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  • Eros and Alienation

    Capitalism and the Making of Gendered Sexualities

    by Alan Sears ...
    Series series Mapping Social Reproduction Theory
    “Sears takes social reproduction feminism and queer Marxism in exciting new directions as he historicizes penetration and orgasms. He expands the concept of alienated labor to all life-making and founds a queer ecology, foregrounding colonized, racialized, and disabled voices” Peter Drucker, author of Warped“Meticulously outlines how capitalism shapes human intimacy. ... A sweeping, original ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Good Book, In Theory

    Making Sense Through Inquiry, Third Edition

    by Alan Sears, James Cairns ...
    This highly original and compelling book offers an introduction to the art and science of social inquiry, including the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry. The new edition offers coverage of post-modernism and Indigenous ways of knowing, as well as a discussion of the research process and how to communicate arguments effectively. The result is a book that blends ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Rescuing Reason

    How History Education Can Help Save Democracy

    by Alan Sears, Carla L. Peck ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Rescuing Reason tackles the pressing crisis of civic engagement and public deliberation, drawing on Canadian and international examples, with a particular emphasis on Canada’s democratic landscape. The book argues that K-12 public education has become too narrowly focused on utilitarian aims – such as financial literacy and job preparation – at the expense of the humanities, especially history. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Bringing History to Life

    Teaching Fact and Fiction

    Translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth ...
    by Professor Penney Clark, Professor Alan Sears, Professor Emeritus in Education, Professeur Etienne Anheim, Professeur Charles-Antoine Bachand, M. Julien Bazile, Mme Audrey Bélanger, Professeur Jean-François Boutin, Professeur Vincent Boutonnet, Dr. Olivier Côté, Professeure Stéphanie Demers, Professeur Simon Dor, Associate Professor, Professeur Alexandre Lanoix, Associate Professor, Professeure Virginie Martel, Professeure Anik Meunier, Professeure, Mme Sabrina Moisan, Professor, Professor Carla Peck, Professeur Bastien Sasseville, Professeur, Professeure Valérie Theis, Professeure, Mme Marie-Pierre Tremblay, Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Carole Fleuret ...
    Series series Education
    History has never been as present in our daily lives as it is today.Through any number of media outlets, tens of millions of people are in daily contact with historical discourses and practices. Between games, informational articles, social media posts and other sources, history is everywhere—in Civilization VI, live-action role-playing games, The Berlin Trilogy, Game of Thrones, and the works of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Arts and the Teaching of History

    Historical F(r)ictions

    by Penney Clark, Alan Sears ...
    This book closely examines the pedagogical possibilities of integrating the arts into history curriculum at the secondary and post-secondary levels. Students encounter expressions of history every day in the form of fiction, paintings, and commemorative art, as well as other art forms. Research demonstrates it is often these more informal encounters with history that define students’ knowledge and ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Democratic Imagination

    Envisioning Popular Power in the 21st Century

    by Alan Sears, James Cairns ...
    Democracy is very much an open question in the early twenty-first century. While voter participation declines in many traditional democracies, new movements for democracy are emerging around the world. This book brings the question of democracy out of the halls of political power and home to our daily lives, pitting "official democracy" and "democracy from below" against one another in a lively ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Education, Politics and Religion

    Reconciling the Civil and the Sacred in Education

    by James Arthur, Liam Gearon, Alan Sears ...
    In recent years a number of popular books have savaged religion arguing it is a dangerous delusion that poisons human societies and relationships. This is but the most recent manifestation of a secularising agenda that has been sweeping contemporary democratic societies since the Enlightenment. This book pushes back against that agenda, examining its key assumptions and arguing that the exclusion ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Soul of an American President

    The Untold Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower's Faith

    by Alan Sears, Craig Osten, Ryan Cole ...
    While there have been many biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower that focus on his military career or the time of his presidency, none clearly explores the important role faith played both in his personal life and in his public policy. This despite the fact that he is the only US president to be baptized as a Christian while in office.Alan Sears and Craig Osten invite you on a journey that is unique ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Good Book, In Theory

    Making Sense Through Inquiry, Second Edition

    by Alan Sears, James Cairns ...
    This brief and engagingly written book provides a unique introduction to the process of social inquiry and the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry, offering a strong foundation in critical thinking that is rooted in the social sciences but maintains relevance across the disciplines. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Education, Globalization and the Nation

    by Andrew Peterson, Ian Davies, Terrie Epstein, Alistair Ross, Alan Sears, Maria Auxiliadora Moreira dos Santos Schmidt, Debbie Sonu, King Man Chong, Carla L. Peck ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Globalization, the Nation-State and the Citizen

    Dilemmas and Directions for Civics and Citizenship Education

    Edited by Alan Reid, Judith Gill, Alan Sears ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in civics and citizenship education. There have been unprecedented developments in citizenship education taking place in schools, adult education centers, or in the less formally structured spaces of media images and commentary around the world. This book provides an overview of the development of civics and citizenship education policy across a ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    The Soul of an American President

    The Untold Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower's Faith

    by Alan Sears, Craig Osten, Ryan Cole ...
    Narrated by David Cochran Heath ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    While there have been many biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower that focus on his military career or the time of his presidency, none clearly explores the important role faith played both in his personal life and in his public policy. This despite the fact that he is the only US president to be baptized as a Christian while in office. Alan Sears and Craig Osten invite you on a journey that is ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook