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  • YOUNG PEOPLE, ALCOHOL, AND RISK
    AMY PENNAY / GABRIEL CALUZZI / LAURA FENTON / JOHN HOLMES / MICHAEL LIVINGSTON / JONAS RANINEN / JUKKA TÖR
    Young People, Alcohol, and Risk theorises the social, cultural and economic shifts that have underpinned significant declines in young people’s drinking in high- income countries. Since the early 2000s, alcohol use among young people has declined significantly in most high- income countries. Situated within a theoretical framework of ‘social generations’ and ‘risk’, this book e...

    $1,240.00

  • GO TO THE STORE WITH SHAKUR!
    ANDREA SONNIER / JANE JONAS
    At the store, Shakur is ready to walk around instead of riding in the cart. He explores aisles filled with colorful choices. Dad reminds him that he can only pick one treat. Will it be strawberries or cookies? When it is time to check out, Shakur is a good helper and places the groceries on the belt. His trip to the store captures the excitement and pride of growing up. About t...

    $157.13

  • GOOD NIGHT, SHAKUR!
    ANDREA SONNIER / JANE JONAS
    This cozy bedtime story is filled with hugs and kisses, bathtime fun, and gentle encouragements towards establishing a nighttime routine. Shakur begins by saying good night to his family. Then Dad prepares a bubble bath where Shakur enjoys some playful moments. Afterward, Shakur puts on his pajamas and brushes his teeth. They finish with a story — but Shakur isn’t quite ready t...

    $157.13

  • GOOD MORNING, SHAKUR!
    ANDREA SONNIER / JANE JONAS
    From brushing his teeth to picking out his clothes, Shakur guides young readers through a cheerful and instructive morning routine. As Shakur remembers to do his morning activities, he engages in important decision-making. His mom helps him consider the weather to choose the perfect outfit and presents him with healthy breakfast options. This board book not only mirrors the fam...

    $157.13

  • THE TROUBLE WITH ART
    ROGER SANSI, JONAS TINIUS
    Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. But art, not only as a Western institution, generated its own philistine and iconoclastic revisions and undoings, its anti-art, that have engaged anthropology into its theory and practice. Anthropol...

    $1,240.00

  • LEARN COLORS AND SHAPES WITH SHAKUR!
    ANDREA SONNIER / JANE JONAS
    Shakur encounters a series of colorful shapes — red circles, green rectangles, purple stars, and more. As he tries to identify each color and shape, and then think of an object that is the same color, he experiences a range of emotions. He feels frustrated when he makes mistakes, but with perseverance and encouragement, he triumphs over the challenges. Children will share in Sh...

    $157.13

  • MEET SHAKUR’S FAMILY
    ANDREA SONNIER / JANE JONAS
    After a long car ride filled with anticipation, Shakur is welcomed at his family reunion by a flurry of warm hugs from his grandparents. There are cousins to play with, including Judah, who Shakur has never met before. Judah is hearing and does not sign. No problem! Throughout a day filled with adventures together, Shakur teaches Judah a new language — American Sign Language. W...

    $157.13

  • READING MOHAMED CHOUKRI’S NARRATIVES
    ELBOUSTY, JONAS
    Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives presents an intricate exploration into the life and literary universe of Mohamed Choukri, a towering figure in 20th-century Moroccan literature. Known primarily for his groundbreaking autobiographical work "al-Khubz al-Ḥāfī" (For Bread Alone), Choukri's literary influence extends well beyond this single work. This book seeks to cast a light ...

    $1,240.00

  • UNDERSTANDING VIDEO GAMES
    SIMON EGENFELDT-NIELSEN / JONAS HEIDE SMITH / SUSANA PAJARES TOSCA
    The fifth edition of this pioneering textbook takes video game studies into the next decade, highlighting changes in mobile, social, and casual gaming. This book introduces students to both the major theories used to analyze games, such as ludology and narratology, and the commercial and organizational aspects of the game industry. Drawing from historical and contemporary examp...

    $1,380.00

  • RATINGS AND RANKINGS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    JONAS THIEL
    This important work critically investigates the use of rating and ranking systems in higher education to show how they govern the academic population through the creation of competition and antagonism. From social media to PISA and Rotten Tomatoes, ratings and rankings exist everywhere in our daily lives. Seemingly benign in practice, they can structure and govern important par...

    $1,160.00

  • DEMYSTIFYING AI FOR THE ENTERPRISE
    PRASHANT NATARAJAN / BOB ROGERS / EDWARD DIXON / JONAS CHRISTENSEN / KIRK BORNE / LELAND WILKINSON / SHANT
    Artificial intelligence (AI) in its various forms –– machine learning, chatbots, robots, agents, etc. –– is increasingly being seen as a core component of enterprise business workflow and information management systems. The current promise and hype around AI are being driven by software vendors, academic research projects, and startups. However, we posit that the greatest promi...

    $1,420.00

  • MEDIA ARABIC
    JONAS ELBOUSTY
    Media Arabic provides advanced students of Arabic with a range of engaging texts on controversial and contemporary topics that reflect the current social and political environment in the Middle East. Divided into ten thematic modules, each module includes three units based on a selection of authentic newspaper articles that dive deep into topics as diverse as climate change, ra...

    $1,000.00

  • URBAN MARATHONS
    JONAS LARSEN
    This original social science text approaches marathon running as an everyday practice and a designed event, to draw upon and contribute to the literature on practice theory, urban events, rhythmanalysis and mobility. It bridges sport studies and discussions within sociology and geography about practice, movement and the city. Inspired by theoretical debates about embodied and m...

    $1,100.00

  • DRAMATURGIES OF LOVE IN ROMEO AND JULIET
    JONAS KELLERMANN
    Bringing together current intermedial discourses on Shakespeare, music, and dance with the affective turn in the humanities, Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of "unspeakable" love in one of the most famous love stories in literary history: the tragic romance of Romeo and Juliet. Through in-depth case stu...

    $1,100.00

  • THE PRIMACY OF METHOD IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH
    JONAS AHLSKOG
    How does history relate to the past? According to leading historical theorists, the relation to the past in history is reducible to evidential, psychological, practical and retrospective concerns. In contrast, this volume claims that historical relations to the past are irreducible products of the logical commitments of history as method. Ahlskog argues that the method of histo...

    $1,240.00

  • A PLATONIC THEORY OF MORAL EDUCATION
    MARK JONAS / YOSHIAKI NAKAZAWA
    Discussing Plato’s views on knowledge, recollection, dialogue, and epiphany, this ambitious volume offers a systematic analysis of the ways that Platonic approaches to education can help students navigate today’s increasingly complex moral environment. Though interest in Platonic education may have waned due to a perceived view of Platonic scholarship as wholly impractical, thi...

    $1,160.00

  • DIGITAL SNAPS
    METTE SANDBYE / JONAS LARSEN
    Photography as an everyday practice is once again changing dramatically. At this moment of transition from analogue to digital, Digital Snaps aims to develop a new media ecology that can accommodate these changes to photography 'as we know it'. Expert contributors representing varied disciplines demonstrate how and to what extent the traditional social practices, technologies a...

    $680.00

  • PEOPLE'S LAWYERS
    DIANA KLEBANON / FRANKLIN L JONAS / DIANA KLEBANOW
    Throughout America's history, lawyers with a crusading zeal have, through their moral stance, intellectual integrity, and sheer brilliance, made use of the law to fight social injustice. In short biographical chapters, the authors tell the stories of ten of these lawyers. Some are well known: Thurgood Marshall; William Kunstler; Louis Brandeis; Morris Dees; Clarence Darrow; and...

    $4,500.00

  • THE SCANDINAVIAN EARLY MODERN WORLD
    JONAS MONIÉ NORDIN
    The Scandinavian Early Modern World explores the early modern colonialism, globalization, and modernity in Scandinavia, along with its colonies, and its role in the shaping of the modern world. Scandinavians played an active role in early modern globalization and were present as traders, as colonialists, and as consumers in competition and collaboration with indigenous agents a...

    $1,240.00

  • BRAIN INJURY AND PEDIATRIC CARDIAC SURGERY
    RICHARD JONAS / JANE NEWBURGER / JOSEPH VOLPE
    An estimated 30,000 children are born in the USA with congenital heart disease each year, two thirds of which will require corrective surgery. Medical advances have formed a trend of operating on newborns rather than waiting until the child is older. Ten years ago, the mortality for these operationswas 60% to 70%. That percentage has dropped to 2%. This specialized book explore...

    $8,000.00

  • EXPLORING PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY: FROM ACTION TO VALUES
    DAN EGONSSON / JONAS JOSEFSSON / TONI RØNNOW-RASMUSSEN
    This title was first published in 28/11/2001: The broad label ’practical philosophy’ brings together such topics as ethics and metaethics as well as philosophy of law, society, art and religion. In practical philosophy, theory of value and action is basic, and woven into our understanding of all practical and ethical reasoning. New essays from leading international philosophers...

    $1,480.00

  • REIMAGINING SOCIETY IN 18TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE
    JONAS ROSS KJÆRGÅRD
    The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a strange coupling of happiness and rights. In Old Regime ideology, Frenchmen were considered subjects who had no need of understanding why what was prescribed to them would be in the interest of their happiness. The 1789 Declaration o...

    $1,240.00

  • NIETZSCHE’S PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
    MARK E. JONAS / DOUGLAS W. YACEK
    Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Education makes the case that Nietzsche’s ​philosophy has ​significant import for the theory and contemporary practice of education, arguing that ​some of ​Nietzsche​'s most important ​ideas ​have been misunderstood by ​previous ​interpreters. ​In ​providing novel reinterpretations of ​Nietzsche's ​ethical theory, political​ philosophy​ and philosophic...

    $1,200.00

  • POPULAR COMMUNICATION, PIRACY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
    JONAS ANDERSSON SCHWARZ
    Digital piracy cultures and peer-to-peer technologies combined to spark transformations in audio-visual distribution between the late 1990s and the mid-2000s. Digital piracy also inspired the creation of a global anti-piracy law and policy regime, and counter-movements such as the Swedish and German Pirate Parties. These trends provide starting points for a wide-ranging debate ...

    $1,280.00

  • INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THE MEDIA IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
    JONAS BRENDEBACH
    International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is the first volume to explore the historical relationship between international organizations and the media. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and coming up to the 1990s, the volume shows how people around the globe largely learned about international organizations and their activities ...

    $1,380.00

  • THE BATTLE FOR GUATEMALA
    SUSANNE JONAS
    This book presents a contemporary history of Guatemala's thirty-year civil war, evaluating the central protagonists in the turbulent battle for Guatemala—rebels, death squads, and the United States power. ...

    $1,320.00

  • OF CENTAURS AND DOVES
    SUSANNE JONAS
    "In a century of horrors, Guatemala from 1954 to the present has been a bloody scene of some of the worst horrors—and the United States has been deeply involved. Drawing upon 30 years of experience in Central America, hundreds of interviews, and analyses of the vast documentary materials, Susanne Jonas masterfully explains not only how the Guatemalan tragedies, the U.S. involve...

    $1,320.00

  • BEYOND GOVERNMENTS
    EDDIE RICH / JONAS MOBERG
    In a world characterized by globalization, governments increasingly find themselves unable to govern. Corruption is everywhere, natural resources are being exploited, the environment damaged, markets distorted, and the fight against poverty is often ineffective. Certain challenges cannot be addressed by governments alone. Increasingly, collective governance “beyond governments”...

    $980.00

  • PRAXEOLOGICAL POLITICAL ANALYSIS
    MICHAEL JONAS
    With the interest in practice theory and praxeology on the rise, praxeology can be considered an emerging new methodological as well as theoretical paradigm which successfully overcomes epistemological dichotomies of conventional approaches. The articles in this volume serve as starting points for rendering contemporary practice theory approaches useful for the analysis of poli...

    $1,200.00

  • DISCURSIVE FRAMINGS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
    KAREN-MARGRETHE SIMONSEN AND JONAS ROSS KJÆRGÅRD
    What does it mean to be a subject of human rights? The status of the subject is closely connected with the form and rhetoric of the framing discourse, and this book investigates the relationship between the status of the subject and the form of human rights discourse, in differing aesthetic and social contexts. Historical as well as contemporary declarations of rights have stre...

    $1,360.00


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