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    Goddess of Pain

    by Katie May ...
    Narrated by Connor Crais, Vanessa Edwin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    The first man blew up my car. The second shot at me on my morning run. The third man cornered me after work. And the fourth? He just watches me from the shadows.On the night of the blood moon, I get my memories restored and learn that I'm not human—I'm the Goddess of Pain. And the men who tried to kill me? They just might be the loves of my immortal life. But what's an "I love you" compared to an ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Supporting Your Grieving Client

    A Guide for Wellness Practitioners

    by Vanessa May, Adam Renvoize ...
    For most people, grief is an inevitable part of life and if you're a wellness practitioner, then the likelihood is that you will at some point work with a bereaved client. This may initially seem like a heavy responsibility and so this guide aims to help you feel prepared and confident in how you support your client. It will explain how loss and grief can place tremendous strain on the body and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Families

    by Vanessa May ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    In this accessible and engagingly written book, Vanessa May invites readers into the rich world of thought, research and study of the highly diverse phenomenon of families and family life. The book explores what is and has been understood by ‘family’ in different sociocultural contexts and how family life intersects with social spheres such as the state, the labour market and the economy. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Love Untethered

    How to Live When Your Child Dies

    by Vanessa May ...
    Vanessa May gives a moving account of what she went through after the unexpected death of her son, demonstrating that it's possible to survive such a shattering and traumatic loss, even when that might feel impossible. By sharing her personal experience, the author enables others who have gone through a similar loss to feel less isolated in their grief. She also provides advice on supporting ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Connecting Self to Society

    Belonging in a Changing World

    by Vanessa May ...
    Belonging is often overlooked in its relationship to society and social change, and yet it forms the bedrock of how we relate to the world around us. Through the work of Marx, Giddens and Goffman, this book covers the familiar terrain of identity theory, while going beyond it to other sites of identification and social change. ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Sociology of Personal Life

    Edited by Vanessa May, Petra Nordqvist ...
    What can sociology tell us about our personal lives, families and intimate relationships? This book explains how key theoretical perspectives and relevant contemporary research in the discipline can shed new light on even the most familiar areas of our everyday worlds.From friendships and pets, to political engagement and social legislation, the text shows how distinctions and connections can be ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Unprotected Labor

    Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940

    by Vanessa H. May ...
    Through an analysis of women’s reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Masking in the Pandemic

    Materiality, Interaction, and Moral Practice

    by Owen Abbott, Vanessa May, Sophie Woodward, Robert Meckin, Leah Gilman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book assumes an “everyday life” perspective towards masking in public spaces in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic. Facemasks are perhaps one of the most tangible ways in which the changes wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic were made visible. In the space of a few months in 2020, masking in the UK went from being almost non-existent in public to becoming widespread, both before and after the ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Beauty of My Heart

    Poetry from the Core of My Soul to Warm Your Heart

    by Alice Faye Manuel ...
    Alice was a caregiver for both of her grandparents and shortly after assumed primary care of her parents. It took a toll on her when they passed away.Overwhelmed with the grief from these consecutive painful life events she witnessed firsthand, poetry gave her freedom.The Beauty of My Heart is proof that Alice has used poetry as a medium to start over and take control of her life. This collection ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Home and Community

    Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme

    by Sandra Costa Santos, Nadia Bertolino, Stephen Hicks, Camilla Lewis, Vanessa May ...
    Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and temporal phenomena.Based on the AHRC funded project "Place and Belonging", the chapters draw on innovative spatial layouts amid Scottish ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

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    by Stanley Cohen ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
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  • Discovering Sociology

    by Mark McCormack, Eric Anderson, Kimberly Jamie, Matthew David ...
    This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the book's 12 chapters, students discover what sociology is, alongside its historical development and emergent new concerns. They will be led through ... Read more

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