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  • The Gallery

    by John Horne Burns ...
    "The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war." —John Dos PassosJohn Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the ... Read more

    $17.19 CAD

  • The Gallery (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A World War II Classic

    by John Horne Burns, Daphne Ulwick ...
    John Horne Burns's The Gallery is a formally daring novel of wartime Naples, set largely around the Galleria Umberto I during the Allied occupation. Composed as a sequence of portraits, monologues, and interlinked episodes, it abandons conventional plot for a modernist mosaic of soldiers, civilians, prostitutes, refugees, and displaced souls. Its style is lyrical, satirical, and unsparing, placing ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Castaway

    by John Horne ...
    In May of 1831 a British sailing ship has delivered its cargo of fine English furniture to the island of Jamaica for the Walker West India Company, and is returning homeward with a load of raw sugar, molasses and rum. One of the shipmates aboard this vessel, the Arthur Hoyt - is Ship's Mate Edward Tostig, on his third seagoing voyage and just turned 22 years of age in March of that year. Their ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sports Mega-Events in Asia

    Edited by Koji Kobayashi, John Horne, Younghan Cho, Jung Woo Lee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is the first comprehensive collection focusing on the hosting of sports mega-events within Asia and their impact on the politics, economics, and culture that shape, and are shaped by, the local idiosyncrasies of host cities and countries across this most culturally diverse continent. From the Olympic Games and single sport World Cups, to the Asian Games and their sub-regional variations, ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • A Time to Live

    by Mary Burton Horne, John Horne ...
    Except for the baby stirring inside her, Beth never felt so alone. Pregnant with the child of her British pilot fiancé—killed in action before he ever learned he was to become a father—and disowned by her parents, she found herself in a desperate situation. But then, miraculously, came a glimmer of hope when her fiancé's best friend proposes a marriage in name only to take care of her and the baby ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Gallery (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Interconnected stories of American soldiers in occupied Italy - a war-torn city, cultural clashes, and dark humor amid the complexities of war.

    by John Horne Burns, Charlotte Butler, Charlotte Butler ...
    Set beneath the glass canopy of Naples's Galleria Umberto I in the uneasy aftermath of Allied liberation, The Gallery assembles a cycle of interlinked portraits—soldiers, shopkeepers, black-marketeers, priests, and street children—whose intersecting lives expose the moral ambiguities of victory. Burns's prose shifts from acid satire to lyrical lament, fusing reportorial clarity with a modernist, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Gallery

    by John Horne Burns ...
    The Gallery by John Horne Burns (1916-1953), public domain. "The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war." —John Dos Passos John Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Mega-Events and Globalization

    Capital and Spectacle in a Changing World Order

    Edited by Richard Gruneau, John Horne ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Since the turn of the twenty first century, there has been a trend for urban "mega events" to be awarded to cities and nations in the East and Global South. Such events have been viewed as economic stimulant as well as opportunities to promote national identity, gain greater international recognition and exercise a form of 'soft power.' However, there has also been on-going controversy about the ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Understanding the Olympics

    by John Horne, Garry Whannel ...
    How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon? How can the Olympics help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact and legacy of the Olympics after Tokyo in 2020? Understanding the Olympics answers all these questions by exploring the social, cultural, political, historical, and economic context of the Games.This thoroughly revised and ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • A Companion to World War I

    Edited by John Horne ...
    Series Book 25 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
    A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history.Comprises 38 essays by leading scholars who analyze the current state of historical scholarship on the First World WarProvides extensive coverage spanning the pre-war period, the ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Sport and Social Movements

    From the Local to the Global

    by Jean Harvey, Professor John Horne, Parissa Safai, Dr. Simon Darnell, Sebastien Courchesne-O'Neill ...
    Series series Globalizing Sport Studies
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.From neighborhood coalitions organizing against the building of a sport facility for professional sports teams subsidized by public funds, to global campaigns for equity for women in sport, to worldwide bans of apartheid regimes, sites and levels of protest, ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Towards Commemoration

    Edited by John Horne ...
    This book arrives on foot of a decade of commemorations. Contemporary Ireland was founded during the fractious years 1912-1923. From the signing of the Ulster Unionists' Solemn League and Covenant to the partitioning of the country and subsequent Civil War in the Irish Free State, a series of events shaped Ireland for the century to come. Not least of these was World War I. This volume, edited by ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD