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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “millicent weber”
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  • Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture

    by Millicent Weber ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone. These festivals operate as tastemakers shaping cultural consumption; as educational and policy projects; as instantiations, representations, and celebrations of literary communities; and as cultural products in their own right. As such they strongly influence how ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • International Bestsellers and the Online Reconfiguring of National Identity

    by Rachel Noorda, Millicent Weber, Melanie Ramdarshan Bold ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    International bestsellers are the ideal sites for examining the complicated relationship between literary culture and national identity. Despite the transnational turns in both literary studies and book history, place is still an important configurer of twenty-first-century book reception. Books are crucial to national identity and catalysts of nationalist movements. On an individual level, books ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

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  • Representation

    by Jenny Kidd ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies
    Written especially for undergraduate students, Representation synthesises and updates our understandings of representation - and the tools for its analysis - for use in the new mediascape.Jenny Kidd uses an engaging range of current examples and a lively style to explore a number of key questions reflecting existing and contemporary debates about representation.These key questions include: Who ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • On Community

    by Casey Plett ...
    Series Book 8 - Field Notes
    Finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction • Finalist for the 2024 Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature • One of CBC Books' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the Fall • A Tyee Best Book of 2023 • A CBC Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 • A Hamilton Review of Books Best Book of ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Literacy Wars

    Why teaching children to read and write is a battleground in Australia

    by Ilana Snyder ...
    Do we have a literacy crisis?Fierce debates in the media over how to teach children to read and write have reached new heights in recent years. The intensity of the debates is not surprising as literacy education matters to everyone, but there is collateral damage. Public confidence in literacy teachers has been undermined and many believe we have a literacy crisis in our schools.The Literacy Wars ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Confidence Culture

    by Shani Orgad, Rosalind Gill ...
    In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather than entrenched social injustices hold women back. Interrogating the prominence of confidence in contemporary discourse about body image, workplace, relationships, motherhood, and international development, Orgad and Gill ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Organizational Ethnography

    Studying the Complexity of Everyday Life

    Edited by Sierk Ybema, Dvora Yanow, Harry Wels, Frans H Kamsteeg ...
    Just as newspapers do not, typically, engage with the ordinary experiences of people′s daily lives, so organizational studies has also tended largely to ignore the humdrum, everyday experiences of people working in organizations. However, ethnographic approaches provide in-depth and up-close understandings of how the ′everyday-ness′ of work is organized and how, in turn, work itself organizes ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • A Sentimental Education

    by Hannah McGregor ...
    How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Public Relations

    Concepts, Practice and Critique

    by Jacquie L′Etang ...
    "An excellent text for encouraging students to think critically about key public relations issues. Not only does it help students to develop a deeper appreciation of public relations, it also helps them to develop valuable learning skills."- Amanda Coady, The Hague University"A typically excellent piece of work from Jacquie L′Etang. Critical of every basic concept and provocative to all students. ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Refuse

    CanLit in Ruins

    Edited by Erin Wunker, Julie Rak, Hannah McGregor ...
    Series Book 6 - Essais Series
    CanLit–the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry—has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies and the issues that sparked them be subject to careful and thorough discussion and critique.Refuse ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning Outside the Academy

    International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher, Susan Whittaker ...
    This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other.The contributions to this book are based on material ... Read more

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  • Space, Place, and Sex

    Geographies of Sexualities

    by Robyn Longhurst, Lynda Johnston ...
    Series series Why of Where
    This accessible and engaging book explores the ways that "space, place, and sex" are inextricably linked from the micro to the macro level, from the individual body to the globe. Drawing on queer, feminist, gender, social, and cultural studies, Lynda Johnston and Robyn Longhurst highlight the complex nature of sex and sexuality and how they are connected to both virtual and physical spaces and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD