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Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition (Hardcover): Bruce Burgett, Glenn Hendler Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition (Hardcover)
Bruce Burgett, Glenn Hendler
R2,601 Discovery Miles 26 010 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated edition Since its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies and cultural studies. As scholarship has continued to evolve, this revised and expanded third edition offers indispensable meditations on new and developing concepts used in American studies, cultural studies, and beyond. Designed as a uniquely print-digital hybrid publication, this Keywords volume collects 114 essays, each focused on a single term such as “America,” “culture,” “diversity,” or “religion.” More than forty of the essays have been significantly revised for this new edition, and there are nineteen completely new keywords, including crucial additions such as “biopolitics,” “data,” “debt,” and “intersectionality.” Throughout the volume, interdisciplinary scholars explore these terms and others as nodal points in many of today’s most dynamic and vexed discussions of political and social life, both inside and outside of the academy. The Keywords website features forty-eight essays not in the print volume; it also provides pedagogical tools for instructors using print and online keywords in their courses. The publication brings together essays by interdisciplinary scholars working in literary studies and political economy, cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, African American history and performance studies, gender studies and political theory. Some entries are explicitly argumentative; others are more descriptive. All are clear, challenging, and critically engaged. As a whole, Keywords for American Cultural Studies provides an accessible A-to-Z survey of prevailing academic buzzwords and a flexible tool for carving out new areas of inquiry.

The Will of Heaven - An Inspiring True Story About Elephants, Alcoholism, and Hope (Hardcover): Debbie Ethell The Will of Heaven - An Inspiring True Story About Elephants, Alcoholism, and Hope (Hardcover)
Debbie Ethell
R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The War on the Young (Hardcover): John Sutherland The War on the Young (Hardcover)
John Sutherland 1
R285 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R35 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Intergenerational conflict is a perennial feature of society and capitalism. One side has the youth, the other side has the lion's share of the wealth, and the good things wealth can bring. In the last few years that friction has reached to dangerous heights. Call it war. And, like all war, it has the risk of doing severe damage. In this fiery polemic the author of the best-selling The War on the Old has switched sides, and now examines the conflict as it must appear to the young. For the first time since the Second World War, younger generations can expect less fulfilled lives than their elders. They may not be their `betters', but in the second decade of the twenty-first century they surely are better heeled. Traditionally society's way of controlling the young has been to send them off to war, or conscript them. They would either die, or learn `duty'. Now we send as many as 50% to university, from which they emerge encumbered with debt. As Orwell observed, there is nothing like debt for extinguishing the political fire in your belly. The War on the Young is lively, provocative and ranges wittily, and at times angrily, over many casus belli from the standpoint of the nation's young people. Things are not getting better. This is a timely and highly readable look at a ticking generational time-bomb.

Farming - Growing the food that feeds us (Hardcover): Chris McNab Farming - Growing the food that feeds us (Hardcover)
Chris McNab
R645 R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Save R59 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Farming – whether domestic crops, forestry, fish or livestock – is one of the pillars of human civilization, dating back to the early settlements of Neolithic times. Today, approximately one billion people work the land, providing food and other products for our ever-increasing human population. Arranged geographically, Farming explores the many types of farm and farming that exist today. See how farmers in Malaysia extract milky latex from the bark of rubber trees, used to make everything from protective gloves to vehicle tires; be amazed at the gorgeous stepped rice fields of Bali, where the traditional subak irrigation system is created around ‘water temples’ and managed by Hindu priests; marvel at the vast corn and soya bean fields of Ontario, much of it used for animal feed to support Canada’s beef industry; learn about nomadic pastoralism in low rainfall areas such as Somalia, where herders move camels, cattle, sheep and goats in search of grazing; explore the wineries and vineyards in Bordeaux, where more than 700 million bottles of wine are produced each year by more than 8,500 châteaux; and see how freshwater prawns are harvested for export in the watery deltas of Bangladesh. Presented in a landscape format and with more than 180 outstanding photographs of farming from every part of the planet, Farming offers a pictorial celebration of mankind’s deep connection with the land that sustains us.

O Canada, Here I Come ! (Hardcover): Aine Moorad O Canada, Here I Come ! (Hardcover)
Aine Moorad
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Overthinking - A Complete Guide on How to Stop Worrying, Reduce Your Anxiety, Eliminate Negative Thinking, Declutter Your Mind... Overthinking - A Complete Guide on How to Stop Worrying, Reduce Your Anxiety, Eliminate Negative Thinking, Declutter Your Mind and Focus on the Present (Hardcover)
Robert Handler
R766 R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Save R91 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Half College Ruled / Half Graph 4x4 - 100 Pages 6" X 9" (Hardcover): Rwg Half College Ruled / Half Graph 4x4 - 100 Pages 6" X 9" (Hardcover)
Rwg
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
For Profit and For Good - Walden University 1970 – 2020 (Hardcover): Iris Yob For Profit and For Good - Walden University 1970 – 2020 (Hardcover)
Iris Yob
R2,377 Discovery Miles 23 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For Profit and For Good opens up for critical examination a sector of higher education that surprisingly is rarely scrutinized in depth: the corporate institutions that have made up the fastest growing sector of US higher education in this century. It explores in detail the development of one such institution, Walden University, from its emergence out of the social turmoil and progressive education movement of the 1960s, through the succeeding decades, characterized by changes on every front. It looks frankly at the impact of these forces on the university's original mission and describes the university's response to them. It investigates the idea of whether the resources and incentives of being for-profit have changed higher education in a way that benefits not only investors but also learners, their workplaces, and the larger community. Business models of management, technological developments, and changes in an ever-evolving society are issues every university faces and seeing how this institution grappled with them will be instructive. Fundamentally, this book addresses the essential ethical question of whether the for-profit sector in higher education adds value, and, if so, what that added value might be. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of the history of education, alternatives in higher education, the economics of education, education administration, reform and new developments in higher education, online learning, and policy studies in education. It is also relevant for policy makers and other managers in edubusiness.

Psychology and Pathophysiological Outcomes of Eating (Hardcover): Akikazu Takada, Hubertus Himmerich Psychology and Pathophysiological Outcomes of Eating (Hardcover)
Akikazu Takada, Hubertus Himmerich
R3,108 Discovery Miles 31 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Life & Travels of Saint Cuthwin (Hardcover): Irving Warner The Life & Travels of Saint Cuthwin (Hardcover)
Irving Warner
R850 R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Save R96 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
What My Bones Know - A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma (Paperback, Main): Stephanie Foo What My Bones Know - A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma (Paperback, Main)
Stephanie Foo
R289 Discovery Miles 2 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'A striking memoir...A must-read for anyone healing from complex trauma' Jeanette McCurdy, bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones know. By the age of thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: she had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD - a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown in California to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don't move on from trauma - but you can learn to move with it. Powerful, enlightening and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body - and examines one woman's ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.

Teaching Personal, Social, Health and Economic and Relationships, (Sex) and Health Education in Primary Schools - Enhancing the... Teaching Personal, Social, Health and Economic and Relationships, (Sex) and Health Education in Primary Schools - Enhancing the Whole Curriculum (Hardcover)
Victoria-Marie Pugh, Daniel Hughes
R3,024 Discovery Miles 30 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) and relationships, (sex) and health education (R(S)HE) are often undervalued in school and are frequently seen as an add-ons. But when taught well, PSHE and R(S)HE can enhance not only other subjects but strengthen school safeguarding, develop pupil well-being and improve pupils’ progress and resilience in learning. Underpinned by a range of contemporary research and illustrated through examples of classroom practice, the expert team of teacher educators look at a range of curriculum areas and contemporary issues to explore how PSHE and R(S)HE education can enhance other curriculum areas. As well as showing how pupils’ life skills can be developed, they also explore how teachers’ understanding of how PSHE and R(S)HE can be implemented without additional planning or expensive resources. The book takes an inclusive understanding of both diverse families and relationships throughout. Topics covered include: -social media, online presence and critical literacy skills -mental health coping strategies -plastic reducing -topical, sensitive, controversial issues (TSCIs) Covering the whole primary spectrum from Early Years to Key Stage 2, case studies from each phase are included within each chapter to help practitioners to relate the material to their own classroom. Points to consider for your setting are included and guidance on further reading provides reliable direction for additional information.

Critiquing the Psychiatric Model (Hardcover): Eric Maisel Critiquing the Psychiatric Model (Hardcover)
Eric Maisel
R2,373 Discovery Miles 23 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Critiquing the Psychiatric Model is the first Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series. Understanding the current systems of psychology and psychiatry is profoundly important. So is exploring alternatives. The Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series presents solicited chapters from international experts on a wide variety of underexplored subjects. This is a series for mental health researchers, teachers, and practitioners, for parents and interested lay readers, and for anyone trying to make sense of anxiety, depression, and other emotional difficulties. Critiquing the Psychiatric Model sets out to present a clear picture of the current "mental disorder paradigm," one that claims an ability to "diagnose and treat mental disorders" and that provides "medication" as its primary treatment. Critiquing the Psychiatric Model traces the history of the psychiatric model and its "diagnostic manual" and identifies its flaws and problem areas by presenting more than twenty solicited chapters from experts worldwide.

Fairy Tales of Appalachia (Paperback): Stacy Sivinski Fairy Tales of Appalachia (Paperback)
Stacy Sivinski
R673 R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

While taking a graduate course in Appalachian literature at the University of Tennessee, Stacy Sivinski was surprised to discover that much of the folklore she had heard while growing up in Schuyler, Virginia, was rarely represented in popular published collections. In particular, they lacked the strong female heroines she had come to know, and most anthologies were full of Jack Tales—stories that focus on the adventures of the character from “Jack and the Beanstalk.” Feminist critics have long discussed the gender inequalities and stereotypes that fairy tales often promote. With Fairy Tales of Appalachia, Sivinski asks whether such conclusions are inevitable and invites a fresh analysis of these regional tales with a contemporary sense of wonder. These tales, carefully and thoughtfully transcribed by Sivinski, have been passed down through Appalachia’s oral histories over decades and even centuries. This wonderful selection was mainly drawn from the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University and special collections at Berea College. Drawing on the work of other regional archivists and folklorists, Sivinski grapples with issues of gender balance in Appalachian storytelling. The problem, Sivinski posits, does not rest with the fairy tale genre itself but in the canonization process, in which women’s contributions have been diminished as oral traditions become transcribed. Appalachian women have historically demonstrated resilience, wit, and adaptability, and it is time that more collections of regional folklore reorient themselves to make this fact more apparent. Stories are living, breathing narratives, meant not just to be read but to be read aloud. This timely selection of unique stories, along with beautiful, evocative illustrations, makes Fairy Tales of Appalachia an intriguing addition to the much-contested “fairy tale canon.”

The EX-Factor - Split Harmony Journal (Hardcover): Peter Hobler The EX-Factor - Split Harmony Journal (Hardcover)
Peter Hobler
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Evolution of Consciousness - Representing the Present Moment (Hardcover): Paula Droege The Evolution of Consciousness - Representing the Present Moment (Hardcover)
Paula Droege
R3,175 Discovery Miles 31 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Evolution of Consciousness brings together interdisciplinary insights from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology and cognitive science to explain consciousness in terms of the biological function that grounds it in the physical world. Drawing on the novel analogy of a house of cards, Paula Droege pieces together various conceptual questions and shows how they rest on each other to form a coherent, structured argument. She asserts that the mind is composed of unconscious sensory and cognitive representations, which become conscious when they are selected and coordinated into a representation of the present moment. This temporal representation theory deftly bridges the gap between mind and body by highlighting that physical systems are conscious when they can respond flexibly to actions in the present. With examples from evolution, animal cognition, introspection and the free will debate, this is a compelling and animated account of the possible explanations of consciousness, offering answers to the conceptual question of how consciousness can be considered a cognitive process.

Carthage - A New History of an Ancient Empire (Paperback): Eve MacDonald Carthage - A New History of an Ancient Empire (Paperback)
Eve MacDonald
R440 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R47 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Carthage was a power that dominated the western Mediterranean for almost six centuries before its fall to Rome. The history of the realm and its Carthaginians was subsumed by their conquerors and, along the way, the story of the real Carthage was lost. An ancient North African kingdom, Carthage was the home of Hannibal and of Dido, of war elephants and enormous power and wealth, of great beauty and total destruction.

In this landmark new history, Eve MacDonald tells the essential story of the lost culture of Carthage and of its forgotten people, using brand new archaeological analysis to uncover the history behind the legend. A journey that takes us the Phoenician Levant of the early Iron Age to the Atlantic and all along the coast of Africa, Carthage puts the city and the story of North Africa once again at the centre of Mediterranean history. Reclaimed from the Romans, this is the Carthaginian version of the tale, revealing to us that, without Carthage, there would be no Rome.

