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How to Tackle Poverty with Co-Produced Activism

Knowledge from Lived Experience

by Lynne Ball, Alimany Bangura, Ibrahim Bangura, Christopher Burns, Amanda Button, Eva Carillo Roas, Robert Chigangaidze, David Coffin, Aleks Collingwoood, Niall Cooper, Thomas Croft, Sam Crowe, Helen Davies, Corrina Eastwood, Dylan Eastwood, Beyene Rahwa Gebretatios, Andrew Grinnel, Lara Groves, Sarah Haydon, Justina Hefton, Martin Johnstone, Tracy Knight, Rachel Krengel, Melanie Lock, Amy Marsdon, Thomas Mayes, Maria McCauley, Helena McDonald, Valerie McKie, Gráinne McMahon, Ryan McMurdo, Carrie-Anne Mizen, Caroline Mockford, Rhetta Ann Moran, Kirsten Nott, Rebecca Nunes, Funmilayo Olaniyan, Philip Parkes, Annon Pedro, Steven Porter, Kartik Raj, Jill Salt, Brian Scott, Erin Simmons, Steven Tamblin, Kidi Teklemariam, Nadine Travers, Emma Wincup, Joanna Young ...

Can we truly address poverty without centring the voices of those who live it? Bringing together voices from academia, grassroots activism, NGOs and the UK voluntary sector, this timely and accessible book explores how participatory approaches to activism can drive genuine, inclusive change.Through short, focused chapters, the authors critically unpack the contested definitions of ‘co-production’, ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

Can we truly address poverty without centring the voices of those who live it? Bringing together voices from academia, grassroots activism, NGOs and the UK voluntary sector, this timely and accessible book explores how participatory approaches to activism can drive genuine, inclusive change.Through short, focused chapters, the authors critically unpack the contested definitions of ‘co-production’,
... Read more
Social Experiences of Breastfeeding

Building Bridges between Research, Policy and Practice

by Emma Laird, Elizabeth Mayo, Nicki Symes, Maia Boswell-Penc, Alison Bartlett, Fiona Giles, Melanie Fraser, Geraldine Lucas, Abigail Locke, Amy Brown, Cecilia Tomori, Louise Condon, Sally Tedstone, Sally Johnson, Lucila Newell, Lisa Smyth, Dawn Leeming, Fiona Dykes ...

This book brings together international academics, policy makers and practitioners to build bridges between the real-world and scholarship on breastfeeding.It asks the question: How can the latest social science research into breastfeeding be used to improve support at both policy and practice level, in order to help women breastfeed and to breastfeed for longer?The edited collection includes ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

This book brings together international academics, policy makers and practitioners to build bridges between the real-world and scholarship on breastfeeding.It asks the question: How can the latest social science research into breastfeeding be used to improve support at both policy and practice level, in order to help women breastfeed and to breastfeed for longer?The edited collection includes
... Read more
Multi-Species Dementia Studies

Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach

by Ann Madeline Toohey, David B. Hogan, Stuart Woods, Anne Crilly, Gail Davies, Richard Gorman, Richard Milne, Elizabeth Peel, Jennifer Hewson, Jayne Beselt, Damien Riggs, Lorena Sordo, Anne Rankin, Vanessa Ashall, Melanie Rock, Nik Taylor, Fiona L. Henriquez ...

Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Responding to the global dementia challenge, however, affects more than humans alone. We live in a multi-species world but often think about dementia in mono-species ways. From the lab to the living room, other beings are “on the scene” and our relations with them affect how we understand, experience, and respond to ... Read more

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Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Responding to the global dementia challenge, however, affects more than humans alone. We live in a multi-species world but often think about dementia in mono-species ways. From the lab to the living room, other beings are “on the scene” and our relations with them affect how we understand, experience, and respond to
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Words Over War

Mediation and Arbitration to Prevent Deadly Conflict

by William J. Bien, Alan Hanson, Arthur Khachikian, Kevin King, Mark Laudy, Tali Levy, Barbara Messing, Joel Stettenheim, Rock Tang, Erika Weinthal, Peter Bouckaert ...

Series series Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
The international community can creatively and aggressively address deadly conflict through mediation, arbitration, and the development of international institutions to promote reconciliation. The editors of this book designed a systematic framework with which contributors compare third party intervention in twelve conflicts of the postDCold War period. They examine the role of international ... Read more

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The international community can creatively and aggressively address deadly conflict through mediation, arbitration, and the development of international institutions to promote reconciliation. The editors of this book designed a systematic framework with which contributors compare third party intervention in twelve conflicts of the postDCold War period. They examine the role of international
... Read more
Values and Valuables

From the Sacred to the Symbolic

by Maurice Godelier, James A. Egan, Françoise Dussart, Colin Danby, Georgia L. Fox, Mahir Saul, Beth E. Notar, Lynne Milgram, Kathleen Pickering, David Mushinski, Eric J. Arnould, Carolyn Folkman Curasi, Linda L. Price, Jim Weil, Brian Moeran, Melanie Rock ...

Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
In this exciting new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell bring together a group of distinguished anthropologists and economists to discuss the complex ways in which different cultures imbue material objects with symbolic qualities whose value cannot be reduced to material or monetary equivalents. Objects with sacred or symbolic qualities are valued ... Read more

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In this exciting new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell bring together a group of distinguished anthropologists and economists to discuss the complex ways in which different cultures imbue material objects with symbolic qualities whose value cannot be reduced to material or monetary equivalents. Objects with sacred or symbolic qualities are valued
... Read more

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping (Third Edition)

by Robert M. Sapolsky ...

"Robert M. Sapolsky is one of the best science writers of our time."—Oliver SacksThe author of New York Times Bestseller Determined offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with over 225,000 copies in print.Now in a third edition, the renowned primatologist Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras... ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

"Robert M. Sapolsky is one of the best science writers of our time."—Oliver SacksThe author of New York Times Bestseller Determined offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with over 225,000 copies in print.Now in a third edition, the renowned primatologist Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras...
... Read more
World on Fire

How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

by Amy Chua ...

The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting ... Read more

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The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting
... Read more
The Emperor's New Drugs Brain Shot

by Irving Kirsch PhD ...

Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch knew this as well as anyone. But, as he discovered during his research, there is a problem with what everyone knows about antidepressant drugs. It isn't true.This is not a book about alternative medicine and its outlandish claims. This is a book about fantasy and wishful thinking in the heart of ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch knew this as well as anyone. But, as he discovered during his research, there is a problem with what everyone knows about antidepressant drugs. It isn't true.This is not a book about alternative medicine and its outlandish claims. This is a book about fantasy and wishful thinking in the heart of
... Read more
Governing the Commons

The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

by Elinor Ostrom ...

Series series Canto Classics
The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor
... Read more
Depression

A Very Short Introduction

by Mary Jane Tacchi, Jan Scott ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
What is depression? What is bipolar disorder? How are they diagnosed and how are they treated? Can a small child be diagnosed with depression and treated with antidepressants - and should they be? Covering depression, manic depression, and bipolar disorder, this Very Short Introduction gives a brief account of the history of these concepts, before focussing on the descriptions and understanding of ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

What is depression? What is bipolar disorder? How are they diagnosed and how are they treated? Can a small child be diagnosed with depression and treated with antidepressants - and should they be? Covering depression, manic depression, and bipolar disorder, this Very Short Introduction gives a brief account of the history of these concepts, before focussing on the descriptions and understanding of
... Read more
Medical Nihilism

by Jacob Stegenga ...

This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low. ... Read more

$26.39 CAD

This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low.
... Read more
The China Fantasy

Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China

by James Mann ...

**The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans"[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country, and its success would encourage other authoritarian regimes to resist pressures to change . . . Mann’s prediction ... Read more

$7.99 CAD

**The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans"[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country, and its success would encourage other authoritarian regimes to resist pressures to change . . . Mann’s prediction
... Read more

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