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  • Self-Translation and Power

    Negotiating Identities in European Multilingual Contexts

    Edited by Svetlana Page, Olga Castro, Sergi Mainer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe. Engaging with the ‘power turn’ in translation studies contexts, it offers innovative perspectives on the role of self-translators as cultural and ideological mediators. The authors explore the unequal power relations and centre-periphery dichotomies of Europe’s ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Feminist Translation Studies

    Local and Transnational Perspectives

    Edited by Olga Castro, Emek Ergun ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives situates feminist translation as political activism. Chapters highlight the multiple agendas and visions of feminist translation and the different political voices and cultural heritages through which it speaks across times and places, addressing the question of how both literary and nonliterary discourses migrate and contribute to ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education

    Volume 2

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Constantina Skanavis, Arminda do Paço, Judy Rogers, Olga Kuznetsova, Paula Castro ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject. It offers a unique overview of what universities around the world are doing to implement sustainable development (i.e. via curriculum innovation, research, activities, or practical projects) and how their efforts relate to education for ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • The Crime Data Handbook

    by Ian Brunton-Smith, Tim Verlaan, Henk Elffers, Sam Langton, Stuart Thomas, Sophie Curtis-Ham, Sarah Czarnomski, Lisa Tompson, Jesús C. Aguerri, Fernando Miró-Llinares, Kirsty Bennett, Tomas Diviak, Craig Bennell, Tori Semple, Bryce Jenkins, Jack Cunliffe, Angelo Moretti, Jose Pina-Sanchez, Thiago R. Oliveira, Leticia Couto, Marta Murrià Sangenís, Cristina Sobrino Garcés, Timothy I. C. Cubitt, Mark Mills, Nico Trajtenberg, Olga Sanchez de Ribera de Castro, Carly Lighttowlers, Lucy Bryant, Olivia Horsefield, Francisco J. Castro-Toledo, Ana B. Gómez-Bellvís, Scott Keay, Jude Towers, Sara Correia-Hopkins, José María López Riba, Raquel Bartolomé Gutiérrez, Esther Fernández-Molina, Rosemary Barberet, Anthony Morgan, Alexandru Cernat, Alex Sutherland, Nicholas Lord ...
    Crime research has grown substantially over the past decade, with a rise in evidence-informed approaches to criminal justice, statistics-driven decision-making and predictive analytics. The fuel that has driven this growth is data – and one of its most pressing challenges is the lack of research on the use and interpretation of data sources.This accessible, engaging book closes that gap for ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

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  • Margaret the First

    A Novel

    by Danielle Dutton ...
    A Lit Hub Best Book of 2016 • One of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2016 • An Entropy Best Book of 2016“The duchess herself would be delighted at her resurrection in Margaret the First...Dutton expertly captures the pathos of a woman whose happiness is furrowed with the anxiety of underacknowledgment.” —Katharine Grant, The New York Times Book ReviewMargaret the First dramatizes the life of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Consulting the Genius of the Place

    An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture

    by Wes Jackson ...
    Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. A longtime leader of this movement is Wes Jackson, who for decades has taken it upon himself to speak for the land, to speak for the soil itself. Here, he offers a manifesto toward a conceptual revolution: Jackson asks us to look to natural ecosystems—or, ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Herland (Mobi Classics)

    by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman ...
    Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of white European women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkins' monthly magazine Forerunner. Gilman followed Herland with a ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walking, Writing and Performance

    Autobiographical Texts by Deirdre Heddon, Carl Lavery and Phil Smith

    by Roberta Mock ...
    This collection charts three projects by performance-makers who generate autobiographical writing by taking walks. It includes performance texts and photographs, as well as essays by the artists that discuss processes of development, writing and performance.The Crab Walks and Crab Steps Aside are performances made by Phil Smith based on an initial exploratory walking of an area of South Devon ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • English Translation Style Guide for European Union

    by Nicolae Sfetcu ...
    This Style Guide is intended primarily for English-language authors and translators, both in-house and freelance, working for the European Commission. But now that so many texts in and around the EU institutions are drafted in English by native and non-native speakers alike, its rules, reminders and handy references aim to serve a wider readership as well.The Guide is divided into two clearly ... Read more

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  • For Her Own Good

    Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women

    by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ...
    This women's history classic brilliantly exposed the constraints imposed on women in the name of science and exposes the myths used to control them. Since the the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what women should do for their own good. Among the experts’ diagnoses and remedies: menstruation was an illness requiring seclusion; pregnancy, a ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Ecosystem Services and River Basin Ecohydrology

    Edited by Luis Chicharo, Felix Müller, Nicola Fohrer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides an integrated analysis of the methodologies and main processes occurring at the entire river basin, from upstream until the coast, by merging the biological and hydrological processes with the social and economic components, thus providing an integrated framework for river basin management, integrating the ecohydrology approach with the ecosystem services concept. ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Desert Lake

    Art, Science and Stories from Paruku

    Edited by Mandy Martin, John Carty, Steve Morton, Kim Mahood ...
    Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is Walmajarri land, and its people live on their Country in the communities of Mulan and Billiluna. This is a story of water. When Sturt Creek flows from the north, it creates a massive inland Lake among the sandy ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD