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  • The End of College Football

    On the Human Cost of an All-American Game

    by Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Derek Silva ...
    In this book, Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential challenge to one of America’s favorite pastimes: college football. Drawing on twenty-five in-depth interviews with former players from some of the country’s most prominent college football teams, Kalman-Lamb and Silva explore how football is both predicated on a foundation of coercion and suffused with racialized harm and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Gamification in Higher Education

    A How-To Instructional Guide

    by Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa ápi, Nathan Silva ...
    Gamification in Higher Education is a user-friendly text for anyone curious about gamification and how it increases student engagement.This book presents actual examples from gamified college courses, furnishing strategies and detailed plans for integrating gamification, regardless of the subject area, discipline, or modality. Moreover, the step-by-step how-to aspects of gamification that do not ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics

    The Past and Future of Political Access

    by Arshia Anwer, Rachel D. Davidson, Catherine A. Dobris, Katherine Hampsten, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Andre E. Johnson, Chandra A. Maldonado, Hinda Mandell, Marylou R. Naumoff, Richard D. Pineda, Rochelle Robertson0, Nathan Rousseau1, Elaine Schnabel2, Kumarini Silva3, Jonathan Smith4, Antonio de Velasco5, Dianna Watkins-Dickerson6, Diana Zulli7, Rebecca Kern-Stone8, Lori L. Montalbano9 ...
    Series series Media, Culture, and the Arts
    Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of Political Access explores the ways in which cultural expression is represented in American politics as it intersects with issues of gender, race, and the construction of social identity. Specifically, this body of work examines how representations in the media and larger culture can establish and diminish the status of ... Read more

    $52.59 CAD

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    An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

    by Frank Bruni ...
    Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years.Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Visual Thinking

    The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

    by Temple Grandin PhD ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Steve Silberman“An absolute eye-opener.” —Frans de WaalA landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkers**A quarter of a ... Read more

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  • Let Us Play

    Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes

    by Harrison Browne, Rachel Browne ...
    Series Book 13 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    **“Get your head out of your phone and stop doomscrolling. Read Let Us Play instead.”—Jay Onrait, sports anchor“A crucial playbook that athletes and nonathletes alike can use to help make sports an inclusive place for all.”—Meghan Duggan, 3-time Olympian and Olympic gold medalist, USA Women’s Hockey“Will shed light on the unique challenges trans athletes face.”—Chris Mosier, transgender athlete ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

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  • The End of Average

    How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness

    by Todd Rose ...
    In this ground-breaking book perfect for readers of The Power of Habit and Quiet, Harvard scientist Todd Rose shows how our one-size-fits-all world is actually one-size-fits-none.Each of us knows we’re different. We’re a little taller or shorter than the average, our salary is a bit higher or lower than the average, and we wonder about who it is that is buying the average-priced home. All around ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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  • Fair Play

    How Sports Shape the Gender Debates

    by Katie Barnes ...
    “[An] electrifying debut…Through in-depth and compassionate reporting, Barnes breaks down the misunderstood science surrounding sex and gender that has been used to keep cisgender women out of sports and has fueled debate over trans athletes participation in women’s sports.”—Shannon Carlin, TIMEmagazine, “100 Must-Read Books of 2023”For decades women have been playing competitive sports, thanks in ... Read more

    Was $21.99 CAD Now $16.99 CAD

  • The Glass Cage

    How Our Computers Are Changing Us

    by Nicholas Carr ...
    At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think about the tools you use every day.In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

  • Game Misconduct

    Hockey's Toxic Culture and How to Fix It

    by Evan F. Moore, Jashvina Shah ...
    A bracing call to arms for hockey fans, players, and coaches everywhere Those who have been lured by the the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world. It's all-consuming and exhilarating, boasting its own language and complex morality code. Yet in ... Read more

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  • No Slam Dunk

    Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change

    by Cheryl Cooky, Michela Musto, Lauren Rauscher, Marko Begovic, Carole Oglesby, Don Sabo, Marjorie Snyder, Suzel Bozada-Deas, Shari Dworkin, Ranissa Dycus, Faye Linda Wachs, Michael A. Messner ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal participation for young people, the far lower pay for most elite-level women athletes, and the continuing dearth of fair and equal media coverage all ... Read more

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  • The Efficiency Paradox

    What Big Data Can't Do

    by Edward Tenner ...
    A "skillful and lucid" (The Wall Street Journal) way of thinking about efficiency, challenging our obsession with it—and offering a new understanding of how to benefit from the powerful potential of serendipity.Algorithms, multitasking, the sharing economy, life hacks: our culture can't get enough of efficiency. One of the great promises of the Internet and big data revolutions is the idea that we ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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