Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

Item(s) unavailable for purchase

Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.

itemsitem

- Includes eBooks
  
  Includes audiobooks
  
  Includes 30 hours of listening time
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Includes eBooks
  
  Includes audiobooks
  
  Includes 30 hours of listening time
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Includes eBooks

Includes audiobooks

Includes 30 hours of listening time

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Includes eBooks

Includes audiobooks

Includes 30 hours of listening time

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

Skip side bar filters

Beyond Bodies

Rain-making and Sense-making in Tanzania

by Todd Sanders ...

Series series Anthropological Horizons
For over a century, the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania have conducted rainmaking rites. As with similar rites found across sub-Saharan Africa, these rites are replete with gender, sexual, and fertility motifs. Social scientists have typically explained such things as symbolizing human bodies and the act of procreation. But what happens when our interlocutors deny such symbolic explanations, when ... Read more

$38.99 CAD

For over a century, the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania have conducted rainmaking rites. As with similar rites found across sub-Saharan Africa, these rites are replete with gender, sexual, and fertility motifs. Social scientists have typically explained such things as symbolizing human bodies and the act of procreation. But what happens when our interlocutors deny such symbolic explanations, when
... Read more
Jackson's North State Street

by Todd Sanders ...

Series series Images of America
Since the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, Jackson's North State Street has been home to some of the capital city's major architectural landmarks. North State Street was bordered by stately homes of many different styles and periods, from rather simple antebellum cottages, to grand Greek Revival, elaborate Queen Anne, and elegant Colonial Revival and neoclassical mansions, as well as impressive ... Read more

$17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Since the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, Jackson's North State Street has been home to some of the capital city's major architectural landmarks. North State Street was bordered by stately homes of many different styles and periods, from rather simple antebellum cottages, to grand Greek Revival, elaborate Queen Anne, and elegant Colonial Revival and neoclassical mansions, as well as impressive
... Read more
Magical Interpretations, Material Realities

Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa

Edited by Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders ...

**'**Magical Interpretations, Material Realities brings together many of today's best scholars of contemporary Africa. The theme of "witchcraft" has long been associated with exoticizing portraits of a "traditional" Africa, but this volume takes the question of occult as a point of entry into the moral politics of some very modern African realities.' - James Ferguson, University of California, USA ... Read more

$109.99 CAD

**'**Magical Interpretations, Material Realities brings together many of today's best scholars of contemporary Africa. The theme of "witchcraft" has long been associated with exoticizing portraits of a "traditional" Africa, but this volume takes the question of occult as a point of entry into the moral politics of some very modern African realities.' - James Ferguson, University of California, USA
... Read more
Those Who Play With Fire

Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa

Edited by Henrietta Moore, Todd Sanders, Bwire Kaare ...

Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world. Those Who Play With Fire introduces recent gender theory to the analysis of African ethnography, exploring the ways in which ideational ... Read more

$78.99 CAD

Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world. Those Who Play With Fire introduces recent gender theory to the analysis of African ethnography, exploring the ways in which ideational
... Read more
Anthropology in Theory

Issues in Epistemology

Edited by Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders ...

This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century.Provides a comprehensive selection of 60 readings and an insightful overview of the evolution of anthropological theoryRevised ... Read more

$91.99 CAD

This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century.Provides a comprehensive selection of 60 readings and an insightful overview of the evolution of anthropological theoryRevised
... Read more
Audiobook

Audiobook

The End of Average

How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness

by Todd Rose ...

Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

Unabridged

6 hours 31 min

Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Transparency and Conspiracy

Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order

by Laurel Kendall, Misty L. Bastian ...

Transparency has, in recent years, become a watchword for good governance. Policymakers and analysts alike evaluate political and economic institutions—courts, corporations, nation-states—according to the transparency of their operating procedures. With the dawn of the New World Order and the “mutual veil dropping” of the post–Cold War era, many have asserted that power in our contemporary world ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

Transparency has, in recent years, become a watchword for good governance. Policymakers and analysts alike evaluate political and economic institutions—courts, corporations, nation-states—according to the transparency of their operating procedures. With the dawn of the New World Order and the “mutual veil dropping” of the post–Cold War era, many have asserted that power in our contemporary world
... Read more
Audiobook

Audiobook

COVERT MANIPULATION

How Dark Psychology Relates to Manipulation? How to Defend Yourself from Manipulation in relationships? Types of Mind Control. How to Influence People, Process for Persuasion.

by Robert Sanders J. ...

Narrated by James Todd ...

Unabridged

3 hours 11 min

Manipulation is a practice of using words strategically to make people think in your favor. The way you word yourself essentially makes it so that you make the option you don’t want someone to choose seem “negative” and the option you do want them to choose seem “positive”. The way you say it bypasses the conscious mind which will automatically say “no” and teaches the subconscious mind that it is ... Read more

$21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Manipulation is a practice of using words strategically to make people think in your favor. The way you word yourself essentially makes it so that you make the option you don’t want someone to choose seem “negative” and the option you do want them to choose seem “positive”. The way you say it bypasses the conscious mind which will automatically say “no” and teaches the subconscious mind that it is
... Read more
The Architecture of William Nichols

Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi

by Paul Hardin Kapp ...

The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant yet overlooked architect in the American South. William Nichols designed three major university campuses—the University of North Carolina, the University of Alabama, and the University of Mississippi. He also designed the ... Read more

$33.99 CAD

The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant yet overlooked architect in the American South. William Nichols designed three major university campuses—the University of North Carolina, the University of Alabama, and the University of Mississippi. He also designed the
... Read more
Audiobook

Audiobook

Guys Read: Other Worlds

by Jon Scieszka, Tom Angleberger, Neal Shusterman, Rick Riordan, Kenneth Oppel, Shaun Tan, Rebecca Stead, D. J. MacHale, Eric S. Nylund ...

Narrated by John Morgan, Jesse Bernstein, Tessa Aberjonois, Andrew Eiden, Nick Torren, Adam Saunders, Michael Goldstrom, Todd Haberkorn, Johnathan McClain ...

Unabridged

7 hours 10 min

Other Worlds, the fourth volume in Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read anthology series for tween boys, features ten thrilling new tales of science fiction and fantasy from some of the biggest names in children’s literature.Prepare yourself for ten trips into the unknown, as ten of your favorite writers—Rick Riordan, who has written an all-new and exclusive Percy Jackson tale, Tom Angleberger of Origami Yoda ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

Other Worlds, the fourth volume in Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read anthology series for tween boys, features ten thrilling new tales of science fiction and fantasy from some of the biggest names in children’s literature.Prepare yourself for ten trips into the unknown, as ten of your favorite writers—Rick Riordan, who has written an all-new and exclusive Percy Jackson tale, Tom Angleberger of Origami Yoda
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Audiobook

Together We Will Go

by J. Michael Straczynski ...

Narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Dan Bittner, Neo Cihi, Michael Crouch, Samantha Desz, Kyla Garcia, Jonathan Todd Ross, Fred Sanders, Tara Sands, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Kevin R. Free, Aden Hakimi ...

Unabridged

9 hours 26 min

The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt novel about twelve strangers who come together to make the most of their final days, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski.Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is planning a cross-country road trip. He buys a beat-up old ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt novel about twelve strangers who come together to make the most of their final days, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski.Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is planning a cross-country road trip. He buys a beat-up old
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Audiobook

Audiobook

Calling Bullshit

The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

by Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West ...

Narrated by Patrick Zeller ...

Unabridged

10 hours 17 min

Bullshit isn’t what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound and it’s increasingly difficult to know what’s true. Our media environment has become hyperpartisan. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

Bullshit isn’t what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound and it’s increasingly difficult to know what’s true. Our media environment has become hyperpartisan. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in Canada

Anthropological Horizons

Images of America

Beyond Bodies

Jackson's North State Street

Magical Interpretations, Material Realities

Those Who Play With Fire

Anthropology in Theory

The End of Average

Transparency and Conspiracy

COVERT MANIPULATION

The Architecture of William Nichols

Guys Read: Other Worlds

Together We Will Go

People who read these also enjoyed

Calling Bullshit

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in Canada

Anthropological Horizons

Images of America

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed