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  • Terror and Insurgency in the Sahara-Sahel Region

    Corruption, Contraband, Jihad and the Mali War of 2012-2013

    by Stephen A. Harmon ...
    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    Harmon focuses on terrorism and insurgency in the lawless expanse of the Sahara Desert and the adjacent, transitional Sahel zone, plus the broader meta-region that includes countries such as Algeria, Mali, and Nigeria, and to a lesser extent, Niger and Mauritania. Covering such issues as Islamist terrorism, border insecurity, contraband, and human trafficking, this book looks at the interrelated ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Aging, Media, and Culture

    by C. Lee Harrington, Anthony R. Bardo, Rebecca G. Adams, Anne L. Balazs, Shyon Baumann, Nathalie Claessens, Kim de Laat, Justine Gunderson, Justin Harmon, Stephen Katz, Barbara L. Marshall, Leni Marshall, Rosa Martey, Kelly Quinn, Alexandra Raphael, Cornel Sandvoss, Christine Scodari, Merril Silverstein, Aagje Swinnen, Denise Bielby, Anne Barrett, Hilde Van den Bulck ...
    The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars, both well-established and up-and-coming, from the various academic disciplines that share a ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • The Narrative of Africa Rising

    Changing Perspectives

    by Ryan Gibb, Richard S. Glotzer, Stephen Harmon, Erin Kenny, Ashley E. Leinweber, Kafayat Mahmoud, Brenda McCollum ...
    Series series Africa: Past, Present & Prospects
    Throughout time, African civilizations have manoeuvred and negotiated successfully to maintain their societies and ensure cultural continuity despite encountering expanding trade, foreign invasion, and imposition of colonial and neocolonial states. The Narrative of Africa Rising: Changing Perspectives evaluates the discourse on “Africa Rising” through representative case studies to create a ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

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    In a book that has become a modern classic of social movement organizing, Mark and Paul Engler explain that there is a craft to uprising—and that this craft can change the world.From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to #BlackLivesMatter and movements to defend democracy, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change ... Read more

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  • The Time Of Women

    by Elena Chizhova ...
    Susanna may be mute, but not stupid. And although she is still a child she can draw wonderful pictures. But as it was in the Soviet Union behind the iron curtain in those days it was not easy to raise a deaf child that didn't fit into the communist ideal, and the state would whisk her swiftly away into a home if they found her. Her mother Antonia had a stroke of luck as she, although a lowly ... Read more

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  • Eternity Soup

    Inside the Quest to End Aging

    by Greg Critser ...
    Mix the latest and most rigorous scientific research, irrepressible old-fashioned entrepreneurship, and the ancient human desire to live forever (or at least a lot longer) and the result is today’s exploding multibillion-dollar antiaging industry. Its achievements are so far mostly marginal, but its promises flow with all the allure of a twenty-first-century fountain of youth. In Eternity Soup, ... Read more

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  • When Blood and Bones Cry Out

    Journeys through the Soundscape of Healing and Reconciliation

    by John Paul Lederach, Angela Jill Lederach ...
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  • The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon

    Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace

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  • Multigenerational Family Therapy

    by David S Freeman ...
    Multigenerational Family Therapy is a book about honoring and helping families. Rich with personal reflections and anecdotes from the author’s many years as a family therapist, this volume’s major strength lies in its precise definition of the process and content of the therapy itself. As the family is the major resource system available to an individual, this important book provides therapists ... Read more

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  • Inheriting the Holy Land

    An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East

    by Jennifer Miller ...
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  • What's Worth Knowing

    by Wendy Lustbader ...
    Colorful and enlightening vignettes about life by everyday people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties.When social worker Wendy Lustbader was asked to take down the histories of residents in a retirement community, she discovered that "the man with Alzheimer's in room 410" was actually ninety-six-year-old Ole Harlen, a former concert pianist. "The woman who people-watches in the lobby" was ... Read more

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  • Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons

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    Edited by Helen Meenan, Nicola Rees, Israel Doron ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    People are leading significantly longer lives than previous generations did, and the proportion of older people in the population is growing. Residential care for older people will become increasingly necessary as our society ages and, we will require more of it. At this moment in time, the rights of older people receive attention at international and regional levels, with the United Nations, the ... Read more

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