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  • Harm Reduction for Gambling

    A Public Health Approach

    Edited by Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Cheryl Dickson, Caroline Dunand, Olivier Simon ...
    This edited volume aims to facilitate the evolution of the new public health approach towards gambling. Bringing together the work of international experts, it gives a current overview of the field, highlighting the need for a coordinated framework of prevention and harm reduction measures to replace current "player protection" measures.Chapters begin by exploring the impact of problem gambling, ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Disasters, indigenous knowledge and resilience

    Natural hazards, disasters, and indigenous adaptations in Southeast Asia (Philippines–Indonesia)

    Edited by Olivier Servais, Lionel Simon ...
    Series series Les Découvreurs
    By bringing together contributions from several disciplines, this book promotes a comparative perspective and a collaborative approach to disasters in Southeast Asia. Hazards affect all aspects of human life, having impacts on the environmental, social, economic, political and biological systems. In order to better understand the effects produced by these disastrous events - including the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Games in Management Science

    Essays in Honor of Georges Zaccour

    Edited by Pierre-Olivier Pineau, Simon Sigué, Sihem Taboubi ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book covers a large spectrum of cutting-edge game theory applications in management science in which Professor Georges Zaccour has made significant contributions. The book consists of 21 chapters and highlights the latest treatments of game theory in various areas, including marketing, supply chains, energy and environmental management, and cyber defense. With this book, former Ph.D. students ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Bringing History to Life

    Teaching Fact and Fiction

    Translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth ...
    by Professor Penney Clark, Professor Alan Sears, Professor Emeritus in Education, Professeur Etienne Anheim, Professeur Charles-Antoine Bachand, M. Julien Bazile, Mme Audrey Bélanger, Professeur Jean-François Boutin, Professeur Vincent Boutonnet, Dr. Olivier Côté, Professeure Stéphanie Demers, Professeur Simon Dor, Associate Professor, Professeur Alexandre Lanoix, Associate Professor, Professeure Virginie Martel, Professeure Anik Meunier, Professeure, Mme Sabrina Moisan, Professor, Professor Carla Peck, Professeur Bastien Sasseville, Professeur, Professeure Valérie Theis, Professeure, Mme Marie-Pierre Tremblay, Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Carole Fleuret ...
    Series series Education
    History has never been as present in our daily lives as it is today.Through any number of media outlets, tens of millions of people are in daily contact with historical discourses and practices. Between games, informational articles, social media posts and other sources, history is everywhere—in Civilization VI, live-action role-playing games, The Berlin Trilogy, Game of Thrones, and the works of ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Knee Arthroscopy

    How to Succeed

    by Olivier Courage, Simon Bertiaux, Pierre-Emmanuel Papin, Anthony Kamel ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This concise and handy book offers practical guidance to orthopedic surgeons and residents willing to master knee arthroscopy techniques in their daily practice. Based on scientific evidence but also mirroring expert know-how and best practices, it equips readers with essential information, tips and tricks to avoid and prevent intraoperative minor and major complications.Clearly and uniformly ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture

    Approaches from across Disciplines

    by Gaëlle Ouvrein, Ana Jorge, Hilde Van den Bulck, Gwen Bouvier, Paulien Decorte, Simone Driessen, Olivier Driessens, Regiane Lucas Garcêz0, Qiang Geng1, David C. Giles2, Alexander Jenkins3, Pedro Paixão-Rocha4, Samantha Tecson5, Mihai Coman6 ...
    Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture: Approaches from across Disciplines explores current understandings of celebrity-audience relationships in the context of digitalization and the ongoing celebritization of all aspects of culture and society. Focusing on the themes of celebrity and health, celebrity and identity, and celebrity and scandal, this volume presents chapters ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Infrastructural Times

    Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds

    by Lauren Marino, Timothy Moss, Olivier Coutard, AbdouMaliq Simone, Peter Ekman, Seth Schindler, Juan Miguel Kanai, Dalia Wahdan, Tamer Elshayal, Simon Marvin, Jonathan Rutherford, Jessica DiCarlo, Samantha Biglieri, Roger Keil, Amelia Thorpe ...
    Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

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  • Sikodiwa

    Revisiting Filipino Indigenous Wisdom for Personal and Shared Well-Being

    by Carl Lorenz Cervantes ...
    **Researcher and lecturer Carl Lorenz Cervantes explores the timeless wisdom, ancestral worldviews, and spiritual tools of Filipino psychology and culture—and offers Indigenous ways of knowing for all readers, Filipino and non-Filipino alike.Drawing from folklore, language, ethnography, and personal story, Sikodiwa is a mind-opening exploration for readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and Fresh Banana ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Development, Social Change and Environmental Sustainability

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Sociology and Educational Transformation (ICCSET 2020), Malang, Indonesia, 23 September 2020

    Edited by Sumarmi, Abdul Kodir, Ken Miichi, Nanda Meiji, Joan Purwasih, Edo Andriesse, Dorina Ilies ...
    Nowadays, the concept of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) is starting to replace the concept of MDGs (Millennium Developmental Goals). It is a global goal adopted by all United Nations member states. It emphasizes the idea that the development of every country can only be achieved by balancing other factors such as social, economic, and environmental sustainability. It is already clear how ... Read more

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  • The Age of Sustainability

    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    by Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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  • The Return of Inequality

    Social Change and the Weight of the Past

    by Mike Savage ...
    A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions.The economic facts of inequality are clear. The rich have been pulling away from the rest of us for years, and the super-rich have been pulling away from the rich. More and more assets are concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Alchemy in the Rain Forest

    Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area

    by Jerry K. Jacka ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD