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  • Out of My Skin

    A Novel

    by John Haskell ...
    Los Angeles. A would-be movie reviewer, looking for romance, takes an assignment to write a magazine article about celebrity look-alikes. After getting to know a Steve Martin impersonator, the writer decides to undertake his own process of transformation and becomes not Steve Martin but a version of him—graceful, charming, at home in the world. Safe in the guise of "Steve," he begins to fall in ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • THE HASKELL MEMOIRS. The Personal Narrative of a Confederate Officer

    by Col. John Cheves Haskell ...
    A vivid and excellent Confederate memoir from a highly decorated and respected artillery commander."John Cheves Haskell came out of a rich French, Scotch and Scotch-Irish heritage of the Santee river country of South Carolina. The grandson of Langdon Cheves, a prominent South Carolinian, John was brought up on "The Home Place" plantation in the Abbeville district. When the Civil War broke out, he ... Read more

    $4.88 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Ballet

    A Fictional Essay in Five Acts

    by John Haskell ...
    A dark-hued, hybrid novel by a writer who “delivers our culture back to us, made entirely new” (A. M. Homes)In The Complete Ballet, John Haskell choreographs an intricate and irresistible pas de deux in which fiction and criticism come together to create a new kind of story. Fueled by the dramatic retelling of five romantic ballets, and interwoven with a contemporary story about a man whose ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Trying to Be

    A Collection

    by John Haskell ...
    With lyrical precision and aching intimacy, Trying to Be moves through history, memory, and the performance of ephemeral identity, as John Haskell assembles a quiet manifesto for how to think, how to live, and how to feel ourselves in our bodies.Trying to Be is a book about presence, absence, and the intricate art of inhabiting one’s own life. John Haskell—known for his genre-defying literary ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • American Purgatorio

    A Novel

    by John Haskell ...
    A man's search for his missing wife becomes an existential quest across America in the acclaimed author's "strange and compelling" debut novel ( Publishers Weekly )."I'm from Chicago originally. I went to New York, married a girl named Anne, and was in the middle of living happily ever after when something happened."So begins John Haskell's mesmerizing first novel, American Purgatorio, the story o ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • I Am Not Jackson Pollock

    Stories

    by John Haskell ...
    A bewitching collection of short fiction-haunting and hypnotic meditations on art, movies, literature, and lifeA circus elephant named Topsy was executed at Coney Island in the year 1900 for killing a man. That's true. So is the life of Saartjie (Sar-key) Baartman, the Hottentot Venus, who was herself a circus act in the first half of the nineteenth century. What is myth is the Indian god Ganesha, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • What Would Jesus Sing?

    Experimentation and Tradition in Church Music

    Edited by Marilyn Haskel ...
    Ten essays about what churches are doing that is not "business as usual" in their music ministry. Includes theological and liturgical rationale, basic "how-to" information, and personal testimony to the communal advantages of each ministry, as well as descriptions of alternative/additional worship services that are flourishing across the country.Includes material about contemporary ensembles, jazz ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Congress in Context

    by John Haskell ...
    The U.S. Congress is by the far the least popular (and most misunderstood) branch of the federal government. Congress in Context de-mystifies the institution, giving students a comprehensive and practical understanding of Congress and the legislative process. This book takes a different approach to the study of Congress than other texts. Usually Congress is treated in isolation from the rest of ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Direct Democracy Or Representative Government? Dispelling The Populist Myth

    by John Haskell ...
    In Direct Democracy or Representative Government? John Haskell develops a devastating critique of direct democracy by exposing the central flaw in populist thinking. Contrary to the beliefs of populist advocates of direct democracy, the popular will cannot be interpreted from the results of the plebiscite. John Haskell presents a defense of representative institutions that brings to bear, in an ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy

    Second Edition

    Edited by John D. Haskell ...
    Series series Research Handbooks on Globalisation and the Law series
    This thoroughly revised second edition examines the current state of literature in law and political economy, drawing on scholarship across a variety of subject areas, geographies and orientations.Capturing recent developments in the field, it expands upon the range of debates and themes explored by the previous edition to include growing cross-disciplinary and cross-jurisdictional perspectives. ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Tipping Points in International Law

    Commitment and Critique

    Edited by Jean d'Aspremont, John Haskell ...
    Series series ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
    Addressing some of the most perilous, controversial issues in international law and governance, this volume brings together legal scholars from diverse geographic, personal and scholarly perspectives. They reflect on the pervasive feeling of crisis in the world today and share their views on the possibilities and limits of the international legal architecture and its expert communities in shaping ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • New Voices and New Perspectives in International Economic Law

    Edited by John D. Haskell, Akbar Rasulov ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book brings together a series of contributions by international legal scholars that explore a range of subjects and themes in the field of international economic law and global economic governance through a variety of methodological and theoretical lenses. It introduces the reader to a number of different ways of constructing and approaching the study of international economic law. The book ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD