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  • Writing Deafness

    The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Christopher Krentz ...
    Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American society. Krentz demonstrates that deaf and hearing authors used writing to explore their ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Elusive Kinship

    Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature

    by Christopher Krentz ...
    Characters with disabilities are often overlooked in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and others. These authors deploy disability to do important cultural work, writes Christopher Krentz in his innovative study, Elusive Kinship. Such representations not only ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • A Mighty Change

    An Anthology of Deaf American Writing, 1816 - 1864

    Edited by Christopher Krentz ...
    Series Book 2 - Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies
    “I need not tell you that a mighty change has taken place within the last half century, a change for the better,” Alphonso Johnson, the president of the Empire State Association of Deaf-Mutes, signed to hundreds of assembled deaf people in 1869. Johnson pointed to an important truth: the first half of the 19th century was a period of transformation for deaf Americans, a time that saw the rise of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Sex and World Peace

    by Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, Valerie Hudson, Chad Emmett ...
    Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of conflict and war.The authors compare micro-level gender violence and macro-level state peacefulness in global settings, supporting their findings with detailed analyses and color maps. Harnessing an ... Read more

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  • Big Gods

    How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict

    by Ara Norenzayan ...
    How did human societies scale up from small, tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today--even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with "Big Gods"--the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths--spread to colonize most minds in the world? In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan makes the surprising and provocative ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • God Is Watching You

    How the Fear of God Makes Us Human

    by Dominic Johnson ...
    "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." The biblical story of the flood crystalizes--in its terrifying, dramatic simplicity--the universally recognized concept of divine punishment. For millennia human civilizations have relied on such beliefs to ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Right to Maim

    Debility, Capacity, Disability

    by Jasbir K. Puar ...
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    In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors—to disrupt the category of disability. She shows how ... Read more

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  • The Nonreligious

    Understanding Secular People and Societies

    by Phil Zuckerman, Luke W. Galen, Frank L. Pasquale ...
    The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analysis of existing social scientific research on secular people and societies. The authors present a thorough overview of existing knowledge while ... Read more

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  • The Global Intercultural Communication Reader

    Edited by Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin ...
    The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is the first anthology to take a distinctly non-Eurocentric approach to the study of culture and communication. In this expanded second edition, editors Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, and Jing Yin bring together thirty-two essential readings for students of cross-cultural, intercultural, and international communication. This stand-out collection ... Read more

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  • The Ritual Animal

    Imitation and Cohesion in the Evolution of Social Complexity

    by Harvey Whitehouse ...
    A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such as access to food, but only humans promiscuously copy actions that have no obvious instrumental purpose. The copying of causally opaque behaviour ... Read more

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  • Speciesism, Painism and Happiness

    A Morality for the Twenty-First Century

    by Richard D. Ryder ...
    Series Book 47 - Societas
    Richard Ryder created the term speciesism in early 1970 and shared the idea with Peter Singer, who popularised it in his classic work Animal Liberation (1975). A key figure in the modern animal rights revival Ryder appeared on the first-ever televised discussion of animal rights (The Lion's Share, Scottish Television) in December 1970. He further promoted the ideas around speciesism in recorded ... Read more

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