Nancy: 4645 books
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers
American Women in Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environmental issues in profoundly different ways. Although both environmental history and women's history are flourishing fields, explorations of the synergy produced...
by Sarah Butland, Bonnie Rose, CG Mann
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This collection in celebration of Canada150 was written by eight authors:
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Building Equity
Policies and Practices to Empower All Learners
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Imagine a school with a diverse student body where everyone feels safe and valued, and all—regardless of race, culture, home language, sexual orientation, gender identity, academic history, and individual challenges—have the opportunity to succeed with interesting classes, projects, and activities....
Moments in Time
A Collection of Essays About Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This collection of Nancy Dean’s best newspaper columns, all drawn from “moments in time” in her life, gives readers insights into human nature as well as plenty of reasons to smile. Join her at skating rinks, gas stations, calf scrambles, soccer games, yard sales, gardens, and on bike treks. Lose...
Justice Interruptus
Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Refuting the argument to choose between "the politics of recognition" and the "politics of redistribution," Justice Interruptus integrates the best aspects of both. ********************************************************* ** What does it mean to think critically about politics...
Redistribution or Recognition?
A Political-Philosophical Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2020
“Recognition” has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to “redistribution” remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other European, who hold different views of the matter. Highly...
Fortunes of Feminism
From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and action.
During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and...
Capitalism
A Conversation in Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as “capitalism,” upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. They show how, throughout its...
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Neoliberalism is fracturing, but what will emerge in its wake?
The global political, ecological, economic, and social breakdown—symbolized by Trump’s election—has destroyed faith that neoliberal capitalism is beneficial to the majority. Nancy Fraser explores how this faith was built through...
Strangers No More
Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries—France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands—and, across...
by Nancy Coffin
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Chair Yoga For Seniors: A Gentle Sequence to Get You Started is a practical guide to the postures in a basic chair yoga class. Included are methods, precautions and benefits as well as pictures for each posture. This book is intended for seniors, yoga teachers, and people offering exercise to seniors or others with reduced mobility in recreational or institutional settings.
Will I Make a Difference?
Community Service Through Rotary
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Author Nancy Eidsvik, MA, was the first woman ever elected to serve as the president of her local Rotary Club, and she undertook this community-based action research study to examine how the Rotary Club of Prince Rupert could best expand its volunteer service to the community. Her research, originally...
Impact!
What Every Woman Needs to Know to Go From Invisible to Invincible
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Not your average business self-help book, Impact! is a 'total person' development guide that says 'who you are impacts everything you do’. It doesn't focus on what's wrong with you but rather what's right with you so that you can turn your potential into performance. The secret to success and fulfillment-both...
Where We Live
Communities for All Ages: 100+ Inspiring Ideas from America's Community Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
"Whatever our age, we all want the same things: safe, affordable housing and transportation options; good health for ourselves, our loved ones and our environment; opportunities to learn, support our families and enjoy our lives; a connection with our neighbors and a government that is responsive...