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  • We Built Reality

    How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power

    by Jason Blakely ...
    Over the last fifty years, pseudoscience has crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Popular sciences of everything from dating and economics, to voting and artificial intelligence, radically changed the world today. The abuse of popular scientific authority has catastrophic consequences, contributing to the 2008 financial crisis; the failure to predict the rise of Donald Trump; increased ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism

    Reunifying Political Theory and Social Science

    by Jason Blakely ...
    Today the ethical and normative concerns of everyday citizens are all too often sidelined from the study of political and social issues, driven out by an effort to create a more “scientific” study. This book offers a way for social scientists and political theorists to reintegrate the empirical and the normative, proposing a way out of the scientism that clouds our age. In Alasdair MacIntyre, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Interpretive Social Science

    An Anti-Naturalist Approach

    by Mark Bevir, Jason Blakely ...
    In this book Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely set out to make the most comprehensive case yet for an 'interpretive' or hermeneutic approach to the social sciences. Interpretive approaches are a major growth area in the social sciences today. This is because they offer a full-blown alternative to the behavioralism, institutionalism, rational choice, and other quasi-scientific approaches that dominate ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Coming Out As Mentally Ill

    by Jason Blake ...
    Have you ever thought that you or a loved one might suffer from mental illness?Approximately one in five adults in America experience a mental illness in a given year. And yet we rarely talk about it. Mental illness gets spoken about with ignorance by many and is a subject mired in stigma and shame by so many.Coming Out As Mentally Ill is the story of one person's coming to terms with mental ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Canadian Hockey Literature

    by Jason Blake ...
    Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake takes readers on a thematic journey through Canadian hockey literature, examining five common themes - nationhood, the hockey dream, violence, national identity, and family - as they appear in hockey ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • 10 Things I Learned Living on an Island

    by Jason Blake ...
    Series Book 1 - 10 Things I Learned
    Have you ever dreamed of running away to a remote tropical island?More than eight million people per year visit the Hawaiian Islands. Millions of people dream of moving to a remote tropical island but few ever do. 10 Things I Learned Living on an Island is the story of an average guy living in Chicago who picked up to move to tropical Kauai.How could living on an island change you? Could it make ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Utopia for Our Century

    A Manifesto of Hope

    by David Albertson, Jason Blakely ...
    Inspired by the humanist and Catholic martyr Thomas More, David Albertson and Jason Blakely imagine a new politics of hopeIn Thomas More’s Utopia, a traveler from the New World delivers a shocking message: on a lost island beyond the horizon, people live far better lives than in Europe. More, a leading intellectual of his day, was murdered by Henry VIII in 1535 for refusing to sign a loyalty oath, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Apocalyptic

    by Seanan McGuire, Tanya Huff, Blake Jessop, Jason Palmatier, Leah Ning, Thomas Vaughn, Stephen Blackmoore, Marjorie King, James Enge, Eleftherios Keramidas, Nancy Holzner, Aimee Picchi, Zakariah Johnson, Violette Malan ...
    Who doesn’t love a good apocalyptic story? They come in all kinds, from the nightmare terrors of superflus and zombie invasions to quieter, more reflective tales of loss and survival. Stories that feature people struggling through the end of the world or fighting to survive in what little bits of civilization still remain are always compelling. What better way for readers to safely explore the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Data Skills for Media Professionals

    A Basic Guide

    by Ken Blake, Jason Reineke ...
    Teaches the basic, yet all-important, data skills required by today’s media professionalsThe authors of Data Skills for Media Professionals have assembled a book that teaches key aspects of data analysis, interactive data visualization and online map-making through an introduction to Google Drive, Google Sheets, and Google My Maps, all free, highly intuitive, platform-agnostic tools available to ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

  • In/Half

    by Jasmin B. Frelih ...
    Translated by Jason Blake ...
    An extraordinary debut from one of Slovenia's rising starsIt's 2036, twenty-five years after the 'Great Shutdown' destroyed the global communications network. In this post-Internet world, three childhood friends come together to celebrate their fiftieth birthdays. But with Zoja, a radical poet; Evan, an addict theatre director; and Kras, a former minister for war in attendance, this was never ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Slovenia - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    by Jason Blake, Culture Smart! ...
    Series series Culture Smart!
    Slovenia seems closer to Austria or Italy than to its Balkan neighbors. The richest of the Slavic nation-states, it has an entirely Western tradition, having belonged in the past to the Roman Empire, the Frankish kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Habsburg monarchy, and the First French Empire. After the Second World War it became part of the Republic of Yugoslavia, before ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Muscle Shoals Legacy of FAME

    by Blake Ells ...
    FAME Publishing first opened in 1959 and produced hits for great musicians like Etta James, Clarence Carter and Aretha Franklin. Not long after, the city of Muscle Shoals became known as the "Hit Recording Capital of the World." FAME was the foundation that produced Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, the Nutthouse and Sundrop Sound at Single Lock Records'studios that gave a voice to artists like Drive-By ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus