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  • Violence and Trolling on Social Media

    History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol

    Edited by Sara Polak, Daniel Trottier ...
    Series series MediaMatters
    Trolls for Trump', virtual rape, fake news — social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has become a formidable, yet elusive, political force. What characterizes online vitriol? How do we understand the narratives generated, and also address their real-world — even life-and-death— impact? How can hatred, bullying, and dehumanization on social media platforms be addressed ... Read more

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  • FDR in American Memory

    Roosevelt and the Making of an Icon

    by Sara Polak ...
    How was FDR's image constructed—by himself and others—as such a powerful icon in American memory?In polls of historians and political scientists, Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the top three American presidents. Roosevelt enjoyed an enormous political and cultural reach, one that stretched past his presidency and across the world. A grand narrative of Roosevelt's crucial role ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Playing Politics in Digital Spaces

    Edited by Frank Chouraqui, Alex Gekker, Bram Ieven, Saniye Ince, Frans-Willem Korsten, Sybille Lammes, Sara Polak ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
    Playing Politics in Digital Spaces offers a timely analysis of play and politics woven together to imagine and enact new worlds, democratic and reactionary alike.Bringing together media and philosophical insights into the concepts of play, politics and worlding (or world-making), the book highlights the dual potential of play-politics for both oppression and liberation. Through theoretical and ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Peaceful Leadership

    Tools and Techniques for Fostering Psychological Safety, Trust, and Inclusion in Your Organization

    by Jeremy Pollack, Luke Wiesner, Sara Jeckovich ...
    Peaceful Leadership is a leadership framework that centers around three Primary Pillars and five Core Competencies. The three pillars are Trust, Psychological Safety, and Inclusion. These directly refer to humans' basic psychological needs when acting as members of a system or organization. A Peaceful Leader's role in fulfilling these needs is actualized through competency in five critical areas: ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Embodying Contagion

    The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse

    Edited by Sandra Becker, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Sara Polak ...
    Series series Horror Studies
    From Outbreak to The Walking Dead, apocalyptic narratives of infection, contagion and global pandemic are an inescapable part of twenty-first-century popular culture. Yet these fears and fantasies are too virulent to be simply quarantined within fictional texts; vocabulary and metaphors from outbreak narratives have now infiltrated how news media, policymakers, and the general public view the real ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Algorithms of Oppression

    How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

    by Safiya Umoja Noble ...
    A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithmsRun a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Big Lie

    Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

    by Dinesh D'Souza ...
    "Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this." —RUSH LIMBAUGHThe explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Hillary's America, America, and Obama's America.What is "the big lie" of the Democratic Party? ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Cancel Culture Panic

    How an American Obsession Went Global

    by Adrian Daub ...
    Fear of cancel culture has gripped the world, and it turns out to be an old fear in a new get-up.In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a moral panic, showing that, though its object is fuzzy, talk of cancel culture in global media has become a preoccupation of an embattled liberalism. There are plenty of conservative voices who gin up ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace

    Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism

    by Mary Brennan ...
    In Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II.Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Freda Utley, Doloris Thauwald Bridges, Elizabeth Churchill Brown, and Phyllis Stewart Schlafly. She describes the Cold War context in ... Read more

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  • The Leadership Challenge

    How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

    by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner ...
    Series series J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe latest edition of the gold-standard guide for leadership developmentIn the new seventh edition of The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, best-selling leadership authors and business scholars James Kouzes and Barry Posner deliver an essential strategic playbook for effective leadership. The book’s actionable advice is grounded ... Read more

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  • Cyberlibertarianism

    The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology

    by David Golumbia ...
    An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinningsIn a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism argues that right-wing ideology was built into both the technical and social construction of the digital world from the start. Leveraging more than a decade of research, David Golumbia traces how digital ... Read more

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  • World of Our Fathers

    The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

    by Irving Howe ...
    The National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond.In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a "brilliant" account of their stories ( ... Read more

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