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  • Making Movement Modern

    Science, Politics, and the Body in Motion

    by Whitney E. Laemmli ...
    Explores how researchers used systems for recording human movement to navigate the relationship between mind and body, freedom and control, and the individual and the state.In the early twentieth century, human bodily movement garnered interest among researchers who were convinced that understanding and controlling it could help govern an increasingly frazzled, fragmented world. Making Movement ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invisible Labour in Modern Science

    by Elena Aronova, Sarah Blacker, Margaret Bruchac, Elise Burton, Susannah Chapman, Sabine Clarke, Rosanna Dent, Omnia El Shakry, Boris Jardine, Whitney Laemmli, Lan A. Li0, M. Susan Lindee1, Stuart McCook2, Alexandra Noi3, María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra4, Joanna Radin5, Julia E. Rodriguez6, Gabriela Soto Laveaga7, Michaela Spencer8, Laura Stark9, Mihai Surdu0, Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes1, Sandra Widmer2, Caitlin Wylie3, Jenny Bangham5, Xan Chacko7, Judith Kaplan9, Lara Keuck Keuck0 ...
    Series series Global Epistemics
    Invisible Labour in Modern Science is about the people who are concealed, eclipsed, or anonymised in accounts of scientific research. Many scientific workers—including translators, activists, archivists, technicians, curators, and ethics review boards—are absent in publications and omitted from stories of discovery. Scientific reports are often held to ideals of transparency, yet they are the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kimberley Reynolds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Book Was There

    Reading in Electronic Times

    by Andrew Piper ...
    Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member of the first digital generation—and the father of two digital natives—he understands that we ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Embracing Uncertainty

    How writers, musicians and artists thrive in an unpredictable world

    by Margaret Heffernan ...
    Most people hate and fear uncertainty. It causes such stress and anxiety that we often choose certain surrender over doubt, becoming passive, dependent, addicted—and more anxious than ever. Doubling down on the certainties promised by technology and micro-management only makes things worse, leaving no opportunity for innovation, adaptation or invention.Artists live with uncertainty constantly—but ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Recording Oral History

    A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences

    by Valerie Raleigh Yow ...
    Recording Oral History, now available in its third edition, provides a comprehensive guide to oral history for researchers and students in diverse fields including history, sociology, anthropology, education, psychology, social work, and ethnographic methods.Writing in a clear, accessible style, Valerie Yowbuilds on the foundations laid in prior editions of her widely used and highly regarded text ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom

    Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art

    Edited by Robert G. Weiner, Carrye Kay Syma ...
    Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement. This collection of essays is a wide-ranging look at current practices using comics and graphic novels in educational settings, from elementary schools through college. The ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Oral History Reader

    Edited by Robert Perks, Alistair Thomson ...
    Series series Routledge Readers in History
    The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, ‘classic’ articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most significant developments in oral history in the last decade to bring this invaluable text up to date, with new pieces on emotions and the senses, on ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Two Thoughts: A Timeless Collection of Infinite Wisdom

    by Jim O’Shaughnessy, Vatsal Kaushik ...
    Words that echo through time.This collection presents 500 insights from 250 of the world's most influential minds. With quotes from Rosa Parks to Babe Ruth, Georgia O'Keeffe to Fyodor Dostoevsky, these pages capture the essence of human thought and experience.In our fast-paced world, these timeless quotes offer a moment of pause. They challenge, inspire, and illuminate, providing a lens through ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History Beyond the Text

    A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

    Edited by Sarah Barber, Corinna Peniston-Bird ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches.In order to help historians successfully move beyond traditional text, Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Folklore: The Basics

    by Simon J. Bronner ...
    Series series The Basics
    Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs, desires, and anxieties that often are often not revealed through other means. Providing a clear framework for approaching the study of folklore, it introduces the reader to methodologies for ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Writing Manuals for the Masses

    The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard

    Edited by Anneleen Masschelein, Dirk de Geest ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has ... Read more

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