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  • Making Better Coffee

    How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value

    by Edward F. Fischer ...
    An anthropologist uncovers how "great coffee" depends not just on taste, but also on a complex system of values worked out among farmers, roasters, and consumers.What justifies the steep prices commanded by small-batch, high-end Third Wave coffees? Making Better Coffee explores this question, looking at highland coffee farmers in Guatemala and their relationship to the trends that dictate what ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Security

    by Robert Fischer, Edward Halibozek, David Walters ...
    Introduction to Security has been the leading text on private security for over thirty years. Celebrated for its balanced and professional approach, this new edition gives future security professionals a broad, solid base that prepares them to serve in a variety of positions. Security is a diverse and rapidly growing field that is immune to outsourcing. The author team as well as an outstanding ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Cultural Logics and Global Economies

    Maya Identity in Thought and Practice

    by Edward F. Fischer ...
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2002As ideas, goods, and people move with increasing ease and speed across national boundaries and geographic distances, the economic changes and technological advances that enable this globalization are also paradoxically contributing to the balkanization of states, ethnic groups, and special interest movements. Exploring how this process is playing out in ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Tecpan Guatemala

    A Modern Maya Town In Global And Local Context

    by Edward F Fischer, Carol Hendrickson ...
    Series series Case Studies in Anthropology
    This book discusses the indigenous people of Tecpan Guatemala, a predominantly Kaqchikel Maya town in the Guatemalan highlands. It seeks to build on the traditional strengths of ethnography while rejecting overly romantic and isolationist tendencies in the genre. ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Good Life

    Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing

    by Edward F. Fischer ...
    What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups use the market in pursuit of the "good life." But what exactly is the good life? How do we define wellbeing beyond material standards of living? While we all may want to live the good life, we differ widely on just what that entails.In The Good Life, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Good Life

    Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing

    by Edward F. Fischer ...
    What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups use the market in pursuit of the "good life." But what exactly is the good life? How do we define wellbeing beyond material standards of living? While we all may want to live the good life, we differ widely on just what that entails.In The Good Life, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Data Mining: A Practical Beginner’s Guide to Discovering Patterns, Predicting Behavior, and Turning Raw Information Into Insight

    by Edward Fischer ...
    Narrated by Edward Fischer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 54 min

    Master predictive analytics and turn raw data into smart business decisions without writing a single line of code. Whether upskilling on your morning commute or preparing to lead a tech initiative, this empowering guide demystifies artificial intelligence for non-programmers. Step confidently into the boardroom armed with a clear, analytical mindset.Stop feeling overwhelmed by technical jargon and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America

    Edited by Edward F. Fischer ...
    In recent years the concept and study of “civil society” has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society’s growth and critically assesses the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala

    Edited by Edward F. Fischer, R. McKenna Brown ...
    Series series LLILAS Critical Reflections on Latin America Series
    Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala marks a new era in Guatemalan studies by offering an up-to-the-minute look at the pan-Maya movement and the future of the Maya people as they struggle to regain control over their cultural destiny. The successful emergence of what is in some senses a nationalism grounded in ethnicity and language has challenged scholars to reconsider their concepts of ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Lake Street Stories

    by William E Burleson, Stephen Parker, Teresa Ortiz, Will Kaiser, Stephen Wilbers, Marcella Estibill, Edward Sheehy, Don Browne, Lucy Rose Fischer, Barry Madore, Megan Marsnik, Drew Danielson ...
    12 stories from the heart of South Minneapolis: Lake Street.Lake Street cuts across Minneapolis from west to east, from the urbane to the urban to the blue-collar. North and south, it is the dividing line between inner-city neighborhoods and tidy bedroom communities. Lake Street is a polyglot of people from all corners of the world mixing with lifelong Minneapolitans.These stories connect people's ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to Security

    by Robert Fischer, Edward Halibozek, David Walters ...
    Introduction to Security, Tenth Edition, provides an overview of the security industry with an emphasis on the theories of security and loss prevention that have shaped the profession. Security is covered in totality, providing readers with a glimpse of the various and diverse components that make up the security function. This updated book is the latest edition in what has historically been the ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

    Harvest of Violence Revisited

    by David Stoll, Brenda Rosenbaum, Timothy J. Smith, Abigail E Adams, J Jailey Philpot-Munson, Edward F. Fischer, Robert M. Carmack, Jennifer Burrell, Jose Oscar Barrera Nunez, Barbara Bocek0, Monica DeHart1, Peter Benson2, Liliana Goldin3, Judith M. Maxwell4 ...
    Series series Contemporary American Indian Studies
    Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Mayan communities and commitment to conducting research in Mayan ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD