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  • Beyond Bricks and Mortar

    Building Homes, Communities, and Neighbourhoods

    by Anne Power ...
    Series series CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy
    Social housing continues to decline as existing tenanted homes are sold to their occupiers and run-down council estates are demolished. Demonstrating the value of the ‘Housing Plus’ approach –investment beyond “bricks and mortar” – this book outlines the role social landlords can play in tackling community problems. By investing in estate renewal, helping to house the vulnerable, offering a wide ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Bladesong

    The Martyrs of Compiègne

    by Ann Power ...
    So often one hears the question "What can we do?" More often than not, it remains a question without the effort of an answer. Yet in the turbulence and terror of the French Revolution, a time much like today, when the new sacrificed the old, when man insisted on replacing God, a community of Carmelites offered the oblation of their lives for peace, not without imagined horror, anxiety, and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

    Attachment and loss in retirement

    by Anne Power ...
    Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis:Attachment and Loss in Retirement explores the ambivalence the therapist may feel about letting go of a professional role which has sustained them. Anne Power explores the process of closing a private practice, from the first ethical decision-making, through to the last day when the door of the therapy room shuts. She draws on the personal ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Property Before People

    The Management of Twentieth-Century Council Housing

    by Anne Power ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy and Home Ownership
    Originally published in 1987 and now re-issued with a new preface, this book examines attempts by successive individuals and governments to overcome slum conditions and homelessness, to reform landlord-tenant relations and to provide sound modern dwellings with full amenities for those who need them. Its focus is on how those responsible for public housing concentrated their energies on buildings ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Hovels to High Rise

    State Housing in Europe Since 1850

    by Anne Power ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy and Home Ownership
    Originally published in 1993, this book traces how governments in France, Germany, Britain, Denmark and Ireland became involved in replacing industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise, high-density concrete estates. As the book considers each country’s housing history and traditions, and analyses the contrasting structures and systems, it finds convergence of problems in the growing ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Cities for a Small Continent

    International Handbook of City Recovery

    by Anne Power ...
    Series series CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy
    This original book builds on the author’s research in Phoenix cities to present a vivid story of Europe’s post-industrial cities pre- and post- financial crisis. Using varied case studies the book explores how policy responses to the economic crisis have played out in different European cities, with their contrasting conditions, history and performance generating contrasting reactions. The book ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Family futures

    Childhood and poverty in urban neighbourhoods

    by Anne Power, Helen Willmot, Rosemary Davidson ...
    Family life in areas of concentrated poverty and social problems is undermined by surrounding conditions. This timely book, by acclaimed author Anne Power and her team, is based on a unique longitudinal study of over 200 families interviewed annually over the last decade. It examines the initiatives introduced to help such families and the impacts on them, their future prospects and the ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Smoke from Small Fires

    by Anne Powers ...
    It's the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days, an artistic spark has been smoldering in Anna Grace Tollett, and when the mountain turns dark and unnerving, creativity is all she has to weather the hard times. As an adult, she describes her art: "It is about the rituals of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Women Made Music

    A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

    by National Public Radio, Inc, Alison Fensterstock ...
    Drawn from NPR Music’s acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music—from Beyoncé to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton—featuring archival interviews, essays, photographs, and illustrations.Turning the Tables, launched in 2017, has revolutionized recognition of female artists, whether it be in best album lists ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

    A Memoir

    by Tori Amos, Ann Powers ...
    An intimate, eye-opening look inside the life of one of the most unique and adored performers of contemporary rock musicFrom her critically acclaimed 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes, to the recent hit, Scarlet’s Walk, Tori Amos has been a formidable force in contemporary music, with one of the most dedicated fan bases in the industry. In Tori Amos: Piece by Piece, the singer herself takes readers ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Reinterpreting the Eucharist

    Explorations in Feminist Theology and Ethics

    Edited by Anne F. Elvey, Carol Hogan, Kim Power, Claire Renkin ...
    Series series Gender, Theology and Spirituality
    The Eucharist continues to be central to contemporary Christian religious tradition and to be the focus for a wide range of assumptions and disputes. Chief amongst these disputes is the role of women in the theology and the ritual of the Eucharist.Reinterpreting the Eucharist brings together a diverse range of voices with each using their own marginalized experience to explore other ways – ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Traveling

    On the Path of Joni Mitchell

    by Ann Powers ...
    *An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024*Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself in a definitive biography.“What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it’s a tale of long journeying through a life that changed ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook