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  • Monstrous Youth

    Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States

    by Sara Austin ...
    Winner, 2024 Children’s Literature Association Book Award The monstrous has a long, complicated history within children’s popular media. In Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States, Sara Austin traces the evolution of monstrosity as it relates to youth culture from the 1950s to the present day to spotlight the symbiotic relationship between monstrosity and ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • Global Children’s Literature in the College Classroom

    by Sara Austin, Tanja Nathanael, Debalina Banerjee, Danilo M. Baylen, Johann Frederick A. Cabbab, Hung-Shu Chen, Deanna Day, Stephen Dudas, Erika Haber0, Christa Catherine Jones1, Emily Murphy2, Mary Napoli3, Audrey Isabel Taylor4, Maria Truglio5, Sara Van den Bossche6, Jean Webb7, Yasemin Yilmaz Yüksek8 ...
    Global Children's Literature in the College Classroom explores the importance of children's literature as a pedagogical resource in any college course. It can be used to introduce a complex topic, give students a glimpse into a specific culture, or expand the way students think about education and teaching. Global children's literature is particularly useful in language classrooms, education ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books

    Edited by Jennifer Miller, Sara Austin ...
    Series series Children's Literature Association Series
    Contributions by Sara Austin, Rob Bittner, J. Bradley Blankenship, Gabriel Duckels, Caitlin Howlett, Isabel Millán, Jennifer Miller, Kaylee Jangula Mootz, Tim Morris, Dana Rudolph, j wallace skelton, Jason Vanfosson, River Vooris, and B. J. WoodsteinPicture books are books aimed at children where the illustrations are as important, or more important, than the text. Picture books, the effects of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Arcana of Reproduction

    Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital

    by Leopoldina Fortunati ...
    Translated by Sara Colantuono, Arlen Austin ...
    The definitive feminist analysis of reproductive and ‘caring’ labor to emerge from Italian feminism of the 1970sEmerging from the great social upheavals that contested the sexual and racial divisions of labor globally in the 1970s, Leopoldina Fortunati’s classic work expands and transforms how we analyze the sphere of reproduction, redefining the value of the individual’s life and the labor ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Profane Altars: Weird Sword & Sorcery

    by Sam Richard, Charles Austin Muir, Matthew Mitchell, Sara Century, Adam Smith, Emma Alice Johnson, Edwin Callihan ...
    In the spirit of Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, Karl Edward Wagner, and films like Conquest and Fire & Ice comes Profane Altars: Weird Sword and Sorcery. Underground horror authors Emma Alice Johnson, Matthew Mitchell, Adam Smith, Sara Century, Charles Austin Muir, Edwin Callihan, and editor Sam Richard conjure forth visions of the unknowable and ancient past. One of spider gods, aging warriors, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between

    Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media

    by Fatima Q. Al Hattami, Sara Austin, Thomas J Billard, Nancy Bressler, Claire Burdfield, Chrys Egan, Rebecca Feasey, Susan G. Kahlenberg, Brian L. MacAuley, Jennifer Miller, Jerralyn R. R. Moudry0, Annick Pellegrin1, Christopher J. Olson2, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard4, Richard J. Schaefer6, Heike Steinhoff7 ...
    Current characters in children’s entertainment media illustrate a growing trend of representations that challenge or subvert traditional notions of gender and sexuality. From films to picture books to animated television series, children’s entertainment media around the world has consistently depicted stereotypically traditional gender roles and heterosexual relationships as the normal way that ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • Black Landscapes Matter

    by Walter Hood, Grace Mitchell Tada, Richard L. Hindle, Professor Louise Mozingo, MLA, Anna Livia Brand, Kofi Boone, Maurice Cox, Austin Allen, Lewis Watts, Sara Daleiden ...
    The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated cities, from freedman villages to northern migrations for freedom, the nation’s landscape bears the detritus of diverse origins. Black landscapes matter because they tell the truth. In this vital new collection, acclaimed landscape designer and public ... Read more

    $44.59 CAD

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  • Criminology Goes to the Movies

    Crime Theory and Popular Culture

    by Nicole Rafter, Michelle Brown ...
    A "deftly written and absorbing" look at how films reflect concepts in criminology and affect our perceptions of criminal behavior (Richard Rosenfeld, coauthor of Crime and the American Dream).From Psycho to Double Indemnity to Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy through scholarly research, but also in popular ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conceptualizing Capitalism

    Institutions, Evolution, Future

    by Geoffrey M. Hodgson ...
    "Erudite and thought-provoking. . . . a stimulating, historically grounded exploration of the subject . . . rewarding." — Financial TimesA few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence?With Conceptualizing Capitalism, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tsumiko and the Enslaved Fox

    by FORTHRIGHT ...
    Series Book 1 - Amaranthine Saga
    Tsumiko inherits an ancestral home, a vast fortune, and a butler who isn’t exactly human.Humanity is rocked by the Emergence of a people who call themselves the Amaranthine. They are our myths and legends come to life. Neither human nor animal, yet embracing qualities of both, the inhuman races inspire both awe and fear. Every newsfeed is clogged with updates about the peace process, but some ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • A Thousand Steps into Night

    by Traci Chee ...
    Longlisted for the National Book AwardFrom bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a fantasy perfect for fans of Studio Ghibli. When a girl who’s never longed for adventure is hit with a curse that begins to transform her into a demon, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life, but along the way is forced to confront her true power within.In the realm ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Pop Culture Freaks

    Identity, Mass Media, and Society

    by Dustin Kidd ...
    Utilizing each chapter to present core topical and timely examples, Pop Culture Freaks highlights the tension between inclusion and individuality that lies beneath mass media and commercial culture, using this tension as a point of entry to an otherwise expansive topic. He systematically considers several dimensions of identity—race, class, gender, sexuality, disability—to provide a broad overview ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD