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  • A New Approach to Conservation

    The Importance of the Individual through Wildlife Rehabilitation

    by Gill Aitken ...
    Conservationists assume a set of underlying values which guide their decision-making and action. The safeguarding or promotion of biodiversity, it is believed, is the means by which nature is best protected. This book examines - and challenges - these general conservation assumptions. While reinforcing the need to halt extinction and value biodiversity, it shows that biodiversity needs to be more ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Psychology, Discourse And Social Practice

    From Regulation To Resistance

    by Gill Aitken, Pam Alldred, Robin Allwood, Tom Billington, Erica Burman, Brenda Goldberg, Colleen Heenan, Angel Juan, Gordo Lopez, Debs Mark, Sam Warner ...
    What damage does psychology do to people's lives, and what can we do about it? How do we recognise and support resistance? Written by expert practitioners-researchers, this co-authored book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its "expert" knowledge to turn social marginalisation into pathology.Chapters address a range of cultural and institutional arenas in which ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Online Postgraduate Education in a Postdigital World

    Beyond Technology

    Edited by Tim Fawns, Gill Aitken, Derek Jones ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume builds uponthe premise that online learning is not separate from the social and material world, and is made up of embodied, socially-meaningful experiences. It is founded on a “postdigital” perspective in which, much more than interactions with keyboards, computer screens, hardware or software, the learning that happens on online postgraduate programmes spills out into ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Approaches to Human Geography

    Philosophies, Theories, People and Practices

    Edited by Gill Valentine, Stuart C Aitken ...
    "The book covers some of the (traditionally) most obtuse and difficult-to-grasp philosophical ideas that have influenced geographers/geography. The fact that these are presented in an inclusive and accessible manner is a key strength. Many students have commented that the chapters they have read have encouraged them to read more in this field, which is fantastic from a lecturer′s perspective."- ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Under the Channel

    by Gilles Petel ...
    Translated by Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce ...
    When the body of a Scotsman turns up on board a Channel Tunnel train at the Gare du Nord, Parisian detective Roland Desfeuillères finds himself in charge of a murder investigation. This inter-city tale of changing identities is no ordinary crime novel. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Age of Empathy

    Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

    by Frans de Waal ...
    In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Ape examines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans.Are we our brothers' keepers? Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only on earth to serve our own survival and interests?By studying social behaviors in animals, such as bonding, the herd instinct, the forming ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The English Assassin

    by Daniel Silva ...
    Series Book 2 - Gabriel Allon
    Spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon finds himself accused of murder in this New York Times bestseller from Daniel Silva.An Israeli spy by trade and art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to restore the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker—and finds himself standing in blood and framed for the man’s murder.While trying to clear his name, Allon is swept into a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Moral Lives of Animals

    by Dale Peterson ...
    Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try toprotect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats,finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed torescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life trying to save anunrelated infant who has fallen into a watery moat.Theexamples above and many others, argues Dale Peterson, show that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Gabriel's Moon

    A Gabriel Dax Novel

    by William Boyd ...
    Series Book 1 - Gabriel Dax
    From the internationally bestselling author beloved by readers everywhere, William Boyd offers his most exhilarating novel yet, following a reluctant spy drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsessionGabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a fire that took his mother’s life. Every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Where Do Camels Belong?

    Why Invasive Species Aren't All Bad

    by Ken Thompson ...
    The ecologist and author of Do We Need Pandas? "presents a stimulating challenge to our perceptions of nature" and non-native species (George Monbiot).You may be surprised to learn that camels evolved and lived for tens of millions of years in North America—and also that the leek, national symbol of Wales, was a Roman import to Britain, as were chickens, rabbits and pheasants. These classic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction To Social Work Practice

    by Melanie Parris ...
    This workbook provides ideal preparation for students wanting to become self aware and self evaluative before moving into practice for the first time. ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Little Boy Found

    A Psychological Thriller Unlike Anything You've Read Before!

    by LK Fox ...
    They thought the nightmare was over ... It's only just the beginningIt was a morning just like any other: Nick drops off his son at the school gates like he usually does. Then he has a minor collision with another car, and he thinks he sees the impossible...But Gabriel never even made it to school that day, and suddenly Nick begins to question everything he thought he knew, and it has terrifying ... Read more

    $1.99 USD