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  • Companion Animals and Domestic Violence

    Rescuing Me, Rescuing You

    by Nik Taylor, Heather Fraser ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser consider how we might better understand human-animal companionship in the context of domestic violence. The authors advocate an intersectional feminist understanding, drawing on a variety of data from numerous projects they have conducted with people, about their companion animals and links between domestic violence and animal abuse, arguing for a new ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Ethnography after Humanism

    Power, Politics and Method in Multi-Species Research

    by Lindsay Hamilton, Nik Taylor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book argues that qualitative methods, ethnography included, have tended to focus on the human at the cost of understanding humans and animals in relation, and that ethnography should evolve to account for the relationships between humans and other species. Intellectual recognition of this has arrived within the field of human-animal studies and in the philosophical development of posthumanism ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Humans, Animals, and Society

    An Introduction to HumanAnimal Studies

    by Taylor, Nik ...
    While animals have played a central part in human society over the years, when it comes to the social sciences they have largely been neglected. However, interest in HumanAnimal Studies (HAS) has grown exponentially in recent years, giving rise to university and college courses around the world specifically on this compelling and vital subject. Considering topics ranging from the humananimal bond, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Queer Entanglements

    Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Animal Companionship

    by Damien W. Riggs, Shoshana Rosenberg, Heather Fraser, Nik Taylor ...
    Queer Entanglements provides the first comprehensive account of the intersections of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, and non-binary people's lives with the lives of animals. Exploring diverse topics such as domestic violence, grief following the loss of an animal, veganism, cruelty-free makeup products, Pride events, and community activism, the book offers a theoretical and empirical basis ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual

    Species, Gender and Class and the Production of Knowledge

    by Heather Fraser, Nik Taylor ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book employs an an intersectional feminist approach to highlight how research and teaching agendas are being skewed by commercialized, corporatized and commodified values and assumptions implicit in the neoliberalization of the academy. The authors combine 50 years of academic experience and focus on species, gender and class as they document the hazardous consequences of seeing people as ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Gothic Mash-Ups

    Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling

    by Kelly Baron, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Chesya Burke, Matthew Costello, Stephanie Russo, Ewan Kirkland, L. N. Rosales, Julia Round, Mary Beth Tegan, Adam Whybray, Nik Taylor, Kevin M. Flanagan, Rachel M. Friars, Sandra M. Leonard, Sarah E. Maier, Xavier Aldana Reyes ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors examine crossover fictions, multi-source film and comic book adaptations, neo-Victorian pastiches, performance magic, monster mashes, and intertextual Gothic works of various kinds. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Multi-Species Dementia Studies

    Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach

    by Ann Madeline Toohey, David B. Hogan, Stuart Woods, Anne Crilly, Gail Davies, Richard Gorman, Richard Milne, Elizabeth Peel, Jennifer Hewson, Jayne Beselt, Damien Riggs, Lorena Sordo, Anne Rankin, Vanessa Ashall, Melanie Rock, Nik Taylor, Fiona L. Henriquez ...
    Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Responding to the global dementia challenge, however, affects more than humans alone. We live in a multi-species world but often think about dementia in mono-species ways. From the lab to the living room, other beings are “on the scene” and our relations with them affect how we understand, experience, and respond to ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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  • Depression

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Jane Tacchi, Jan Scott ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is depression? What is bipolar disorder? How are they diagnosed and how are they treated? Can a small child be diagnosed with depression and treated with antidepressants - and should they be? Covering depression, manic depression, and bipolar disorder, this Very Short Introduction gives a brief account of the history of these concepts, before focussing on the descriptions and understanding of ... Read more

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  • Medical Nihilism

    by Jacob Stegenga ...
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  • McWhinney's Textbook of Family Medicine

    by Thomas R. Freeman ...
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  • e-Pedia: Asperger Syndrome

    Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests

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    Series series e-Pedia
    This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. As a milder autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it ... Read more

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