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  • British Motor Fishing Vessels

    by John McWilliams ...
    British traditional working boats are famous – Morecambe Bay prawners, Manx luggers, Scots fifies and zulus, Lowestoft and Yarmouth drifters, Yorkshire cobles, Colchester smacks, Hastings beach boats, Brixham trawlers, and many others. Over a century ago, progressive fishermen began to install engines in their boats. Motor fishing boats have been part of our coastal scene since then. Local ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Cornish Fishing Industry

    An Illustrated History

    by John McWilliams ...
    Since man first inhabited the United Kingdom, he has fished for food. The rich waters of Cornwall, where the English Channel, Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean meet, have always proved to have a bountiful harvest for the fisherman, with all types of fish - from pilchards to herring, langoustine to crab, and everything in between - being caught in Cornish waters. The variety of fish and crustaceans ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Revolution and the Historical Novel

    by John McWilliams ...
    John McWilliams has written the first, much needed account of the ways the promise and threat of political revolution have informed masterpieces of the historical novel. The jolting sense of historical change caused by the French Revolution led to an immense readership for a new kind of fiction, centered on revolution, counter-revolution and warfare, which soon came to be called “the historical ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The 1960s Cultural Revolution

    A Reference Guide

    by John C. McWilliams ...
    Series series Guides to Historic Events in America
    This highly readable and valuable resource revisits the personalities and events that sparked the cultural revolutions synonymous with the 1960s. It considers the forces that shaped the decade and made it a unique era, beginning with an introductory historical overview that provides context and perspective.Focusing on social and cultural history, the book explores the New Left, the antiwar ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Best Kind of College

    An Insiders' Guide to America's Small Liberal Arts Colleges

    Edited by Susan McWilliams, John E. Seery ...
    Small college professors from across the United States explain why liberal arts institutions remain the gold standard for higher education.The fevered controversy over America's educational future isn't simply academic; those who have proposed sweeping reforms include government officials, politicians, foundation officers, think-tank researchers, journalists, media pundits, and university ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon

    by Michael Warner, John McWilliams, Wai Chee Dimock ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Elbow Grease: Fast Friends

    by John Cena ...
    Illustrated by Howard McWilliam ...
    Series series Elbow Grease
    There's a new truck on the block in John Cena's third picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Elbow Grease series, featuring the truck who never gives up!Elbow Grease and his monster truck brothers are hardly prepared when they meet Chopper, a speedy, purple monster motorcycle. Chopper wants to be friends with the brothers, who are more than impressed with her epic skills! But when the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Last of the Mohicans

    by James Fenimore Cooper ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, and partly in his evocation of the wild beautiful landscapes of North America which the French ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Elbow Grease vs. Motozilla

    by John Cena ...
    Illustrated by Howard McWilliam ...
    Series series Elbow Grease
    Superstar entertainer John Cena's second picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series features a high-octane story--starring the truck who never gives up, Elbow Grease!Elbow Grease may be little but he's got grit and gumption to spare--and he's back! It's time for Elbow Grease to face off against the gnarly monster machine Motozilla. Luckily, Elbow Grease can count on his four big ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Blacker the Ink

    Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art

    by Frances Gateward, John Jennings, Daniel F. Yezbick, Sally McWilliams, Patrick F. Walter, Nancy Goldstein, Robin Means Coleman, William Lafi Youmans, Consuela Francis0, Andre Carrington1, Reynaldo Anderson2, Blair Davis3, Kinohi Nishikawa4, Qiana Whitted5, Craig Fischer6, Hershini Bhana Young7, James J. Zeigler8, Rebecca Wanzo9 ...
    Winner of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly WorkWinner of the 2016 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture AssociationWinner of the 2016 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureWhen many think of comic books the first thing that comes to ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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    Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid

    by Willie Mays, John Shea ...
    Narrated by Larry Herron, Julian McWilliams, Bob Costas ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 3 min

    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**The legendary Willie Mays shares the inspirations and influences responsible for guiding him on and off the field in this reflective and inspirational memoir."Even if, like me, you thought you had pretty much read and heard all there was to read and hear about Willie Mays, this warmhearted book will inform and reward you. And besides, what true baseball fan ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Chainbearer

    Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts

    by James Fenimore Cooper ...
    Series series The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
    Cooper's The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means to own land. The novel examines the claims of ownership of wilderness land among Native Americans, New England squatters, and the old New York families with legal deeds.In 1845 and 1846, James Fenimore Cooper published The Littlepage Manuscripts, a trilogy reflecting on the anti-rent movement among ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD