries of the region conceive their respective histories and political landscapes. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Security of Self

    A Human-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity

    by Amarnath Amarasingam, Professor Jane Bailey, Jacquelyn Burkell, Matthew Bush, Pascale-Marie Cantin, Benoît Dupont, Sébastien Gambs, Nick Gertler, Akim Laniel-Lanani, Jordan Loewen-Colón, Atefeh Mashatan, Fenwick McKelvey, Alex Megelas, Adam Molnar, Sharday Mosurinjohn, Jonathon W. Penney, Fyscillia Ream, Teresa Scassa, Full Professor; Canada Research Chair, Chris Tenove, Kristen Thomasen, Heidi Tworek ...
    Series series Law, Technology, and Media
    Cybersecurity is a powerful concept often examined through the lens of national security and organizational risks. It however demands a deeper understanding to empower our societies—and ourselves—to thrive in the digital context.This edited collection explores a new approach to human-centric cybersecurity: the security of self. It invites a paradigm shift where cybersecurity’s core purpose is to ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America

    Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era

    Edited by Matthew Bush, Tania Gentic ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Grappling with the contemporary Latin American literary climate and its relationship to the pervasive technologies that shape global society, this bookvisits Latin American literature, technology, and digital culture from the post-boom era to the present day. The volume examines literature in dialogue with the newest media, including videogames, blogs, electronic literature, and social networking ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Contested State

    The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency during the Asian Financial Crisis

    by Matthew A Busch ...
    In 1998, during the cataclysmic Asian Financial Crisis, the hastily established Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) was tasked to implement what became the largest banking sector intervention in history. A misunderstood and often forgotten agency, during its brief existence the IBRA became responsible for assets estimated to be worth more than half of Indonesia’s GDP.Twenty years after its ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Evidence-Informed Wisdom

    Making Better Decisions in Education

    by Bradley Busch, Edward Watson, Matthew Shaw ...
    Series series The Teacher CPD Academy
    How did the Allies use statistical analysis to reduce the number of plane crashes in WWII? What colour stands out the most if you want to grab someone’s attention? And what happens if you tell children that Santa isn’t real?This new book from the bestselling authors of The Science of Learning and Teaching & Learning Illuminated answers these questions and more as a way to finding out how can we ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Extended Mind

    The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

    by Annie Murphy Paul ...
    **A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A New York Times Notable BookA bold new book reveals how we can tap the intelligence that exists beyond our brains—in our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationships**Use your head.That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Viva la historieta

    Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization

    by Bruce Campbell ...
    ¡Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on graphic narratives produced by and for Mexicans in the period following the 1994 implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an economic accord that institutionalized the free ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Visible Learning and the Science of How we Learn

    by John Hattie, Gregory C. R. Yates ...
    On publication in 2009 John Hattie’s Visible Learning presented the biggest ever collection of research into what actually work in schools to improve children’s learning. Not what was fashionable, not what political and educational vested interests wanted to champion, but what actually produced the best results in terms of improving learning and educational outcomes. It became an instant ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Cosmopolitanisms

    by Bruce Robbins, Paulo Lemos Horta, Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world."Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beat Depression with Self-Help Techniques

    by Andrew Vass ...
    Facing difficult situations is part of our everyday lives, but we can easily feel overwhelmed and become drawn into a depressive state. However, this book illustrates that, by using a range of self-counselling techniques to explore our inner world of thoughts and feelings, it is possible to overcome our problems and move on.Through a logical sequence of chapters, each containing a series of tasks, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Singular and Plural

    Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia

    by Kathryn A. Woolard ...
    Series series Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
    Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD