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  • From the Margins

    Stories of Those Living on the Edge

    by Catherine Alexander ...
    FROM THE MARGINS tracks the lives of people on the edge of society who find the strength to bind together and break free. These stories provide a bird's eye view of the inner lives of prostitutes, crazies, alcoholics, and oddballs, probe their humanity, and celebrate the redemption they find in each other and their own souls. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Deep Water Dream

    A Medical Voyage of Discovery in Rural Northern Ontario

    by Gretchen Roedde ...
    Narrated by Catherine Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 4 min

    A hopeful memoir that shares the author’s voyage of discovery as a mother, wife, and physician in underserved communities in northern Ontario.In underserved areas of Canada, the communities themselves can be one of the strongest parts of the health care team. Dr. Gretchen Roedde shows how local communities play a major role in responding to illness, birth, and death, making each more meaningful ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Thrift and Its Paradoxes

    From Domestic to Political Economy

    Edited by Catherine Alexander, Daniel Sosna ...
    Series Book 10 - Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
    Thrift is a central concern for most people, especially in turbulent economic times. It is both an economic and an ethical logic of frugal living, saving and avoiding waste for long-term kin care. These logics echo the ancient ideal of household self-sufficiency, contrasting with capitalism’s wasteful present-focused growth. But thrift now exceeds domestic matters straying across scales to justify ... Read more

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  • Ed says U said

    Eating Disorder Translator

    by Catherine Sangster, June Alexander, Susan Ringwood ...
    When an eating disorder (ED) is involved, the problems caused by miscommunication can have serious consequences. A remark from a parent that is intended as positive encouragement could act as a trigger and a criticism from someone with an ED might really be a cry for help.This book aims to improve communication between someone with an eating disorder and their friends and family by revealing the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Social Cure

    Identity, Health and Well-Being

    Edited by Jolanda Jetten, Catherine Haslam, S. Alexander Haslam ...
    A growing body of research shows that social networks and identities have a profound impact on mental and physical health. With such mounting evidence of the importance of social relationships in protecting health, the challenge we face is explaining why this should be the case. What is it that social groups offer that appears to be just as beneficial as a daily dose of vitamin C or regular ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Economies of Recycling

    The Global Transformation of Materials, Values and Social Relations

    Edited by Catherine Alexander, Joshua Reno ...
    For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to China, the sheer scale of this global trade has not yet been clearly identified or analysed. Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with overviews of international material ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Socialist Escapes

    Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989

    Edited by Cathleen M. Giustino, Catherine J. Plum, Alexander Vari ...
    During much of the Cold War, physical escape from countries in the Eastern Bloc was a nearly impossible act. There remained, however, possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time spent free from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life. The essays in this volume examine sites of socialist escapes, such as beaches, campgrounds, nightclubs, concerts, castles, cars, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Episode 2: The Magic Flute

    by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bert Alexander Petzold, Classics for Children - Audio Dramas with Music ...
    Narrated by Eva Russel, Gale Van Gott, Kevin Ford, David Johnston, Peter Baker, Catherine Campion, Will de Meo ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Classics for Children - Audio Dramas with Music

    Unabridged

    45 min

    "Hansel and Gretel" is a full-cast audio drama, presented as an exciting adventure for children, featuring famous melodies, exquisite themes and outstanding voice actors. Hansel and Gretel are sent into the forest by their mother to collect berries as punishment. The siblings become lost at twilight and discover the gingerbread house of an ugly old witch. She enchants the children and plans to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe

    Strategies, Challenges and Future Research

    Edited by Catherine Bolzendahl, Farida Jalalzai, Amy C. Alexander ...
    Series series Gender and Politics
    This volume brings together leading gender and politics scholars to assess how women’s political empowerment can best be conceptualized and measured on a global scale. It argues that women’s political empowerment is a fundamental process of transformation for benchmarking and understanding all political empowerment gains across the globe. Chapters improve our global understanding of women's ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Low-Complexity Controllers for Time-Delay Systems

    Edited by Alexandre Seuret, Hitay Özbay, Catherine Bonnet, Hugues Mounier ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This volume in the newly established series Advances in Delays and Dynamics (ADD@S) provides a collection of recent results on the design and analysis of Low Complexity Controllers for Time Delay Systems. A widely used indirect method to obtain low order controllers for time delay systems is to design a controller for the reduced order model of the plant. In the dual indirect approach, an infinite ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Indeterminacy

    Waste, Value, and the Imagination

    Edited by Catherine Alexander, Andrew Sanchez ...
    Series Book 7 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    What happens to people, places and objects that do not fit the ordering regimes and progressive narratives of modernity? Conventional understandings imply that progress leaves such things behind, and excludes them as though they were valueless waste. This volume uses the concept of indeterminacy to explore how conditions of exclusion and abandonment may give rise to new values, as well as to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays

    Edited by Catherine M. S. Alexander ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Which plays are included under the heading 'Shakespeare's last plays', and when does Shakespeare's 'last' period begin? What is meant by a 'late play', and what are the benefits in defining plays in this way? Reflecting the recent growth of interest in late studies, and recognising the gaps in accessible scholarship on this area, in this book leading international Shakespeare scholars address ... Read more

    Was $36.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD