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The Existentialists

Critical Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre

by Robert Merrihew Adams, Louis Dupré, Robert Solomon, Alexander Nehamas, Harrison Hall, Charles Guignon, Thomas C. Anderson, Dorothy Leland ...

Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
This volume brings together for the first time some of the most helpful and insightful essays on the four most influential and discussed philosophers in the history of existentialism: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The contributors write on such topics as Kierkegaard's knight of faith and his diagnosis of the 'present age;' Nietzsche's view of morality and self-creation; Heidegger ... Read more

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This volume brings together for the first time some of the most helpful and insightful essays on the four most influential and discussed philosophers in the history of existentialism: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The contributors write on such topics as Kierkegaard's knight of faith and his diagnosis of the 'present age;' Nietzsche's view of morality and self-creation; Heidegger
... Read more
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read

Culture, Cognition and Pedagogy

Edited by Kathy Hall, Usha Goswami, Colin Harrison, Sue Ellis, Janet Soler ...

Series series Routledge Psychology in Education
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read brings together different disciplinary perspectives and studies on reading for all those who seek to extend and enrich the current practice, research and policy debates. The breadth of knowledge that underpins pedagogy is a central theme and the book will help educators, policy-makers and researchers understand the full range of research ... Read more

$79.69 CAD

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read brings together different disciplinary perspectives and studies on reading for all those who seek to extend and enrich the current practice, research and policy debates. The breadth of knowledge that underpins pedagogy is a central theme and the book will help educators, policy-makers and researchers understand the full range of research
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Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance

New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930

by Richard A. Courage, Christopher Robert Reed, Darlene Clark Hine, Mary Jo Deegan, Brenda Ellis Fredericks, James C. Hall, Bonnie Claudia Harrison, Amy M. Mooney0, Clovis E. Semmes1, Margaret Vendryes2, Richard Yarborougha3, John McCluskey Jr.4 ...

Series series New Black Studies Series
The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life.Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together ... Read more

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The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life.Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together
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Romantic Ecocriticism

Origins and Legacies

by Colin Carman, Alicia Carroll, Judyta Frodyma, Dewey W. Hall, Gary Harrison, J. Andrew Hubbell, Ryan David Leack, Kaitlin Mondello, Shalon Noble0, Lisa Ottum1, Marcus Tomalin2, Bryon Williams3 ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in British and American Romanticism. First, the edition’s transnational ... Read more

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Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in British and American Romanticism. First, the edition’s transnational
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The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book (UNABRIDGED)

by Constance Cary HARRISON ...

Narrated by Adrianna Halle ...

Unabridged

7 hours 33 min

And now, mamma, until your tea is ready, we know what you must do, said the children, in a breath. "Tell us a story—a 'real, truly' fairy tale, about a giant and a dwarf, lots and lots of fairies, a prince and a beautiful princess with hair to her very feet, a champion with a magic sword, a dragon-chariot, a witch dressed in snake-skin—and, if you can, an ogre. Don't punish anybody but the witch ... Read more

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And now, mamma, until your tea is ready, we know what you must do, said the children, in a breath. "Tell us a story—a 'real, truly' fairy tale, about a giant and a dwarf, lots and lots of fairies, a prince and a beautiful princess with hair to her very feet, a champion with a magic sword, a dragon-chariot, a witch dressed in snake-skin—and, if you can, an ogre. Don't punish anybody but the witch
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Man Who Lived Backwards

by Charles F. Hall ...

Narrated by B. J. Harrison ...

Series series The Classic Tales with B. J. Harrison
Unabridged

48 min

Can you imagine traveling back to the past? What would you find there? Would you like it? Would you find that everything you do has some consequences in the future? Do you want to join the man in our story? Because he is about to "trap" himself in a backwards time warp. If you are not brave enough to come along, but you still want to find out what happened next, just grab "The Man Who Lived ... Read more

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Can you imagine traveling back to the past? What would you find there? Would you like it? Would you find that everything you do has some consequences in the future? Do you want to join the man in our story? Because he is about to "trap" himself in a backwards time warp. If you are not brave enough to come along, but you still want to find out what happened next, just grab "The Man Who Lived
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The Inky Digit of Defiance

Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966–2016

by Tony Harrison ...

In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality. In so doing, he takes us on an extraordinary journey through languages and across continents and millennia, from his Nigerian Lysistrata to the British Raj of his version of Racine's ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality. In so doing, he takes us on an extraordinary journey through languages and across continents and millennia, from his Nigerian Lysistrata to the British Raj of his version of Racine's
... Read more
Grey the Dog

A Tail of a Dream

by S. D. Hall ...

Illustrated by Shizue Harrison ...

Grey is a rescued dog who is having a wonderful dream. First he finds himself running through a forest close to a stream. There are flowers in bloom and rabbits to chase and play with. But when a giant rabbit begins to chase him back, what will Grey do? Can he make it home safely? Grey was a dog rescued in an orchard by author S. D. Hall. She and her family had no intention of keeping Grey and ... Read more

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Grey is a rescued dog who is having a wonderful dream. First he finds himself running through a forest close to a stream. There are flowers in bloom and rabbits to chase and play with. But when a giant rabbit begins to chase him back, what will Grey do? Can he make it home safely? Grey was a dog rescued in an orchard by author S. D. Hall. She and her family had no intention of keeping Grey and
... Read more

Shakespeare's Ear

Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Theater

by Tim Rayborn ...

Shakespeare’s Ear presents dark and sometimes funny pieces of fact and folklore that bedevil the mostly unknown history of theater. All manner of skullduggery, from revenge to murder, from affairs to persecution, proves that the drama off-stage was just as intense as any portrayed on it. The stories include those of:An ancient Greek writer of tragedies who dies when an eagle drops a tortoise on ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

Shakespeare’s Ear presents dark and sometimes funny pieces of fact and folklore that bedevil the mostly unknown history of theater. All manner of skullduggery, from revenge to murder, from affairs to persecution, proves that the drama off-stage was just as intense as any portrayed on it. The stories include those of:An ancient Greek writer of tragedies who dies when an eagle drops a tortoise on
... Read more
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

100 Men on the Words That Move Them

by Anthony Holden, Ben Holden ...

A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: “The Holdens remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse….It’s plain fun” (The Wall Street Journal).*Grown men aren’t supposed to cry…*Yet in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men—distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: “The Holdens remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse….It’s plain fun” (The Wall Street Journal).*Grown men aren’t supposed to cry…*Yet in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men—distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture,
... Read more
Once Upon a Time

A Short History of Fairy Tale

by Marina Warner ...

From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, ... Read more

$7.99 CAD

From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing,
... Read more
Creators

From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney

by Paul Johnson ...

“Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists . . . his approach is unfailingly generous. . . . Genuinely revealing.” —Publishers WeeklyFrom celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johnson, an enlightening look at the imagination and drive of visionaries who have changed our world.Paul Johnson believes that creation is a mysterious business which cannot be satisfactorily analyzed. But ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

“Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists . . . his approach is unfailingly generous. . . . Genuinely revealing.” —Publishers WeeklyFrom celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johnson, an enlightening look at the imagination and drive of visionaries who have changed our world.Paul Johnson believes that creation is a mysterious business which cannot be satisfactorily analyzed. But
... Read more

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