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    The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue

    by Lauren Weber ...
    Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely using his car's turn signals-to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, when she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway ... Read more

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  • Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of English Literature

    Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of Literature explores the educational potential of empathy for literary studies across a historical, generic and geographic continuum. The book draws on interdisciplinary methodologies to offer new readings of popularly taught literary texts and discuss their relation to empathy. As a result, the book resists neoliberalism’s commodification of empathy and makes ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    In Cheap We Trust

    The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue

    by Lauren Weber ...
    Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 5 min

    Cheap.Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely using his car's turn signals-to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, when she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marcia's Madness

    Series Book 5 - The Sisters Eight
    “The Sisters Eight is really suspenseful and funny.” —Indrani, age 10“I love the Sisters Eight series because I love mysteries. My cousins and friends and my sister and I like to play the Sisters Eight, and we are each a different sister.” —Claire, age 8“I like it!” —Ian, age 5 Questions! Questions! Questions! The Sisters Eight have so many questions and so few answers! Luckily, one more month ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Teaching as if Learning Matters

    Pedagogies of Becoming by Next-Generation Faculty

    Series series Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
    Teaching is an essential skill in becoming a faculty member in any institution of higher education. Yet how is that skill actually acquired by graduate students? Teaching as if Learning Matters collects first-person narratives from graduate students and new PhDs that explore how the skills required to teach at a college level are developed. It examines the key issues that graduate students face as ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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