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Kiersten Marek

How are women givers changing the world? Feminist Giving explores the complex world of funders for gender equality, a select group of philanthropists with very specific goals. Offering a wide range of information and analysis, this book helps make visible the vast array of new strategies that are making our world more gender inclusive.

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Kiersten Marek

What foods evoke Innocence for you? What foods fortify your Warrior or comfort your Wounded Child? This innovative recipe book provides guidance for how to nourish 10 archetypes with cooking all-time favorites like chocolate cream pie and mashed potatoes, as well as new classic pasta salads, pizzas, and soups. Over 75 recipes provide guidance for how to feed the Lover, the Explorer, the Wounded Child, the Artist, and more. Cooking for Emotional Wellness also offers ideas for how to integra...

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Erik Olin Wright

Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity can both provide the basis for a critique of capitalism, and help to guide us towards a socialist and democratic society.In this elegant book, Erik Olin Wright has distilled decades of work into a concise and tightly argued manifesto analyzing the varieties of anti-capitalism, asses...

The mission statements and recruitment campaigns for modern Canadian universities promote diverse and enlightened communities. Racism in the Canadian University questions this idea by examining the ways in which the institutional culture of the academy privileges Whiteness and Anglo-Eurocentric ways of knowing. Often denied and dismissed in practice as well as policy, the various forms of racism still persist in the academy. This collection, informed by critical theory, personal e...

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Oxford Handbooks

The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. The volume presents the core concepts and knowledge that have evolved in the study of governance in different levels and arenas of politics and policymaking. In doing so it establishes itself as the essential point of reference for all those studying politics, society, and economics from a governance perspective. The volume comprises ...

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Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy

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Key Concepts in Human Geography

"A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of economic geography... The key concepts used to structur...

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Vanessa Burgess

The Gluten Free Pantry is a cook book focussing on creating a pantry of whole grain, gluten free foods that areappealing for all members of a household. Money and time factors are addressed tofacilitate the gluten free diet as an easier way of life for the individual and their family as families struggle to accomodate the celiac in their home or the celiac who is visiting. Also interwoven into this book is a deep consciousness of the inter-connection between our f...

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Benjamin Spies-Butcher, Joy Paton, Damien Cahill

Market Society: History, Theory, Practice explores the social basis of economic life, from the emergence of market society in feudal England to the complex and interwoven markets of modern capitalist society. This lively and accessible book draws upon a variety of theories to examine the social structures at the heart of capitalist economies. It considers how capitalism is constituted, the institutions that regulate economic processes in market society and the experience of living in conte...

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Mary Lime

The thing that many individuals are not aware of is the fact that being on a vegan diet is not only healthy but will help you to lose those unwanted pounds as the menu options do not include foods with lots of saturated fats and they are virtually cholesterol free. The author is well aware of this and as a result has put together this great cookbook with a wide variety of vegan recipes that can be used for breakfast, lunch or dinner. In fact some of the recipes can even be used as a snack ...

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Mark Bevir

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SAGE Key Concepts series

′A comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the concepts embodied in governance and their wide-ranging applications and implications. An important read and reference for students and academics in the social sciences, particularly those engaged in public policy studies′ - Professor Carolyn J. Heinrich, University of Wisconsin-Madison′An authoritative short survey for which students and teachers alike will be profoundly grateful′ - Professor Rod Rhodes, University ...

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Katharine Kelly, Tullio Caputo

Community is an elusive yet frequently invoked concept. Terms like community health, community living, community schools, community policing, community development, and community renewal have become part of the contemporary lexicon.What has led organizations, and particularly Western governments, to take such an interest in community, and why this interest now? What has caused the increasing acceptance of community as the primary vehicle through which a wide variety of government p...

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Kean Birch, Mark Peacock, Richard Wellen, Caroline Hossein, Sonya Scott, Alberto Salazar

Corporations dominate our societies. They employ us, sell to us and influence how we think and who we vote for, while their economic interests dictate local, national and global agendas.Written in clear and accessible terms, this much-needed textbook provides critical perspectives on all aspects of the relationship between business and society: from an historical analysis of the spread of capitalism as the foundation of the 'corporate' revolution in the late nineteenth century to t...