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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Breakbeat Pedagogy

    Hip Hop and Spoken Word Beyond the Classroom Walls

    by Brian Mooney ...
    Series Book 512 - Counterpoints
    Breakbeat Pedagogy provides a groundbreaking framework for the inclusion of hip-hop culture in schools. Looking beyond the previous model of hip-hop-based education, Brian Mooney argues for school-wide hip-hop events, such as poetry slams, as the ideal site for students to engage in the elements of hip-hop culture. Working from the perspective of a classroom teacher, the author reflects on the ... Read more

    $49.40 CAD

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  • Manning Up

    How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys

    by Kay S Hymowitz ...
    In Manning Up, Manhattan Institute fellow and City Journal contributing editor Kay Hymowitz argues that the gains of the feminist revolution have had a dramatic, unanticipated effect on the current generation of young men. Traditional roles of family man and provider have been turned upside down as "pre-adult" men, stuck between adolescence and "real" adulthood, find themselves lost in a world ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too

    Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

    by Christopher Emdin ...
    Series series Race, Education, and Democracy
    **A New York Times Best Seller"Essential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education."—Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner author of South To AmericaAn award-winning educator offers a much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • The Consumer Society Reader

    Edited by Juliet Schor, Douglas B. Holt ...
    The Consumer Society Reader features a range of key works on the nature and evolution of consumer society. Included here is much-discussed work by leading critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Susan Bordo, Dick Hebdige, bell hooks, and Janice Radway. Also included is a full range of classics, such as Frankfurt School writers Adorno and Horkheimer on the Culture Industry; Thorstein Veblen's oft-cited ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reinventing Diversity

    Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance

    by Howard J. Ross ...
    Diversity in business and other organizations has been a goal for more than a quarter of a century, yet companies struggle to create an inclusive work place. In Reinventing Diversity, one of America's leading diversity experts explains why most diversity programs fail and how we can make them work. In this inspiring guide, Howard Ross uses interviews, personal stories, statistics, and case studies ... Read more

    $37.97 CAD

  • Face Value

    The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives

    by Autumn Whitefield-Madrano ...
    “A fascinating look” (The Boston Globe) at how we think and talk about beauty in the twenty-first century—and the unexpected and often positive way that beauty shapes our lives.For decades, we’ve thought of beauty as a negative influence in our lives. We feel insecure in the face of retouched, impossibly-perfect images. We worry primping and preening are a distraction and a trap. But in Face Value ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Dating - Philosophy for Everyone

    Flirting With Big Ideas

    by Fritz Allhoff ...
    DATINGPHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONESpeed dating, online dating, group blind dating, dating consultants… A booming dating industry is catering to an ever-increasing number of single adults in the twenty-first century, with the market for a mate now pulling in more than a billion dollars a year in the United States. So, how do we successfully attempt to navigate the dating minefield?Progressing from the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Air & Light & Time & Space

    How Successful Academics Write

    by Helen Sword ...
    From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish ... Read more

    $24.65 CAD

  • Hip Hop Dance

    Meanings and Messages

    by Carla Stalling Huntington ...
    Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance. Examining hip hop dance as text, as commentary, and as a function of identity construction within the confines of consumerism, the book draws on popular ... Read more

    $12.59 CAD

  • Viral

    by ButtonPoetry ...
    "I hear people talk about the dimming prospects of making a living as a poet, about the small and insular readership we can expect, about how poetry is dead. I think somebody forgot to tell the poets." -Michael MlekodayIn 2013, the following poems topped 200,000 views on the Button Poetry YouTube: Lily Myers' "Shrinking Women", Neil Hilborn's "OCD" & "Mating Habits of the North American Hipster", ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Buttoned Up

    Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity

    by Erynn Masi de Casanova ...
    Who is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the divide between workplace and home. Gender expectations have changed, too, with men's bodies ... Read more

    $22.31 CAD

  • Art and Social Justice Education

    Culture as Commons

    Edited by Therese M. Quinn, John Ploof, Lisa J. Hochtritt ...
    Art and Social Justice Education offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects. The images, descriptive texts, essays, and resources are grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked to ideas about culture as commons. Essays and a section written by and for teachers who have already ... Read more

    $99.78 CAD