Human Behavior for Social Work Practice
A Developmental-Ecological Framework (3rd edn)

(Oxford University Press, 2020)
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Featuring an interdisciplinary, developmental, ecological-systems framework, Human Behavior for Social Work Practice helps students implement a consistent system through which to approach multifaceted social issues in any environment. Students will learn that by effectively connecting theory to practice, they can develop successful strategies to use as they encounter complex issues currently facing social workers, whether it be in inner city schools or rural nursing homes with individuals of different ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic status.

This text examines social work issues at various points in human development using specific programs and policies to illustrate developmentally- and culturally-sensitive social work practice. Excerpts from interviews with practicing social workers highlight real-life experiences and introduce a variety of policy contexts. Part 3 of the text focuses on social work issues affecting individuals across the lifespan and around the globe through chapters on disability and stigmatization; race, racism and resistance; women and gender; and terrorism.

(Description Source: Oxford University Press)

Authors

Edward H. Taylor, PhD is an associate professor, mental health clinician and researcher, past Director of the School of Social Work, at the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBC), and currently the Associate Dean for the Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC. Additionally, Dr. Taylor serves as the Co-Director of the UBC Interprofessional Mental Health Clinic. Previously, he was an associate professor at the School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus. During his work in Minnesota Dr. Taylor conducted program evaluation research for the State’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division, provided training across Minnesota on evidence-based treatment methods, and co-authored the State’s youth mental health comprehensive assessment instrument. The assessment instrument is currently used in most child and adolescent clinics that receive financial support from Minnesota.

Wendy Haight is a professor and Gamble-Skogmo Chair in Child Welfare and Youth Policy at the University of Minnesota.

Ruth Soffer-Elnekave is a PhD student at the University of Minnesota and works as a research assistant in the Gamble-Skogmo land grant in Child Welfare and Youth Policy.

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The Authority Trap
Strategic Choices of International NGOs

(Cornell University Press, 2017)
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Not all international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) are created equal, Some have emerged as “leading INGOs” that command deference from various powerful audiences and are well-positioned to influence the practices of states, corporations, and other INGOs. Yet Sarah S. Stroup and Wendy H. Wong make a strong case for the tenuous nature of this position: in order to retain their authority, INGOs such as Greenpeace, Oxfam, and Amnesty International refrain from expressing radical opinions that severely damage their long-term reputation. Stroup and Wong contend such INGOs must constantly adjust their behavior to maintain a delicate equilibrium that preserves their status.

Activists, scholars, and students seeking to understand how international organizations garner and conserve power—and how this affects their ability to fulfill their stated missions—will find much of value in The Authority Trap. The authors use case studies that illuminate how INGOs are received by three main audiences: NGO peers, state policymakers, and corporations. In the end, the authors argue, the more authority an INGO has, the more constrained is its ability to affect the conduct of world politics.

(Description Source: Cornell University Press)

Authors

Wendy H. Wong is a professor of Political Science at UBC Okanagan. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. Her main research interests lie at the crossroads of International Relations and Comparative Politics.  She is interested in the politics of organization, why human beings choose to act collectively, their choices to go about doing it, and the effects of those choices. Research interests include: human rights, humanitarianism, international law, social movements, indigenous politics, the rights of ethnic minorities, and the role of networks. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Successful Societies research program. Her book, Internal Affairs, was published by Cornell University Press in 2012.

Sarah S. Stroup is an associate professor of Political Science at Middlebury College.

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Animal Subjects 2.0
An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World

(Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016)
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Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (WLU Press, 2008) challenged cultural studies to include nonhuman animals within its purview. While the “question of the animal” ricochets across the academy and reverberates within the public sphere, Animal Subjects 2.0 builds on the previous book and takes stock of this explosive turn. It focuses on both critical animal studies and posthumanism, two intertwining conversations that ask us to reconsider common sense understandings of other animals and what it means to be human.

This collection demonstrates that many pressing contemporary social problems—how and why the oppression and exploitation of our species persist—are entangled with our treatment of other animals and the environment. Decades into the interrogation of our ethical and political responsibilities toward other animals, fissures within the academy deepen as the interest in animal ethics and politics proliferates.

Although ideological fault lines have inspired important debates about how to address the very material concerns informing these theoretical discussions, Animal Subjects 2.0 brings together divergent voices to suggest how to foster richer human–animal relations, and to cultivate new ways of thinking and being with the rest of animalkind. This collection demonstrates that appreciation of difference, not just similarity, is necessary for a more inclusive and compassionate world. Linking issues of gender, disability, culture, race, and sexuality into species, Animal Subjects 2. 0 maps vibrant developments in the emergent fields of critical animal studies and posthumanist thought.

(Description Source: Wilfrid Laurier University Press)

Authors

Jodey Castricano is a professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan).  Research and publication extends to Gothic Studies, Critical Animal Studies and ecofeminism. Previous publications include Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida’s Ghost Writing (McGill Queen’s 2001) and Gothic Metaphysics: From Alchemy to the Anthropocene (U of Wales Press 2021) ). Castricano is the editor of Animal Subjects (WLU Press, 2008) and co-editor (Corman) of Animal Subjects 2.0 (WLU Press, 2016) and (Rasmussen) Critical Perspectives on Veganism (Palgrave Macmillan 2016).

Lauren Corman is an associate professor of sociology at Brock University.

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Digital Mediascapes of Transnational Korean Youth Culture

(Routledge, 2020)
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Drawing on vivid ethnographic field studies of youth on the transnational move, across Seoul, Toronto, and Vancouver, this book examines transnational flows of Korean youth and their digital media practices.

This book explores how digital media are integrated into various forms of transnational life and imagination, focusing on young Koreans and their digital media practices. By combining theoretical discussion and in-depth empirical analysis, the book provides engaging narratives of transnational media fans, sojourners, and migrants. Each chapter illustrates a form of mediascape, in which transnational Korean youth culture and digital media are uniquely articulated. This perceptive research offers new insights into the transnationalization of youth cultural practices, from K-pop fandom to smartphone-driven storytelling.

A transnational and ethnographic focus makes this book the first of its kind, with an interdisciplinary approach that goes beyond the scope of existing digital media studies, youth culture studies, and Asian studies. It will be essential reading for scholars and students in media studies, migration studies, popular culture studies, and Asian studies.

(Description Source: Routledge)

Authors

Kyong Yoon is a professor of Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He has published widely on digital media, South Korean popular culture, migration, and youth culture. He is the author of Digital Mediascapes of Transnational Korean Youth Culture (2020) and Diasporic Hallyu: The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture (2022). He has co-authored Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture (2021).

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Okanagan Lake
An Illustrated Exploration Above and Below Waters

(Institute for Underwater Research, 2018)
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Okanagan Lake is one of the most famous freshwater lakes in Canada, and, arguably, the most important natural feature of the Okanagan Valley. The lake became the centre of human activity after the First Nations people came to the Valley. Community development around Okanagan Lake flourished throughout the last century, bringing an increase in anthropogenic interactions with the freshwater environment. In recent history, Okanagan Lake was the arena of an extensive shipping industry, consisting of passenger and tug steamboats, barges, and ferries, and saw the construction of two floating bridges. In addition, Okanagan Lake received significant attention for various environmental and scientific reasons.

Descend into the depths of this large, deep, and unexplored glacial lake by way of this seminal work – a comprehensive and illustrated investigation into the science and history of the lake. The book features over a decade of personal expeditions conducted by the Institute for Underwater Research (IFUR), and our attempts to learn more about the above and underwater concepts of Okanagan Lake. This book answers questions posed by freshwater fanatics, nature enthusiasts, and inquisitive citizens, such as: What exists at the bottom of the lake?, How did the lake get here?, What physical, geological, and biological processes are at play in the lake?, and How are humans impacting this resource?

The 272 page, full-colour book, investigates subjects such as the science (biology, geology, limnology), and history of the lake. A chapter is dedicated to the history of lake shipping, which includes the historic sternwheelers, tugboats, and construction of the original Okanagan Lake Floating Bridge. The heart of this book is the chapter focusing on the above and underwater research conducted by IFUR, since 2005. In this chapter, we study topics such as the bottom composition, interesting bottom features, aquatic plant classification studies, and geologic discoveries on the lake floor dating back to the early formation of the lake. The majority of information in this chapter, and elsewhere throughout the book, is original material that has never been discussed before.

(Description Source: Institute for Underwater Research)

Authors

Raphael Nowak is a Freshwater Science graduate from the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO), and has passionately researched the science and history of Okanagan Lake from a very young age. In 2005, driven by a strong intellectual curiosity, Raphael founded the Institute for Underwater Research, a private underwater research organization. While Okanagan Lake is such an important freshwater resource, very little information is readily available in one comprehensive text; the desire to fill this information gap is what led to the creation of this book.

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Asexual reproductive organ (gemma) of the liverwort, Lunularia cruciata

(2011 Photomicrography Competition, Image of Distinction)
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This image of the asexual reproductive organ (gemma) of the liverwort, Lunularia cruciata, employs a confocal microscopy technique. The sample was collected in Pacific Spirit Park, which is adjacent to the UBC Vancouver campus. It was awarded the recognition of Image of Distinction at the 2011 Photomicrography Competition.

(Source: Small World)

Photographer

Robin Young is an assistant professor of teaching in Biology at UBC Okanagan. She received a PhD from UBC. Her research background is in cell biology, with a focus on using light and electron microscopy to examine ultrastructure of organelles in both plants and animals. She is an expert in electron tomography and cryo-electron microscopy techniques, and has competencies in confocal microscopy, 2-photon microscopy and plant molecular biology techniques.

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El Pasado que miramos
Memoria e imagen ante la historia reciente

(Paidós, 2009)
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Los ensayos reunidos en este libro constituyen un aporte fundamental y novedoso tanto en el campo de la comunicación como de los estudios sobre la memoria. A partir del análisis sobre las diferentes maneras de utilizar las imágenes en la memoria de la Argentina post-dictatorial, las compiladoras no solo delimitan un problema, sino que instauran una nueva línea de trabajo al colocar su objeto en la perspectiva de una multiplicidad de abordajes. El medio de este libro es el lenguaje de y sobre todos los medios de expresión de la memoria: la declaración, el testimonio, la autobiografía, la fotografía, el cine, el documental, la televisión.

Centrándose en los medios visuales, los ensayos de este libro, con sus diversos estilos y enfoques, intentan comprender las relaciones entre lenguaje verbal e imagen, historia y memoria, hecho y ficción. Con esta misión, el libro evita caer en una trampa que acecha a gran parte de la bibliografía contemporánea sobre la memoria: creer en la completa autenticidad, en todo momento, de la voz del testigo. Y no se abstiene de señalar las mitificaciones y compulsiones a la repetición en el proceso de recordar a los desaparecidos a través de la fotografía, el cine y la televisión. En este sentido, El pasado que miramos resulta una contribución esencial para pensar y discutir el presente.

(Description Source: Políticas​ de la memoria)

Author

Jessica Stites Mor is an associate professor of History at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She is author of Transition Cinema: Political Filmmaking and the Argentine Left since 1968 (Pittsburgh, 2012), co-editor of El Pasado que miramos (The Past We View, Paídos, 2009) with Claudia Feld, and editor of Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America (Wisconsin, 2013). She has also co-edited a special issue on South-South Solidarity for the Journal of Latin American and Iberian Research (2014), and authored several other journal articles. She is also editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, which has its home in the Latin American Studies Program at UBCO.

Claudia Feld is an independent researcher for CONICET with a PhD in Communication Sciences from l’Université de Paris.

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Physicalism in Mathematics

(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990)
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This collection of papers has its origin in a conference held at the Uni­versity of Toronto in June of 1988. The theme of the conference was Physicalism in Mathematics: Recent Work in the Philosophy of Math­ematics. At the conference, papers were read by Geoffrey Hellman (Minnesota), Yvon Gauthier (Montreal), Michael Hallett (McGill), Hartry Field (USC), Bob Hale (Lancaster & St Andrew’s), Alasdair Urquhart (Toronto) and Penelope Maddy (Irvine). This volume supplements updated versions of six of those papers with contributions by Jim Brown (Toronto), John Bigelow (La Trobe), John Burgess (Princeton), Chandler Davis (Toronto), David Papineau (Cambridge), Michael Resnik (North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Peter Simons (Salzburg) and Crispin Wright (St Andrews & Michigan). Together they provide a vivid, expansive snapshot of the exciting work which is currently being carried out in philosophy of mathematics.

(Description Source: Springer)

Author

Andrew Irvine is a professor of Philosophy at UBC’s Okanagan Campus. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney for work in the Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy on mathematical truth and scientific realism. Since then, he has published and lectured on topics in the philosophy of mathematics, the history and philosophy of logic, and the philosophy of law. He is especially interested in the work of the twentieth-century philosopher, essayist and social critic, Bertrand Russell. He is co-author of the logic textbook Argument and author of the stage play Socrates on Trial.

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Intrinsic fluorescence in Lepidozia reptans (liverwort)

(2011 Photomicrography Competition, 4th Place)
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This image of intrinsic fluorescence in Lepidozia reptans (livewort) employs live mount and confocal microscopy techniques. The sample was collected in Pacific Spirit Park, which is adjacent to the UBC Vancouver campus. It was awarded 4^th place at the 2011 Photomicrography Competition.

(Source: Small World)

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Robin Young is an assistant professor of teaching in Biology at UBC Okanagan. She received a PhD from UBC. Her research background is in cell biology, with a focus on using light and electron microscopy to examine ultrastructure of organelles in both plants and animals. She is an expert in electron tomography and cryo-electron microscopy techniques, and has competencies in confocal microscopy, 2-photon microscopy and plant molecular biology techniques.

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Telecom Tensions
Internet Service Providers and Public Policy in Canada

(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019)
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Today’s internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions. In other words, they have become ideal agents of public policy and instruments of governance. In Telecom Tensions Mike Zajko considers the tensions inherent to this role between private profits and the public good, competition and cooperation, neutrality and discrimination, surveillance and security and asks what consequences arise from them.

Many understand the internet as a technology that cuts out traditional gatekeepers, but as the importance of internet access has grown, the intermediaries connecting us to it have come to play an increasingly vital role in our lives. Zajko shows how the individuals and organizations that keep these networks running must satisfy a growing number of public policy objectives and contradictory expectations. Analyzing conflicts in Canadian policy since the commercialization of the internet in the 1990s, this book unearths the roots of contemporary debates by foregrounding the central role of internet service providers. From downtown data centres to publicly funded rural networks, Telecom Tensions explores the material infrastructure, power relations, and political aspirations at play.

Theoretically informed but grounded in the material realities of people and places, Telecom Tensions is a fresh look at the political economy of telecommunications in Canada, updating conversations about liberalization and public access with contemporary debates over privacy, copyright, network neutrality, and cyber security.

(Description Source: McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Author

Mike Zajko is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He received his BA from the University of Calgary, his MA from the University of Calgary, and his PhD from the University of Alberta. While completing his PhD, Dr. Zajko began teaching at both the University of Alberta and MacEwan University before relocating to the Okanagan in 2018 to accept a position as assistant professor in the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Department of History and Sociology. His research focuses primarily on governance, internet policy, security, and social media.

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