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  • Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Cookbook

    Low carb recipes for the whole family

    by Vickie De Beer, Kath Megaw, Prof. David Segal ...
    This is the ultimate handbook for anyone living with diabetes. Packed with expert advice, alongside delicious, family-friendly recipes that equip you to tackle diabetes head on. You'll learn how to recognize and manage symptoms for both Types 1 and 2 diabetes, and help improve your day-to-day health and lifestyle for good.With the latest research and advice from leading healthcare writers, Type 1 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Singing Out

    An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals

    by David King Dunaway, Molly Beer ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath of generations and perspectives, shedding light on the musical, political, and social aspects of this movement. The ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Singing Out

    An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals

    by David King Dunaway, Molly Beer ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath of generations and perspectives, shedding light on the musical, political, and social aspects of this movement. The ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking

    Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing

    by David Beer ...
    We are living in algorithmic times.From machine learning and artificial intelligence to blockchain or simpler newsfeed filtering, automated systems can transform the social world in ways that are just starting to be imagined.Redefining these emergent technologies as the new systems of knowing, pioneering scholar David Beer examines the acute tensions they create and how they are changing what is ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory

    Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past

    by Ben Jacobsen, David Beer ...
    Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They repackage our past content as ‘memories’ and deliver them back to us. But how does that change the way we remember?Drawing on original qualitative research as well as industry documents and reports, this book critically explores the process behind this new form of memory making. In asking how social media are ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Vulnerable

    The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19

    by Jane Philpott, Katherine Fierlbeck, Lorian Hardcastle, Aimée Craft, Deborah McGregor, Jeffery Hewitt0, Michelle Giroux1, David Robitaille2, Amir Attaran3, Adam R. Houston4, Bryan Thomas5, Carissima Mathen6, Alexandra Flynn7, Mel Cappe8, Grégoire Webber9, Tim Caulfield0, Jeffrey Simpson1, Paul Daly2, Marie-France Fortin3, Jennifer A. Quaid4, Teresa Scassa, Full Professor; Canada Research Chair5, Kelly Bronson6, Jason Millar7, Vardit Ravitsky8, Daniel Weinstock9, Terry Skolnik0, Professor Martha Jackman1, Delphine Nakache2, Yves Le Bouthillier3, Martine Lagacé4, Linda Garcia5, Leilani Farha6, Kaitlin Schwan7, Adelina Iftene8, Jamie Chai Yun Liew9, Y. Y. Brandon Chen0, Anne Levesque1, Kwame McKenzie2, Jennifer A. Chandler3, Mona Gupta4, Yasmin Khaliq5, Simon Hatcher6, Olivia Lee7, Tess Sheldon8, Ravi Malhotra9, Pat Armstrong0, Hugh Armstrong1, Ivy Bourgeault2, Katherine Lippel3, Louise Bélanger-Hardy4, Professor Vanessa Gruben, Associate Professor; Vice-Dean (Academic)5, Sarah Berger Richardson6, Anis Chowdhury7, Jomo Kwame Sundaram8, Professor Sam Halabi, Professor; Director Centre for Transformational Health Law9, Kumanan Wilson0, Chidi Oguamanam1, Steven J. Hoffman2, Patrick Fafard3, Céline Castets-Renard4, Eleonore Fournier-Tombs5, E. Richard Gold6, Jeremy de Beer7, Matthew Herder8, Jason W. Nickerson9 ...
    The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica.Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to hold in one’s mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort such ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Points of Interest

    In Search of the Places, People, and Stories of BC

    Edited by David Beers, Andrea Bennett ...
    Take a trip across British Columbia with this enchanting collection of essays from thirty local writers.What makes wandering the vibrant land called British Columbia really special? Encounters with locals who are ready to share, over a coffee or a beer, quirky tales and powerful truths rooted in place and time. Consider this book a meet-up with 30 such storytellers, the perfect road companion for ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quirks of Digital Culture

    by David Beer ...
    The culture we consume is increasingly delivered to us via various digital on-demand platforms. The last decade has seen platforms like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Google and the like become massive players in shaping cultural consumption. But how can we understand culture once it moves on to big tech platforms? How can we make sense of the changes this brings to our lives? These platforms ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Data Gaze

    Capitalism, Power and Perception

    by David Beer ...
    Series series Society and Space
    A significant new way of understanding contemporary capitalism is to understand the intensification and spread of data analytics. This text is about the powerful promises and visions that have led to the expansion of data analytics and data-led forms of social ordering.It is centrally concerned with examining the types of knowledge associated with data analytics and shows that how these analytics ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts

    Worlds, Lives, Fragments

    by David Beer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book draws upon the work of Georg Simmel to explore the limits, tensions and dynamism of social life through a close analysis of the works produced in the final years of his life and reveals what they might still offer some 100 years later. Focusing on the relationships between worlds, lives and fragments in these works, David Beer opens up a conceptual toolkit for understanding life as both ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • War, Media, and Propaganda

    A Global Perspective

    by Ben H. Bagdikian, Naiim Badii, Nicolene Botha, Naren Chitty, David J. Collison, Geoffrey Cowan, Arnold de Beer, Mahboub E. Hashem, Zhou He0, Dana Hull1, Karim H. Karim2, Ronald Paul Larson3, David Miller4, Asra Q. Nomani5, Leila Conners Petersen6, Nancy Snow7, Norman Solomon9, Majid Tehranian0, Daya Kishan Thussu1, Kathleen A. Tobin2, R S. Zaharna3, Barrie Zwicker4, Lee Artz5, Douglas Kellner6, Antonio C. La Pastina7, Danny Schechter8, Herman Wasserman9 ...
    This timely book presents a multifaceted look at war, media, and propaganda from international perspectives. Focusing on the media's role in global conflicts, prominent authors, journalists, scholars, and researchers provide an insightful overview of the impact of globalization on media practices. They examine the processes behind media coverage of war, sophisticated propaganda techniques, the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Meningitis

    Cellular and Molecular Basis

    by Darryl Hill, Roy Weller, Sarah Curtis, Xavier Nassif, Kelly Doran, Kwang Kim, Marcelo Gottshalk, Guy Thwaite, Douglas Drevets, Wim Ang, Diego Cadavid, Ronny Beer, K Neilsen, David Irani, Erich Schmutzhard, Uwe Koedel, Mathieu Coureuil ...
    Series series Advances in Molecular and Cellular Microbiology
    Examining meningitis mainly from a bacterial perspective, but also including an overview of viral, fungal and chronic meningitis, this book describes the anatomy of the meninges and clinical signs and symptoms of this disease. Individual organisms that cause meningitis worldwide are dealt with in specific chapters, describing in detail how these pathogens interact with the human host at both a ... Read more

    $156.99 USD