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  • Doubt: A History

    The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

    by Jennifer Michael Hecht ...
    "Hecht gleefully invites readers on a lively stroll through three millennia of clashes between believers and nonbelievers" ( Detroit Free Press )."Jennifer Hect's romp—lighthearted but serious—brings to life an awesome array of figures in philosophy, science, and literature, in a way that is wonderfully engaging." —Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States</p... ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stay

    A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

    by Jennifer Michael Hecht ...
    Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Wonder Paradox

    Awe, Poetry, and the Meaningful Life

    by Jennifer Michael Hecht ...
    The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry.Where do we find magic? Peace? Connection?We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, official archives to record legacies, the wisdom of sages read aloud, weekly, to map out the right way to live—in kindness, justice, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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    The Wonder Paradox

    Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives

    by Jennifer Michael Hecht ...
    Narrated by Gail Shalan ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 30 min

    Religion once formed the rhythms and structures of society: marking time with calendars, carving out space for contemplation, creating connection, reinforcing legacy and morality. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show. So where shall we find our magic? How do we celebrate milestones? Which texts can focus our attention but still offer space for inquiry, communion, and the chance to dwell ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Early Vascular Aging (EVA)

    New Directions in Cardiovascular Protection

    Edited by Pedro Guimarães Cunha, Pierre Boutouyrie, Michael Hecht Olsen, Peter M Nilsson, Stephane Laurent ...
    Early Vascular Aging (EVA): New Directions in Cardiovascular Protection, Second Edition continues to be the most comprehensive and authoritative resource on premature alterations in artery structure and function. The book presents a novel approach to the problem of cardiovascular disease, showing it in relation to great vessels disease and revealing a comprehensive approach to the problem of ... Read more

    $150.99 CAD

  • The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative

    The Power of Cross-Disciplinary Practice

    Edited by Graham Hubbs, Michael O'Rourke, Steven Hecht Orzack ...
    Cross-disciplinary scientific collaboration is emerging as standard operating procedure for many scholarly research enterprises. And yet, the skill set needed for effective collaboration is neither taught nor mentored. The goal of the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative is to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration. This book, inspired by this initiative, presents dialogue-based methods designed to ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Early Vascular Aging (EVA)

    New Directions in Cardiovascular Protection

    Edited by Michael Hecht Olsen, Peter M Nilsson, Stephane Laurent ...
    Early Vascular Aging (EVA): New Directions in Cardiovascular Protection brings together the last decade of research related to the characterization of EVA, as well as the predictive power of pulse wave velocity (PWV). The book presents a novel approach to the problem of cardiovascular disease, showing it in relation to great vessels disease and revealing a comprehensive approach to the problem of ... Read more

    $132.99 CAD

  • Communicating with Our Families

    Technology as Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation

    by Jessica Cherry, Paul Lucas, Christina L. McDowell Marinchak, Michelle Miller-Day, Tyrell Stewart-Harris, Rob Turrisi, Patty Wharton-Michael, Michael L. Hecht, Angela M. Hosek, Elizabeth B. Jones, Anne E. Ray0, Melissa Rizzo Weller1, Maryl R. McGinley3, Jill K. Burk5, Janie Harden Fritz6, Tiffany Petricini7, Anthony M. Wachs8, Joel S. Ward9 ...
    Communicating with Our Families: Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation examines how communication technologies are shaping childhood, parenthood, and families by exploring topics such as parental loneliness, family storytelling, family technology rules, mindful technology usage, multigenerational communication, and community. The scholars in this volume work from a human communication ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use

    by Michelle A. Miller-Day, Janet Alberts, Michael L. Hecht, Melanie R. Trost, Robert L. Krizek ...
    Series series LEA's Series on Personal Relationships
    Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use explores the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It focuses on peer norms, risk, and protective factors and considers how drugs are offered to adolescents, examining such factors as who makes the offers and how they are resisted, where the offers take place, and what relationship exists between the persons making the offers and the ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Redefining Culture

    Perspectives Across the Disciplines

    Edited by John R. Baldwin, Sandra L. Faulkner, Michael L. Hecht, Sheryl L. Lindsley ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Redefining Culture: Perspectives Across the Disciplines argues that culture is one of the most important factors we need to know when we interact as well as in our discussions of social problems and their solutions. This book picks up the dialogue where Kroeber and Kluckhohn left off in their classic 1952 collection and analysis of definitions of culture. As a resource for personal and academic ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • African American Communication

    Examining the Complexities of Lived Experiences

    by Ronald L. Jackson II, Amber L. Johnson, Michael L. Hecht, Sidney A. Ribeau ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Now in its third edition, this text examines how African Americans personally and culturally define themselves and how that definition informs their communication habits, practices, and norms.This edition includes new chapters that highlight discussions of gender and sexuality, intersectional differences, contemporary social movements, and digital and mediated communication.The book is ideally ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

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    The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age

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    The astonishing story of America's airwaves, the two friends—one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor—who made them available to us, and the government which figured out how to put a price on air.This is the origin story of the airwaves—the foundational technology of the communications age—as told through the forty-year friendship of an entrepreneurial industrialist and a brilliant inventor ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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