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  • Dino Math

    Early Level Math Problems Featuring Dinosaurs

    by Tom Durwood ...
    Illustrated by Gap Gop, Michael Jacobsen ...
    Series series Dino Math
    Sidd the dinosaur has a birthday coming up, and his friends Bandar and Nushan want to go to the party! But they're faced with some prehistoric hurdles along the way-can you help the two friends solve the problems and make it to Sidd's party?Geared for early to middle elementary students, The Journey to Attend Sidd's Birthday presents young learners with a variety of math skill challenges woven ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Rights and Asian Values

    Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia

    by Ole Bruun, Michael Jacobsen ...
    The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights has sparked off intense debate. This volume takes a clear stand for universal rights, both theoretically and empirically, by analysing social and political processes in a number of East and Southeast Asian countries. On the national arenas, Asian values are linked to the struggle between authoritarian and democratic forces, which both tend to ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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  • Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

    by Jack Donnelly ...
    In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Home and Native Land

    Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada

    Edited by May Chazan, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley, Sonali Thakkar ...
    Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light–shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain.The book’s articles, by some of the foremost critical thinkers and activists on issues of difference, diversity, and Canadian policy, challenge sedimented thinking on the subject of multiculturalism. Not merely “another ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Human Rights

    by Michael Freeman ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Human Rights, now in its fourth edition, is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. Its unique interdisciplinary approach invites students to think imaginatively and rigorously about one of the most important and influential political concepts of our time.Tracing the history of the concept, the book shows that there are fundamental tensions between legal, philosophical and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Order and Security in Southeast Asia

    Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer

    Edited by Ralf Emmers, Joseph Liow ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Michael Leifer, who died in 2001, was one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asian international relations. He was hugely influential through his extensive writings and his contacts with people in government and business in the region.In this book, many of Leifer’s students, colleagues and friends come together to explore the key themes of his work on Southeast Asia, including the notion of ... Read more

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  • Multicultural Odysseys : Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity

    Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity

    by Will Kymlicka ...
    We are currently witnessing the global diffusion of multiculturalism, both as a political discourse and as a set of international legal norms. States today are under increasing international scrutiny regarding their treatment of ethnocultural groups, and are expected to meet evolving international standards regarding the rights of indigenous peoples, national minorities, and immigrants. This ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Exalted Subjects

    Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada

    by Sunera Thobani ...
    Questions of national identity, indigenous rights, citizenship, and migration have acquired unprecedented relevance in this age of globalization. In Exalted Subjects, noted feminist scholar Sunera Thobani examines the meanings and complexities of these questions in a Canadian context. Based in the theoretical traditions of political economy and cultural / post-colonial studies, this book examines ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Knowing China

    A Twenty-First Century Guide

    by Frank N. Pieke ...
    Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • International Ethics

    A Critical Introduction

    by Richard Shapcott ...
    Is it is justifiable to make any basic moral distinction between 'insiders and outsiders'? Do we have substantive duties of 'justice' to all human beings or merely Humanitarian duties of aid and assistance? These are two of the most crucial questions confronting world politics and the field of international ethics today.International Ethics: A Critical Introduction provides an engaging and ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Political Development

    by Damien Kingsbury ...
    This book fills a growing gap in the literature on international development by addressing the debates about good governance and institution-building within the context of political development.Political Development returns the key issues of human rights and democratization to the centre of the development debate and offers the reader an alternative to the conventional approach to, and definition ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Ethnicity

    by Steve Fenton ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    In this extensively revised edition, Steve Fenton updates his concise and accessible introduction to ethnicity, drawing on new published work and recent social and historical changes. Discussing an extended range of theorists and illustrations from around the world, Fenton explores and clarifies the core meanings and the shifting ground of this contested concept. More space is given to ideas of ... Read more

    $22.00 USD