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  • Reclaiming John Steinbeck

    Writing for the Future of Humanity

    by Gavin Jones ...
    John Steinbeck is a towering figure in twentieth-century American literature; yet he remains one of our least understood writers. This major reevaluation of Steinbeck by Gavin Jones uncovers a timely thinker who confronted the fate of humanity as a species facing climate change, environmental crisis, and a growing divide between the powerful and the marginalized. Driven by insatiable curiosity, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • American Hungers

    The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945

    by Gavin Jones ...
    Series series 20/21
    Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These insights lay the groundwork for American Hungers, in which Jones uncovers a complex and controversial ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • Failure and the American Writer

    A Literary History

    by Gavin Jones ...
    Series Book 168 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse. Reading textual inconsistency against the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story

    Edited by Michael J. Collins, Gavin Jones ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does – how it ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Steinbeck’s Uneasy America

    Rereading “Travels with Charley”

    by Barbara A. Heavilin, Susan Shillinglaw, Robert DeMott, Danica Cerce, William P. Childers, Donald V. Coers, Cecilia Donohue, Charles Etheridge0, Mimi Reisel Gladstein1, Kathleen Hicks2, Carter Davis Johnson3, Gavin Jones4, Sally S. Kleberg5, Jay Parini6, Brian Railsback7, Nicholas P. Taylor8 ...
    A road trip through Steinbeck’s America—revisited, reimagined, and reinterpreted.Steinbeck’s Uneasy America is the first collection of critical scholarship devoted to Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck’s best-selling, late-career travel memoir. In 1960, Steinbeck was a renowned man of American letters. Many considered him America’s troubadour of ordinary people, the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Hypnobirth

    Evidence, practice and support for birth professionals

    by Teri Gavin-Jones, Sandra Handford ...
    Maternity services and choices for labour and birth are fast evolving. Hypnobirth involves preparation for childbirth using tried and tested hypnotherapy techniques in harmony with midwifery best practices and increasing numbers of women are turning to the technique.Written by two experienced practitioners, this is the first evidence-based practice book for medical professionals on this subject. ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia

    Trends, causes and policy issues

    Edited by Paulin Straughan, Angelique Chan, Gavin Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia
    Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong SAR are among the very lowest-fertility countries in the whole world, and even China has reached fertility levels lower than those in many European countries. If these levels continue over long periods East Asia will soon face accelerating population decline in addition the changes in age distributions in such populations raise major new ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Contemporary Demographic Transformations in China, India and Indonesia

    Edited by Christophe Z. Guilmoto, Gavin W. Jones ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the profound demographic transformation affecting China, India, and Indonesia, where 40% of the world's people live. It offers a systematic, comparative approach that will help readers to better understand the changing social and regional recomposition of the population in these regions.The chapters present a detailed investigation and mapping of regional trends in mortality, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Realms of Night

    by Gavin Rees-Jones ...
    As George grew to understand the secret that lay behind dreams, he fine-tuned his 'thought-forming' of the new realm to become a skilled dream traveller or oneironaut. At this point, he thought this biggest problem was over. However, while he explored Endymion, his presence there got in the way of someone's carefully calculated plans. Soon he and his friends become the targets of numerous bizarre ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • There Is No Way to Crack the Egg

    The Failed System of Law

    by Dr. Keith Gavin, Andrei Scholz-Jones ...
    There are three structures to the laws we follow in the American justice system. Common law, Roman law, and American law. Let me explain the detriment or inculpate of the truth given in law. For me to exculpate for you the anecdotal process of law, you must understand the nature of the thinking of the Europeans and how it plays into the legal system. As law students, they must understand the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Spyfunk!

    by Milton Davis, Balogun Ojetade, Eugen Bacon, John F. Allen, Napoleon Wells, Keith Gaston, Joe Hilliard, William J. Jackson, Jeff Carroll, Tiara Jante', BJ Jones, Gavin Matthew, Dennis R. Upkins, Guy A. Sims, Russell A. Smith, R. Turner ...
    Espionage, Intrigue, Secrets, Lies. Welcome to the world of Spyfunk!, a collection of spy tales that put characters of African/African Diaspora descent front and center. These exciting stories follow the rules and break them, ranging from range from conventional to extraordinary, the past to the future, and from reality to fantasy. Spyfunk! has the package, and it's more than ready to deliver! ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Relationship-Based Research in Social Work

    Understanding Practice Research

    by Kathleen Russell, Gavin Swann, Helen Hingley-Jones, Harry Lunabba, Elina Virokannas, Katarina Fagerström, Laura Yliruka, Jonna Vanhanen, Outi Jaakkola, Erja Saurama ...
    Relationship-based research is founded on the idea that human relationships are of paramount importance and should be central to social work research and practice.Drawing on psychodynamic and systemic understandings of research and practice, this book offers practitioners and academics an insight into what constitutes relationship-based approaches to research. These ideas are brought to life by ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD