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  • Moveable Feasts

    From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat

    by Sarah Murray ...
    "A fascinating chronicle of mankind's efforts to move food throughout history" from the Financial Times contributor and author of Making an Exit ( The News & Observer).Today the average meal has traveled thousands of miles before reaching the dinner table. How on earth did this happen? Through delightful anecdotes and astonishing facts, Moveable Feasts tells the stories.Combining history, science, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Powered by Smart

    A Prehistory of Everyday AI

    by Sarah Murray ...
    Series series Critical Cultural Communication
    A critical feminist history of the techno-cultural evolutions that make AI possiblePowered by Smart traces the techno-cultural evolutions that made artificial intelligence feel more familiar than futuristic. From wearables and streaming platforms to home voice assistants and AI toasters, smart is an inescapable feature of postdigital life. Today, thousands of products and platforms define smart as ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Heavy Metals

    Bronze, Iron, and Early Greek Society

    by Sarah C. Murray ...
    Study of the Late Bronze to Early Iron Age transition in the Aegean has bloomed since the 1980s. Heavy Metals adds to the increasingly rich intellectual milieu of work on this topic by reassessing an often overlooked question. What impact, if any, did the adoption of iron metallurgy have on life in the Aegean around the start of the Iron Age? Sarah Murray offers a re-evaluation of iron metallurgy ... Read more

    $63.59 CAD

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  • Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy

    Edited by Sarah Murray, Lachlan Umbers ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Studies in Australian Politics, Economics and Society
    The Australian democratic system has long been regarded as one of the most stable and predictable in the world, with an entrenched two-party duopoly, compulsory voting ensuring high levels of electoral participation and relatively high levels of satisfaction with the democratic process. Yet the ways Australians engage with, and participate in, their democracy have shifted substantially in recent ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Primary Mathematics Pedagogy at the Intersection of Education Reform, Policy, and Culture

    Comparative Insights from Ghana, Singapore, and the US

    by Sarah Murray, Princess Allotey ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    This volume provides an in-depth, comparative examination of how primary mathematics education is influenced by national education reform, policy, local resources, and culture in three different countries.By drawing on first-hand observations and interviews, as well as analysis of policy documents and learning resources, the book considers the viability of transferring best practices in primary ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Appified

    Culture in the Age of Apps

    by Sarah Murray, Jeremy Wade Morris ...
    Snapchat. WhatsApp. Ashley Madison. Fitbit. Tinder. Periscope. How do we make sense of how apps like these-and thousands of others-have embedded themselves into our daily routines, permeating the background of ordinary life and standing at-the-ready to be used on our smartphones and tablets? When we look at any single app, it's hard to imagine how such a small piece of software could be ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Not Always in the Mood

    The New Science of Men, Sex, and Relationships

    by Sarah Hunter Murray ...
    If there is one thing we know about men and sex it is that men are always in the mood. Any time, any place. Right?Wrong.Men’s sexual desire has long been depicted as high, simple, and unwavering. But the new research around men’s desire tells us this is far from true; and that good sex and relationships are suffering from these long-held misconceptions. In Not Always in the Mood: The New Science ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD

  • Making an Exit

    From the Magnificent to the Macabre—How We Dignify the Dead

    by Sarah Murray ...
    Thoughtful, amusing, and provocative, Making an Exit will transform the way you look at life's last passage. Because, as Murray discovers, death is, for many, not an ending but the start of something new.Author and journalist Sarah Murray never gave much thought to what might ultimately happen to her remains—that was, until her father died. While he'd always insisted that the "organic matter" ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Cultural History of Augustan Rome

    Texts, Monuments, and Topography

    Edited by Matthew P. Loar, Sarah C. Murray, Stefano Rebeggiani ...
    This volume wades into the fertile waters of Augustan Rome and the interrelationship of its literature, monuments, and urban landscape. It focused on a pair of questions: how can we productively probe the myriad points of contact between textual and material evidence to write viable cultural histories of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, and what are the limits of these kinds of analysis? The ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • How to Host a Dinner Party

    by Corey Mintz ...
    A fun, informative guide to hosting the perfect party every time."Every dinner party experience I’ve had in the last ten years at Corey’s has been incredible. But practice really does make perfect and I can now honestly say there is nowhere I’d rather be in the world than at his table ... I can’t begin to express the relief I felt in reading this book and realizing there was a method to his ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Georgian-Era Guide to Picturesque Scottish Landscapes, Highlands Journeys, and Historic Routes

    by Sarah Murray, Tessa Dunleigh ...
    A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland is both a practical itinerary and a refined late-eighteenth-century travel narrative, attentive to roads, inns, distances, ruins, landscapes, and local curiosities. Written in the age of the picturesque, it converts Scotland's mountains, lochs, antiquities, and historical associations into a readable guide for cultivated travellers, ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland

    Enriched edition. Discover Scotland's Rich Heritage and Natural Beauty

    by Sarah Murray, Savannah Clarke ...
    In "A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland," Sarah Murray intricately weaves together a rich tapestry of Scotland's natural landscapes, historical landmarks, and cultural heritage. Utilizing a descriptive and engaging literary style, Murray offers readers not only a travel guide but also a profound appreciation for the intricate beauty that permeates the Scottish Highlands and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus