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  • Maybe It’s Me

    A Memoir

    by Adrian Michael Kelly ...
    A raw and riveting memoir of collapse, recovery, and reinventionFor most of his adult life, Adrian Michael Kelly specialized in failure — serial, sometimes comic, but also epic failure. Born to a gambling-addicted, compulsively spending mother who left when he was five, and raised by his dad, a haunted and often violent hard-drinking Scot, Kelly learned failure early and learned it remarkably well ... Read more

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  • The Ambassador of What

    Stories

    by Adrian Michael Kelly ...
    Slogging through the miles of a city marathon, an 11-year-old boy encounters small miracles; about to marry one of her patients in a home for the elderly, a nurse asks her estranged son to come to the wedding and give her away; home from university, a young man has Christmas dinner with his hard-up dad in a bistro behind a rural gas bar. Men and boys and maleness, money and its lack, the long ... Read more

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  • The Idea of the University

    A Reader, Volume 1

    Edited by Michael Adrian Peters, Ronald Barnett ...
    Series Book 17 - Global Studies in Education
    The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810. Readings include excerpts from Kant and Humboldt in the German tradition of Bildung through to ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Jack's Back

    by Michael Adrian Cote ...
    A human monster that roamed the streets of London in the 1800s has unknowingly returned wreaking havoc with the help of his ingenious modern-day invention. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Down Sterling Road

    by Adrian Michael Kelly ...
    Nominated for an Alberta Book Award.Time you had a haircut. Look like a mop.Not that skinny.Skin and bloody bone, boy.Jacob breaks the point of his pencil but makes it look like an accident. And away Dad goes out the door and thump thump down the stairs.Jacob eyes the hole at the end of his pencil. Listens till he can’t hear the Torino anymore. Crawls under the covers. Hopes the rest of December ... Read more

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  • The Digital University

    A Dialogue and Manifesto

    by Michael Adrian Peters, Petar Jandrić ...
    The Digital University: A Dialogue and Manifesto focuses on teaching, learning, and research in the age of the digital reason and their relationships to the so-called knowledge economy. The first part of the book, ‘The University in the Epoch of Digital Reason,’ presents the authors’ insights into the nature of the contemporary university. The second part, ‘Collective Intelligence and the Co ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • Paulo Freire

    The Global Legacy

    Edited by Michael Adrian Peters, Tina Besley ...
    Series Book 500 - Counterpoints
    This collection is the first book devoted to Paulo Freire’s ongoing global legacy to provide an analysis of the continuing relevance and significance of Freire’s work and the impact of his global legacy. The book contains essays by some of the world’s foremost Freire scholars – McLaren, Darder, Roberts, and others – as well as chapters by scholars and activists, including the Maori scholars Graham ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Idea of the University

    Contemporary Perspectives

    Edited by Ronald Barnett, Michael Adrian Peters ...
    Series Book 18 - Global Studies in Education
    The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives, Volume 2 is a companion to The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1, which presents readings from the major texts on the idea of the university over the last two hundred years. This volume consists of essays from the leading contemporary scholars of the university across the world. The essays examine ideas of the university that lie ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Global Financial Crisis and Educational Restructuring

    Edited by Michael Adrian Peters, João M. Paraskeva, Tina Besley ...
    Series Book 31 - Global Studies in Education
    The worldwide integration and globalization of finance, an aspect of «financialization», coincided with the rise of market-oriented neoliberalism promoting free trade and privatization strategies. New Internet-based technologies have reinforced financial market integration, creating a fragile, globally integrated financial ecosystem that poses new systemic risks and contagion effects characterized ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism

    Portraits of Four Teachers for Justice

    by Keith Catone, Michael Adrian Peters, Peter McLaren ...
    Series Book 11 - Education and Struggle
    Through the artful science of portraiture, The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism presents the stories of four teacher activists—how they are and have become social change agents—to uncover important pedagogical underpinnings of teacher activism. Embedded in their stories are moments of political clarity and consciousness, giving rise to their purpose as teacher activists. The narratives illuminate how ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism

    Creativity and the Promise of Openness

    by Michael Adrian Peters ...
    Series Book 25 - Global Studies in Education
    We live in the age of global science – but not, primarily, in the sense of ‘universal knowledge’ that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of ‘free’ science and the ‘free society’ since its early development in the Enlightenment. Today, an economic logic links science to national economic policy, while globalized multinational science dominates an environment where quality assurance ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy

    The Crisis of Information

    by Jutta Haider, Olof Sundin ...
    Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are ... Read more

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