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Social Theory for Sports Lovers
Author(s): Synthia Sydnor
Sport looms large in current times, entwined with political movements, climate change, and pandemic. Yet what is sport’s function in society? Through the lens of respected intellectual traditions, Social Theory for Sports Lovers engages with this wondrous, sometimes decadent thing, sport. Readers --...
Can We Not Judge Other Women's Choices?: Working and Family Possibilities for Women
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Sample “Boy, I love Saturdays,” Sofia smiled to herself as she came down the stairs of the fitness center and guzzled the rest of her water. She had just spent two glorious hours on herself, sweating through a Butts-N-Guts class and then taking an hour of yoga. “No work, no commute, and a nice ba...
Computer-Mediated Communication and Refugee Resettlement: The Case of Social Media Use Among Syrian Refugee Youths in Ottawa, Canada
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Sample The number of refugees around the world has been increasing at alarming rates. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, 2019), over 70 million people were forcibly displaced, worldwide, in 2018, including almost 26 million refugees. A significant share of this...
Fans, Athletes, and Twitter: Analyzing Twitter for (Para) Social Relationship Building
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Sample On October 31, 2011, NBA Superstar Kevin Durant tweeted the following: “This lockout is really boring … anybody playing fl ag football in Okc ... I need to run around or something!” (Boren, 2011, para. 2). It didn’t take long for fans to respond to Durant’s call for something to do. Accord...
Instructional Coaching: Professional Development for 21st Century Teachers
Author(s): Suzanne Rose
Instructional Coaches have been busier than ever, meeting the professional development needs of teachers as teachers have been, often reluctantly, moved into teaching in online formats as the result of the pandemic. This second edition of Instructional Coaching: Professional Development for 21st Cen...
OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 2e softcover
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"Introduction to Sociology 2e aligns to the topics and objectives of many introductory sociology courses. It is arranged in a manner that provides foundational sociological theories and contexts, then progresses through various aspects of human and societal interactions. The text includes comprehens...
Reading to Write
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Communication, Culture, and Conflict
Author(s): GODFREY A. STEELE
Communication, Culture and Conflict (CCC) is a collection of research essays that explore the intersection of communication, culture and conflict outside traditional settings. This exploration occurs in a range of pedagogical, educational, labour and social contexts involving various media ranging f...
A History of Warfare in the Greater Middle East
Author(s): Robert F Ritchie, Herbert S. Pieper, Sean Turchin
A History of Warfare in the Greater Middle East provides a truly unique initial attempt to create a series of military history texts with the aim of providing a historical synopsis to the online student. It is the belief that a study of the Greater Middle East portends future, end-times events. It i...