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  • Beyond Difficult

    An attachment-based guide to dealing with challenging people

    by Rachel Samson, Jessie Stern ...
    Do you sometimes dread work because you don't want to face more drama with your co-worker? Have you spent significant time and money on therapy trying to work on painful romantic relationships that ultimately became messy break-ups? Do you ever walk away from an unpleasant conversation wishing you had known how to handle it better in the moment? This book is for you.Australian clinical ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Environmental Litigation in China

    A Study in Political Ambivalence

    by Rachel E. Stern ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for pollution in contemporary China. In a country known for tight political control and ineffectual courts, Environmental Litigation in China unravels how everyday justice works: how judges make decisions, why lawyers take cases, and how international influence matters. It is a readable account of how the leadership's mixed signals and ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Beyond Difficult

    by Jessie Stern, Rachel Samson ...
    Narrated by Sumara Meers ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    An attachment-based guide to dealing with challenging peopleDo you sometimes dread work because you don't want to face more drama with your co-worker? Have you spent significant time and money on therapy trying to work on painful romantic relationships that ultimately became messy break-ups? Do you ever walk away from an unpleasant conversation wishing you had known how to handle it better in the ... Read more

    $23.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure

    by Elyshia Aseltine, Nick Bliven, Laura L. Ellingson, Megan Alyssa Fletcher, Michaela Frischherz, Patricia Geist-Martin, Stacie Meihaus Jankowski, Sarah E. Jones, Jessica M. W. Kratzer, Savannah J. Lambie0, Melanie Bailey Mills1, Michaela D.E. Meyer2, Alana M. Nicastro3, Dakota Pannebecker4, Jennifer Potter5, Desirée D. Rowe6, Patty Sotirin8, Rachel E. Silverman9, Danielle M. Stern0, Crystal Stone1, Michael Tristano2, Skyler M. Tolzien-Orr3 ...
    The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure brings together a variety of scholars and research across disciplines, with an emphasis on communication and gender studies, to work toward reimagining the idea of failure. Contributors consider failure as both a space for growth and repair and as a space from which hope can emerge. The collection is divided into five parts, investigating failure ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Welcoming the Stranger

    Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications

    by Ori Z Soltes, Rachel Stern, Lindsay Balfour, Thomas Massaro, Craig Mousin, Carol Prendergast, Zeki Saritotprak, Mimi E. Tsankov0, Mohsin Mohi-Ud-Din1 ...
    Embracing hospitality and inclusion in Abrahamic traditionsOne of the signal moments in the narrative of the biblical Abraham is his insistent and enthusiastic reception of three strangers, a starting point of inspiration for all three Abrahamic traditions as they evolve and develop the details of their respective teachings. On the one hand, welcoming the stranger by remembering “that you were ... Read more

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  • Popular Protest in China

    by Yongshun Cai, Xi Chen, Feng Chen, William Hurst, Elizabeth J. Perry, Rachel Stern, Yanfei Sun, Sidney Tarrow, Patricia M. Thornton, Carsten Vala, Teresa Wright, Guobin Yang, Dingxin Zhao ...
    Series Book 15 - Harvard Contemporary China Series
    Do our ideas about social movements travel successfully beyond the democratic West? Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to explore this question and to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. The contributors to this volume, all prominent scholars of Chinese politics and ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Address Book

    by Cheryl Ellen Stern, LCSW ...
    Narrated by Rachel Sloane ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 17 min

    Address Book is a rare glimpse into a present-day crisis and an intimate coming-of-age story set in a Jewish family in New York during the 1960s and 1970s. It invites readers to reflect on how earlier experiences shape the way they respond to illness, loss, and uncertainty, and how making meaning of those experiences can help move beyond coping and toward connection and healing. Transgenerational ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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    Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
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  • Contemporary China

    Society and Social Change

    by Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson, Andrew B. Kipnis ...
    China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ... Read more

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  • Knowing China

    A Twenty-First Century Guide

    by Frank N. Pieke ...
    Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, ... Read more

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  • Civil Society under Authoritarianism

    The China Model

    by Jessica C. Teets ...
    Despite the dominant narrative of the repression of civil society in China, Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model argues that interactions between local officials and civil society facilitate a learning process, whereby each actor learns about the intentions and work processes of the other. Over the past two decades, often facilitated by foreign donors and problems within the ... Read more

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  • China and the New International Order

    Edited by Wang Gungwu, Zheng Yongnian ...
    Series series China Policy Series
    This book explores China's place in the ‘new international order’, from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China.It discusses how far the new international order, as outlined by George Bush in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Kuwait in the Gulf War, with its notions of ‘international order’, as viewed by the United States, and with ... Read more

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