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  • The Politics of Ailment

    A New Approach to Care

    by Minna Zechner, Lena Näre, Olli Karsio, Antero Olakivi, Liina Sointu, Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania, Tiina Vaittinen ...
    Deficiencies in old age care are some of the most pressing human rights concerns in mature welfare states.This book radically challenges the ethics of viewing care as a tradeable commodity and introduces a novel framework for understanding and analysing social care through the concept of ailment. Providing examples from the British and Finnish welfare states, it demonstrates how ailment shapes ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Issues in Social Work Education

    Edited by Minna Zechner ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    This book serves as a compact resource for social work teaching at a time when new ways to understand the world and the people who live in it are continuously needed for social work professionals to be able to fulfill the task of social work. This task is to promote social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people.The scope of the book offers new ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Thresholds, Encounters

    Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology

    Edited by Kristina Mendicino, Dominik Zechner ...
    Series series SUNY series, Literature...in Theory
    Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.Paul Celan's works dwell on the threshold between the extremes of poetic expression and philosophical reflection. The divergent literary and critical idioms that have marked Celan's writing-and that Celan's writing has come to mark for others (Hamacher, Derrida, Szondi)-thus call for a new ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Forces of Education

    Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy

    Edited by Dennis Johannßen, Dominik Zechner ...
    Series series Walter Benjamin Studies
    Bringing Walter Benjamin into dialogue with the urgent issues facing educational institutions today, this is the first comprehensive exploration of his philosophy of education and pedagogy.In recent years, problems concerning the practice of education have become central to the critical discourse in the humanities: from debates regarding “deplatforming” and the redefinition of free speech on ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Distance, Equity and Older People’s Experiences in the Nordic Periphery

    Centering the Local

    Edited by Shahnaj Begum, Joan R. Harbison, Päivi Naskali, Minna Zechner ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Polar Regions
    This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs and wishes in diverse surroundings in the Northern periphery and beyond.It asks how physical, social and emotional distances shape older people’s everyday lives and practices. Contributions from ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology 158

    Edited by S.G. Amara, E. Bamberg, B. Fleischmann, T. Gudermann, S.C. Hebert, R. Jahn, R. Lill, A. Miyajima, S. Offermanns, R. Zechner, William J. Lederer ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Contents E.I. Christensen and R. Nielsen: Role of Megalin and Cubilin in Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology G. Zifarelli and M. Pusch: CLC Chloride Channels and Transporters: A Biophysical and Physiological Perspective S.F.J. van de Graaf, R.J.M. Bindels and J.G.J. Hoenderop: Physiology of Epithelial Ca2 and Mg2+ Transport ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Automated Speaking Assessment

    Using Language Technologies to Score Spontaneous Speech

    Edited by Klaus Zechner, Keelan Evanini ...
    Series series Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment at ETS
    Automated Speaking Assessment: Using Language Technologies to Score Spontaneous Speech provides a thorough overview of state-of-the-art automated speech scoring technology as it is currently used at Educational Testing Service (ETS). Its main focus is related to the automated scoring of spontaneous speech elicited by TOEFL iBT Speaking section items, but other applications of speech scoring, such ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema

    Precarious Identities

    Edited by Anke Zechner, Bettina Wahrig, Heike Klippel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic. Poisons attract attention because they are both dangerous and hard to discover. Secretive and invisible, they are a challenging object of representation. How do science studies, literature, and especially film—the medium of the visible—explain and show what is hidden? How can ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • The Plot is on Fire

    Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy

    by Manuela Zechner ...
    ‘A guerrilla handbook indispensable in these times’ Stefano Harney, Professor, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, co-author of All Incomplete‘This book asks the right questions at the right moment in the history of modern agriculture and land struggles. It will nourish the heart and mind’ Stefania Barca, author of Workers of the Earth‘In times of ongoing ecocide and genocide, this combative manifesto ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beginning Android Games Development

    From Beginner to Pro

    by Ted Hagos, Mario Zechner, J.F. DiMarzio, Robert Green ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Do you have an awesome idea for the next break-through mobile gaming title? This updated edition will help you kick-start your project as it guides you through the process of creating several example game apps using APIs available in Android.You will learn the basics needed to join the ranks of successful Android game app developers. the book starts with game design fundamentals using Canvas and ... Read more

    $75.49 CAD

  • The Violence of Reading

    Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain

    by Dominik Zechner ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain expounds the scene of reading as one that produces an overwhelmed body exposed to uncontainable forms of violence. The book argues that the act of reading induces a representational instability that causes the referential function of language to collapse. This breakdown releases a type of “linguistic pain” (Scarry; Butler; ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Beginning Android Games

    by Mario Zechner, J. F. DiMarzio, Robert Green ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Learn all of the basics needed to join the ranks of successful Android game developers. You'll start with game design fundamentals and Android programming basics, and then progress toward creating your own basic game engine and playable game apps that work on Android smartphones and tablets. Beginning Android Games, Third Edition gives you everything you need to branch out and write your own ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD