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  • Learning to Labour

    How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs

    by Paul Willis ...
    This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their own culture which blocks teaching and prevents the realisation of liberal education aims. This culture exposes some of the contradictions within ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Ethnographic Imagination

    by Paul Willis ...
    In this book Paul Willis, a renowned sociologist and ethnographer, aims to renew and develop the ethnographic craft across the disciplines. Drawing from numerous examples of his own past and current work, he shows that ethnographic practice and the ethnographic imagination are vital to understanding the creativity and irreducibility of experience in all aspects of social and cultural practice ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Enlivening Prayer

    by Rabbi Paul J. Citrin ...
    Narrated by Justine Willis Toms ...

    Unabridged

    57 min

    Prayer can influence our state of mind which then has an effect on our state of body. It’s a portal that connects us with Divine Source and is an intensely personal journey inward as well as an act of conversation with the Presence of the Infinite or what some call God. It can help us to move from a primarily secular, materialistic life into a more spiritual one. ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Logos

    by Paul Willis ...
    I first found Jesus as an adolescent. I have not been victorious my whole life and I am acquainted with the backslidden lifestyle. But I have found that Jesus is real and His word(the Bible) is a constant source of inspiration and power. Now I I am 70 years old and I know Jesus is able to change a life because He has changed mine. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Being Modern in China

    A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today

    by Paul Willis ...
    This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis – the leading ethnographer and author of Learning to Labour – shows how China has undergone an internal migration not only of masses of workers but also of a mental and ideological kind to new cultural landscapes of meaning, which include worship of the glorified city, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Displaced

    by Paul Willis ...
    Little by little, Jeff Shields world is transforming from routine to bizarre. Strangers are recognizing him. His house is being invaded. But the perpetrator whoever or whatever it is leaves no signs of entry and clearly isnt a run-of-the-mill robber. Jeff hasnt been harmed, but knows its only a matter of time unless he uncovers the root of the quirky happenings. Meanwhile, Jessica French is ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • A Framework for Task-Based Learning and Teaching

    Revised Edition

    by Jane Willis, Paul Leeming, Justin Harris ...
    Timely and important revised edition of a significant, influential classic text which is still peerless in the field.This new edition builds on Jane Willis’s classic textbook to reflect the changing needs and priorities of language teachers in today’s classrooms. The book has been revised and expanded to reflect the widespread use of technology and the internet in language classrooms, as well as ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • All in a Garden Green

    by Paul J. Willis ...
    Thirteen-year-old Erica Pickins does not want to play the piano--and she definitely does not want to go to England. But her father must take family and students for a fall semester abroad, and her mother insists she still practice, every day. In England, their new home becomes Hengrave Hall, a sixteenth-century manor house presided over by a group of nuns. While exploring with her new friend Pedro ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Somewhere to Follow

    Poems

    by Paul J. Willis ...
    From California coastal redwoods to giant sequoias in the Sierra, from practical jokes of adolescence to unexpected epiphanies marking an academic career, the many poems in Somewhere to Follow range through the life of a poet on the lookout for what comes next. In this his seventh volume of poetry, Paul Willis ascends the switchbacks of ordinary experience to cross paths with song-leading rangers, ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • View to a Thrill

    by Paul J. Willis ...
    In this thrilling new anthology Willis has assembled some of the most talented erotica writers currently publishing writers who understand the nuance of language as well as the importance of a hard cock. From the watchful eyes (and sticky keyboards) of M. Christian Greg Herren Michael Huxley Felice Picano Ian Philips Simon Sheppard Kyle Stone Greg Wharton and many other voyeurs come these tales ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Profane Culture

    by Paul E. Willis ...
    A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures—the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock 'n' roll of the late 1950s. In contrast, the hippies were middle-class drug users with long hair and a love of progressive music. Both groups were ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trans and Gender Diverse Ageing in Care Contexts

    Research into Practice

    Edited by Michael Toze, Paul Willis, Trish Hafford-Letchfield ...
    Gender diversity and non-conformity are becoming increasingly visible within society. As more trans and non-binary service users ‘come out’ and trans populations age, practitioners and service providers working in health care, social care, welfare services and housing, will begin to see a growing number of older gender-diverse service users.With contributions from trans and non-binary scholars and ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD