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  • First Things in Acadia, "The Birthplace of a Continent"

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Birthplace of Acadia and its Cultural Legacy

    by John William Regan, Brooke Shepherd ...
    In "First Things in Acadia, 'The Birthplace of a Continent,'" John William Regan delves into the rich tapestry of Acadian history and culture, presenting a riveting exploration of the region often considered the cradle of North America. Regan skillfully weaves historical narratives with a keen literary style that resonates with both academic rigor and accessible storytelling, inviting readers to ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Semantic Change and Collective Knowledge in 18th Century Britain

    by John Regan ...
    An in-depth digital investigation of several 18th-century British corpora, this book identifies shared communities of meaning in the printed British 18th century by highlighting and analysing patterns in the distribution of lexis.There are forces of attraction between words: some are more likely to keep company than others, and how words attract and repel one another is worthy of note. Charting ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • The Transmission of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    by John Regan ...
    Series series 21st Century Perspectives on British Literature and Society
    This book reimagines the history of knowledge in 18th-century Britain by exploring how ideas were transmitted and diffused across generations and disciplines. Drawing on innovative digital tools, it uncovers collective patterns in the language of science, philosophy and commerce, revealing how concepts such as ‘system’, ‘sensibility’ and ‘volition’ were shaped and shared by communities rather than ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • What’s in a Name?

    Perspectives from Non-Biological and Non-Gestational Queer Mothers

    Edited by Sherri Martin-Baron, Raechel Johns, Emily Regan Wills ...
    Queer parenthood: It’s multifaceted. It’s complex. And it is constantly changing, as laws and culture shift around us. What’s in a Name? reflects on this complexity through the voices of nonbiological/non-gestational queer mothers/parents who explore our experiences parenting across our different social and familial locations. The authors have all taken different routes to parenting, live in ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–90

    by John Regan ...
    Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790 explores under-examined relationships between poetry and historiography in the eighteenth century, deepening our understanding of the relationship between poetry and ideas of progress with sustained attention to aesthetic, historical, antiquarian and prosodic texts from the period. Its central contention is that the historians and theorists of the time ... Read more

    $33.39 CAD

  • Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 176090

    by John Regan ...
    ‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790’ explores under-examined relationships between poetry and historiography between 1760 and 1790. These were the decades of Hugh Blair’s ‘Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal’ (1763) and ‘Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres’ (1783), Thomas Percy’s ‘Reliques of Ancient English Poetry’ (1765), Adam Ferguson’s ‘Essay on the History of ... Read more

    $33.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 176090

    by John Regan ...
    ‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790’ explores under-examined relationships between poetry and historiography between 1760 and 1790. These were the decades of Hugh Blair’s ‘Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal’ (1763) and ‘Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres’ (1783), Thomas Percy’s ‘Reliques of Ancient English Poetry’ (1765), Adam Ferguson’s ‘Essay on the History of ... Read more

    $33.39 CAD

  • Human Factors Handbook for Road Designers and Traffic Engineers

    Edited by Michael Regan, Robert Morgan, John Campbell ...
    Can roads truly be made safer? Yes, they can, and this handbook shows road designers and traffic engineers how, through a better understanding of road users – the “human factor”.Over a million people are killed every year on the world’s roads. Road user error is often concluded to be one of the main factors contributing to road crashes, and many in the road safety world believe that road user ... Read more

    $357.28 CAD

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  • Myth and the Irish State

    by John M. Regan ...
    When we read a history we believe ourselves to be reading cold, hard, facts of the events that took place and how they occurred. But there is no real, truthful way to know the approach our historian has taken with the historical sources. This book deals with the uncertainty in writing history in the context of Irish history in particular. Regan argues in this book that the notion of elision, ... Read more

    $3.49 CAD

  • Our Peaceable Kingdom

    The Photographs of John Drysdale

    by John Drysdale, Margaret Regan ...
    A collection of gorgeous photographs depicting the loving bond between humans and various species of animals.John Drysdale's photographs are exciting, tender, hilarious, often exhilarating - but for more than the obvious reasons. Certainly it's not every day that one sees a lion that's befriended a Boston terrier. Maybe elephants don't usually go fishing, and parrots generally don't tend to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Travelling Languages

    Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World

    Edited by John O'Regan, Jane Wilkinson, Mike Robinson ...
    Based on the commonly held assumption that we now live in a world that is ‘on the move’, with growing opportunities for both real and virtual travel and the blurring of boundaries between previously defined places, societies and cultures, the theme of this book is firmly grounded in the interdisciplinary field of ‘Mobilities’. ‘Mobilities’ deals with the movement of people, objects, capital, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Education and the Discourse of Global Neoliberalism

    Edited by John Gray, John P. O'Regan, Catherine Wallace ...
    This book investigates neoliberalism in education and explains how it is a complex phenomenon which takes on local characteristics in diverse geopolitical, economic and cultural settings, while retaining a core commitment in all its manifestations to market fundamentalism.Neoliberalism - that set of beliefs and practices which has become the economic orthodoxy of global preference since the 1980s ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD