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  • Sexualised Masculinity

    Men’s Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture

    by John Mercer, Clarissa Smith ...
    Sexualised Masculinity: Men’s Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture explores evolving portrayals of masculinity in contemporary media, focusing on the increasing eroticisation of the male body.This book examines how traditional and digital media – from films and television to social media platforms and fashion – have transformed the ways masculinity is represented and perceived. Through a wide ... Read more

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  • The Quick Start for Building Emotional Muscle and Confidence

    Book One

    by John Mercer ...
    Book One of Building Emotional Muscle and Confidence has all the fundamentals a person needs to understand how to step through chronic fears, doubts, and insecurity that have accumulated from past experiences. Book One of Building Emotional Muscle and Confidence gives us a bridge between insecurity and confidence, between low self-esteem and a healthy self-pride, between fear and determination, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Gay Pornography

    Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity

    by John Mercer ...
    Series series Library of Gender and Popular Culture
    Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production. In the first book of its kind, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity explores the iconography, themes and ideals that the genre presents. Indeed, John Mercer argues that gay pornography cannot be regarded as one-dimensional, but that it offers its ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Letters from Normandy

    by John Mercer ...
    'We recognised the place from the newsreels. There was a large desk covered with dust. An ornamental chandelier hung low from the ceiling. From here Hitler had plotted. Here had been Goering, Himmler, Hess, Goebbels, Ribbentrop - Outside were the remains of a bonfire. The wall was smoke-blackened by the burning. We had reached the heart of Hitler's Germany.' John Mercer was called up in June 1944, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Rock Hudson

    by John Mercer ...
    Series series Film Stars
    Tall, dark and handsome, with a manufactured name and a scrupulously designed professional image, Rock Hudson represented the Hollywood ideal of American masculinity during the 1950s and 60s; an ideal that was to be questioned and ultimately undermined during the years to follow by lurid accounts of his private life and his death from AIDS related illness.This illuminating analysis of Hudson's ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Bexleyheath A History

    by John Mercer ...
    Series series A History
    Until Bexleyheath was enclosed in the nineteenth century, it was a wild area,the haunt of footpads and highwaymen. The development of textile printing by Charles Swaisland in Crayford drew workers to the area. Enclosure brought permanent homes, and more prosperous residents moved in, some creating landmarks like Red House, home to artist William Morris. The inexorable growth of London made ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Melodrama

    Genre, Style and Sensibility

    by John Mercer, Martin Shingler ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Melodrama: Genre, Style and Sensibility is designed as an accessible overview of one of the most popular genres at undergraduate Film Studies. The book identifies three distinct but connected concepts through which it is possible to make sense of melodrama; either as a genre, originating in European theatre of the 18th and 19th century, as a specific cinematic style, epitomised by the work of ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Charting Syria’s Future: A Strategic Framework for Recovery and Renewal

    by Salam Fayyad, John M. Balouziyeh, Thomas Hinds, Heather Mercer, Sejal Goud, Judah Guggenheim, Martin Palomo, Zubaida Qaissi ...
    The fall of the Assad regime ended more than six decades of authoritarian rule in Syria and opened an era of remarkable renewal. Today, the country has achieved what many thought impossible: a functioning state, ministries and courts back in operation, embassies reopened, and billions in investment pledged. A nation once designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism has joined the Global Coalition to ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Figure In the Shadows

    by John Bellairs ...
    Illustrated by Mercer Mayer ...
    Series series Lewis Barnavelt
    A classic fantasy/mystery from critically acclaimed novelist John BellairsLewis thought the amulet would bring him good luck--instead, it brought nothing but evil.Lewis is sure that Grandpa Barnavelt's 1859 lucky coin is really a magic talisman in disguise. With its power, he could do anything he wante--like get back at bully Woody Mingo. But as soon as he begins wearing the coin around his neck, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Objectification

    On the Difference between Sex and Sexism

    by Susanna Paasonen, Feona Attwood, Alan McKee, John Mercer, Clarissa Smith ...
    Series series Gender Insights
    This is a concise and accessible introduction into the concept of objectification, one of the most frequently recurring terms in both academic and media debates on the gendered politics of contemporary culture, and core to critiquing the social positions of sex and sexism.Objectification is an issue of media representation and everyday experiences alike. Central to theories of film spectatorship, ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Nature Mysticism

    by John Edward Mercer ...
    A wave of Mysticism is passing over the civilised nations. It is welcomed by many: by more it is mistrusted. Even the minds to which it would naturally appeal are often restrained from sympathy by fears of vague speculative driftings and of transcendental emotionalism. Nor can it be doubted that such an attitude of aloofness is at once reasonable and inevitable. For a systematic exaltation of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All By Myself...yet Never (Ever) Alone

    by John F. Mercer ...
    I was mandated to write All By Myself...yet Never (Ever) Alone. For years, I'd been in the habit of early-morning intercession with praise and worship as well. One morning, the Lord quieted me down and plainly and powerfully instructed me to write precisely this book. It was to be "His work" for others, and I was to be only the transcriptionist. In one sitting, He dictated the general scope and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD