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  • The Care of Foreigners

    How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare

    by Eram Alam ...
    Series series Global Studies in Medicine, Science, Race, and Colonialism
    Why did South Asian physicians become essential to US health care starting in 1965?For more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs, relying instead on the economically expedient option of soliciting immigrant physicians trained at the expense of other countries. In The Care of Foreigners, Eram Alam examines this migratory dynamic that began during the Cold War ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Ordering the Human

    The Global Spread of Racial Science

    Edited by Eram Alam, Professor Dorothy Roberts, Natalie Shibley ...
    Series Book 15 - Race, Inequality, and Health
    Modern science and ideas of race have long been entangled, sharing notions of order, classification, and hierarchy. Ordering the Human presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the racialization of science in various global contexts, illuminating how racial logics have been deployed to classify, marginalize, and oppress.These wide-ranging essays—written by experts in ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • We Have Never Been Woke

    The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

    by Musa al-Gharbi ...
    How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Is Everyone Really Equal?

    An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

    by Robin DiAngelo, Özlem Sensoy ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This is the long-awaited third edition of the bestselling, multi-awardwinning introduction to foundational concepts in social justice education.Accessible to students from high school through graduate school, this comprehensive resource addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. In response to the deep divides in public discourse, this edition provides a framework ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Economization of Life

    by M. Murphy ...
    What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, M. Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at governing population for the sake of national economy, pinpointing the spread of a potent biopolitical logic ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Handling Conflict Situations - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Best Practices, Benefits and Practical Solutions

    by James Smith ...
    Workplace conflict is a specific type of conflict that occurs in workplaces. The conflicts that arise in workplaces may be shaped by the unique aspects of this environment, including the long hours many people spend at their workplace, the hierarchical structure of the organization, and the difficulties (e.g. financial consequences) that may be involved in switching to a different workplace. In ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Weaponization of Expertise

    How Elites Fuel Populism

    by Jacob Hale Russell, Dennis Patterson ...
    The problem with expertise—and the dark side of the equation “knowledge = power.”Experts are not infallible. Treating them as such has done us all a grave disservice and, as The Weaponization of Expertise makes painfully clear, given rise to the very populism that all-knowing experts and their elite coterie decry. Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson use the devastating example of the COVID-19 ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Sex and World Peace

    by Valerie Hudson, Mary Caprioli, Donna Lee Bowen, Rose McDermott ...
    Sex and World Peace is a groundbreaking demonstration that the security of women is a vital factor in the occurrence of conflict and war, unsettling a wide range of assumptions in political and security discourse. Harnessing an immense amount of data, it relates microlevel violence against women and macrolevel state peacefulness across global settings.The authors find that the treatment of women ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Territories of Poverty

    Rethinking North and South

    by Ananya Roy, Emma Shaw Crane, Jamie Peck, Bill Maurer, Rebecca Peters, Christina Gossman, Alyosha Goldstein, Nik Theodore, Erica Kohl-Arenas0, Hiba Bou Akar1, Stephanie Ullrich2, Luis Flores3, Anh-Thi Le4, Ju Hui Judy Han5, Vincanne Adams6, Stuart Schrader7, Loïc Wacquant8, Teddy Cruz9, Akhil Gupta0, Somaya Abdelgany1, Michael Katz2 ...
    Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Discover Sociology

    by Daina S. Eglitis, William J. Chambliss, Susan L. Wortmann ...
    What key social forces construct and transform our lives as individuals and as members of society? How does our social world shape us? How do we shape our world?Discover Sociology answers these questions as it explores sociology as a discipline of curious and scientific minds. The text is structured around several themes, particularly the unequal distribution of power and authority in all aspects ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD

  • Teaching Social Studies in an Era of Divisiveness

    The Challenges of Discussing Social Issues in a Non-Partisan Way

    by Wayne Journell ...
    Teaching controversial social issues can be a daunting, and oftentimes terrifying, prospect for social studies teachers. In many ways, this fear is warranted given the politically polarized nature of American society in the 21st century. However, effective social studies instruction requires that students begin to grapple with difficult issues in tolerant ways. The chapters in this book, many of ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Diffusion of Social Movements

    Actors, Mechanisms, and Political Effects

    Edited by Rebecca Kolins Givan, Kenneth M. Roberts, Sarah A. Soule ...
    It is widely recognized that social movements may spread - or 'diffuse' - from one site to another. Such diffusion, however, is a complex and multidimensional process that involves different actors, networks, and mechanisms. This complexity has spawned a large body of literature on different aspects of the diffusion process, yet a comprehensive framework remains an elusive target. This book is a ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD