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  • Emerging Risks

    A Strategic Management Guide

    by Anne Barr ...
    For boards and executives, high-quality and transparent information is critical to allow effective decision-making. Emerging risks are increasingly challenging issues, both in terms of threats and growth opportunities; not least since the science pertaining to these risks tends to be contested. Emerging Risks: A Strategic Management Guide restores the constructive dialogue between the business ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Ireland and Masculinities in History

    Edited by Rebecca Anne Barr, Sean Brady, Jane McGaughey ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited collection presents a selection of essays on the history of Irish masculinities. Beginning with representations of masculinity in eighteenth-century drama, economics, and satire, and concluding with work on the politics of masculinity post Good-Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the collection advances the importance of masculinities in our understanding of Irish history and ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century

    Edited by Rebecca Anne Barr, Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Sophie Vasset ...
    Series Book 5 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
    This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century. These inner organs and the digestive process acted as counterpoints to politeness and other modes of refined sociability, drawing attention to the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Revisiting Richardson

    by Rebecca Anne Barr, Bonnie Latimer, Declan Kavanagh, Heather Ann Ladd, Amelia Dale, Samuel Rowe, Kerry Sinanan, Sarah Berkowitz, E. Derek Taylor0 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    The preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson—the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form—continue to resonate with contemporary readers. This fresh collection reconsiders his oeuvre, expanding and significantly updating critical debate on its meaning and importance. ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Superheroes and Masculinity

    Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism

    by Sean Parson, Hailey J. Austin, Julian Barr, Anne Bialowas, TJ Buttgereit, Ryan Cheek, Kevin Cummings, Kiera Gaswint, Brian Johnson, Emily Mendelson0, Jacob Murel1, David J. Roberts2, Edgar Sandoval3, J.L. Schatz5 ...
    Superheroes and Masculinity: Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism explores how heteropatriarchal representations of gender are portrayed within superhero comics, film, and television. The contributors examine how hegemonic masculinity has been continually perpetuated and reinforced within the superhero genre and unpack concise critiques of specific superhero representations, the industry, ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Red Alert! Endangered Animals Around the World

    by Catherine Barr ...
    Illustrated by Anne Wilson ...
    An interactive look at endangered animals imploring readers to discover fifteen species facing extinction.Inspired and endorsed by the "Red List" database of animals in peril maintained by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) this brightly illustrated book introduces species from six different habitats on six continents. Blending approachable text, secondary facts and lush ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The Complex Alternative

    Complexity Scientists on the COVID-19 Pandemic

    by David C. Krakauer, Geoffrey West ...
    COVID-19 is the virus that proved the fragility of the world. It took only the simplest form of life to shake the connectivity and dependency of society. This book is a real-time record and recommendation from a community of complexity scientists reacting to the pandemic. Through nontechnical articles, interviews, and discussions spanning the early days of the pandemic through the fall of 2021, ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Language Wars

    A History of Proper English

    by Henry Hitchings ...
    "Chock-full of historical and literary references . . . a fascinating, eye-opening look at the evolution of the English language." ― The Huffington PostThe English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values—morality, politics, and class.The Language Wars examines the present state of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Mathematical Corporation

    Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

    by Angela Zutavern, Josh Sullivan ...
    The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future.We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar to the quality revolution of the 1980s and the dawn of the internet age in the 1990s: leaders must transform ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Entrepreneurship in the Raw Materials Sector

    Proceedings of the LIMBRA International Scientific Conference

    Edited by Zoltán Bartha, Tekla Szép, Katalin Lipták, Dóra Szendi ...
    The Entrepreneurship in the Raw Materials Sector proceeding is a collection of papers focusing on the macroeconomic aspects of green growth, the business opportunities in the raw materials sector, and the challenges in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship training. These papers were presented during the closing conference of LIMBRA (‘Decreasing the negative outcomes of brain drain in the raw ... Read more

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  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD