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  • The Economics of Cultural Loss

    Harm and Resilience in North American Indigenous Communities

    by Mukesh Eswaran ...
    Why do North American Indigenous Peoples face such grave conditions in health, poverty, and mortality—including alarmingly high rates of suicide, alcoholism, and drug abuse? In this groundbreaking book, Mukesh Eswaran confronts these urgent questions through the lens of economics, focusing deeply on an underexplored aspect: the erosion of Indigenous culture. While empirical studies have shed some ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Gender Matters in Economics

    by Mukesh Eswaran ...
    An economic way of thinking about the gender issues confronting women around the worldGender matters in economics—for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and politics, this textbook ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives Into the School Curriculum

    Purposes, Possibilities, and Challenges

    by Yatta Kanu ...
    From improved critical thinking to increased self-esteem and school retention, teachers and students have noted many benefits to bringing Aboriginal viewpoints into public school classrooms. In Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives Into the School Curriculum, Yatta Kanu provides the first comprehensive study of how these frameworks can be effectively implemented to maximize Indigenous students' ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition

    Issues and Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Westhues, Brian Wharf ...
    Social policy shapes the daily lives of every Canadian citizen and should reflect the beliefs of a majority of Canadians on just approaches to the promotion of health, safety, and well-being. Too often, those on the front lines—social workers, nurses, and teachers—observe that policies do not work well for the most vulnerable groups in society. In the first part of this new edition of Canadian ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Social Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and North America

    Mechanisms, Conditions, and Causality

    Edited by Ruud Koopmans, Bram Lancee, Merlin Schaeffer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Concerns about immigration and the rising visibility of minorities have triggered a lively scholarly debate on the consequences of ethnic diversity for trust, cooperation, and other aspects of social cohesion. In this accessibly written volume, leading scholars explore where, when, and why ethnic diversity affects social cohesion by way of analyses covering the major European immigration countries ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

    Edited by Judith Treas, Jacqueline Scott, Martin Richards ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
    Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children’s work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Social Problems

    Sociology in Action

    Edited by Maxine P. Atkinson, Kathleen Odell Korgen ...
    Social Problems: Sociology in Action, Third Edition is ideal for teachers who want to provide students with an active learning experience that relies less on lecturing and more on discussion, collaboration, and self-directed investigation. Editors Maxine P. Atkinson and Kathleen Odell Korgen offer concrete ways to make use of sociological training in the "real" world by considering sociological ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Human Rights and Social Justice

    Key Issues and Vulnerable Populations

    Edited by Carole Cox, Tina Maschi ...
    Human Rights and Social Justice: Key Issues and Vulnerable Populations is a comprehensive text that focuses on central issues of human rights and justice and links them directly with social work competencies and practice. Drawing attention to oppression and multiple forms of disadvantage and discrimination based on a person’s identity and social location, this volume develops an integrated ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Expanding the Human in Human Rights

    Toward a Sociology of Human Rights

    by Brian Gran ...
    First Published in 2016. The global struggle for human rights has been, fundamentally, a struggle by oppressed groups against the structures of their oppression. As such, sociological work into the experiences of women, racial and ethnic minorities, children, LGBTQ communities, the mentally ill, and others helps us understand the promises and challenges of pursuing human rights. This book presents ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Homelessness and Social Work

    An Intersectional Approach

    by Carole Zufferey ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    Drawing on intersectional theorising, Homelessness and Social Work highlights the diversities and complexities of homelessness and social work research, policy and practice. It invites social work students, practitioners, policy makers and academics to re-examine the subject by exploring how homelessness and social work are constituted through intersecting and unequal power relations.The causes of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Thrive

    The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

    by Arianna Huffington ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Arianna Huffington’s impassioned and compelling case for the need to redefine what it means to be successful in today’s world—now in a 10th anniversary edition featuring a new preface“A captivating look at what it takes to live a more meaningful, satisfying life. Brimming with passion, supported by science, and crowned with practical insights, Arianna Huffington’s ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Ask For It

    How Women Can Use Negotiation to Get What They Really Want

    by Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever ...
    In their groundbreaking book, Women Don’t Ask*,* Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever uncovered a startling fact: even women who negotiate brilliantly on behalf of others often falter when it comes to asking for themselves. Now they’ve developed the action plan that women all over the country requested—a guide to negotiation that starts before you get to the bargaining table.Ask for Itexplains why it ... Read more

    $13.99 USD