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  • The Mother God Made Me to Be

    by Karen Valentin ...
    My journey from newlywed, to mother of two, to single mom - trying to heal - and become the mother God made me to beKaren lived an adventurous single life but longed for a family of her own. After years of maintaining her vow of purity and waiting for a man who shared her Christian faith, she fell in love with her best friend and co-worker. They married. She bore two sons. They divorced.With humor ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • God Is Just Like Me

    by Karen Valentin, Antonieta Munoz Estrada ...
    "Some days, I think God is just like me."God may be hard to describe, but one young Puerto Rican girl in New York City finds examples of God's character all around her. As she goes day-by-day through the week, she talks to God about the delightful ways she and God are similar. From vivid sunrises and colorful paintings, dancing to music in the park, loud thunderstorms, and fishing on a quiet lake, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Nepal

    Educational Transformations and Avenues of Learning

    Edited by Karen Valentin, Uma Pradhan ...
    Series series Education and Society in South Asia
    What is education, and who counts as an 'educated person' amidst competing religious, political, and pedagogical ideologies, which have shaped contemporary educational practices and institutions in Nepal? How have social and political changes, an increasing commodification of education, a continued reliance on foreign aid, and expanded geographical horizons contributed to a reshaping of the ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-Pandemic South Asia

    Challenges and Possibilities

    Edited by Uma Pradhan, Karen Valentin, Mohini Gupta ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    This edited volume offers new analytical and methodological approaches to the study of education in the post-pandemic educational context, through case studies from countries in South Asia such as Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.Crossing disciplinary and national boundaries to advance collaborative knowledge production in South Asian education, the book explores how different colonial ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Mobility, Education and Life Trajectories

    New and old migratory pathways

    Edited by Karen Valentin, Karen Olwig ...
    Migration for educational purposes, once the privilege of the upper class, has become a global mass phenomenon in recent years. This volume examines, within different cultural and historical contexts, the close relationship between migration, education, and social mobility. Adopting the perspective that education includes a broad range of formative experiences, the chapters explore different ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Schooled for the Future? Educational Policy and Everyday Life Among Urban Squatters in Nepal

    Edited by Karen Valentin ...
    Series series Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies
    “Schooled for the future?” offers an ethnographically rich account about squatter families in Kathmandu and their struggles to improve their living conditions and create a better future through education. Examining how people – children and adults - experience and respond to policy initiatives aimed at improving their life the book discusses the paradoxes inherent in modern schooling. Firstly, ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Pennsylvania

    by Ron Franscell, Karen Valentine ...
    Series series Crime Buff's Guides
    The Cri**me Buff's Guide to Outlaw Pennsylvania is the ultimate guidebook to the crime, injustice, and seedy history of the Keystone State. With photographs, maps, directions, and sites to visit, this collection of outlaw tales serves as both a travel guide and an entertaining and informational read. It is a one-of-a-kind exploration into well-known and more obsure sites in Pennsylvania that ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Elementary Education System in India

    Exploring Institutional Structures, Processes and Dynamics

    Edited by Rashmi Sharma, Vimala Ramachandran ...
    This book focuses on the failure of elementary education since Independence, which is usually seen as the result of simplified phrases like 'lack of political will', 'because of poverty', etc. This book looks at the system as a whole: infrastructure, quality of teaching, privatisation, nutritional incentives, curriculum. It contains samples from two states namely Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Social Construction of Capabilities in a Tamil Village

    by L. N. Venkataraman ...
    Is an equitable distribution of opportunities possible within a stratified social system in which caste-based socio-economic privileges are inherited and social mobility constrained? The Social Construction of Capabilities in a Tamil Village answers this question by analysing the intersections between caste, class and education, and argues that capabilities—that is, the competence or life skills ... Read more

    $31.02 CAD

  • Playing With Fire

    Feminist Thought And Activism Through Seven Lives In India

    by Sangtin Writers, Richa Nagar ...
    Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations among them. Together their personal stories reveal larger themes and questions of sexism, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Welfare Economics of Dr.Amartya Sen and Jain Philosophy

    by Dr. K R Shah ...
    The subject of discussion in this book is the philosophy of welfare Economics. The collective choice and the subjects of freedom through development are discussed in welfare economics. Inequality is to be reduced and basal equality has to be evolved to aid human welfare. The entitlement approach is the only solution for poverty and famine. All four subjects are woven in philosophical thought by Dr ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Modern Migrations

    Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London

    by Maritsa Poros ...
    Although globalization seems like a recent phenomenon linked to migration, some groups have used social networks to migrate great distances for centuries. To gain new insights into migration today, Modern Migrations takes a closer look at the historical presence of globalization and how it has organized migration and social networks. With a focus on the lives of Gujarati Indians in New York and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD