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  • The Shrinking Goddess

    Power, Myth and the Female Body

    by Mineke Schipper ...
    For centuries, wild and strange stories have been told about the female body. Some empowering, many absurd, these myths have not only endured but continue to shape perceptions of women today.The Shrinking Goddess explores this legacy, gathering global tales about the female form and revealing how and why generations of men have sought to interpret, control and 'tame' women. Mineke Schipper ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Widows

    The Last Feminist Taboo

    by Mineke Schipper ...
    In Japanese, the word for widow – a woman who has outlived her husband – literally translates as 'she who has not yet died.' For millennia, widows have lived on the margins of society: banished to the wilderness, silenced, and shrouded in black or white. Across cultures, laws and local customs have maligned them as witches, dependants or objects of pity.In some traditions, widows are expected to ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

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  • Music, Communities, Sustainability

    Developing Policies and Practices

    Edited by Huib Schippers, Anthony Seeger ...
    Music, Communities, Sustainability, edited thoughtfully by Huib Schippers and Anthony Seeger, traces the genesis, implementation, and development of the influential 2003 UNESCO Convention on Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and its impact on music practices around the world. With insights from established and emerging scholars who have been there from the early beginnings to those ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures

    An Ecological Perspective

    Edited by Huib Schippers, Catherine Grant ...
    The sustainability of music and other intangible expressions of culture has been high on the agenda of scholars, governments and NGOs in recent years. However, there is a striking lack of systematic research into what exactly affects sustainability across music cultures. By analyzing case studies of nine highly diverse music cultures against a single framework that identifies key factors in music ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Butchers' Blood

    by D.A. Schippers ...
    Series Book 1 - The Butchers of Bläckwood
    THE FOREST KEEPS ACCOUNTS.Five friends arrive in Bläckwood for a weekend to disconnect from modern life. Campfires. Beer. Old friends. One last chance to escape the demands waiting beyond the forest.Instead, they cross into a place older than memory.Something ancient lives beneath the pines...not a monster, but a judgment. A presence that measures every lie, every betrayal, and every debt carried ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Female Doctors in Canada

    Experience and Culture

    Edited by Earle Waugh, Shirley Schipper, Shelley Ross ...
    Female Doctors in Canada is an accessible collection of articles by experienced physicians and researchers exploring how systems, practices, and individuals must change as medicine becomes an increasingly female-dominated profession. As the ratio of practicing physicians shifts from predominately male to predominately female, issues such as work hours, caregiving, and doctor-patient relationships ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change

    Scaling it up

    Edited by Jessica Ayers, Hannah Reid, Saleemul Huq, Atiq Rahman, E. Lisa Schipper ...
    As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met. Community-based adaptation (CBA) is one growing proposal that argues for tailored support at the local level to enable vulnerable people to identify and implement ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Human Rights

    Edited by Birgit Schippers ...
    Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, make a significant and timely contribution to critical human rights scholarship by interrogating the significance of human rights for critical theory and practice. While the contributions engage ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Performing Arts in Prisons

    Captive Audiences

    Edited by Michael Balfour, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Linda Davey, John Rynne, Huib Schippers ...
    Performing Arts in Prisons explores prison arts in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests music, theatre, poetry and dance can contribute to prisoner wellbeing, management, rehabilitation and reintegration. Performing Arts in Prisons represents a range of distinct ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies

    Late Fertility and its Consequences

    Edited by Gijs Beets, Joop Schippers, Egbert R. te Velde ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Most people value to have children still highly. But what is the optimal moment to have the first? The decision on having children or not and if yes on the timing of the first is one of the most difficult ones to make, also because it more or less coincides with various other heavy decisions on shaping the life course (like on union formation, labour market career, housing accommodation, etc.). ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Cultures and Disasters

    Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction

    Edited by Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, E. Lisa F. Schipper ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
    Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines? Making sense of such questions and observations is only possible by understanding how the decision ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Geobiotechnology I

    Metal-related Issues

    Edited by Axel Schippers, Franz Glombitza, Wolfgang Sand ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book review series presents current trends in modern biotechnology. The aim is to cover all aspects of this interdisciplinary technology where knowledge, methods and expertise are required from chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics, chemical engineering and computer science. Volumes are organized topically and provide a comprehensive discussion of developments in the respective ... Read more

    $188.99 USD