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  • Ballet Body Narratives

    Pain, Pleasure and Perfection in Embodied Identity

    by Angela Pickard ...
    Ballet Body Narratives is an ethnographic exploration of the social world of classical ballet and the embodiment of young ballet dancers as they engage in «becoming a dancer» in ballet school in England. In contrast to the largely disembodied sociological literature of the body, this book places the corporeal body as central to the examination and reveals significant relationships between body, ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Teaching Physical Education Creatively

    by Angela Pickard, Patricia Maude ...
    Series series Learning to Teach in the Primary School Series
    This fully updated second edition of Teaching Physical Education Creatively provides knowledge and understanding for students, trainee and qualified teachers, to engage creatively in teaching primary Physical Education. It is full of ideas for developing the teaching of dance, games, gymnastics and ways of using outdoor spaces for activities in an innovative and engaging manner. There is also a ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Dance, Professional Practice, and the Workplace

    Challenges and Opportunities for Dance Professionals, Students, and Educators

    Edited by Angela Pickard, Doug Risner ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Originally published as a special issue of Research in Dance Education, now with an added chapter, this text acknowledges and celebrates the increasingly diverse careers and employment networks in which dance professionals and dance educators are engaged.Addressing issues and developments relating to the workplace of dance, the text explores what it means to transcend the boundary between dance as ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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    Richard Stephens became the focus of international media attention in 2009 for his research on the psychological benefits of swearing as a response to pain. Now, fresh from winning the 2014 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, Richard's first popular science book uncovers other pieces of surprising and occasionally bizarre scientific enquiry showing that what we at first perceive as bad can, in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Welfare of Nations

    by James Bartholomew ...
    What damage is being done by failing welfare states? What lessons can be learned from the best welfare states? And—is it too late to stop welfare states from permanently diminishing the lives and liberties of people around the world? Traveling around the globe, James Bartholomew examines welfare models, searching for the best education, health care, and support services in 11 vastly different ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Situational Action Theory: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Per-Olof H. Wikström ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Once Upon a Group

    A Guide to Running and Participating in Successful Groups Second Edition

    by Maggie Kindred, Michael Kindred ...
    Groups are a universal phenomenon, but their dynamics, make-up and customs can vary widely – a group can be anything from a family to a sports club. Having a good understanding of how groups work can make them more effective, enriching and fun.Once Upon A Group is a short, light-hearted guide to groupwork, providing an easily-digestible way of understanding group dynamics, the practicalities of ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Economics in the Twenty-First Century

    A Critical Perspective

    by Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Economics has always been nicknamed the “dismal science,” but today the field seems a little more dismal than usual as governments, social movements, and even students complain that the discipline is failing to make sense of the major economic problems of the day.In Economics in the Twenty-First Century, Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson demonstrate how today’s top young economists continue to lead ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Security Beyond the State

    Private Security in International Politics

    by Rita Abrahamsen, Michael C. Williams ...
    Across the globe, from mega-cities to isolated resource enclaves, the provision and governance of security takes place within assemblages that are de-territorialized in terms of actors, technologies, norms and discourses. They are embedded in a complex transnational architecture, defying conventional distinctions between public and private, global and local. Drawing on theories of globalization ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Who Cares?

    Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age

    by Katherine S. Newman, Elisabeth S. Jacobs ...
    Why major changes to America's social safety net have always required bold presidential leadershipAmericans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Helping Vulnerable Children and Adolescents to Stay Safe

    Creative Ideas and Activities for Building Protective Behaviours

    by Katie Wrench ...
    Helping vulnerable children and young people to build protective behaviours is the key to keeping them safe.Full of creative ideas and activities, this guide provides the tools to help children develop these key skills. Topics include work around: building resilience and problem solving skills; identifying a 'safety network'; developing emotional literacy; awareness of grooming strategies and safe ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development

    Edited by Kevin MacDonald, Robert Lee Burgess ...
    *"This new edition of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development is obligatory reading for anyone interested in the integration of evolutionary theory into developmental psychology. . . . It provides a valuable corrective to recent narrow approaches which argue that the human mind is constructed exclusively of domain-specific mechanisms and which deemphasize the importance of human ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD