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  • A Tapestry of Home Life: 27 Domestic Fiction Books

    Classic Tales of Marriage, Class, Childhood, and the Hidden Dramas of Home

    by Mrs. Molesworth, Emile Zola, E. M. Forster, Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov, Maria Edgeworth, George de Horne Mrs. Vaizey, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Jean Bingham Wilson, Marian Hurd McNeely, Caroline Austin, Sarah E. Farro, Rebecca West, W. Somerset Maugham, Edith Wharton, Corra Harris, Margaret M. Robertson, Eleanora H. Stooke, Martha Finley, Ethel Turner, Theodore P. Wilson ...
    A Tapestry of Home Life gathers twenty-seven works of domestic fiction into a capacious study of the household as sanctuary, schoolroom, battleground, and miniature social order. Its range extends from children's and family narratives to satire, realist social observation, psychological fiction, and narratives of marriage, inheritance, class, and female self-fashioning. The collection's most ... Read more

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  • Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life

    by Caroline Austin ...
    "Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life" explores the experiences of its protagonist, a young girl named Lucy Ashton, as she navigates the challenges and struggles of life in Victorian England. The novel is structured as a first-person narrative, providing readers with insight into Lucy's thoughts, feelings, and experiences.As the story unfolds, Lucy grapples with a series of unfortunate events and ... Read more

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  • Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life

    Navigating adolescence, mental health, and societal expectations through a girl's eyes

    by Caroline Austin ...
    In "Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life," Caroline Austin crafts a poignant narrative that encapsulates the complexities of adolescence through the eyes of a young girl grappling with the harsh realities of life. The literary style is characterized by lyrical prose, introspective dialogue, and vivid imagery that captures the protagonist's emotional turbulence. Set against the backdrop of ... Read more

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  • The Great Resignation as Neoliberal Compliance and Critique

    A Foucauldian Analysis

    by Caroline Austin ...
    Series series Concepts for Critical Psychology
    This book examines how neoliberal power shapes individual subjectivity in contemporary American workplaces through the lens of the Great Resignation—the 2021 mass voluntary job departure phenomenon.Drawing on in-depth interviews and a Foucauldian framework, the book traces how neoliberal rationalities of choice, flexibility, and self-optimization shape the ways individuals explain their labor ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • On Being Included

    Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

    by Sara Ahmed ...
    What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Red Brother, White Brother

    A Time for Atonement

    by Dr. Jean Lafrance ...
    Aboriginal families and communities are losing their children to child welfare systems at an alarming rate. Such children have very poor futures to look forward to; rejection, abuse and belonging to nowhere are too often the fate of children in care. Academic failure, poor self-esteem and loss of identity accompany them, often right into life on the streets, experiencing lateral violence, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Practical Ethics In Public Administration

    by Dean Gueras, Charles Garofalo ...
    Make the Right Choice - Enhance Your Ethical Decision Making Skills Today!Ethical issues arise in all walks of life, but none have implications as far-reaching and serious as those related to public management. Most people working in the public sector want to do the "right" thing, but the issues can be highly complex or just not lend themselves to easy answers. Practical Ethics in Public ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Limits of Neoliberalism

    Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition

    by William Davies ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "Brilliant... explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence."- Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here"A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism... a distinctive account of the diverse, sometimes contradictory, conventions and justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Limits of Neoliberalism

    Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition

    by William Davies ...
    Brilliant...explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence."—Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here""In this fascinating book Davies inverts the conventional neoliberal practice of treating politics as if it were mere epiphenomenon of market theory, demonstrating that their version of economics is far better understood as the pursuit of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Business Ethics as Practice

    Ethics as the Everyday Business of Business

    by Mollie Painter-Morland ...
    Series series Business, Value Creation, and Society
    In recent years, a succession of corporate scandals has rocked the international business community. As a result, many companies have invested considerable time, money and effort on the development of ethics management programs. However, in many cases, such programs are nothing more than insurance policies against corporate liability, designed merely to limit the fallout of scandals should they ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Constructing Organizational Life

    How Social-Symbolic Work Shapes Selves, Organizations, and Institutions

    by Thomas B. Lawrence, Nelson Phillips ...
    Across the social sciences, scholars are increasingly showing how people 'work' to construct organizational life, including the rules and routines that shape and enable organizational activity, the identities of people who occupy organizations, and the societal norms and assumptions that provide the context for organizational action. The idea of work emphasizes the ways in which people and groups ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Return to Meaning

    A Social Science with Something to Say

    by Mats Alvesson, Yiannis Gabriel, Roland Paulsen ...
    This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing employment and promotion. The explosion of published outputs, at least in social science, creates a noisy, cluttered environment which makes meaningful research ... Read more

    $31.49 USD