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  • Technobiophilia

    Nature and Cyberspace

    by Sue Thomas ...
    Why are there so many nature metaphors - clouds, rivers, streams, viruses, and bugs - in the language of the internet? Why do we adorn our screens with exotic images of forests, waterfalls, animals and beaches? In Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace, Sue Thomas interrogates the prevalence online of nature-derived metaphors and imagery and comes to a surprising conclusion. The root of this trend ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics

    by Sue Thomas ...
    Series series Historicizing Modernism
    Addressing Jean Rhys's composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights about the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys's experimental aesthetics.Tracing the distinctive and shifting evolution of Rhys's experimental aesthetics over her career, Sue Thomas explores Rhys's ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Stories Around the Table

    Laughter, Wisdom, and Strength in Military Life

    by More than 40 military family writers, Terri Barnes, Karen Pavlicin, Sarah Smiley, Tanya Biank, Jocelyn Green, Artis Henderson, Sara Horn, Alison Buckholtz, Judy Davis, Kristin Henderson, Kathie Hightower, Julie LaBelle, Holly Scherer, Mollie Gross, Stacy Allsbrook-Huisman, Marna Ashburn, Janine Boldrin, Amy Bushatz, Angela Caban, Randi S. Cairns, Tara Crooks, Adrianna Domingos-Lupher, Jacey Eckhart, Janet I. Farley, Julia Gibbs, Jacqueline Goodrich, Diana Hartman, Starlett Henderson, Lori Hensic, Jeremy L. Hilton, Sarah Holtzmann, Sue Hoppin, Benita Koeman, Thomas Litchford, Lisa Smith Molinari, Brenda Pace, Chris Pape, Susan A. Phalen, Briley Rossiter, Kristine Schellhaas, Chris Stricklin, Amanda Trimillos, Lori Volkman ...
    "Opening it up to any random story will make you feel humbled, grateful, and best of all, not alone."—Anette Radonski, Military Spouse JD NetworkConversations are the heart of a gathering among friends.In Stories Around the Table: Laughter, Wisdom, and Strength in Military Life, military spouses, parents, children, and service members gather together to laugh, cry, lend perspective, and share ... Read more

    $13.62 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fashion Ethics

    by Sue Thomas ...
    Fashion Ethics provides a comprehensive overview of the ethical issues in the fashion industry, from collection design concept to upcycling and closed loop production. This book answers an urgent need for a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental ethics of the fashion industry.Sue Thomas goes beyond the usual contentious issues of environmental impact and human rights, taking the reader ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • A Second Home

    Missouri's Early Schools

    by Sue Thomas ...
    Series Book 1 - Missouri Heritage Readers
    The one-room schoolhouse may be a thing of the past, but it is the foundation on which modern education rests. Sue Thomas now traces the progress of early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important early schools were in taming the frontier.A Second Home offers an in-depth and entertaining look at education in the days when pioneers had to postpone schooling for their children until they ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • Educational Assessment in Latin America

    Edited by Sue Swaffield, Sally Thomas ...
    This collection presents educational assessment research from Latin America, adding to a relatively small but growing body of research considering educational assessment and evaluation issues in this large region. The predominance of Chile reflects its early highly centralized education system, and the fact that it adopted national testing before other Latin American countries. It was also an ... Read more

    $61.82 CAD

  • Targeted Sanctions

    The Impacts and Effectiveness of United Nations Action

    Edited by Thomas J. Biersteker, Sue E. Eckert, Marcos Tourinho ...
    International sanctions have become the instrument of choice for policymakers dealing with a variety of different challenges to international peace and security. This is the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of all the targeted sanctions regimes imposed by the United Nations since the end of the Cold War. Drawing on the collaboration of more than fifty scholars and policy practitioners ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Countering the Financing of Terrorism

    Edited by Thomas J. Biersteker, Sue E. Eckert ...
    Groups committing acts of terrorism have adapted their means of financing to elude detection since the 9/11 attacks in the United States. Surveying the global community’s multi-year effort to cut off terrorist funding, this volume offers a much-needed analysis of a complex, widely discussed, yet poorly understood subject. While books on terrorism have touched upon the topic, this is the first ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Women and Elective Office

    Past, Present, and Future

    Edited by Sue Thomas, Clyde Wilcox ...
    This edition of Women and Elective Office offers the latest research on women as candidates and officeholders. It provides a comprehensive look at at the history and status of women in elective office, their prospects for the future, and why women in elected office matter to American democracy. It features all-new essays and up-to-the-minute research by leading experts in the field, including the ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Women and Elective Office

    Past, Present, and Future

    Edited by Sue Thomas, Clyde Wilcox ...
    Since the publication of the first edition of this book, former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun's campaign for the presidency in 2004 and the widespread discussion of a run in 2008 by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton have significantly raised the profile of women on the national political stage. At the same time, progress in electing women to the U.S. Congress and state legislatures has stalled. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Private Risks and Public Dangers

    Edited by Stephen Platt, Hilary Thomas, Sue Scott, Gareth Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association
    Private Risk and Public Dangers is comprised of a collection of chapters which were originally papers presented in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, and they address a range of private risks and public dangers. Issues covered vary from the response to HIV and AIDS and ‘foetal alcohol syndrome’ to the nature of accidents. These seemingly diverse social ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • Experience of School Transitions

    Policies, Practice and Participants

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Greer Johnson, Sue Thomas, Cheryl Sim, Stephen Hay, Jill Ryan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of the ‘transitions’ young students make as they move on from their secondary schooling. It identifies how these transitions are planned for by policymakers, enacted by school staff and engaged with by ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD