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  • Michel Tournier

    by Michael Worton ...
    Series series Modern Literatures In Perspective
    This volume of essays brings together critical analysis and commentary on the literary work of Michel Tournier. ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • National Healths

    Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context

    Edited by Michael Worton, Wilson Tagoe ...
    In today's globalised world, it is increasingly important to understand the otherness of different societies and their beliefs, histories and practices. This book focuses on a burning cultural issue: how concepts and constructions of gender and sexuality impact upon health, medicine and healthcare. Starting from the premise that health is neither a universal nor a unitary concept, it offers a ... Read more

    $142.90 CAD

  • Liberating Learning

    by Patrick Derham, Michael Worton ...
    A case for liberating learningEnhancing students’ quality of life through education in the classroom and beyondThroughout the history of our civilisation, education has been seen by philosophers, national leaders and educators as essential for social cohesion and economic development. However, there is a tension between the (proper) interest of governments in ensuring that education prepares young ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yes, The Arabs Can Too

    by Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber, Michael Worton ...
    Much has been written about the role and presence of the Arabs in the world at the beginning of this millennium, and their ability to meet the challenges overwhelming our planet, bristling as it is with science, technology and latest lethal weapons. Now this new book by Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber penetrates to the heart of the Arab situation by a new route, hitherto uncharted. The author ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bittersweet on the Autism Spectrum

    by Becky Heaver, Michael Barton, Andrew Smith, Colin Newton, Dominic Walsh, Maggie, Debbie Allen, Sarah Galley, Gerard Wilkie, Eloise, Maurice Frank, Serena Shaw, Andy R, Natasha Goldthorpe, Barnabear ...
    In this rich and diverse collection, 28 writers describe what positive experiences they have had as an autistic person, and show how the most unexpected subject areas can be a source of the positive. They demonstrate that individuals can, and do, experience life in positive ways, sometimes in the face of adversity. Sharing both dark and joyful moments with unreserved honesty, their insights are ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    by Iris Murdoch ...
    Sartre's powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our time. Iris Murdoch's pioneering study analyses and evaluates the different strands of Sartre's rich and complex oeurve. Combining the objectivity of the scholar with a profound interest in contemporary problems, Iris Murdoch discusses the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Monaghan, Peter Just ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Dialogic Imagination

    Four Essays

    by M. M. Bakhtin ...
    Translated by Michael Holquist, Caryl Emerson ...
    These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

    by Adrienne Rich ...
    Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood.The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Understand Existentialism: Teach Yourself

    by Mel Thompson, Nigel Rodgers ...
    Understand Existentialism breaks down a complex mode of thought into more manageable sections, enabling you to get to grips with the key concepts within the movement. Chart the origins and development of existentialism in a variety of disciplines and learn about significant thinkers from Sartre and De Beauvoir to Beckett and Camus. Whether you are a newcomer or more experienced student, this book ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    What is anthropology? What can it tell us about culture and the world around us? And why do we need it?For well over one hundred years, social and cultural anthropologists have traversed the world from Melanesia to suburban England, Taipei to Wall Street, uncovering surprising facts, patterns, predilections and, sometimes, the inexplicable, in terms of how humans organize their lives and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • On Belief

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book.From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western Buddhism', On Belief gets behind the contours of the way we normally think about belief, in ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD