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  • The Chestertons and the Golden Key

    by Nancy Carpentier Brown ...
    Summer vacation turns into an adventure for the three Nicholl sisters when Mr. Gilbert Chesterton and his wife come to town. Eleven-year-old Clare hopes to write a detective story. Eight-year-old Cece wants to be a champion roller-skater. And ten-year-old Joan just wants to learn how to play the locked piano in the family living room. But as they befriend the Chestertons, skating accidents, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kingdom of This World

    by Alejo Carpentier ...
    A masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century HaitiA few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under the reign of King Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In this unnerving novel from one of Cuba’s most celebrated authors, Henri ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Steps

    by Alejo Carpentier ...
    Translated by Adrian Nathan West ...
    **“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksThe best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Manual of Cardiac Surgery

    by Bradley J. Harlan, A. Carpentier, Albert Starr, Fredric M. Harwin ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Originally published in 1980-1981 as a two-volume set, the Manual of Cardiac Surgery has been completely revised and now includes new full-color illustrations in a single convenient volume. This new edition maintains the high standards established in the first edition: insightful descriptions of various cardiac surgical procedures illuminated by clear, brilliant illustrations. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Explosion in a Cathedral

    by Alejo Carpentier ...
    Translated by Adrian Nathan West ...
    **“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksOne of Cuba’s—and Latin America’s—greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Communication and Discourse Theory

    Collected Works of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group

    Edited by Leen Van Brussel, Nico Carpentier, Benjamin De Cleen ...
    This volume gathers the work of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group, a group of critical media and communication scholars that deploy discourse theory as a theoretical backbone and an analytical research perspective. The book seeks to show the value and applicability of discourse-theoretical analysis (DTA) within the field of media and communication studies, through a variety of case studies that ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Cyprus and its Conflicts

    Representations, Materialities, and Cultures

    Edited by Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier ...
    The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring political, military, and economic conflict. This interdisciplinary collection takes Cyprus as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference for understanding how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed. Through methodologically diverse case studies of a wide range of topics—including ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • On Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers"

    Centennial Essays, Interviews and Adaptations

    Edited by Martha C. Carpentier, Emeline Jouve ...
    On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by a sensational murder trial to write Trifles, a play about two women who hide a Midwestern farm wife's motive for murdering her abusive husband. Following successful productions of the play, Glaspell became the "mother of American drama." Her short story ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change

    Edited by Ilija Tomanić Trivundža, Hannu Nieminen, Nico Carpentier, Josef Trappel ...
    This book aims to feed into the critical debates about media, power and change through the respectful inclusion of a wide variety of critical approaches and traditions. This diversity is simultaneously structured and balanced by a deeply shared set of concerns, that are mobilised to defend core societal values including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other and humanity. Critical ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

  • Audience Transformations

    Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity

    Edited by Nico Carpentier, Kim Christian Schrøder, Lawrie Hallett ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education
    The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our social relations. This book embeds these transformations in a societal, cultural, technological, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Social Construction of Death

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Leen Van Brussel, Nico Carpentier ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license.Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences – use the social construction of death and dying to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family. ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Metabolic Support of the Critically Ill Patient

    Edited by Douglas W. Wilmore, Yvon A. Carpentier ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Nutritional support of critically ill patients is a major treatment modality which will enhance recovery and shorten convalescence. New knowledge has emphasized that much of the organ dysfunction associated with sepsis and altered blood flow is related to oxidative injury. Specific nutrients are highly effective in counteracting these effects and their early administration may attenuate cellular ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD