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  • Dilemmas in Youth Work and Youth Development Practice

    by Laurie Ross, Shane Capra, Lindsay Carpenter, Julia Hubbell, Kathrin Walker ...
    The fundamental aim of youth work is to build trusting and mutually respectful relationships with young people, creating transformative experiences for young people in formal and informal spaces outside of homes and schools. These complex and multidimensional situations mean that the day-to-day work of youth workers is full of dilemmas, pitting moral, developmental, motivational, organizational, ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Towards a Community of Antiracist Praxis in Higher Education

    Transformative Principles, Practices, and Resources for the Classroom

    Edited by Jie Y. Park, Laurie Ross ...
    Weaving together theory, research, and practice, this edited volume provides rich accounts of teaching from faculty at a predominantly white institution who participated in a community of antiracist praxis – a cycle of action and reflection on pedagogy.The chapters highlight the ways in which faculty can transform classrooms and colorblind discourses in higher education. They center the voices of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Looking Beyond Suppression

    Community Strategies to Reduce Gang Violence

    by Carolyn Boyes-Watson, Anthony A. Braga, Ellen Foley, David M. Hureau, Erin McLaughlin, Nicole Rivers-Kustanovitz, Laurie Ross, Kim Tobin, Russell Wolff, Jack McDevitt, Sean P. Varano ...
    This edited book significantly contributes to the knowledge on how to address gang problems from a broad community perspective, which takes into account criminal justice agencies, social service providers, and community leaders, along with police, who have implemented collaborative anti-gang policies and practices. As community-wide efforts become more common, it is increasingly important to ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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    The Cleveland John Doe Case

    by Thibault Raisse ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...
    Series series Fifty States of Crime

    Unabridged

    3 hours 31 min

    Ohio. A suicide, no fingerprints, no identity.In July 2002, the Eastlake police discovered a decomposed body in a modest studio apartment in Cleveland, Ohio. It appeared to be a suicide by firearm. The man was Joseph Newton Chandler III, a retiree whom neighbors and former colleagues described as quiet, secretive, and strange. But as the investigation progressed, less and less about Joseph's life ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Early Birds

    by Laurie Graham ...
    Narrated by Liza Ross ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    'Why is Laurie Graham not carried on people's shoulders through cheering crowds? Her books are brilliant!' MARIAN KEYESThe Early Birds is the feel-good and funny follow-up to The Future Homemakers of America that proves that no matter what life throws at you, great friends and regular cocktails will always see you through.Peggy, the southern belle. Kath, the pragmatist with the only Norfolk accent ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The South Side

    A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation

    by Natalie Y. Moore ...
    **One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American CityIn this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation in the city's South Side; with a memoirist's eye, she showcases the lives of these communities ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What is Counselling and Psychotherapy?

    by Norman Claringbull ...
    Series series Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice Series
    Written specifically for students on counselling and psychotherapy courses, this book gives an overview of the profession from its early beginnings in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis through the development of the different schools and approaches of talking therapies including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural and person-centred approaches. Working within various sectors, such as the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    by Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Cities and the Wealth of Nations

    by Jane Jacobs ...
    In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported goods with locally-produced alternatives, spurring a cycle of vibrant economic growth. Intelligently ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924

    The Irish Civil War

    by Padraig Yeates ...
    The long-awaited concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates' 'Dublin at War' trilogyIn A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921–1924, acclaimed historian Pádraig Yeates turns his attention to Ireland's bloody and hard-fought Civil War and its impact on the capital city and its inhabitants.The fascinating A City in Civil War tells the story of Dublin's troubled passage to independence amidst the acrimony and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Places

    Urbanism / Architecture / Identity / Power

    by Kim Dovey ...
    About the practices and politics of place and identity formation – the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are – this book exposes the relations of place to power. It links everyday aspects of place experience to the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu in a very readable manner. This is a book that takes the social critique of built form another step through ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Grief and the Expressive Arts

    Practices for Creating Meaning

    Edited by Barbara E. Thompson, Robert A. Neimeyer ...
    Series series Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement
    The use of the arts in psychotherapy is a burgeoning area of interest, particularly in the field of bereavement, where it is a staple intervention in hospice programs, children’s grief camps, specialized programs for trauma or combat exposure, work with bereaved parents, widowed elders or suicide survivors, and in many other contexts. But how should clinicians differentiate between the many ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD