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  • Death embodied

    Archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse

    Series Book 9 - Studies in Funerary Archaeology
    In April 1485, a marble sarcophagus was found on the outskirts of Rome. It contained the remains of a young Roman woman so well-preserved that she appeared to have only just died and the sarcophagus was placed on public view, attracting great crowds. Such a find reminds us of the power of the dead body to evoke in the minds of living people, be they contemporary (survivors or mourners) or ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Little Golden Book About Bugs

    by Bonnie Bader ...
    Illustrated by Emma Jayne ...
    Series series My Little Golden Book About...
    This nonfiction Little Golden Book is filled with amazing facts about bugs--perfect for preschoolers!Some creep and crawl, some fly and flutter--they're bugs! And kids are fascinated by them. This simple yet informative Little Golden Book introduces a variety of bugs to preschoolers. They'll love the colorful illustrations and the cool facts about ants, spiders, butterflies, beetles, stick bugs, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Agency of Eating

    Mediation, Food and the Body

    Series series Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics
    Deciding what to eat and how to eat it are two of the most basic acts of everyday life. Yet every choice also implies a value judgement: 'good' foods versus 'bad', 'proper' and 'improper' ways of eating, and 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' bodies. These food decisions are influenced by a range of social, political and economic bioauthorities, and mediated through the individual 'eating body'. This book ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy

    This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused human and more-than-human things to become bundled together into relational assemblages. Drawing upon broadly posthumanist and new materialist theories concerning the thingliness of things, it sets out to re-evaluate the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Gap Years: The Essential Guide

    Series series Need2Know Books
    Taking a gap year lets you explore the world, increase your self-development and build lifelong memories before taking your next step in life. But with so many places to see and experiences to choose from, how do you know where to start?This step-by-step guide takes you through the whole process, from planning your trip and funding your travel, to organising volunteer programmes and finding work. ... Read more

    $7.36 CAD

  • Why We Eat, How We Eat

    Contemporary Encounters between Foods and Bodies

    Edited by Emma-Jayne Abbots, Anna Lavis ...
    Series series Critical Food Studies
    Why We Eat, How We Eat maps new terrains in thinking about relations between bodies and foods. With the central premise that food is both symbolic and material, the volume explores the intersections of current critical debates regarding how individuals eat and why they eat. Through a wide-ranging series of case studies it examines how foods and bodies both haphazardly encounter, and actively ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Careful Eating: Bodies, Food and Care

    Series series Critical Food Studies
    Critically reflecting on the interplays between food and care, this multidisciplinary volume asks ’why do individuals, institutions and agencies care about what other people eat?’ It explores how acts of caring about food and eating shape and intervene in individual bodies as well as being enacted in and through those bodies. In so doing, the volume extends current critical debates regarding food ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Godiva

    A Novel

    Narrated by Emma Jayne Appleyard ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 1 min

    Nicole Galland, author of The Fool’s Tale, turns her clever pen toward re-imagining the famous legend of Lady Godiva in this expertly crafted historical novel set in Anglo-Saxon England.A 12th-century noblewoman, Lady Godiva is infamous for riding naked through Coventry to relieve her people of her husband’s unfair and oppressive taxation. Leofric, Earl of Mercia, said he would ease the tax burden ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Anatomy Lesson

    A Novel

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    Set in one day in 1632, The Anatomy Lesson is a stunning portrayal of Golden Age Amsterdam and a brilliantly imagined back-story to Rembrandt's first great work of art. Told from several points of view, ranging from a curio dealer who collects bodies for the city’s chief anatomist to philosopher Rene Descartes, the novel opens on the morning of the medical dissection that is to be recorded by the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    Experience the "epic tale of one woman's fight . . . to create the life of her dreams" in this sweeping novel of Anita Garibaldi, a 19th century Brazilian revolutionary who loved as fiercely as she fought for freedom (Adriana Trigiani).Destiny toys with us all, but Anita Garibaldi is a force to be reckoned with. Forced into marriage at a young age, Anita feels trapped in a union she does not want. ... Read more

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    I, Iago

    A Novel

    Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 42 min

    The critically acclaimed author of The Fool's Tale, Nicole Galland now approaches William Shakespeare's classic drama of jealousy, betrayal, and murder from the opposite side. I, Iago is an ingenious, brilliantly crafted novel that allows one of literature's greatest villains—the deceitful schemer Iago, from the Bard's immortal tragedy, Othello—to take center stage in order to reveal his "true" ... Read more

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    The Women's History of the Modern World

    How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

    Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

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    The internationally bestselling author of Who Cooked the Last Supper? presents a wickedly witty and very current history of the extraordinary female rebels, reactionaries, and trailblazers who left their mark on history from the French Revolution up to the present day.Now is the time for a new women’s history—for the famous, infamous, and unsung women to get their due—from the Enlightenment to the ... Read more

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