The Discipline of Masters - Destroy Big Obstacles, Master Your Time, Capture Creative Ideas and Become the Leader You Were Born... The Discipline of Masters - Destroy Big Obstacles, Master Your Time, Capture Creative Ideas and Become the Leader You Were Born to Be (Hardcover)
Scott Allan
R672 R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Isometric Paper - 100 Pages 6" X 9" (Hardcover): Rwg Isometric Paper - 100 Pages 6" X 9" (Hardcover)
Rwg
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Energy and Behaviour - Towards a Low Carbon Future (Paperback): Marta Lopes, Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Kathryn B. Janda Energy and Behaviour - Towards a Low Carbon Future (Paperback)
Marta Lopes, Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Kathryn B. Janda
R2,573 Discovery Miles 25 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Changes to energy behaviour - the role of people and organisations in energy production, use and efficiency - are critical to supporting a societal transition towards a low carbon and more sustainable future. However, which changes need to be made, by whom, and with what technologies are still very much under discussion. This book, developed by a diverse range of experts, presents an international and multi-faceted approach to the sociotechnical challenge of engaging people in energy systems and vice versa. By providing a multidisciplinary view of this field, it encourages critical thinking about core theories, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and policy challenges. It concludes by addressing new areas where additional evidence is required for interventions and policy-making. It is designed to appeal to new entrants in the energy-efficiency and behaviour field, particularly those taking a quantitative approach to the topic. Concurrently, it recognizes ecological economist Herman Daly's insight: what really counts is often not countable.

Half Wide Ruled / Half Graph 4x4 - 100 Pages 6" X 9" (Hardcover): Rwg Half Wide Ruled / Half Graph 4x4 - 100 Pages 6" X 9" (Hardcover)
Rwg
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Computer-Assisted Learning for Engaging Varying Aptitudes - From Theory to Practice (Hardcover): R. Dhaya, R. Kanthavel Computer-Assisted Learning for Engaging Varying Aptitudes - From Theory to Practice (Hardcover)
R. Dhaya, R. Kanthavel
R4,806 Discovery Miles 48 060 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Computer-assisted learning has completely modernized the way that students learn both in the average classroom as well as in language learning contexts. Through its ability to provide interactive and engaging learning resources, computer-assisted learning is a useful tool for engaging all learners. It is essential that educators stay current with the emerging learning technologies so that they can create more dynamic and engaging classrooms and pique the interest of even the most apathetic students. Computer-Assisted Learning for Engaging Varying Aptitudes: From Theory to Practice is an essential reference source that provides insights on the practical applications of technology-based learning and its measurement and explains the applicability of this method in various classrooms. Covering topics in facial recognition technology, big data technology, and learning challenges, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource for faculty and administrators of both K-12 and higher education, pre-service teachers, IT consultants, educational software developers, government officials, superintendents, researchers, and academicians.

Hexagon Paper (Small) - 100 Pages 6" X 9" (Hardcover): Rwg Hexagon Paper (Small) - 100 Pages 6" X 9" (Hardcover)
Rwg
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
One House Down (Hardcover): Gianna Russo One House Down (Hardcover)
Gianna Russo
R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
News Media Influence on Rail Infrastructure Policy - Tracing Mediatization Through Actor–Network Theory (Hardcover): Nicholas... News Media Influence on Rail Infrastructure Policy - Tracing Mediatization Through Actor–Network Theory (Hardcover)
Nicholas Richardson
R3,179 Discovery Miles 31 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, Richardson’s research spans a decade and two cities - Sydney, Australia and Montreal, Canada - focusing on three metro-style rail infrastructure case study projects: one ongoing, one failed and one upgraded after reaching fifty years of age – to build an irrefutable case that the news media is highly influential to policy, and that these influences are complex, messy and changing. News Media Influence on Rail Infrastructure Policy offers scholars and industry practitioners in the arenas of policy analysis, politics and media communications a method for astutely guiding large-scale projects through the complex and changing landscape of 24/7 news media. It is underpinned by empirical research that identifies and endeavors to close a considerable gap in current understanding and practice. This gap represents a failure to recognise and respect mediatization – the many powerful influences impacting a policy arena that has drawn the ire of the news media. The result of this failure is ineffective communication that does little to advance the policy piece and, in the worst instances, leads to policy immobilisation or poor policy decision-making. Drawing significantly on Actor­–Network Theory, Richardson identifies the influential actors and alliances at play when policy is subjected to media discourse, and he proposes a framework for tracing and managing them. In doing so, he demonstrates that such a framework is not only vital for the successful negotiation of policy and projects in the media, but also to an (r)evolutionary recasting of public, expert and media actors in the development and decision-making process.

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