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The Swedenborg Society An Evening of Dreams 2017
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Aboriginal Studies Press returntopalmisland
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Carcanet Press Ltd Treatise Concerning the Arte of Limning
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Quercus Publishing Beauty and the Inferno
Book SynopsisRoberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno, winner of the European Book Award 2010, also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important collection includes essays across a remarkably wide field of interests, celebrating personal heroes as diverse as Frank Miller and Lionel Messi. However as with the bestselling Gomorrah, his fearless and unflinching condemnation of the mafia takes centre stage. Implicit in Saviano''s tributes to writers, musicians, sportsmen and journalists is the message that there is an alternative to living in corruption and fear. Beauty and the Inferno is a searing polemic that encompasses Saviano''s vision of life and of art, of the good to be found in humanity and the evil inherent in power. His commitment to truth resonates from every page. Trade Review'He is always erudite, prickly and trenchant' Catholic Herald. * Catholic Herald *'a sad book in many ways because it illustrates the price that can be paid for courageous writing' Guardian. * Guardian *'A man determined to describe the world exactly as he finds it, and in words calculated to rouse the passion of his readers ... Like the greatest of Italian writers, Dante Alighieri, he is above all a moralist who despise those who take no sides in the great struggles of our time' Matthew Hoffman, Independent. * Independent *'When he tackles the crime lords of southern Italy that his voice soars in a crescendo of outrage ... After reading this, we should all be howling. Somebody might, eventually, hear us' Irish Times. * Irish Times *'At once deeply disturbing and illuminating ... a litany of hope' Alan Taylor, Scottish Sunday Herald. * Scottish Sunday Herald *'Frank, impassioned and frustrated - these essays from the reporter who lives under threat of death for speaking out against the Italian Mafia put acquiescing bystanders to shame' Sunday Telegraph. * Sunday Telegraph *'A celebration of bravery and an expression of rage against corruption and cowardice' Caroline Moorehead, T.L.S. * TLS *'It is good to be reminded of the raw bravery of the Savianos of this world and to salute them for the sacrifices they have made in their challenges to power' Duncan Campbell, Guardian. * Guardian *Table of ContentsPreface: The Dangers of Reading. SOUTH: Letter to My Land; Miriam Makeba - The Anger of the Brotherhood; From Scampia to Cannes; Fighting Evil with Art; Truth, Despite All Else, Exists; When the Earth Shudders, Cement Kills. MEN: Brittle Bones; Playing It All; Tatanka Skatenato; The Man That Was Donnie Brasco; Siani, a True Journalist; The Lighthouse Keeper; In the Name of the Law and the Daughter; Felicia. BUSINESS: The Magnificent Merchandise; Constructing, Conquering; The Plague and Gold; Vollmann Syndrome; Apocalypse Vietnam; Today Is Yours Forever. NORTH: The Ghosts of Nobel; Speech at the Swedish Academy; The Demon and Life; The Infinite Conjecture; Never Again in a World Apart; He Who Writes Dies. Acknowledgements. Appendix I: Sources. Appendix II: Glossary.
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Goose Lane Editions The M Word
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood, a powerful, female-driven anthology of short personal essays, poems, and illustrations, tells the many stories women so rarely share. ... The M Word is a meditation on the fickle emotional uncertainty awarded to mothers. It breaks down the walls of maternal isolation and offers companionship to anyone who has not had the fairy-tale journey to motherhood. These stories show us that the extraordinary gift of motherhood cannot be accepted without relinquishing something spectacular." -- Rachel Harry * National Post *"That's what makes The M Word so surprising, and also moving, gripping, funny, and, occasionally, really uncomfortable to read: the writers put it all on the table, all the confusion, ambivalence, difficulty, suffering, hope, despair, and insight that swirl around people's different experiences with motherhood, whether they are or aren't mothers, however motherhood is defined, and whether their situation arose from choice or accident, gift or tragedy. As many of the writers observe, there's a popular public story about motherhood that is all bliss, smiles, and cuddles. For many of them, there is plenty of bliss, but that's rarely the whole story and often not the story at all. The M Word doesn't try to tell one story: it allows, even insists, on the coexistence of many different ones." * Open Letters Monthly *"There is a strong Canadian tradition of public discourse on motherhood, from the late journalist June Callwood's interviews with unwed teenaged mothers to Marni Jackson's memoirs, and anthologies like Double Lives and Between Interruptions. The M Word adds 25 thoughtful voices to the mix ... You won't keep this book; you'll pass it on to friends whose current vocation is changing diapers, or to friends who want a child, and those who don't." * Herizons *"A book about motherhood that includes those who never gave birth? Those who've been pregnant but never held a child? Halleluiah! Finally: a conversation with no 'us versus them.' Here is only 'us,' those who desire to 'be connected by this understanding of what it is to love and celebrate your children.' The M Word offers what mothers (new and old) need most: to know we're not alone." * Winnipeg Review *"Stop everything. Withhold judgement for a minute. I promise you The M Word is not like any book you've read about motherhood." * The Fernie Fix *"Rather than attempting to resolve issues once and for all, or to glorify and idealize a madonna-like figure, The M Word presents in alphabetical order a wide variety of the experiences of women who have embraced, eschewed or endured the experiences of motherhood in its many, different realities ... This book was a pleasure to read." * Kitchener-Waterloo Record *"The M Word felt like a kind of emotional labour for the three days I was reading. This is a motherlode of deeply personal truths, generous and courageous souls, bearing witness to lives shaped, if not defined, by, well, 'life with a uterus,' as the foreword suggests." * Telegraph-Journal *"I'm not normally drawn to mothering books but I like Kerry Clare's work, so it was impossible not to be drawn to her anthology, The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood, I knew I'd be in the hands of good taste and good writing, even if, as a Childless Woman, I couldn't actually relate. Well, what happened was this: I found myself not only enjoying the read, but relating. In a major way. Because, as it turns out, the essays are both about mothering and not mothering, about the exultant and the reluctant, the non-mothers by choice, the stepmothers by circumstance, women who will do anything to become a mother and those who will do anything to not. and in every scenario, the difficulties, joys, fears, the way life is changed for the better and sometimes for the not entirely better. There are celebrations, regrets, and such honesty that it's really quite impossible not to relate." -- Matilda Magtree"The M Word is a book I would have benefited from reading when I was a young mother more than 30 years ago." * Coastal Spectator *
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Liberty Fund Inc Democratick Editorials
Book SynopsisWilliam Leggett (1801-1839) was the intellectual leader of the laissez-faire wing of Jacksonian democracy. His diverse writings applied the principle of equal rights to liberty and property. These editorials maintain a historical and contemporary relevance.
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Liberty Fund Inc Democratick Editorials
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Liberty Fund Inc American Political Writing During the Founding
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Liberty Fund Inc On Liberty Society and Politics The Essential
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Liberty Fund Inc The Letters of Jacob Burckhardt
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Liberty Fund Inc Catos Letters Volumes 1 2
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Liberty Fund Inc Catos Letters Volumes 1 2
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Liberty Fund Inc Select Works of Edmund Burke Volume 2
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Liberty Fund Inc Select Works of Edmund Burke Volume 3 Letters on
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Liberty Fund Inc Miscellaneous Writings
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Liberty Fund Inc Struggle for Sovereignty Volumes 1 2
Book SynopsisThe English Civil War in mid-century and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle between kings who were eager to consolidate and even extend their power and subjects who were eager to identify and defend individual liberties. The source and nature of sovereignty was of course the central issue. The writings, by the renowned (Coke, Sidney, Shaftsbury) and the unremembered (Anonymous) therefore constitute an enduring contribution to the historical record of the rise of ordered liberty.
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Liberty Fund Inc Areopagitica and Other Political Writings of John
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Liberty Fund Inc Empire Nation 2nd Edition
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Liberty Fund Inc Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke Volumes 13
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Liberty Fund Inc Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke Volumes 13
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Liberty Fund Inc Natural Rights on the Threshold of the Scottish
Book SynopsisGershom Carmichael was a teacher and writer who played an important role in the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, not least by bringing the works of Grotius, Pufendorf, and Locke to the attention of his students and his readers throughout Europe. He drew upon the Reformed or Presbyterian theology taught in Scottish universities in that era to propose that in respecting the natural rights of individuals, one signifies one''s reverence for God''s creation. Inasmuch as all of mankind longs for lasting happiness or beatitude and such happiness can be found only in worship of or reverence for God, such reverence is the natural law which obliges all men to respect the rights of men and citizens
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Liberty Fund Inc Sketches of the History of Man 3Volume Set
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Parmenides
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGill's and Ryan's Parmenides is, simply, superb: the Introduction, more than a hundred pages long, is transparently clear, takes the reader meticulously through the arguments, avoids perverseness, and still manages to make sense of the dialogue as a whole; there is a fine selective bibliography; and those parts of the translation I have looked at in detail suggest that it too is very good indeed. --Christopher Rowe, Phronesis
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Odyssey
Book SynopsisStanley Lombardo's translation of Homer's classic work aims to offer the distinctive speed and clarity of his other tranlations.Trade Review"The definitive English version of Homer for our time." —The Common Review: The Magazine of the Great Books Foundation"Lombardo weaves his cherished idioms into important patterns of repetition and transformation so familiar to the telling of the Odyssey. . . . Above all, such familiar phrases serve to remind us of the oral character of the original Odyssey, providing the reader with an uncanny immediacy and relevance." —Christina Zwarg, The Bryn Mawr Classical Review"Lombardo has the simple gift of summoning up a Homeric flavor wherever he turns. He may even blend contemporary colloquialisms with an antique epic grandeur, and the effect remains unimpaired. As Lombardo tells us, he recites and performs, he impersonates the poem as if he were the bard. We follow, we explore, plunging into 'medias res'. Homer arises before him as an encompassing reality. Lombardo moves at ease through this Homeric world, without artifice or rhetoric, attuning his verse to Homer's composition. Homer is here a vindication of poetry." —Paolo Vivante, McGill University"Lombardo has created a Homeric voice for his contemporaries: fresh, quick, and verbally engaging to the modern ear, as the original was to the ancient. His characters come alive as real people expressing real feelings with urgency and verve. I very much like the language and the pace of this version, and would welcome it for classroom use." —Joseph Russo, Haverford College"What could be finer / Than listening to a singer of tales / . . . with a voice like a god's?' So Odysseus on the bard Demodocus. And the singer, the oral poet, the 'aoidos', is what Lombardo embodies in his Homer. With a line and a language hammered out in public performance, he has made a verse that can move his audience to tears and even to laughter. At first glance, the simplicity startles—spare syntax, the highest proportion of short words in modern English poetry, colloquialism in the saddle, sudden and direct contact with the matter. But then the wonders of how he works become evident. So much was already to be seen/heard in Lombardo's version of the Iliad. But his Odyssey moves beyond, its verse widening its range to everything in between tears and laughter, able to present a storm, a battle, a chiding, a fable, a tale, and a whine with equal deftness. No version of the Odyssey is more immediate. No version shows better one of Homer's essentials: the oral poet at work. The persona is there, and it's real." —Douglass Parker, University of Texas at Austin"Ever since the publication of Stanley Lombardo's extraordinary translation of the Iliad, we have been waiting eagerly for his Odyssey, and it has been well worth the wait. Lombardo has done it again: he has rendered the Odyssey into English just as accurate, as perspicuous, and as gripping as that in his Iliad. Students will probably be unable to resist reading it in great long chunks. Lombardo's translation is enhanced by Sheila Murnaghan's characteristically lucid and accurate introduction, which will be a boon to teachers of undergraduates (or even high school students)." —John Kirby, Purdue University"It sheds new light, guiding us through a psychology of language we understand in order to show us the shadows of something quite alien to contemporary, secular experience. The language is honed, so that event, object and emotion are revealed by a tone of voice, or a compressed stanza that draws out an essential element without the accompanying poetic distortions of romance. This translation delivers the goods without dallying in over-amplified academic considerations. Instead, the words retain a kind of artful weight, with the emotional stress intact." —First Intensity Magazine
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Pathfinder Books Ltd Malcolm X Speaks Malcolm X speeches writings
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University of Alberta Press The Green Heart of the Tree
Book SynopsisIntense, introspective essays explore African magical practice, the forest, and wildlife. âœâlyrical and gritty, unflinching and tender.â âShawna Lemay?Trade Review"I love these essays. Every word. I hesitate to tell you anything at all about them for fear you might presume familiarity and not buy this book. But these are some of the best essays I¹ve read in a very long time. I love an intelligent and sensitive narrator; one who is well-traveled, understanding, a conduit by which I see and taste the red dust of her dirt road. Oh please buy this book. It is deliciously good." Karen Miedrich-Luo, April 27, 2007 http://miedrichluo.blogspot.com/2007/04/poets-essayists-and-eye-candy.html"This is at once the most peculiar and artistically exceptional book I've read in decades. It is as if A.S. Woudstra drafted an impressionist mural with words rather than paint. You get to be the interpreter; she's not doing it for you. To many of us the individual stories may evoke thoughts of joy, sorrow or sheer bewilderment. Life in lands foreign to us, from wherever we might hail or venture to journey, will often leave us in a state of intellectual suspension. Capturing that state of mind is what Woudstra has done in writing. It is a very easy book to read. Contemplating what she experienced, and what we all do in our own ways and at various intervals, is the work involved in reading this book. If you like thinking, you will love the magic of this poetic treatment." Pam Barrett, The Edmonton Journal, August 5, 2007".at once a book of essays, a book of meditations, and a book of travel writing." Ariel Gordon, Prairie Books NOW, Summer 2007"Through disparate experiences in Gabon and east-central Africa, A.S. Woudstra takes the reader on fragments of her physical journey that shadow a spiritual one. Although the external highlights of that journey are filled with fascinating material from a naturalist and anthropological point of view, the personal journey as conveyed through Woudstra's poetic style and insight is what makes reading this collection so rewarding an experience. In the manner of the best essayists, there is a poetic ease and urbane simplicity to Woudstra's style that made these writings a delight to read." Gillian Harding-Russell, Prairie Fire [Full review at http://www.prairiefire.ca/reviews/woudstra_green_heart.html]"Woudstra's poetic prose is tenacious and mesmerizing, and her subject matter is moving. Photographs of family artifacts, and landscape accompany a collection of nine essays interposed with five brief journal entries. Always attending to the wordlessness and complexity of language and sensitive to cultural differences, she reflects on such diverse topics as Rwanda's civil war, Gabon culture, sea turtles, and forests. The journal writings ground her contemplations of unfamiliar and often troubled experiences in material moments and further illuminate her struggles with inhabiting place. However uncertain, resistant, or unable to place home she may be, her journal meditations on birds and insects become tangible reminders that home is both material and intangible, a space that dwells as much within as outside you." Lisa S. Szabo, Canadian Literature 197, Summer 2008
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University of Alberta Press Jane Austen Company
Book SynopsisTwelve essays by distinguished academic Bruce Stovel study Austen in the context of comic novelists.
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University of Alberta Press The Sasquatch at Home
Book SynopsisAward-winning novelist talks about family, culture, and place with disarming honesty and wry irony.Trade Review"[Robinson] strikes sweetly at the commonality of people rather than narrowing in on cultural differences. The entire book is fast, colloquial, and engaging; concise enough to be read in one sitting, yet retaining the weightiness of a larger work. Its brevity makes it an ideal re-read and the second reading proves just as entertaining. The funny parts remain funny, the rendering of landscapes evocative and intimate, and the general themes stay relevant. Through rich and often comic dialogue and her painterly descriptions of the northwest landscape, Eden Robinson presents a glimpse into her community with the delicious, whispered quality of a well-told, yet well-protected, family story. Cara-Lyn Morgan, The Malahat Review, Winter 2011 [Full review at http://bit.ly/wJo067] "[Eden Robinson's] lecture reprises the Sasquatch theme from her novel, Monkey Beach. It is less a lecture than an extended poem - a love song to a place and people, a celebration of survival of places, names, and humans... The work is filled with alternate narratives. Just when we are eagerly following a line of story or thought, out come Trickster-ish turns and teases... Robinson seductively draws outsiders in, then sharply clarifies the limits of the welcome... Eden Robinson brings her own literary ethics to the discussion [of the limits of cross-cultural sharing]. Her consciousness and conscientiousness permeate her fiction as well as the Sasquatch lecture. It is fitting that Paula Simons calls her 'one of Canada's most provocative and talented writers' and also 'a moral and cultural force'." Valerie Alia, Cantext, February 2012 "Robinson sees and shows how culture is not something frozen in the past, that it embraces shopping and mail order and outboard motors and McDonald's as much as it does medicinal plants, poles, and potlatches. That the processing is the same, whether the stories involve Elvis, his mother, and Graceland, or Sasquatch and oolichan. If I were minister of culture or of education, I would recommend this book as compulsory reading for every Canadian; it's about who we are and how we know." J.M. Bridgeman, Prairie Fire Review of Books, March 23, 2012 (Vol. 12, No. 1) "Since publishing Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson has been one of Canada's most engaging writers... Her latest work is flat out delicious reading, entertaining and informative at same time... That's Robinson's method-righteous storytelling, straight from the heart. With this new one, Robinson further cements her place as a national treasure." Trevor Carolan, Pacific Rim Review of Books, April 2011 (full review at http://www.prrb.ca/articles/issue16-sasquatch.htm) "Eden Robinson's The Sasquatch at Home offers the reader a taste of her skill as a storyteller. The book is a tiny gem... This brilliant little jewel, under 50 pages, offers readers a quick, but intense opportunity to experience the work of a rising Canadian writer. Like her novel, Monkey Beach, the accessibility of The Sasquatch at Home suggests its appropriateness for use in undergraduate courses. Above all, it is an essential acquisition for anyone with an interest in Pacific Northwest or Native Canadian studies, but it is also a find for those who just like a good story." Amy J. Ransom, American Review of Canadian Studies "The genius of Robinson's lecture is that it makes the reader/listener 'do the work' of making meaning: as in oral traditions, we are called to draw the connections and come to our own conclusions." Canadian LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroduction; Precarious Pyramid: The Economics & Politics of the CPP; The Quebec Pension Plan; Institutional Arrangements & Lessons for Alberta; Checking Out of the Hotel California: The Desirability of an Alberta Pension Plan; Alberta Opting Out of the Canada Pension Plan: Can it be done? Should it be done?; An Alberta Pension Plan: What Have We Learned?
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University of Alberta Press Intersecting Sets
Book SynopsisPoet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as reductive or opposite to art. She surveys the sciences of the past half-century -- from physical to cognitive to evolutionary -- to shed light on why and how human beings create poems, challenging some of the mantras of postmodern thought in the process. Part memoir, part ars poetica, part wonder-journey, Intersecting Sets is a wide-ranging and insightful amalgam.Trade Review# 5 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on January 08, 2012Rattle Magazine published an excerpt from Intersecting Sets in their summer, 2011 issue, #35. http://rattle.com/blog/2012/01/poetry-and-scale-by-alice-major/"Canadian poet Alice Major considers confluences between science and poetry in this lyrical and insightful meditation on perception, language, and creativity. Her motivation, she says, was to bridge the artificial divide between literature and science--the so-called 'two cultures'--that has dominated intellectual life since the Romantics... Drawing on a broad range of scientific inquiry, including neuroscience, mathematics, physics, biochemistry, astronomy, psychology, and botany, Major argues that emotion is central to both poetry and science, and that the cognitive processes of scientists and poets are fundamentally aligned.... Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." L. Simon, Skidmore College, Choice Magazine, March 1, 2012"Novelist Lynn Coady and poets Tim Bowling, Michael Penny and Alice Major are among a strong field of local finalists who will be vying for this year's Alberta Literary Awards.... Major is a finalist for the top non-fiction prize for Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science, her latest release through University of Alberta Press." Richard Helm, Edmonton Journal, April 12, 2012"Until recently, the University of Alberta Press, whose books are beautifully designed by Alan Brownoff, has published mostly Alberta poets such as Alice Major, whose work often takes its inspiration from science. In fact, her most recent book with U of A is a prose work called Intersecting Sects: A Poet Looks at Science ($29.95). Last year the press launched the "Robert Kroetsch Series of creative works," named for the Alberta poet-novelist killed in a road accident last June. This series is broader than its antecedent in that it also includes "creative non-fiction" and publishes some geographical outsiders." George Fetherling, Vancouver Sun, April 5, 2012 [Full article at http://bit.ly/HY2jsC]"For the elegance and precision of its language, the encyclopedic reach of its knowledge, and the daring of its thought, this book is a winner. Every page offers fresh insight and challenging intellectual vistas, yet the text never loses itself in a fog of abstraction. There's always someone or something - a cat named Pushkin, a bird on a credit card, an old man walking, walking, reciting his poems-to ground the conceptual universe in the sensory world. Measured against the writer's intentions and the pleasure it offers to readers, this book is practically perfect." Jury comments, Wilfrid Eggleston Award, WGA."I have not done justice to the delight I felt in reading these essays-it was a joy to take in their looping, fractal structure. Major offers us the pleasure of watching another writer's mind in motion at every scale, from conversation with her cat to theories in cosmology, from the personal questions of why we write or practice science to the evolutionary questions of what makes us human and where language comes from. As a scientist, I wanted to research and debate one question after another. As a poet, I encountered the questions I ask myself, along with wise advice about writing." Robin Chapman, American Scientist."The essays do not form a rigorous argument as to any one "side" but rather range widely and expose the reader to new ideas as they arise in many contexts. I liked this approach, as it provided room for the reader to graze and discover things that they might not even realize they were interested in." The Indextrious Reader."[Alice Major] dissects the principles of science, spreading them on the page alongside elements of poetry. She effectively uses literature as a language for making scientific ideas clearer. And the skill with which she integrates the two points of view demonstrates such careful precision it's hard not to think of her as the smart girl you'd have wanted for your lab partner. Inversely, she also uses the language of science to define poetic concepts.. Anyone who enjoys juxtaposing ideas, or who thinks it might be possible to toss thoughts back and forth from one hemisphere of the brain to the other, probably needs this book. It could well lead to a change in the way you see the world." Heidi Greco, Prairie Fire, July 2012 [Full review at http://bit.ly/MndzG0]"This book isn't a scientific explanation of poetry, but rather, an examination of various concepts in science-from quantum physics to the development of language in the human brain-from the point of view of someone who's deeply fascinated by metaphor, language, and the possibilities that exist. If poets can read this book and have their minds altered by new scientific understanding, a scientist may read this book and gain a deeper appreciation for the nuances of poetry, perhaps even gain an understanding of how the expressiveness of language, and the emotionally laden potential of poetry, can provide a new way of expressing scientific concepts." Alisa Gordaneer, The Malahat Review, Spring 2012Alice Major, an accomplished poet, takes readers through several quasi-technical though thoroughly accessible explorations of topics in popular science. She expresses an ardent distaste for how science and poetry, as perspectives if not practices, are set in opposition to each other. In eleven chapters on everything from scale and symmetry, brain-chemistry, phase changes, black holes, motion, holographic universes, and more, Major makes a compelling case for a renewed rapport between poets and scientists. Distributed by Wayne State U. Press. (Annotation ©2012 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)"... reading the essays inside feels like visiting with a curious, thoughtful friend-one who has always just read something interesting and leaves you with lots of new ideas to consider, a friend who also has her feet on the ground, plenty of experience, and an easy playfulness that makes her company a pleasure.... [G]uided by Major, we readers populate our minds with seemingly disparate elements, energize that space with reason, imagination, and emotion, and listen to the reverberations of whatever collisions ensue. This book is an obvious fit for courses in science writing or creative science writing.... It would make an excellent gift book, too..." SueEllen Campbell, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2012) [Full article at doi:10.1093/isle/iss093]"There is a myth that scientists and artists live on different planets, which is rubbish.... Alice Major, a Canadian poet, has brought the two worlds together very nicely.... Major's writing is both clear and lyrical. Readers who, perhaps, have never heard of either Mandelbrot sets or dactylic meter will find those and other concepts explained in ways that are entertaining and related to every day life. Running beneath the poetry/science conjunctions is the thread of her father's Alzheimer's disease and his eventual death. The poetry, the science, and the loss of her father come together in one powerful, positive message: this is a beautiful world." Sharon Wildwind, Story Circle Network, December 22, 2012 [Full review at http://www.storycirclebookreviews.org/reviews/intersecting.shtml]".poetry and science go on a date in Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science by Alice Major." Off the Shelf, Geist, Summer 2012“Intersecting Sets is Major’s completely beguiling exploration of what science and poetry might have to say to one another…. I genuinely found this a breathtaking read, sharing everything that makes Major’s poetry such a pleasure to read: rigorously thoughtful, inventive, freewheeling, full of genuine surprises and showing a complete delight in the strangenesses and wonders both of the physical world, and the world of language….” [Full post at http://bit.ly/25SHtqn] -- Katherine Venn * anthonywilsonpoetry.com *Table of ContentsForeword; The Huis and Where They Came From; The Formation of the Hui Zu; The Fate of the Hui During and After the Qing Dynasty; Further Assimilation of Minorities and its effects of Muslims; How the Hui Zu Lives in China; Influential Muslim Personalities; Admiral Zheng He and His Achievements; Contributions of the Chinese Muslims; The Staunchness of the Chinese Muslims.
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University of Alberta Press Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis Pioneer
Book SynopsisLooking at early twentieth-century westerners through the writings of an acerbic female agricultural journalist.Trade Review"Treasure hunters strike it rich in the oddest places, but none stranger than a document vault at the University of Alberta. There, largely undisturbed for nearly 50 years, were cartons containing the life's work of reporter Miriam Green Ellis. Inside, gold." -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *"Wearing men's breeches and sometimes armed with a rifle, trailblazing Canadian journalist and suffragist Miriam Green Ellis (1879-1964) was one of the few women (or even men) of the time period traveling to isolated regions of Canada.. The book provides examples of Ellis's agricultural reporting in various regions of Canada between 1915 and 1933 and her travel reporting 1920-1941. An introduction overviews her life and her career as a writer, reporter, speaker, and member of high society. Of special interest are the many b&w historical photos taken by Ellis, depicting the lifeways of indigenous peoples on the Canadian prairie." * Book News Inc. *“Nearly a century later, Ellis and many of her contemporaries are only now beginning to emerge from the shadows of history…. What was it about these scribbling women with their ‘virile pens’ that generated anxiety in so many readers, reviewers, and publishers?... Perhaps readers were quick to recognize that women with pens possessed no small measure of power: unlike women whose work was restricted to domestic spaces, roving women reporters were in positions to influence and shape public perception…. Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis makes a valuable contribution to the fields of women’s history, women’s culture, and print culture in Canada.” -- Valerie Legge"Ellis's writing displays her keen observations of the places and peoples she encountered. Of particular interest are her comments on native life and culture, especially in 'Down North' and 'Sun Dance at Hobbema.' As an agricultural journalist, Ellis had a gift for connecting to the difficulties of people living on the land. 'On the Aggie Beat' covers topics ranging from women's push for the vote to the resiliency of farmers overcoming hardships and obstacles. Overall, this is a wonderful collection..." -- Amy L. McKinney * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"...a much recommended pick for social issues and women's studies collections with a focus on Canada." * The Literary Studies Shelf *
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University of Alberta Press IMAGINING ANCIENT WOMEN Henry Kreisel Memorial
Book SynopsisLyon discusses the process of creating believable characters of historical fiction; in particular, ancient Greek women.Trade Review"[Imagining Ancient Women] lays out the processes of researching historical sources for useable material in creating believable characters, backgrounds, scenarios, and stories that contemporary readers can readily relate to. Informed, informative, insightful, scholarly, 'reader friendly', of immense and immediate practical value, Imagining Ancient Women is highly recommended for personal, professional, academic, and community library Literary Studies and Writer Reference collections and supplemental reading lists." Wisconsin Bookwatch, May 2012 "[This public lecture] gives first-person insight into the golden aura of fiction, the place where reality is transformed and enhanced by visceral imagination... Her first-person approach to history with human perspective gives empirical reality to her characters, male and female, living in the moment. Her Kreisel lecture not only provides insight into her process, but is a valuable primer on writing real history through the telling of personal stories." Linda Rogers, The Malahat Review, Winter 2012
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University of Alberta Press Dear Sir I Intend To Burn Your book An Anatomy of
Book SynopsisThreat of book burning ignites passionate discussion about censoring, banning, and other responses to books.Trade Review"Those who engage this work, subtitled "An Anatomy of a Book Burning," will find much to like, not least Hill's generous capacity for integrating autobiography - around the racial and cultural experiences of three generations of his own family - with historical commentary on book-burning and censorship campaigns, and also on the institution of slavery, specifically in its Dutch and British Empire-era Canadian versions as well. He pays particular attention to the racial textures and even blase racism that informs some Dutch words to this day." Randy Boyagoda, National Post, May 13, 2013 [Full post at http://bit.ly/11mCc9V] "Hill delivered a lecture on the incident to the Canadian Literature Centre which has recently been published by The University of Alberta Press. In Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book he offers a thoughtful, sometimes comical, very personal meditation on literary censorship. Far from an isolated incident, the subject of censorship has been a recurring theme in his life." Donna Bailey Nurse, Toronto Star, April 26, 2013 [Full post at http://bit.ly/12q6w3S] # 5 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list (Edmonton Nonfiction) for the week of August 2, 2013. "Lawrence Hill's approachable and thought-provoking book takes censorship as its main topic. Its inspiration was an incident in which the cover of Hill's novel The Book of Negroes was burnt in protest... Hill takes the original incident as a starting point to discuss large topics of power, communication and conflict. The overarching message of the text is that censorship and racism are complex issues which require further discussion." Lian Beveridge, CM Magazine, August 2013. [Full review athttp://umanitoba.ca/cm/vol20/no1/dearsir.html] "The essay locates itself in a long tradition of correctly reminding readers about the multiple pitfalls of book censorship. But Hill is historically minded and thoughtful enough to not just produce anti-censorship arguments outside of other historical concerns. He presents the ethical dilemmas of racist literature as a backdrop to working out how he comes to his positions on anti-censorship." Rinaldo Walcott, Literary Review of Canada, July/August 2013 "[Burning the book cover serves] as the point of departure for a meditation on book burnings and censorship and it forms the basis for an impassioned plea for freedom of expression, even in cases when one can understand the undeniable hurt experienced by some readers." -- Maureen Moynagh Canadian Literature "In this great read, Hill explores the idea of censorship in the modern world..." LitFest 2015 LitFest 2015
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University of Alberta Press Dreaming of Elsewhere Observations on Home Henry
Book SynopsisEsi Edugyan interlaces fact and fiction, storytelling and dreaming to capture the essence of belonging.Trade Review# 6 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list (Edmonton Nonfiction) for the week of April 25, 2014 "Newcomers now are educated, eloquent and outspoken. Much will change, and some things will not change at all... Edugyan is one of the accomplished voices of the New Immigrant Experience... In Dreaming of Elsewhere she recounts the familiar story of conflict and disconnection known to many first-generation Canadians... Dreaming of Elsewhere is vivid and intimate. This is the voice of change." Holly Doan, Blacklock's Reporter, accessed May 27, 2014 [Full review at http://www.blacklocks.ca/review-big-plans] "Given that our human ancestors began their migrations more than 100,000 years ago, 'home' must always have been an idea as well as a physical location, 'where we come from, and where we are,' as Esi Edugyan writes in her new book. Home is 'the actual and the possible.'... Edugyan knows that home, whether a physical location or an idea, is never static. Where we belong-or, more painfully, are forbidden from belonging-alters... Confronted by the question of whether North America has reached a post-racial age and a colour-blind society, Edugyan answers simply and courageously: 'I confess I find the notion ridiculous'." [Full review at http://bit.ly/X8Z6mY] -- Madeleine Thien Literary Review of Canada "...Esi Edugyan offers an eloquent meditation on identity, culture and belonging in Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home... A wise, elegant and engrossing read." -- Evelyn C. White Herizons "Thinking through her own story of living in many countries in her late twenties, and revisiting her parents' country of origin, Ghana, in 2006, Edugyan reflects that 'I, who had lived so much of my life looking elsewhere, was slowly coming to acknowledge that non-belonging, also, can be a kind of belonging.'... To consider belonging a paramount objective, Edugyan suggests, runs the risk of enforcing 'a simple "us" vs. "them" manner of thinking.'" -- Lorraine York Canadian Literature
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Liberty Fund Inc Popular Government
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Liberty Fund Inc Servile State
Book Synopsis"Serville State".Trade Review"I have always felt that THE SERVILE STATE was much more significant than we have suspected." -- James V Schall SJ, Georgetown University.
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NeWest Press V
Book SynopsisThis collection chronicles Phyllis Webb''s struggle with the creative process and her intense need to probe beneath the surface of things. The subjects of these essays are various, but themes and concerns recur, and the focus is usually literary, with a few light brush strokes of fantasy here and there. If the tone-and-mood shifts are frequent, time, place and my own state of mind might account for some of their occurrences, others were deliberately contrived to keep an audience entertained, or, at the very least, awake. -- Taken from the Preface.
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Clear Light Publishers Ancient Wisdom Living Tradition
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£30.59
Oratia Media Voices of Aotearoa
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Massey University Press The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
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£27.89
Massey University Press The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
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£27.89
Massey University Press Shining Land
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Massey University Press The Lobsters Tale
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Cambridge University Press Montaigne and the Life of Freedom 101
Book SynopsisMore than any other early modern text, Montaigne's Essais have come to be associated with the emergence of a distinctively modern subjectivity, defined in opposition to the artifices of language and social performance. Felicity Green challenges this interpretation with a compelling revisionist reading of Montaigne's text, centred on one of his deepest but hitherto most neglected preoccupations: the need to secure for himself a sphere of liberty and independence that he can properly call his own, or himself. Montaigne and the Life of Freedom restores the Essais to its historical context by examining the sources, character and significance of Montaigne's project of self-study. That project, as Green shows, reactivates and reshapes ancient practices of self-awareness and self-regulation, in order to establish the self as a space of inner refuge, tranquillity and dominion, free from the inward compulsion of the passions and from subjection to external objects, forces and persons.Trade Review'Stimulating and challenging.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Freedom and the essai; 2. The languages of the self: Montaigne's classical inheritance; 3. Self-possession, public engagement and slavery; 4. Oysiveté and nonchalance: liberty as carelessness; 5. The art of self-management; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The New Edith Wharton Studies
Book SynopsisThe New Edith Wharton Studies uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding of one of America''s most highly acclaimed, versatile, and prolific writers. The volume addresses themes that have previously been missed or underdeveloped, and examines areas where previous scholarship does not take account of key, contemporary issues: Wharton and ecocriticism, Wharton and queer studies, Wharton and animal studies, Wharton and whiteness, and Wharton and contemporary psychology. Essays explore Wharton''s treatment of the poor in her emerging career, the ways in which French thinkers helped her envision community, the importance of Greece to Wharton, her transnationalism, the ongoing revelations of the author''s archives, and new perspectives on her agency in the literary marketplace. It addresses key themes and examines contemporary issues, while reassessing Edith Wharton''s life and career.Trade Review'… the best of these essays point toward a rejuvenation of the old in ways that allow Wharton fans to gain a deeper understanding of this complex and often misunderstood woman and artist.' S. Batcos, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Introduction Jennifer Haytock and Laura Rattray; Part I. Self and Composition: 2. Creative process and literary form in Edith Wharton's archive Paul Ohler; 3. Wharton's letters: glimpses of the whole Edith Wharton Julie Olin-Ammentorp; 4. Edith Wharton and the business of the magazine short story Sarah Whitehead; Part II. International Wharton: 5. Edith Wharton's odyssey Myrto Drizou; 6. Edith Wharton's French engagement Virginia Ricard; 7. Edith Wharton and transnationalism Donna Campbell; Part III. Wharton on the Margins: 8. Edith Wharton's unprivileged lives Laura Rattray; 9. Wharton, insurance culture, and pain management Jennifer Travis; 10. Edith Wharton's humanimal pity Shannon Brennan; 11. Edith Wharton and the writing of whiteness Jennifer Haytock; Part IV. Sex and Gender Revisited: 12. Women, art, and the natural world in Edith Wharton's works Gary Totten; 13. Wharton and the romance plot Linda Wagner-Martin; 14. Masculine modernity: fathers, sons, and generational absolution in Wharton's fiction Melanie Dawson; 15. Wharton's wayward girls Meredith Goldsmith.
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Little, Brown & Company Pen Palate
Book SynopsisFrom the writers of acclaimed blog Pen & Palate, a humorous coming-of-age (and mastering-the-art-of-home-cooking) memoir of friendship, told through stories, recipes, and beautiful illustrations.Getting through life in your twenties isn''t easy--especially if you''re broke, awkward, and prone to starting small grease fires in your studio apartment. For best friends Lucy Madison and Tram Nguyen, cooking was an escape from the daily humiliation that is being a twenty-something woman in a big city. PEN & PALATE traces the course of Lucy and Tram''s devoted friendship through miserable jobs and tiny apartments, first loves and ill-advised flings, successes and setbacks--always with a shared love of food at the center of the narrative. A modern take on Laurie Colwin''s classic Home Cooking, this coming-of-age memoir for the Girls set weaves together comical (mis)adventures and recipes meant to be shared with a best friend and bottle of wine.
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Hodder & Stoughton My Squirrel Days
Book SynopsisComedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of essays about one pale woman's journey from Midwestern naÃf to Hollywood semi-celebrity to outrageously reasonable New Yorker.
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Orion Publishing Co Statesmanship
Book SynopsisA celebration of stellar and influential journalism from the New Statesman.Trade ReviewThis book provides a fascinating perspective on the modern world * CHOICE magazine *
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Quercus Publishing My Russia: War or Peace?
Book SynopsisIn his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine?In My Russia: War or Peace? Shishkin traces the roots of Russia's problems, from the 'Kievan Rus' via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and Cold War, to the now thirty-year-old Russian Federation. He explores the uneasy relationship between state and citizens, explains Russian attitudes to people's rights and democracy, and proposes that there are really two Russian peoples: the disillusioned and disaffected, who suffer from 'slave mentality', and those who embrace 'European' values and try to stand up to oppression.Both deeply personal and taking a broader historical view, My Russia is a passionate, eye-opening account of a state entangled in a complex and bloody past, as well as a love letter to a conflicted country. Will Russia continue its vicious circle of upheaval and autocracy, or will its people find a way out of history - and how can we help?Trade ReviewShishkin is the most prominent Russian novelist of his generation. To compare him to Solzhenitsyn is no exaggeration... [An] important book * Sunday Times *An elegant blend of history, biography and polemic * Daily Telegraph * Often sings with powerfully estranged, original observations... minutiae and grand philosophy collide on every page. * Boris Fishman, The New York Times Book Review (on The Light and The Dark) *Shishkin is interested in what is most precious and singular in classic Russian fiction: the passionate inquiry into what, in Maidenhair, is called the 'soul, quintessence, pollen.' * Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal (on The Light and The Dark) *
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