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  • Lowest Common Denominator

    by Pirkko Saisio ...
    Translated by Mia Spangenberg ...
    For readers of Eileen Myles and Patti Smith, Lowest Common Denominator is an ecstatic coming-of-age novel by the Finlandia-prize-winning author of The Red Book of FarewellsWriting in the wake of her father’s death, the narrator of Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel (translated from Finnish by Mia Spangenberg) transports us to the 1950s Finland of her youth, where she navigates life as an only chi ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Red Book of Farewells

    by Pirkko Saisio ...
    Translated by Mia Spangenberg ...
    For fans of Claire-Louise Bennett and Eileen Myles, an enigmatic work of autofiction set in a time of leftist politics and criminalized sexuality.Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel, in Mia Spangenberg’s tender translation, is a mesmerizing account of radical politics and sexual awakening in a series of farewells—to her mother, to the idealism of youth, to friends and lovers, and finally to her ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Backlight

    by Pirkko Saisio ...
    Translated by Mia Spangenberg ...
    Pirkko Saisio, now a teenager, can’t decide which she hates most: God, her father, or her growing breasts. Grandpa has moved into the room long promised to her, and Mother, overworked and distant, tries to keep the peace between her headstrong daughter and husband. When she’s not escaping into her books, Pirkko has fun getting into trouble. That is until her Finnish teacher suggests she might have ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Evolving Feminine Ballet Body

    Edited by Pirkko Markula, Marianne I. Clark ...
    Dance has become increasingly visible within contemporary culture: just think of reality TV shows featuring this art form. This shift brings the ballet body into renewed focus. Historically both celebrated and critiqued for its thin, flexible, and highly feminized aesthetic, the ballet body now takes on new and complex meanings at the intersections of performance art, popular culture, and fitness. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Endurance Running

    A Socio-Cultural Examination

    Edited by William Bridel, Pirkko Markula, Jim Denison ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Running is a fundamental human activity and holds an important place in popular culture. In recent decades it has exploded in popularity as a leisure pursuit, with marathons and endurance challenges exerting a strong fascination. Endurance Running is the first collection of original qualitative research to examine distance running through a socio-cultural lens, with a general objective of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Coming off Psychiatric Drugs

    Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics, Antidepressants, Mood Stabilizers, Ritalin and Tranquilizers (New and updated edition)

    by Peter Lehmann (ed.), Karl Bach Jensen, Pirkko Lahti, Loren R. Mosher, Judi Chamberlin ...
    The first book in the world about the issue of successfully coming off psychiatric drugs primarily addresses people in treatment who decide to withdraw. It also addresses their relatives and therapists. +++ Millions of people are taking psychiatric drugs, such as Haloperidol, Prozac, Risperidone or Zyprexa; for them, detailed accounts of how others came off these substances without ending up in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Towards Glocal Social Work in the Era of Compressed Modernity

    by Timo Harrikari, Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Work Studies
    This book addresses the change of social work in the frame of modernisation. Through Mary Richmond’s classical idea of social work, the book seeks to set current societal trends affecting social work into the context of a long historical line, opening spaces for the new debates within the social work discipline as well as proposing and taking some new directions in the current era of compressed ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body

    Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies

    by David Andrews, Mary Louise Adams, Kiri Baxter, Douglas Booth, Kyle S Bunds, Michael D. Giardina, Mariana Clark, Simon C Darnell0, Samantha Frost1, Simone Fullagar2, Pirkko Markula3, Mary G. McDonald4, Jennifer Sterling5, Christopher McLeod6, Matthew G. Hawzen7, Richard Pringle8, Oliver Rick9, Jacob J. Bustad0, Samantha King1, Shannon Leigh Jette2, Katelyn Esmonde3, Carolyn Pluim4, Gavin Weedon5 ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Temporary Migration, Transformation and Development

    Evidence from Europe and Asia

    Edited by Pirkko Pitkänen, Tomoko Hayakawa, Kerstin Schmidt, Mustafa Aksakal, S. Irudaya Rajan ...
    In a world grappling with refugee crisis, political unrest and economies on the verge of collapse, temporary migration has become an increasingly common phenomenon.This volume presents a comprehensive picture of the transformative and development potential of temporary transnational migration in political, legal, economic, social and cultural aspects.This book:analyses how temporary migration is ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Social Work Visions from Around the Globe

    Citizens, Methods, and Approaches

    Edited by Anna Metten, Teppo Kroger, Pirkko-Liisa Ranhalon, Anneli Pohjola ...
    Increase the effectiveness of the services you provide to clientsSocial Work Visions from Around the Globe examines the fundamental principles and dilemmas of social work with people whose health is under threat. This valuable resource was compiled from material presented at the Third International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health in Tampere, Finland. The book explores key ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Musical Encounters with Deleuze and Guattari

    Edited by Pirkko Moisala, Taru Leppänen, Milla Tiainen, Hanna Väätäinen ...
    This is the first volume to mobilize encounters between the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and the rich developments in cultural studies of music and sound. The book takes seriously the intellectual and political challenge that the process philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari poses for previous understandings of music as permanent objects and primarily discursive texts. By elaborating on ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Migration and Transformation:

    Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism

    Edited by Pirkko Pitkänen, Deniz Sert, Ahmet Içduygu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    People’s transnational ties and activities are acquiring ever greater importance and topicality in today’s world. The focus of this book lies in the complex and multi-level processes of migrant transnationalism in four transnational spaces: India-UK, Morocco-France and Turkey-Germany and Estonia-Finland. The main question is, how people’s activities across national borders emerge, function, and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD