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  • Flow For Dummies

    by Julia F. Christensen ...
    Own Your Flow: Simple Strategies to Get in the Zone and Stay ThereMost of us have experienced being “in the zone.” It's an engaged and immersive mindset that leads to seemingly effortless creativity and productivity. Brain scientists and psychologists have a word for this state: flow.In Flow For Dummies, renowned neuroscientist Dr. Julia F. Christensen walks you through the science of flow. She ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • No Home in a Homeland

    Indigenous Peoples and Homelessness in the Canadian North

    by Julia Christensen ...
    The Dene, a traditionally nomadic people, have no word for homelessness, a rare condition in the Canadian North prior to the 1990s. In No Home in a Homeland, Julia Christensen documents the rise of Indigenous homelessness and argues that this alarming trend will continue so long as policy makers continue to ignore northern perspectives and root causes, which lie deep in the region’s colonial past ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Dancing Is the Best Medicine

    The Science of How Moving to a Beat Is Good for Body, Brain, and Soul

    by Julia F. Christensen, Dong-Seon Chang ...
    Translated by Katharina Rout ...
    “Lively and enlightening.”—Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post“[A] zippy guide to better health.”—Publisher’s Weekly STARRED ReviewDiscover why humans were designed for dancing—and learn how to boogie for better health—with two neuroscientists as your guide.Dancing is one of the best things we can do for our health. In this groundbreaking and fun-to-read book, two neuroscientists (who are also ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North

    Edited by Julia Christensen, Sally Carraher, Travis Hedwig, Steven Arnfjord ...
    Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North brings together leading scholars on northern urban housing across the Canadian North, Alaska, and Greenland. Through various case studies, the contributors examine the ways in which housing insecurity and homelessness provide a critical lens on the social dimensions of northern urbanization. They also present key considerations in the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Activating the Heart

    Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing, and Relationship

    Edited by Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox, Lisa Szabo-Jones ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. The collection pays particular attention to the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge frameworks and extends into other ways of knowing in works where scholars have embraced ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Arts and The Brain

    Psychology and Physiology Beyond Pleasure

    by Julia F. Christensen, Antoni Gomila ...
    Series Book 237 - Progress in Brain Research
    The Arts and the Brain: Psychology and Physiology beyond Pleasure, Volume 237, combines the work of an excellent group of experts who explain evidence on the neural and biobehavioral science of the arts. Topics covered include the emergence of early art and the evolution of human culture, the interaction between cultural and biological evolutionary processes in generating artistic creation, the ... Read more

    $254.39 CAD

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    Dancing Is the Best Medicine

    The Science of How Moving to a Beat Is Good for Body, Brain, and Soul

    by Julia F Christensen, Dong-Seon Chang ...
    Narrated by Kristina Lao ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    “Lively and enlightening.”—Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post“[A] zippy guide to better health.”—Publisher’s Weekly STARRED ReviewDiscover why humans were designed for dancing—and learn how to boogie for better health—with two neuroscientists as your guide.Dancing is one of the best things we can do for our health. In this groundbreaking and fun-to-read book, two neuroscientists (who are also ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Indigenous Homelessness

    Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

    by Paul Andrew, Tim Aubry, Yale Belanger, Cynthia Bird, Christina Birdsall-Jones, Marleny M. Bonnycastle, Deidre Brown, Rebecca Cherner, Patricia Franks, Susan Farrell0, Joshua Freistadt1, Charmaine Green2, Kelly Greenop3, Shiloh Groot4, Darrin Hodgetts5, Selena Kern6, Pita Richard Wiremu King7, Fran Klodawsky8, Gabrielle Lindstrom9, Paul Memmott0, Daphne Nash1, Julia Parrel2, Sarah Prout3, Mohi Rua4, Rebecca Schiff5, Rebecca Schiff6, Annette Siddle7, Maureen Simpkins8, Barbara A. Smith9, Wilfreda E. Thurston0, Alina Turner1, David Turner2, Jeanette Waegemakers Schiff3, Tiniwai Chas Te Whetu4, Rob Willetts5 ...
    Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related attempts at assimilation that disrupted Indigenous practices, languages, and cultures—including ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Academic Integrity in Canada

    An Enduring and Essential Challenge

    Edited by Sarah Elaine Eaton, Julia Christensen Hughes ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book presents original contributions and thought leadership on academic integrity from a variety of Canadian scholars. It showcases how our understanding and support for academic integrity have progressed, while pointing out areas urgently requiring more attention.Firmly grounded in the scholarly literature globally, it engages with the experience of local practicioners. It ... Read more

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  • Why I Like This Story

    by Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Who You Know

    Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students' Networks

    by Julia Freeland Fisher ...
    Improve student outcomes with a new approach to relationships and networksRelationships matter. Who You Know explores this simple idea to give teachers and school administrators a fresh perspective on how to break the pattern of inequality in American classrooms. It reveals how schools can invest in the power of relationships to increase social mobility for their students.Discussions about ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Understanding and Responding to Complex Challenges

    by Brian W. Head ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is an open access book.This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and the preferred ‘solution’ being strongly contested. It contextualises the debate using a wide range of relevant policy examples, explaining why these issues attract so much attention.There is an increasing ... Read more

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