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  • Women and Public Service

    Barriers, Challenges and Opportunities

    by Mohamad G. Alkadry, Leslie E Tower ...
    This book tackles the challenges that women face in the workplace generally and in the public sector particularly. While Women and Public Service spends time identifying and describing the problems that women faced in the past, it pays special attention to identifying possible remedies to these problems, and also surveys progress made in recent decades. The authors present the challenge of ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Tower, The

    Major Poems and Plays

    by Owen Barfield ...
    Owen Barfield is known primarily for his many publications on the evolution of consciousness and the essential reframing of cultural history that results from this theory. At the center of his philosophy is a deep analysis of mythology and poetics that draws from Coleridge, Steiner, and others to reveal the noetic role of the poetic principle and its salient shifts that map the evolution of ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Family-Friendly Policies and Practices in Academe

    by Erin K. Anderson, Catherine White Berheide, Debra L. Berke, Molly Carnes, Jo Handelsman, Virginia Clark Johnson, Rona J. Karasik, Rena Linden, Stacey Oliker, Christine Maidl Pribbenow0, Brandy A. Randall1, Scott D. Scheer2, Amanda I. Seligman3, Jennifer Sheridan4, Leslie E. Tower5, Amy Wendt6, Catherine Richards Solomon7 ...
    This volume discusses why faculty and administrators of academe should care about implementing family-friendly policies and practices, as well as how they can advocate for policy changes.In section one, the book’s focus is on empirical studies that demonstrate the need for innovative programs and policies for faculty at colleges and universities. These pieces explore issues such as the value of ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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    How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

    by Howard W. French ...
    From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Busting the Barricades

    What I Saw at the Populist Revolt

    by Laura Ingraham ...
    Previously published as Billionaire at the Barricades.Americans didn't just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement he represents?In Busting the Barricades, ... Read more

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  • The Rise of the Outsiders

    How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

    by Steve Richards ...
    Something strange has been happening. All over the world, people are angry and rejecting the establishment like never before. Britain votes Brexit. Trump promises walls in America. Corbyn promises a new socialism in the UK. Tsipras in Greece. Podemos in Spain. Marine Le Pen in France. Norbert Hofer in Austria. The list goes on. Why has the mainstream lost support? Why are the outsiders flourishing ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for Catalonia

    Rebel Politics in Spain

    by Raphael Minder ...
    Every year on 11 September, Catalonia celebrates its Diada, its National Day. But the Diada of 2012 was like none other, as an enormous crowd calling for Catalan independence took over the heart of Barcelona. Despite the carnival-like atmosphere that day, the people were very serious about their demands. On the back of this show of force, Catalonia's governing politicians turned secessionist ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Crusade 2.0

    The West's Resurgent War on Islam

    by John Feffer ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    In his official response to the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush invoked the Crusades, tapping into a centuries-long history of fear and aggression. The West's longstanding perception of Islam as a threat has taken on new and more complex implications in the twenty-first century, as years of migration and resulting demographic shifts have brought the "enemy" within Western borders. Virulent ... Read more

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  • Nationalisms

    The Nation-State and Nationalism in the Twentieth Century

    by Montserrat Guibernau ...
    This is a comprehensive and accessible account of the nature of nationalism, which has re-emerged as one of the fundamental forces shaping world society today. ... Read more

    $28.75 CAD

  • Trouble in the Tribe

    The American Jewish Conflict over Israel

    by Dov Waxman ...
    How Israel is dividing American JewsTrouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing numbers of American Jews have become less willing to unquestioningly support Israel and more willing to publicly criticize its government. More than ever before, American Jews are arguing about Israeli policies, and many, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Speaking of Spain

    The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World

    by Antonio Feros ...
    Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century. A royal marriage united Castile and Aragon, its two largest kingdoms. The last Muslim emirate on the Iberian Peninsula fell to Spanish Catholic armies. And conquests in the Americas were turning Spain into a great empire. Yet few in this period of flourishing Spanish power could define “Spain” concretely, or say with any confidence who were ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Conceiving a Nation

    The Development of Political Discourse in the Hebrew Bible

    by Mira Morgenstern ...
    Current conflicts in both national and international arenas have undermined the natural, organic concept of nationhood as conventionally espoused in the nineteenth century. Conceiving a Nation argues that the modern understanding of the nation as a contested concept—as the product of a fluid and ongoing process of negotiation open to a range of livable solutions—is actually rooted in the Bible ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD