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How to Do Discourse Analysis provides a comprehensive toolkit for conducting discourse analysis, offering twenty-six practical tools to examine how language is used to construct meaning, enact identities, and shape social realities. Written by renowned linguist James Paul Gee, it introduces key concepts like situated meanings, social languages, and discourses, showing how language both reflects and creates social contexts.

Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often positioned as a distraction, a drain, a problem to be solved.

Public health is more than data—it’s the conversations that hold communities together. Master the Discourse is structured for health sciences students who want to explore systems thinking, examining how language shapes social cohesion, how social norms drive institutional ecology, and how social beliefs influence resilience. Through a Social Public Health framework, we consider how words build (or break) trust—and provide tools to transform shared language into shared solutions.