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    Birth Day

    A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth

    by Mark Sloan, MD ...
    Narrated by Mark Sloan, MD ...

    Abridged

    9 hours 55 min

    “I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school.” So began Mark Sloan’s three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly three thousand births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Birth Day

    A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth

    by Mark Sloan, M.D. ...
    "I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school." So began Mark Sloan's three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly 3,000 births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • New Forms of Consumption

    Consumers, Culture, and Commodification

    by Mark Gottdiener, Jorge Arditi, Matthew D. Bramlett, Karen A. Cerulo, Daniel Thomas Cook, E Melanie DuPuis, Eugene Halton, Beverly Mullings, Minjoo Oh, Seth Ovadia0, Cotten Seiler1, Noam Shoval2, Mark Sloan3, George Ritzer4, Chris Rojek5 ...
    Series series Postmodern Social Futures
    Consumption as a field of cultural studies overlaps with theories of postmodernism, the social construction of self, commodification in late capitalism, and the role of mass media in daily life. New forms of consumption such as those facilitated by cyberspace, themed environments, the commodification of sex, and the increasing role of leisure in society all play new and interesting roles in daily ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Oral History and the Environment

    Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe

    Edited by Stephen M. Sloan, Mark Cave ...
    Series series OXFORD ORAL HISTORY SERIES
    As uncontrolled development forces crises in the natural world, deeply ingrained human connections with the earth are changing. Oral history's proven ability to explore issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality make it a uniquely effective methodology for bringing in new perspectives to our understanding of environments. This book brings together interviews with a global range of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Legal Research and Law Library Management

    by Julius J. Marke, Richard Sloane, Linda M. Ryan, Caroline Young ...
    A formidable job... This completely revised edition of Legal Research and Law Library Management belongs in every law library, regardless of size, type or location. It is a readable, useful, valuable guide for anyone in a law library.Elizabeth A. Greenfield, J.D., M.L.I.S., Information Resources Manager, Latham & Watkins LLP, Newark, New JerseyWhether you are a lawyer, a law librarian or ... Read more

    $701.29 USD

  • Listening on the Edge

    Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis

    Edited by Mark Cave, Stephen M. Sloan ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    From the headlines of local newspapers to the coverage of major media outlets, scenes of war, natural disaster, political revolution and ethnic repression greet readers and viewers at every turn. What we often fail to grasp, however, despite numerous treatments of events is the deep meaning and broader significance of crisis and disaster. The complexity and texture of these situations are most ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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    Lenin's Embalmers

    by Vern Thiessen ...
    Narrated by JD Cullum, Gregory Harrison, Jocelyn Towne, John Sloan, Jon Matthews, Mark Jude Sullivan, Rufus Sewell, Simon Helberg ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 11 min

    After Vladimir Lenin's death, Stalin orders two Jewish scientists to preserve Lenin's body for all time. If they succeed, the rewards will be considerable. If not, it's the gulag – or worse. Based on real events, Vern Thiessen's nimble dark comedy exposes the absurdities of Soviet life under Stalin.Lenin's Embalmers is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    The Rosie Effect

    by Graeme Simsion ...
    Narrated by Dan O'Grady ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 59 min

    With The Rosie Project, “Graeme Simsion achieved the impossible and created an entirely new kind of romantic hero” (Jojo Moyes, New York Times bestselling author). Now Don Tillman returns in the hilarious and charming sequel to the international sensation. Get ready to fall in love all over again.Don sets about learning the protocols of becoming a father, but his unusual research style gets him ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

    How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

    by Benjamin R. Barber ...
    "Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."—Jackson LearsA powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Environmental Ethics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robin Attfield ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change. As our environment faces evermore threats from human activities these core issues are becoming increasingly important. In this Very Short Introduction Robin Attfield traces the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pollution Is Colonialism

    by Max Liboiron ...
    In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    by Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD