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  • Singing and Survival

    The Music of Easter Island

    by Dan Bendrups ...
    An exemplary investigation into music and sustainability, Singing and Survival tells the story of how music helped the Rapanui people of Easter Island to preserve their unique cultural heritage. Easter Island (or Rapanui), known for the iconic headstones (moai) that dot the island landscape, has a remarkable and enduring presence in global popular culture where it has been portrayed as a place of ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Música de Chiloé

    Folklore, Syncretism, and Cultural Development in a Chilean Aquapelago

    by Dan Bendrups, Philip Hayward, Dr. Waldo Garrido ...
    The islands of Chiloé, in southern Chile, have developed a distinct culture over several centuries, blending indigenous traditions and Spanish settler heritage to create a vibrant pattern of folklore, music, dance, and related creative practices. This cultural heritage has become an important aspect of the islands’ identity and is key to their successful marketing as a tourist destination. However ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Music, Health and Wellbeing

    Exploring Music for Health Equity and Social Justice

    Edited by Naomi Sunderland, Natalie Lewandowski, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Dan Bendrups ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing. It examines music participation as a determinant of wellbeing and as a transformative tool to impact on wider social, cultural and environmental conditions. Uniquely, in this volume health and wellbeing outcomes are conceptualised on a continuum, with potential effects ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD

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    A Memoir of My Father

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    "As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes…I wasn't altogether sure about one thing: was it just a dream?"When Augusten ... Read more

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  • Switching Time

    A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

    by Richard Baer ...
    In 1989, a woman walked into Dr. Richard Baer’s office asking for help with memory loss. Thus begins the first and only complete account of Dissociative Identity Disorder treatment told from inside the consulting room.“An absorbing journey through a psychiatrist’s dauntingly challenging first case—from the beginning of therapy to stable integration and recovery. Vivid, loaded with fascinating ... Read more

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  • American Dream

    Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare

    by Jason DeParle ...
    In this definitive work, two-time Pulitzer finalist Jason DeParle, author of A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves, cuts between the mean streets of Milwaukee and the corridors of Washington to produce a masterpiece of literary journalism. At the heart of the story are three cousins whose different lives follow similar trajectories. Leaving welfare, Angie puts her heart in her work. Jewell bets on an ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health

    Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems

    Edited by Teresa L. Scheid, Tony N. Brown ...
    The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading scholars and researchers present an overview of historical, social and institutional frameworks. Part I examines social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis and the measurement of mental health and illness, theories that explain the definition ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • The Joy of Smoking: The Light-Hearted Look at Lighting Up

    by Sue Carroll & Sue Brealy ...
    Tired of being told to quit, put it out, stand outside, have some consideration, think about your health ...? The list of complaints against smokers would take much longer than a fag break to read out, and many of us (even those who don't smoke) have had just about enough of it! The passive whingeing we endure from the self-righteous is enough to have anyone gasping for another ciggie! Leaping to ... Read more

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  • Safeguarding Adults and the Law

    by Michael Mandelstam ...
    The safeguarding of vulnerable adults continues to increase in importance. Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its second edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students.The book covers, for example, Department of Health guidelines, human rights, the regulation of health and social care providers, the ... Read more

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  • Struggles In (Elderly) Care

    A Feminist View

    by Hanne Marlene Dahl ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political processes, including the forces of globalisation and the de-gendering of care, have changed how we might understand this national and global political concern. Emerging discourses such as neoliberalism have also reframed elderly care to increase existing ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • Helping Babies and Children Aged 0-6 to Heal After Family Violence

    A Practical Guide to Infant- and Child-Led Work

    by Dr. Wendy Bunston ...
    After family violence, very young children and babies benefit from child-led therapy, but how do you achieve this? Dr. Wendy Bunston's guide is here to help you to meet the emotional needs of children who are experiencing trauma, and to enable them to form healthy attachments, both within their families and beyond.As well as clearly explaining the consequences of domestic violence on young ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • The Madness of Our Lives

    Experiences of Mental Breakdown and Recovery

    by Penny Gray ...
    `The Madness of our Lives is a worthy contribution to the literature on first person accounts of mental distress and illness. Its strength is in the range of experiences it canvasses, and in the freedom given to interviewees to tell their own stories. This is a highly readable and informative book.'- Metapsychology Online`The Madness of our Lives consists largely of transcribed interviews with ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD