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  • Happy Meat

    The Sadness and Joy of a Paradoxical Idea

    by Shyon Baumann, Emily Huddart Kennedy, Josee Johnston, Merin Oleschuk ...
    Series series Culture and Economic Life
    North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms–violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation–the rate of meat eating hasn't changed significantly in recent years. Instead, what has emerged is an uncomfortable paradox: a need to square one's values with the behaviors that contradict those values.Using a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life

    by Josee Johnston, Kate Cairns, Shyon Baumann ...
    The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials very different from the norm. It is a question of making the practice of sociological thinking meaningful, rigorous, and relevant to today’s world of undergraduates.This comparatively concise, highly visual, and engaging book offers a refreshingly new way forward to reach students, using one of the most ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Aging, Media, and Culture

    by C. Lee Harrington, Anthony R. Bardo, Rebecca G. Adams, Anne L. Balazs, Shyon Baumann, Nathalie Claessens, Kim de Laat, Justine Gunderson, Justin Harmon, Stephen Katz, Barbara L. Marshall, Leni Marshall, Rosa Martey, Kelly Quinn, Alexandra Raphael, Cornel Sandvoss, Christine Scodari, Merril Silverstein, Aagje Swinnen, Denise Bielby, Anne Barrett, Hilde Van den Bulck ...
    The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars, both well-established and up-and-coming, from the various academic disciplines that share a ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social ... Read more

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  • Unlearning Shame

    How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power

    by Devon Price PhD ...
    Learn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that comes from living in a society that blames individuals for systemic problems, with this invaluable resource from the social psychologist and author of Unmasking Autism.“Stop doomscrolling and read this book. You’ll feel better, I promise.”—Celeste Headlee, journalist and bestselling authorSystemic Shame ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Making It

    A Workplace Reckoning

    by Samhita Mukhopadhyay ...
    **We can bury the girlboss, but what comes next? The former executive editor of Teen Vogue tells the story of her personal workplace reckoning and argues for collective responsibility to reimagine work as we know it.“One of the smartest voices we have on gender, power, capitalist exploitation, and the entrenched inequities of the workplace.”—Rebecca Traister, author of Good and Mad**“As I sat in ... Read more

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  • Reclaiming Body Trust

    A Path to Healing & Liberation

    by Hilary Kinavey MS, LPC, Dana Sturtevant MS, RD ...
    A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies, and ourselves.Have you ever felt uncomfortable or not “at home” in your body? In this book, the founders of Body Trust, licensed therapist Hilary Kinavey and registered dietician Dana Sturtevant, invite readers to break free from the status quo and reject a diet culture that has taken advantage and profited from trauma, ... Read more

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  • Campus Confidential

    100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities (Second Edition)

    by Ken S. Coates, Bill Morrison ...
    In 2011, the first edition of Campus Confidential sparked a lively debate about what is really going on inside our colleges and universities. The media and readers alike welcomed this readable, honest book. University authorities didn't. They took the authors to task for spilling the beans. In this second edition, Ken S. Coates and Bill Morrison pick up where they left off, adding new and up-to ... Read more

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  • You Have the Right to Remain Fat

    by Virgie Tovar ...
    "In this bold new book, Tovar eviscerates diet culture, proclaims the joyous possibilities of fatness, and shows us that liberation is possible." —Sarai Walker, author of DietlandGrowing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it—and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again.Ever ... Read more

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  • Beasts of Burden

    Animal and Disability Liberation

    by Sunaura Taylor ...
    A bold and beautifully written inquiry into the intertwined struggles for animal and disability justice—challenging what it means to be humanIn this provocative and original work, artist, activist, and scholar Sunaura Taylor, “Judith Butler meets St. Francis of Assisi” (The New Yorker), explores the profound connections between animal liberation and disability justice. With keen insight and ... Read more

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  • Sociology For Dummies

    by Jay Gabler ...
    Understand how society works—and how to make it betterIt’s impossible to exist in the contemporary world without being aware that powerful social forces, ideas, and movements—#MeToo, climate change, and Black Lives Matter to name just a few—are having far-reaching impacts on how we think and live. But why are they happening? And what are their likely effects? The new edition of Sociology For ... Read more

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  • Perfect Me

    Beauty as an Ethical Ideal

    by Heather Widdows ...
    How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today’s worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more ... Read more

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