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  • Archival Silences

    Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives

    Edited by Michael Moss, David Thomas ...
    Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections.Including contributions from archivists and scholars working around the world, this truly international collection examines ... Read more

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  • Cultivating Development

    An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice

    by David Mosse ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it impossible to implement?By focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a development project in western India over more than ten years, as it falls under different policy regimes, this book ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Isn't a Game

    by David Moss ...
    Series Book 1 - Jackson Oliver Mysteries
    A smart debut sends Jackson Oliver, head of online gambling casino VegasVegas, headquartered in San Jose, Costa Rica, to a New England village where he suspects someone has gotten away with murder—and used VegasVegas as part of the clever con. Jackson not only feels like a chump for accepting a bet that will cost VegasVegas a hundred grand, he's exposed the casino to blacklisting by the Offshore ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Patriot Builders

    The Early History of The Carpenters’ Company

    by Roger W. Moss ...

    $36.79 CAD

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  • The Saint in the Banyan Tree

    Christianity and Caste Society in India

    by David Mosse ...
    Series Book 14 - The Anthropology of Christianity
    The Saint in the Banyan Tree is a nuanced and historically persuasive exploration of Christianity’s remarkable trajectory as a social and cultural force in southern India. Starting in the seventeenth century, when the religion was integrated into Tamil institutions of caste and popular religiosity, this study moves into the twentieth century, when Christianity became an unexpected source of ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar

    Edited by Edward T. Oakes, S. J., David Moss ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) is one of the most prolific, creative and wide-ranging theologians of the twentieth century who is just now coming to prominence. But because of his own daring speculations about the meaning of Christ's descent into hell after the crucifixion, about the uniqueness of Christ as savior of a pluralistic world, and because he draws so many of his resources for his ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • Dynasties

    The Rise and Fall of Animal Families

    by Stephen Moss ...
    Family isn't just important. It's everything.From lions hunting as a pride to penguins huddling together to keep from freezing in the bitter Antarctic winter, many animals are dependent on complex social relationships for their survival. Powerful dynasties lay claim to vast swathes of territory, fighting off rivals and securing their hunting grounds for generations to come.Dynasties offers an ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Preventing Regulatory Capture

    Special Interest Influence and How to Limit it

    Edited by Daniel Carpenter, David A. Moss ...
    When regulations (or lack thereof) seem to detract from the common good, critics often point to regulatory capture as a culprit. In some academic and policy circles it seems to have assumed the status of an immutable law. Yet for all the ink spilled describing and decrying capture, the concept remains difficult to nail down in practice. Is capture truly as powerful and unpreventable as the ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • When Democracy Breaks

    Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day

    Edited by Archon Fung, David Moss, Odd Arne Westad ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context ... Read more

    $27.59 CAD

  • The Aid Effect

    Giving and Governing in International Development

    Edited by David Mosse, David Lewis ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Today international development policy is converging around ideas of neoliberal reform, democratisation and poverty reduction. What does this mean for the local and international dimensions of aid relationships?The Aid Effect demonstrates the fruitfulness of an ethnographic approach to aid, policy reform and global governance. The contributors provide powerful commentary on hidden processes, ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weather Shamanism

    Harmonizing Our Connection with the Elements

    by Nan Moss ...
    Creating an alliance and working partnership with the spirits of weather to restore well-being and harmony to Earth and ourselves• Reveals that, intentionally or not, we affect the weather not only through our actions but also through our thoughts and emotions• Explains shamanic techniques for working with the spiritual nature of weather• Special section on “weather dancing” details both its ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Government and Markets

    Toward a New Theory of Regulation

    Edited by Edward J. Balleisen, David A. Moss ...
    After two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive governance, alongside public calls for new, smarter regulation. Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market failure models nor public choice ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD