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  • Earthkeeping

    Love Notes for Tough Times

    by Gary Saunders ...
    The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other.In nine sections, Earthkeeping ruminates on the necessity of love and earthkeeping, on forage fish and robinsongs, and on the stewardship of our ecological landscape. Offering an antidote to the world’s anxiety about climate ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Free Wind Home

    by Gary Saunders ...
    Free Wind Home carries the reader full circle through a childhood rooted in a sleepy Newfoundland outport with nineteenth century traditions, existing in a twentieth century world of war and uncertain politics. It is a visceral tale full of the tangible wonders of discovery and play, the fulfilling simplicity of nature, and the sometimes frightening shifts and changes life holds in store. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Prefiguring the Idea of the University for a Post-Capitalist Society

    by Gary Saunders ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Using an Open Marxist theoretical framework, this book provides a critique of the neoliberal reforms made to higher education since the late 1970s and the impact this has had on the sector. Rather than arguing for a return to the idea of the public university, the book argues that public and private models of higher education are both forms of capitalist accumulation and have historically ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Stammering as Dada

    Mike Neary and Critical Education

    Edited by Stephen Cowden, Joss Winn, Gary Saunders ...
    Series Book 9 - New Disciplinary Perspectives on Education
    Mike Neary was a renowned critical educator, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln, and a founding member of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln. He died in January 2023, and in the months prior to his death, the editors of this book met with Mike and, with his guidance, worked with him on a collection of his writings. Mike was once asked why he wrote and he responded, «I write for ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

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  • Freedom

    by Nick Stevenson ...
    Series series Shortcuts
    Freedom is commonly recognized as the struggle for basic liberties, societies based upon open dialogue, human rights and democracy. The idea of freedom is central to western ideas of modernity, but this engaging, accessible book argues that if we look back at the history of the idea of freedom, then what we mean by it is far more contested than we might think. To what extent does freedom have a ... Read more

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  • Eating Dirt

    Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

    by Charlotte Gill ...
    Series series David Suzuki Institute
    • Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction• Nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2011 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Award.During Charlotte Gill’s 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our ... Read more

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  • The Dignity of Labour

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  • A Country Year

    Living the Questions

    by Sue Hubbell ...
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    A Short Introduction

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  • Pastoral Song

    A Farmer's Journey

    by James Rebanks ...
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  • Liberalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and of philosophical-ethical creativity. This Very Short Introduction unpacks the concept of liberalism and its various interpretations through three ... Read more

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