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  • History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East

    From Orientalism to the Arab Spring

    by Lisa Pollard, Mona L. Russell ...
    Series series Gender History Around the Globe
    This introductory text explores the gendered history of the modern Middle East, from the eighteenth century to the present, studying the various ways in which gender has defined the region and shaped relations in the modern era.The book captures three aspects of change simultaneously: the events that mark the “modern” Middle East, women’s encounters with the transition to modernity and gendered ... Read more

    Was $81.99 CAD Now $72.82 CAD

  • Families of a New World

    Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global Context

    Edited by Lynne Haney, Lisa Pollard ...
    From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it's hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today's world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was. Families of a New World brings together an important collection of original works to examine our understanding of family around the world and how that understanding is shaped by state policy. Using ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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    Wisdom-Based Business

    Applying Biblical Principles and Evidence-Based Research for a Purposeful and Profitable Business

    by Hannah J. Stolze ...
    Narrated by Lisa Larsen ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    Make Your Business Purposeful and ProfitableAt its best, business is both purposeful and profitable, dynamic and gainful, commercial and rewarding. Far from being opposites, good business and good behavior go hand-in-hand, and biblical principles can align with best practices. In Wisdom-Based Business, marketing and supply-chain professor Hannah J. Stolze draws principles from the Bible's wisdom ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability

    by Genevieve Love, Professor Tanya Pollard, Professor Lisa Hopkins ...
    Series series Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama
    What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, Genevieve Love argues that the figure of the physically disabled prosthetic body in early modern English theatre mediates a set of related 'likeness problems' that structure the theatrical, textual, and critical lives of the plays of ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

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    by Graham E. Fuller ...
    The Middle East in the 21st century has witnessed a game-changing rollercoaster ride that has transformed relationships across the boards. Turkey underwent the most dramatic changes of its democratic history, propelling it into the role of major regional actor. The "Arab Spring" cast the region into political and social turmoil. US-led wars devastated the lands and peoples of several countries ... Read more

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  • What Is Populism?

    by Jan-Werner Müller, Jan-Werner Muller ...
    Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism bring government closer to the people or is it a threat to democracy? Who are "the people" anyway ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Arab Winter

    A Tragedy

    by Noah Feldman ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceWhy the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrongThe Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was neverthel... ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Revolution without Revolutionaries

    Making Sense of the Arab Spring

    by Asef Bayat ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact. In this book, noted author Asef Bayat—whose Life as Politics anticipated the Arab Spring—uncovers ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Not Enough

    Human Rights in an Unequal World

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    “No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.”—Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal“Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.”—George SorosThe age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Contemporary Politics in the Middle East

    by Beverley Milton-Edwards ...
    The fourth edition of this dynamic and popular text provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East. Fully revised and updated throughout, it features a new chapter on the Arab Spring and its aftermath, plus a wide range of vibrant case studies, data, questions for class discussion and suggestions for further reading.Purposefully employing a clear thematic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Patriarchy of the Wage

    Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism

    by Silvia Federici ...
    In Patriarchy of the Wage, Silvia Federici, best-selling author and the most important Marxist feminist of our time, asks why Marx and the Marxist tradition were so crucial in their denunciation of capitalism's exploitation of human labor and blind to women's work and struggle on the terrain of social reproduction. Why was Marx unable to anticipate the profound transformations in the proletarian ... Read more

    $9.09 CAD

  • Arab Spring: The Making of the New Middle East

    by Hichem Karoui ...
    This is a collection of essays written about the Arab revolts, and trying to answer the questions many people are raising: why did such revolts occur? Were they preceded by precursory signs? What role played the domestic political elite in toppling the dictators? What role played the foreign powers? What were the claims of the protesters? Were they manipulated? How about the political process that ... Read more

    $11.15 CAD