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  • Game

    Animals, Video Games, and Humanity

    by Tom Tyler ...
    A playful reflection on animals and video games, and what each can teach us about the otherVideo games conjure new worlds for those who play them, human or otherwise: they’ve been played by cats, orangutans, pigs, and penguins, and they let gamers experience life from the perspective of a pet dog, a predator or a prey animal, or even a pathogen. In Game, author Tom Tyler provides the first ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Legitimacy-Based Policing and the Promotion of Community Vitality

    Series series Elements in Criminology
    This Element presents the history, research, and future potential for an alternative and effective model of policing called 'legitimacy-based policing'. This model is driven by social psychology theory and informed by research findings showing that legitimacy of the police shapes public acceptance of police decisions, willingness to cooperate with the police, and citizen engagement in communities. ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Kafka's Creatures

    Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings

    There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in English of essays devoted to illuminating this important and ubiquitous dimension of his work. The chapters here are written by an array of ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Social Justice In A Diverse Society

    Issues of social justice have been an important part of social psychology since the explosion of psychological research that occurred during and after World War II. At that time, psychologists began to move away from earlier theories that paid little attention to people's subjective understanding of the world. As increasing attention was paid to people's thoughts about their social experiences, it ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Cooperation in Groups

    Procedural Justice, Social Identity, and Behavioral Engagement

    Series series Essays in Social Psychology
    This important new book explores the psychological motives that shape the extent and nature of people's cooperative behavior in the groups, organizations and societies to which they belong. Individuals may choose to expend a great deal of effort on promoting the goals and functioning of the group, they may take a passive role, or they may engage in behaviors targeted towards harming the group and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Trust in Organizations

    Frontiers of Theory and Research

    Edited by Tom Tyler, Roderick M Kramer ...
    An impressive collection. Roderick M. Kramer and Tom R. Tyler have brought together a set of forefront studies that illuminate the causes and consequences of trusting behavior. This book will help shape the agenda for many years. --Mayer N. Zald, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan "Trust is like bone in an organization--undergirding, supporting, and enabling flesh and blood growth and ... Read more

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    For a Logic of Future Coexistence

    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental ... Read more

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  • The Little Book of Restorative Justice

    Revised and Updated

    by Howard Zehr ...
    Series series Justice and Peacebuilding
    Howard Zehr is the father of Restorative Justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming understandings of justice. Here he proposes workable principles and practices for making Restorative Justice possible in this revised and updated edition of his bestselling, seminal book on the movement. (The original edition has sold more than 110,000 copies.)Restorative Justice, with ... Read more

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  • A Pocket Book of Word Games

    by Philip Carter ...
    Brain training is the new buzzword. But word puzzle books have been bought for decades for their pure enjoyment. And they do a very fine job in growing the mind that they leave behind. Pulling words apart, reconstructing them to different guises, or arranging them in complementary patterns is compelling. Dissecting them letter by letter to reconstruct other words and relationships is mental ... Read more

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  • Interprofessional Ethics

    Collaboration in the Social, Health and Human Services

    The social work, health and human services sectors employ a variety of professionals to provide care to people. There is an increasing need for practitioners to be skilled in ethical decision making as the professional practice context becomes more complex and concerned with risk management. Interprofessional Ethics explores the ethical frameworks, policies and procedures of professional practice ... Read more

    $59.09 USD

  • The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

    A History, a Philosophy, a Warning

    An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why they have died todayMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from the ancient to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • In Other Worlds

    SF and the Human Imagination

    **A marvelous collection of wide-ranging essays from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, exploring her lifelong relationship to science fiction—as a reader and as a writerThe ebook edition of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating ebook-exclusive illustrations by the author**At a time when the borders between genres are increasingly porous, she maps ... Read more

    $12.99 USD