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  • Peru - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    Series series Culture Smart!
    Don't just see the sights—get to know the people.Peru's distinctive Spanish and indigenous cultures that first encountered each other five hundred years ago have progressively integrated. However, the ongoing process of mixing raises questions about the nature of Peruvian identity, and Peruvian society remains economically and culturally divided.Culture Smart! Peru introduces you to the changing ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Cultural Customs

    From Superstitions to Holiday Events

    by John Forrest ...
    Examining the origins of a wide variety of cultural conventions, including calendar customs, folklore, annual holidays, and ethnic identity, this work uses a critical lens to evaluate popular understanding. It suggests that common opinions in this realm are often misinterpreted and considers why this is the case. It also asks why people care about such questions: some, such as the origin of the ... Read more

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    SELF-REGULATION SKILLS

    How To Control And Regulate The Learning Process

    Narrated by John Sullivan ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 40 min

    Self-regulation can be defined in various ways. In the most basic sense, it involves controlling one's behavior, emotions, and thoughts to pursue long-term goals. More specifically, emotional self-regulation refers to managing disruptive emotions and impulses. In other words, to think before acting. It also reflects the ability to cheer yourself up after disappointments and work in a way ... Read more

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  • Home For Christmas

    A Family Saga of Rural Canada

    by John Forrest ...
    "Home For Christmas - A Family Saga of Rural Canada " is an exciting fictional follow-up to Forrest's best selling "Angels Stars and Trees" collection of holiday tales. This fresh anthology of joyous and uplifting Christmas stories recounts the drama, humour and joy of yuletide as the Stones, a depression era farm family, thrive through the challenges of two decades of Christmas adventures. ... Read more

    $5.98 CAD

  • Lord I'm Coming Home

    Everyday Aesthetics in Tidewater North Carolina

    by John Forrest ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Lord I'm Coming Home focuses on a small, white, rural fishing community on the southern reaches of the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina. By means of a new kind of anthropological fieldwork, John Forrest seeks to document the entire aesthetic experience of a group of people, showing the aesthetic to be an "everyday experience and not some rarefied and pure behavior reserved for an artistic ... Read more

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  • A Chosen Faith

    An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism

    For those contemplating religious choices, Unitarian Universalism offers an appealing alternative to religious denominations that stress theological creeds over individual conviction and belief. In this new edition of the classic introductory text on Unitarian Universalism, which includes a revealing, entertaining foreword by best-selling author Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • An Introduction to Holistic Anthropology

    Combines anthropology’s four subfields to explore what it means to be humanIntroduction to Holistic Anthropology invites students to rediscover anthropology as Franz Boas once envisioned it — a unified discipline that integrates biological, historical, linguistic, and cultural perspectives to understand human diversity and commonality. In contrast to the fragmented state of the field today, where ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Angels Stars and Trees

    Tales of Christmas Magic

    by John Forrest ...
    An anthlogy of Christmas stories, this book features seven illustratedstories which evoke nostalgic, humourous and touching reminiscences about home, family and the Christmas season. In the tradition of O'Henry's "Gift of the Magi" this collection captures that special time of year when people become larger than themselves, when the atmosphere crackles with anticipation and miracles do happen. In ... Read more

    $5.98 CAD

  • Subject Lessons

    Life Histories as Reciprocal Empowerment

    by John Forrest ...
    Life histories are a class of oral data distinct from memoirs, autobiography, and conventional history in multiple ways. It is a way to lay out the felt experience of events in people’s everyday lives and not simply the statement of historical facts. As narrated pieces, life histories possess the unique voice of the individuals. Collecting data through life histories enables the interviewer ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Explorations in Australia

    by John Forrest ...
    Explorations in search of Dr. Leichardt and party. 2. From Perth to Adelaide, around the Great Australian Bight. 3. From Champion Bay, across the desert to the telegraph and to Adelaide. With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia. First published in 1875. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Doing Field Projects

    Methods and Practice for Social and Anthropological Research

    by John Forrest ...
    A must-read guide to conducting qualitative field research in the social sciencesDoing Field Projects: Methods and Practice for Social and Anthropological Research delivers a thorough and insightful introduction to qualitative field methods in the social sciences. Ideal for undergraduate students just starting out in fields like anthropology, sociology, and related subjects, the book offers ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • A Brief History of Orillia: Ontario's Sunshine City

    by Dennis Rizzo ...
    Series series Brief History
    Local author Dennis Rizzo tells the fascinating and diverse history of Orillia, Ontario. First populated by the Huron, Iroquois and Chippewa Nations, Orillia is now a well-loved, year-round recreation destination. Its history is deeply tied to its water. Situated in the narrows where Lake Simcoe flows into Lake Couchiching, Orillia was a gathering place for centuries before Europeans used it to ... Read more

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