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  • In Sickness and in Wealth

    Migration, Gendered Morality, and Central Java

    by Carol Chan ...
    Series series Framing the Global
    An expert in migration studies examines the cultural context of villages in Central Java and their influence on those who pursue migrant labor.Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even deaths suffered by those who migrate in search of work. So why do hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers continue to migrate every year? Carol Chan explores ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Sickness and in Wealth

    Migration, Gendered Morality, and Central Java

    by Carol Chan ...
    Series series Framing the Global
    Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even deaths suffered by those who migrate in search of work. So why do hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers continue to migrate every year? Carol Chan explores this question from the perspective of the origin community and provides a fascinating look at how gender, faith, and shame shape these decisions ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Rooted in Time

    Living Fossils and Other Tenacious Plants

    by Carole T. Gee ...
    An intriguing portrait of persistent plants with deep roots that have survived eons on earth, featuring exquisite watercolors and numerous color photos.Plants are tenacious organisms. Their green ancestors were among the earliest living beings on Earth, while clubmosses and ferns that arose 400 million years ago still thrive in the moist understory of temperate and tropical forests. Plants like ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Food for Thought

    Service-Learning Research in Asia

    Edited by Robert D. Shumer, Carol Ma Hok Ka, Constance Chan Wing Yee ...
    Service-learning research has been growing and expanding around the world. While much of the early work was carried out in the US and Europe, such efforts have been developing in Asia for the past few decades. The use of the term, ‘service-learning’ was not popular, while use of community engagement, volunteerism, social services are more common among community practitioners and academics, with ... Read more

    $59.39 CAD

  • Chineseness in Chile

    Shifting Representations During the Twenty-First Century

    by Maria Montt Strabucchi, Carol Chan, María Elvira Ríos ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the role of Chineseness or lo chino in the production of Chilean national identity. It does so by discussing the many voices, images, and intentions of diverse actors who contribute to stereotyping or problematizing Chineseness in Chile. The authors argue that in general, representing and perceiving China or Chineseness as the Other is part of a broader cultural and political ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • Service-Learning as a New Paradigm in Higher Education of China

    Edited by Alice Liu Cheng, Fanny Mak Mui-fong, Carol Ma Hok-ka, Alfred Chan Cheung-ming ...
    Series series Transformations in Higher Education
    The first reference book to introduce the concept and development of service-learning in China, Service-Learning as a New Paradigm in Higher Education of China provides a full picture of the infusion of service-learning into the Chinese educational system and describes this new teaching experience using case studies, empirical data, and educational and institutional policies within Chinese context ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The International Handbook of Collaborative Learning

    Edited by Carol Chan, Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Clark Chinn, Angela O'Donnell ...
    Series series Educational Psychology Handbook
    Collaborative learning has become an increasingly important part of education, but the research supporting it is distributed across a wide variety of fields including social, cognitive, developmental, and educational psychology, instructional design, the learning sciences, educational technology, socio-cultural studies, and computer-supported collaborative learning. The goal of this book is to ... Read more

    $247.34 CAD

  • Safety of Repair, Maintenance, Minor Alteration, and Addition (RMAA) Works

    A new focus of construction safety

    by Albert Chan, Carol Hon ...
    Safety of RMAA works is an almost uncharted topic of rising importance internationally. Small construction contractors are particularly dependant on RMAA work, especially during times of recession, and they undertake more risks on these jobs than large companies do. This book is based on unique international research and consultancy projects which detail, investigate, and suggest solutions to the ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Dear Canada: A Season for Miracles

    Twelve Tales of Christmas

    by Jean Little, Kit Pearson, Janet Lunn, Sarah Ellis, Gillian Chan, Carol Matas, Maxine Trottier, Julie Lawson, Sharon Stewart ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    Twelve original holiday stories from the top children's writers in the country!What an incredible gift book for Dear Canada fans! The twelve stories in this treasury are set around Christmas time and feature the young girls from a dozen previous Dear Canada books. Readers will be thrilled to reconnect with their favourites and get a glimpse of each character's life a year or so after the events in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Metaphorosis May 2017

    by Carol Wellart, L. Chan, Anna Zumbro, Karolina Fedyk, Jason Baltazar ...
    Series Book 17 - Metaphorosis Magazine
    Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins.Table of ContentsHeartwood – L. ChanWays to Face the Firing Squad – Anna ZumbroThe Early History of the Moon – Karolina FedykThe Questioning Bell – Jason BaltazarCover art by Carol Wellart. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 100 Queer Poems

    by Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest, Audre Lorde, Mary Oliver, Thom Gunn, Jackie Kay, Seán Hewitt, June Jordan, Kaveh Akbar, Jay Bernard, Natalie Diaz, Jericho Brown, Vikram Seth, Langston Hughes ...
    Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest and many more.* A Guardian Best Poetry Book of the Year ** Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards *Encompassing both the flowering of queer ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    by Bea Fitzgerald ...
    Love caused this war. At least, that's what the stories will say.When Princess Cassandra's patron god, Apollo, offers her the gift of prophecy—and all the power that comes with it—she jumps at the opportunity. But when she fails to uphold her end of the agreement, her prophecy becomes doomed. No one believes her visions of an alluring, lonely girl who is going to start a war.Helen fled Sparta in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD