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  • Fit at Mid-Life

    A Feminist Fitness Journey

    by Samantha Brennan, Tracy Isaacs ...
    "[Fit at Mid-Life] reinforces the message that fitness can and should be for everyone, no matter their age, size, gender, or ability." ––SELFWhat if you could be fitter now than you were in your twenties? And what if you could achieve it while feeling more comfortable and confident in your body?In Fit at Mid-Life, bloggers and philosophy professors Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs share the story ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collectivity

    Ontology, Ethics, and Social Justice

    Edited by Kendy M. Hess, Violetta Igneski, Tracy Isaacs ...
    Collectivity: Ontology, Ethics, and Social Justice brings new voices and new approaches to under-developed areas in the philosophical literature on collectives and collective action. The essays in this volume introduce and explore a range of topics that fall under the more general concept of collectivity, including collective ontology, collective action, collective obligation, and collective ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing

    Edited by Tracy Isaacs, Richard Vernon ...
    Ideas of collective responsibility challenge the doctrine of individual responsibility that is the dominant paradigm in law and liberal political theory. But little attention is given to the consequences of holding groups accountable for wrongdoing. Groups are not amenable to punishment in the way that individuals are. Can they be punished – and if so, how – or are other remedies available? The ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Brave Dames and Wimpettes

    What Women Are Really Doing on Page and Screen

    by Susan Isaacs ...
    Narrated by Tracy Brooks Swope ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 56 min

    What makes Buffy the Vampire Slayer a "brave dame" but Ally McBeal a "wimpette"? In this witty, incisive look at the role of women on screen and page, Susan Isaacs argues that assertive, ethical women characters are losing ground to wounded, shallow sisters who are driven by what she calls, "the articles of wimpette philosophy." Although female roles have included lawyers like Ally McBeal, they ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West

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  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Read more

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  • On Suicide Bombing

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    Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"-a conceptual leap that struck Asad as problematic. Is there a "religiously-motivated terrorism?" If so, how does it differ from ... Read more

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  • In America

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    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saudi Arabia

    A Kingdom in Peril

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  • Biological Weapons

    From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism

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  • The Politics of Procurement

    Military Acquisition in Canada and the Sea King Helicopter

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    In 1993, Canada’s Liberal Party cancelled an order to replace the Sea King maritime helicopter. The Liberals claimed the Tory plan was too expensive, but the cancellation itself actually cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. The incident drew public attention to the waste in Canada’s defence spending and to the under-equipped state of its military.Aaron Plamondon ties the bungled ... Read more

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