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    Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Ohio Poets

    A celebration of American poetry

    by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Hart Crane, Alice Cary, Ambrose Bierce, Joshua McCarter Simpson, James Edwin Campbell, Kate Brownlee Sherwood ...
    Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow, Warren Keyes ...

    Unabridged

    58 min

    Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creating Wine

    The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914

    by James Simpson ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Today's wine industry is characterized by regional differences not only in the wines themselves but also in the business models by which these wines are produced, marketed, and distributed. In Old World countries such as France, Spain, and Italy, small family vineyards and cooperative wineries abound. In New World regions like the United States and Australia, the industry is dominated by a handful ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Directing an Independent Film

    by James F Simpson ...
    All you need to know about directing an independent film. James Simpson has over thirty films experience, with films starring actors including Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Charlize Theron to name a few. This book details useful tips in directing a film, whether this is your first film or you are an experienced director. Techniques for getting the most from your actors and crew and avoiding the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Family Farmers, Land Reforms and Political Action

    An Alternative Economic History of Interwar Europe

    by James Simpson ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines how European farmers responded to the economic and political challenges created by the First World War and the Great Depression. The difficulties of interwar Europe have been frequently explored, but rarely from the perspective of the agricultural sector, where two-fifths of the population earned their livelihood, mostly as small, family farmers.The traditional literature argues ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America

    by James Simpson ...
    Few could have imagined ten years ago where we'd be in America today: We are confronted on all sides by interminable crises that threaten the very fabric of our nation—from a border flooded with millions of migrants from all over the world, to a fentanyl crisis killing more American youths every year than the past three wars combined. Radical transgender activism and other cultural insanity has ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Video Nasty Mayhem: The Inside Story of VIPCO

    by James Simpson ...
    Great Britain, the 1980s. VHS is rapidly becoming popular, and the more gory and violent the movies, the better. One company has latched on to this trend quickly – selling and renting controversial films to the public. It is called the Video Instant Picture Company, a.k.a. VIPCO.Founded and run by Michael Lee – Mike to his friends – this small independent video distributor would swiftly grow into ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Permanent Revolution

    The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism

    by James Simpson ...
    How did the Reformation, which initially promoted decidedly illiberal positions, end up laying the groundwork for Western liberalism?The English Reformation began as an evangelical movement driven by an unyielding belief in predestination, intolerance, stringent literalism, political quietism, and destructive iconoclasm. Yet by 1688, this illiberal early modern upheaval would deliver the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Goethe and Patriarchy

    Faust and the Fates of Desire

    by James Simpson ...
    "This book traces the history of a complex sexual fantasy which features recurrently in Goethe's writings from his days as a student in Leipzig to the final years as Europe's most celebrated living poet. Simpson shows how the young man's fantasy of innocent sexuality became an increasingly troubled one during the poet's first decade in Weimar. Goethe began to recognize in it a submerged element: ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • Under the Hammer

    Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition

    by James Simpson ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    When we think of breaking images, we assume that it happens somewhere else. We also tend to think of iconoclasts as barbaric. Iconoclasts are people like the Taliban, who blew up Buddhist statues in 2001. We tend, that is, to look with horror on iconoclasm. This book argues instead that iconoclasm is a central strand of Anglo-American modernity. Our horror at the destruction of art derives in part ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • The Oxford Chaucer

    Edited by Christopher Cannon, James Simpson ...
    This authoritative edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer presents Chaucer's works for a new generation of students, and for a wide range of general readers. It provides all that undergraduates and graduate students will need to understand and appreciate Chaucer in his original Middle English, as well as an extensive scholarly apparatus. A detailed introduction situates Chaucer's works ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

    Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, James Simpson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry intersects ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Universal Monsters: Invisible Man #2

    by James Tynion IV ...
    Series Book 2 - UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: INVISIBLE MAN
    JAMES TYNION IV & DANI CONTINUE THEIR HORROR MASTERPIECE Jack Griffin's ambitions will not be limited by the small minds of his rivals. So now he must strike back.... ... Read more

    $7.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus