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Foul or Fair?: Ethical and Social Issues in Sports

Foul or Fair?: Ethical and Social Issues in Sports

Author: Larry Atkins
ISBN: 9781476686219
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Analyses social and ethical issues in sports in a journalistic, non-academic, entertaining manner. The book has...  Read More >>

Dance, Technology and Social Justice: Individual and Collective Emancipation Through Embodied Techniques

Dance, Technology and Social Justice: Individual and...

Author: Kaustavi Sarkar
ISBN: 9781476676142
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Theorizes dance technique as the Greek techne translated as art, and shows how movement can inspire epistemic, philosophical...  Read More >>

The Fortune Teller's Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor

The Fortune Teller's Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely...

Author: Lally Pia
ISBN: 9781647427115
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A searing examination of the immigrant experience, The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy is Lally Pia’s tale of resilience...  Read More >>

The Practical Seductress: How I Learned to Take My Hat and Run

The Practical Seductress: How I Learned to Take My Hat...

Author: Camaione Sue
ISBN: 9781647426248
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Sue Camaione is a rebellious young woman in pursuit of physical pleasure and sexual equality during the second wave...  Read More >>

The Afterworld: Long COVID and International Relations

The Afterworld: Long COVID and International Relations...

Author: Professeur Frédéric Mérand, Professor (Université de Montréal) ,  Professor Jennifer Welsh
ISBN: 9780776641478
Format: Paperback
$62.99

La COVID-19 a provoqué la crise mondiale la plus importante et la plus globale du 21e siècle. Pour certains, les...  Read More >>

Pulling off the Sheets: The Second Ku Klux Klan in Deep Southern Illinois

Pulling off the Sheets: The Second Ku Klux Klan in Deep...

Author: Darrel Dexter ,  John A. Beadles
ISBN: 9780809339426
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Pulling off the Sheets tells the previously obscured history of the Second Ku Klux Klan which formed in deep southern...  Read More >>

Jane Pratt: North Carolina's First Congresswoman

Jane Pratt: North Carolina's First Congresswoman

Author: Marion Elliott Deerhake
ISBN: 9781476692623
Format: Paperback
$68.20

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was sworn into office as North Carolina’s...  Read More >>

mmm... Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat

mmm... Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Foods We Eat...

Author: Kimberley Moore ,  Janis Thiessen
ISBN: 9781772840414
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Mixing recipes, maps, archival records, biographies, and colour photographs with fascinating stories, this volume...  Read More >>

Around the Kitchen Table: Métis Aunties' Scholarship

Around the Kitchen Table: Métis Aunties' Scholarship...

Author: Laura Forsythe ,  Jennifer Markides
ISBN: 9781772840735
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Provides an expansive, heartfelt, and accessible ‘community of Metis thought’. Reverent and revelatory, this collection...  Read More >>

Reclamation and Resurgence: The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont

Reclamation and Resurgence: The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont...

Author: Marilyn Dumont ,  Armand Garnet Ruffo
ISBN: 9781771126090
Format: Paperback
$37.40

Through carefully crafted poems, Marilyn Dumont takes the reader through a range of personal and historically connected...  Read More >>

Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age

Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with...

Author: Megan Steigerwald Ille
ISBN: 9780472056644
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Through ethnographic work with The Industry’s creators and performers, and examination of the company’s first decade...  Read More >>

Sensational News: The Rise of Lurid Journalism in America, 1830-1930

Sensational News: The Rise of Lurid Journalism in America,...

Author: Jeremy Agnew
ISBN: 9781476692319
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Sensationalistic stories have attracted readers for as long as reading has been a popular form of entertainment....  Read More >>

Understanding Barbara Kingsolver

Understanding Barbara Kingsolver

Author: Ian Tan
ISBN: 9781643364773
Format: Paperback
$58.05

A modern understanding of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver’s fiction.  Read More >>

Under Mountain Shadows: Kay Kershaw, Lesbian Eco-Warrior of the Pacific Northwest

Under Mountain Shadows: Kay Kershaw, Lesbian Eco-Warrior...

Author: William D. Frank
ISBN: 9781476693927
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Examines Kay Kershaw’s tremendous influence on conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest and on LGBTQ+ rights...  Read More >>

Cybercrime and Digital Deviance

Cybercrime and Digital Deviance

Author: Roderick S. Graham ,  'Shawn K. Smith
ISBN: 9781032249193
Format: Paperback
$73.99

In Cybercrime and Digital Deviance, 2nd Edition, Graham and Smith conceptualize the online space as a distinct environment...  Read More >>

Gun Present: Inside a Southern District Attorney’s Battle against Gun Violence

Gun Present: Inside a Southern District Attorney’s Battle...

Author: Susan Dewey ,  Brittany VandeBerg
ISBN: 9780520393677
Format: Hardback
$140.95

"""A book summary is provided under Additional Info below""--"  Read More >>

Wheels of Her Own: American Women and the Automobile, 1893-1929

Wheels of Her Own: American Women and the Automobile,...

Author: Carla R. Lesh
ISBN: 9781476672779
Format: Paperback
$68.20

The automobile provided a means for Black, Indigenous, and White women to pull away from limitations and work toward...  Read More >>

Political Humility: The Limits of Knowledge in Our Partisan Political Climate

Political Humility: The Limits of Knowledge in Our Partisan...

Author: Blake Roeber
ISBN: 9781032574776
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book aims to change the way we think about politics, talk about politics, and vote. It uses concrete examples...  Read More >>

Cambridge Social Ontology: An Introduction to Social Positioning Theory

Cambridge Social Ontology: An Introduction to Social...

Author: Yannick Slade-Caffarel
ISBN: 9780367628024
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Social ontology is the study of the nature and basic structure of social reality. It is a rapidly growing field...  Read More >>

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