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A Good Book, In Theory

Making Sense Through Inquiry, Third Edition

by Alan Sears, James Cairns ...

This highly original and compelling book offers an introduction to the art and science of social inquiry, including the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry. The new edition offers coverage of post-modernism and Indigenous ways of knowing, as well as a discussion of the research process and how to communicate arguments effectively. The result is a book that blends ... Read more

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This highly original and compelling book offers an introduction to the art and science of social inquiry, including the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry. The new edition offers coverage of post-modernism and Indigenous ways of knowing, as well as a discussion of the research process and how to communicate arguments effectively. The result is a book that blends
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Literary History of Canada

Canadian Literature in English, Volume IV (Second Edition)

Edited by Clara Thomas, Douglas Lochhead, Philip Stratford, Alan Cairns, Carl Berger, William New, Francess Halpenny, Henry Kreisel ...

Series series Heritage
This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and the specialist researcher.The contributors to this volume are Laurie Ricou, David Jackel, Linda ... Read more

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This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and the specialist researcher.The contributors to this volume are Laurie Ricou, David Jackel, Linda
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Politics and the Past

On Repairing Historical Injustices

by Elazar Barkan, Roy Brooks, Alan Cairns, William K. Carroll, Dalton Conley, Brenda Coughlin, Laura Hein, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Elizabeth Johnson, Sharon Lean, Charles S. Maier, Jeffrey Olick, Ruth Phillips, R S. Ratner, Henry Rousso, Stef Vandeginste, Andrew Woolford ...

Series series World Social Change
Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. Demonstrating that "reparations politics" has become one of the most important features of international politics in recent years, the authors analyze why this is the case and show that reparations politics can be expected to be a major aspect of ... Read more

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Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. Demonstrating that "reparations politics" has become one of the most important features of international politics in recent years, the authors analyze why this is the case and show that reparations politics can be expected to be a major aspect of
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Meaning of Happiness, The

The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East

by Alan Watts ...

Narrated by Kern Schmidt ...

Unabridged

7 hours 1 min

Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes, an attitude that Watts calls the “way of acceptance.” Drawing on Eastern philosophy, Western mysticism, ... Read more

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Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes, an attitude that Watts calls the “way of acceptance.” Drawing on Eastern philosophy, Western mysticism,
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Prelude to Imperialism

British Reactions to Central African Society, 1840–1890

by H. Alan C. Cairns ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism
In the half century preceding imperial control approximately eight hundred Britons lived and travelled in East and Central Africa. Prelude to Imperialism (1965) examines their relations with and attitudes to African tribal societies. The author presents a broad survey of tribal life, an analysis of culture contact, and an extended discussion of the underlying assumptions of the British evaluation ... Read more

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In the half century preceding imperial control approximately eight hundred Britons lived and travelled in East and Central Africa. Prelude to Imperialism (1965) examines their relations with and attitudes to African tribal societies. The author presents a broad survey of tribal life, an analysis of culture contact, and an extended discussion of the underlying assumptions of the British evaluation
... Read more
A Good Book, In Theory

Making Sense Through Inquiry, Second Edition

by Alan Sears, James Cairns ...

This brief and engagingly written book provides a unique introduction to the process of social inquiry and the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry, offering a strong foundation in critical thinking that is rooted in the social sciences but maintains relevance across the disciplines. ... Read more

$18.99 USD

This brief and engagingly written book provides a unique introduction to the process of social inquiry and the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry, offering a strong foundation in critical thinking that is rooted in the social sciences but maintains relevance across the disciplines.
... Read more
The Democratic Imagination

Envisioning Popular Power in the 21st Century

by Alan Sears, James Cairns ...

Democracy is very much an open question in the early twenty-first century. While voter participation declines in many traditional democracies, new movements for democracy are emerging around the world. This book brings the question of democracy out of the halls of political power and home to our daily lives, pitting "official democracy" and "democracy from below" against one another in a lively ... Read more

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Democracy is very much an open question in the early twenty-first century. While voter participation declines in many traditional democracies, new movements for democracy are emerging around the world. This book brings the question of democracy out of the halls of political power and home to our daily lives, pitting "official democracy" and "democracy from below" against one another in a lively
... Read more
A Wife Worth Living

Immortal Blood, #1

by Alan Kern ...

Series Book 1 - Immortal Blood
Roger Appleby had lost everything: his job, his wife, and so he decided to end his life. But to his surprise, he can't die. At first, he enjoys his immortality with such escapades as jumping into a lion exhibit and racing down a narrow highway in his Dodge Charger Hellcat. But when his recklessness results in the death of an innocent man, Gunnar Engberg, leaving his wife a widow and her two boys ... Read more

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Roger Appleby had lost everything: his job, his wife, and so he decided to end his life. But to his surprise, he can't die. At first, he enjoys his immortality with such escapades as jumping into a lion exhibit and racing down a narrow highway in his Dodge Charger Hellcat. But when his recklessness results in the death of an innocent man, Gunnar Engberg, leaving his wife a widow and her two boys
... Read more
Scotland as Science Fiction

by Caroline McCracken-Flesher, John Corbett, Ian Duncan, John Garrison, Lisa Harrison, J Derrick McClure, Gavin Miller, Alison Phipps, Alan Riach, Carla Sassi, Cairns Craig, Matthew Wickman ...

Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can ... Read more

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Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can
... Read more
Poking God's Eye

Immortal Blood, #3

by Alan Kern ...

Series Book 3 - Immortal Blood
Who doesn't have questions about the bizarro new world of chaos and madness we've suddenly been thrust into, and what are the origins of this global mental and spiritual meltdown? How did the terms "transgender" and "transhuman" make it so smoothly into our collective consciousness? And what do the terms "medical emergency," "digital currency," "climate change," and the "Jan.6 'insurrection'" all ... Read more

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Who doesn't have questions about the bizarro new world of chaos and madness we've suddenly been thrust into, and what are the origins of this global mental and spiritual meltdown? How did the terms "transgender" and "transhuman" make it so smoothly into our collective consciousness? And what do the terms "medical emergency," "digital currency," "climate change," and the "Jan.6 'insurrection'" all
... Read more
The Blood of Champions

Immortal Blood, #2

by Alan Kern ...

Series Book 2 - Immortal Blood
How would you respond if you were time-traveled back to the 19th-century where savage natives were about to offer you up in a sacrifice to their god, and then you were suddenly rocketed forward to a time where mad scientists attempted to inject you with an experimental serum that would transform you into a transhuman slave ruled by artificial intelligence? I know, a lot to think about or even ... Read more

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How would you respond if you were time-traveled back to the 19th-century where savage natives were about to offer you up in a sacrifice to their god, and then you were suddenly rocketed forward to a time where mad scientists attempted to inject you with an experimental serum that would transform you into a transhuman slave ruled by artificial intelligence? I know, a lot to think about or even
... Read more

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Psychotherapy East and West

by Alan Watts ...

Narrated by Jeremy Arthur ...

Unabridged

5 hours 36 min

Before he became a counterculture hero, Alan Watts was known as an incisive scholar of Eastern and Western psychology and philosophy. In this 1961 classic, Watts demonstrates his deep understanding of both Western psychotherapy and the Eastern spiritual philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism, Vedanta, and Yoga.He examines the problem of humans in a seemingly hostile universe in ways that question the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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Before he became a counterculture hero, Alan Watts was known as an incisive scholar of Eastern and Western psychology and philosophy. In this 1961 classic, Watts demonstrates his deep understanding of both Western psychotherapy and the Eastern spiritual philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism, Vedanta, and Yoga.He examines the problem of humans in a seemingly hostile universe in ways that question the
... Read more

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