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  • Quiet Riot

    The Culture of Teaching and Learning in Schools

    by Diane Hoffman ...
    Quiet Riot offers an anthropological critique of teaching and learning in two U.S. high schools over a twenty-seven year period. Based on the author's experiences shadowing two average students in 1983 and 2009, it presents detailed observations that powerfully capture the reality of student experiences in school. Despite many changes in schools over this near thirty year period, observations show ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • A Critical Anthropology of Childhood in Haiti

    Emotion, Power, and White Saviors

    by Diane M. Hoffman ...
    This book offers a critical anthropological perspective on contemporary childhood in Haiti. It is based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of 13 years with vulnerable children in Haiti. Diane M. Hoffman raises important questions about how interventions by well-meaning foreigners and 'white saviors' often misrepresent Haitian culture and society as deficient, while ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Parenting in Global Perspective

    Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics

    Edited by Charlotte Faircloth, Diane M. Hoffman, Linda L. Layne ...
    Series series Relationships and Resources
    Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of ‘parenting’.Parenting in Global Perspective examines the significance of ‘parenting’ as a subject of professional expertise, and activity in which adults are increasingly expected to be emotionally absorbed and become personally fulfilled. By focusing the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Texts in Elementary Classrooms

    Edited by James V. Hoffman, Diane Lemonnier Schallert ...
    This CIERA sponsored book is based on the premise that high-quality texts of all kinds are essential to good teaching in elementary classrooms. Experts on a variety of text-related topics were asked to summarize existing research and then apply it to literacy development in an "ideal" classroom. The most comprehensive and up-to-date book in its field, it moves progressively from an examination of ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

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    Fraternity

    In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history.

    by Diane Brady ...
    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 53 min

    **NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYSan Francisco Chronicle • The Plain DealerThe inspiring true story of a group of young men whose lives were changed by a visionary mentor**On April 4, 1968, the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., shocked the nation. Later that month, the Reverend John Brooks, a professor of theology at the College of the Holy Cross who shared Dr. King’s dream of an ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    The Presidents Club

    Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

    by Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy ...
    Narrated by Bob Walter ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 1 min

    The New York Times bestselling history of the private relationships among the last thirteen presidents—the partnerships, private deals, rescue missions, and rivalries of those select men who served as commander in chief.The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower’s inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, is a complicated place: its members are bound forever by the experience of ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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    The Other Boleyn Girl

    by Philippa Gregory ...
    Narrated by Vanessa Kirby ...
    Series Audiobook 9 - The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    The #1 New York Times bestseller from “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) and the author of Boleyn Traitor Philippa Gregory is a rich, compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue surrounding the Tudor court of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the infamous Boleyn family.When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of the handsome and charming Henry ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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    No Easy Day

    The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

    by Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer ...
    Narrated by Holter Graham ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 50 min

    The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Zealot

    The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

    by Reza Aslan ...
    Narrated by Reza Aslan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of No god but God comes “a lucid, intelligent page-turner” (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus.“Riveting . . . [Reza] Aslan synthesizes Scripture and scholarship to create an original account.”—The New YorkerTwo thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • English Language Education Across Greater China

    by Anwei FENG ...
    This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and, at the same time, in-depth examination of the spread of English and English language education across Greater China. It consists of two parts. Part 1 presents rich sociolinguistic data for easy comparisons between mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao, while Part 2 explores in depth the phenomena inside mainland China to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Mental Health in China

    Change, Tradition, and Therapeutic Governance

    by Jie Yang ...
    Series series China Today
    China's massive economic restructuring in recent decades has generated alarming incidences of mental disorder affecting over one hundred million people. This timely book provides an anthropological analysis of mental health in China through an exploration of psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosocial practices, and the role of the State.The book offers a critical study of new ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Introducing Intercultural Communication

    Global Cultures and Contexts

    by Shuang Liu, Zala Volcic, Cindy Gallois ...
    Taking a global and critical perspective, this textbook presents the concepts, theories and applications from the field of intercultural communication in a lively and easy-to-follow style.Covering all the essential topics, from immigration and intercultural conflict, to intercultural health communication and communication in the workplace, this cutting-edge 4th edition:Explains the key theories ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD