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  • Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life

    by Josee Johnston, Kate Cairns, Shyon Baumann ...
    The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials very different from the norm. It is a question of making the practice of sociological thinking meaningful, rigorous, and relevant to today’s world of undergraduates.This comparatively concise, highly visual, and engaging book offers a refreshingly new way forward to reach students, using one of the most ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Food and Femininity

    by Dr Kate Cairns, Assistant Professor Josée Johnston ...
    Series series Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics
    Over the space of a few generations, women's relationship with food has changed dramatically. Yet – despite significant advances in gender equality – food and femininity remain closely connected in the public imagination as well as the emotional lives of women. While women encounter food-related pressures and pleasures as individuals, the social challenge to perform food femininities remains: as ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Feminisms and Ruralities

    by Jenny Barker Devine, Lia Bryant, Anne Byrne, Nata Duvvury, Sara Egge, Gro Follo, Marit S. Haugen, Julie C. Keller, Belinda Leach, Mona Livholts, Susan Machum, Áine Macken-Walsh, Nicole Power, Jennifer Rogers-Brown, Sally Shortall, Maarit Sireni, Tanya Watson, Kate Cairns, Professor Imelda Whelehan ...
    Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or at least their urban positionality once in the academy. It may equivalently be that feminists have ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Campus Confidential

    100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities (Second Edition)

    by Ken S. Coates, Bill Morrison ...
    In 2011, the first edition of Campus Confidential sparked a lively debate about what is really going on inside our colleges and universities. The media and readers alike welcomed this readable, honest book. University authorities didn't. They took the authors to task for spilling the beans. In this second edition, Ken S. Coates and Bill Morrison pick up where they left off, adding new and up-to ... Read more

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  • Sociology For Dummies

    by Jay Gabler ...
    Understand how society works—and how to make it betterIt’s impossible to exist in the contemporary world without being aware that powerful social forces, ideas, and movements—#MeToo, climate change, and Black Lives Matter to name just a few—are having far-reaching impacts on how we think and live. But why are they happening? And what are their likely effects? The new edition of Sociology For ... Read more

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  • The Sovereign Individual, Made Simple

    Learner's Permit Guides, #1

    by Hugo Rowley ...
    Series Book 1 - Learner's Permit Guides
    "The Sovereign Individual" by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg is a prophetic masterpiece. Now, Hugo Rowley's insightful study guide takes you on a fast and thought-provoking journey through the key ideas, vocabulary, and practical applications of this groundbreaking work.As the Information Age reshapes our society, economy, and politics, traditional power structures are crumbling. Nation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Authentic™

    The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture

    by Sarah Banet-Weiser ...
    Series Book 30 - Critical Cultural Communication
    A stimulating, smart book on what it means to live in a brand cultureBrands are everywhere. Branding is central to political campaigns and political protest movements; the alchemy of social media and self-branding creates overnight celebrities; the self-proclaimed “greening” of institutions and merchant goods is nearly universal. But while the practice of branding is typically understood as a tool ... Read more

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  • Black, Brown, Bruised

    How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation

    by Ebony Omotola McGee ...
    2022 PROSE Award FinalistDrawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM. Based on this extensive research, McGee advocates for structural and institutional changes to address racial discrimination, stereotyping, and hostile ... Read more

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  • Popular Culture

    A User's Guide

    by Imre Szeman, Susie O'Brien ...
    Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them.Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary and tools to analyze popular culturesuitable for the study of popular culture across a range of disciplines, ... Read more

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  • Commodity Activism

    Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times

    Edited by Roopali Mukherjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser ...
    Series Book 21 - Critical Cultural Communication
    Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple—to fight AIDS.Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf tosupport fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. Allthese commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporaryculture: the most common way we participate in social activism is bybuying something.Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser ... Read more

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    by Lisa Ann Richey, Stefano Ponte ...
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