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  • Trauma in the Age of Social Media in Sub Saharan Africa

    Narrative and Representation

    Edited by Nick Mdika Tembo ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the pervasive phenomenon of trauma and its narrative representation in social media platforms. The book specifically explores how, despite its pedagogical gains, the circulation and consumption of information on social media platforms may exacerbate mental health issues. Containing insightful contributions from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya and Uganda, the book brings ... Read more

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  • Socio-Ecological Resilience to Climate Change in a Fragile Ecosystem

    The Case of the Lake Chilwa Basin, Malawi

    Series series Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
    The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme was a seven-year research and development programme in Malawi that concluded in March 2017. The programme was designed to protect the livelihoods of the population and enhance resilience of the natural resource base upon which it depends. The Lake Chilwa Basin is an important wetland ecosystem which is a designated Ramsar Site under the ... Read more

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  • COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy, and Practice

    Volume 1: The Challenges and Necessity of Co-production

    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Groups most severely affected by COVID-19 have tended to be those marginalised before the pandemic and are now largely being ignored in developing responses to it.This two-volume set of Rapid Responses explores the urgent need to put co-production and participatory approaches at the heart of responses to the pandemic and demonstrates ... Read more

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  • Netflix Nostalgia

    Streaming the Past on Demand

    Series series Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
    Whether it’s “Flashback Friday” or “Throwback Thursday,” audiences are hungry for nostalgic film and television, and the streaming giant Netflix serves up shows from the past that satisfy this craving, in addition to producing original contemporary content with nostalgic flavor. As a part of the series “Reboots, Remakes and Adaptations” originated by series editors Dr. Carlen Lavigne and Dr. Paul ... Read more

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  • Conservation Agriculture for Africa

    Building Resilient Farming Systems in a Changing Climate

    Tillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation. This book reviews research and development initiatives in Africa aimed at building resilient farming systems. It summarises the status of conservation agriculture today, discusses prospects for future development and provides case studies showing its performance in Africa. ... Read more

    $171.79 CAD

  • A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of Robert Zemeckis, whose films include successful productions such as the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-90), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000) and The Polar Express (2004), but also lesser known films such as I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Used Cars (1980), and Allied ... Read more

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  • A World Of Creativity

    We are all different, but we all have one thing in common: we love being creative. In this book you will meet every single student from Ms. Bek's class. Students from different countries, cultures and backgrounds. And above all, students who are authors. Over the course of four months, Ms. Bek's students worked incredibly hard to write and illustrate this book. This book expresses who they are, ... Read more

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  • A Critical Companion to David Lynch

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    A Critical Companion to David Lynch builds on the vast debate of one of the most discussed and researched directors of the present era, with commercial and critical success across multiple mediums and genres. This edited volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of Lynch’s films, practices, and collaborations, with nineteen original chapters examining themes including narrativity, aesthetics, ... Read more

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  • Mixed-Race Superheroes

    American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the ... Read more

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  • Trauma in 21st-Century Time Travel Cinema

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    Kwasu D. Tembo unites approaches from disciplines as wide-ranging as physics, mathematics, cinema, philosophy, and media theory to pose critical questions concerning time, change, and (un)becoming in contemporary time-travel cinema.In his analyses of 21st-century cinematic time-travel narratives, Tembo situates human life in time as a palimpsest, with time acting as scriptor and stylus. A time ... Read more

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  • Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction

    Travel, Technology, Time

    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children’s and youth’s agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency in children’s lives, this collection places science fiction at the heart of this endeavor. Retellings of the past, narratives of the ... Read more

    $52.59 CAD