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  • Glass

    by Professor John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Various Artists' Red Hot + Blue

    by Professor John S. Garrison ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Red Hot + Blue is a meditation on music's capacity to find us, transform us, and help us make sense of our historical moment. Blending memoir and cultural history, Garrison recalls his coming out at the height of the AIDS crisis alongside the music industry's first major response to the epidemic. In 1990, a groundbreaking effort by musical artists sought to combat the silence and stigma about the ... Read more

    $15.79 CAD

  • The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by John S. Garrison ...
    The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker of the poems strives for a more agential relationship to his own memory by treating recollection as a form ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance

    Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern England

    by John S. Garrison ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this volume, the author offers a substantial reconsideration of same-sex relations in the early modern period, and argues that early modern writers – rather than simply celebrating a classical friendship model based in dyadic exclusivity and a rejection of self-interest – sought to innovate on classical models for idealized friendship. This book redirects scholarly conversations regarding ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • A Rude Reception

    John Garrison Mysteries, #1

    by John Layne ...
    Series Book 1 - John Garrison Mysteries
    A Rude Reception kicks off the John Garrison Mysteries series with a gripping tale reminiscent of Craig Johnson's Longmire, weaving together murder, intrigue, and vivid character development set against the backdrop of West Texas. —NewInBooks.com____________He probably should have known better, but a man can dream, can't he?Barely a day has passed before former Houston homicide detective, John ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery

    Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas

    by John Garrison Marks ...
    Series series Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
    This historical study examines how free people of color in Charleston and Cartagena challenged the foundations of racial hierarchies in the Americas.Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority—and linked ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Shakespeare and the Afterlife

    by John S. Garrison ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Global and Digital Governance Crossroads

    Stakeholder Engagement and Democratization

    Edited by Preeti Shroff-Mehta, Jagdish.N Sheth, John Garrison, Shailendra Raj Mehta ...
    This handbook maps and analyzes cross-sector (public–corporate–social–community–faith) governance theories, models, and practices as they are evolving in a digital world. It studies human, cultural, societal, institutional interactions and challenges in a digitally enabled world, especially in the context of post-crisis resilience and agility. Every global crisis forces societies and nations to ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • MEMS and Microstructures in Aerospace Applications

    Edited by Robert Osiander, M. Ann Garrison Darrin, John L. Champion ...
    The promise of MEMS for aerospace applications has been germinating for years, and current advances bring the field to the very cusp of fruition. Reliability is chief among the challenges limiting the deployment of MEMS technologies in space, as the requirement of zero failure during the mission is quite stringent for this burgeoning field. MEMS and Microstructures in Aerospace Applications ... Read more

    $446.99 CAD

  • Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature

    Edited by Goran Stanivukovic, John Garrison ...
    Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Making Milton

    Print, Authorship, Afterlives

    Edited by Emma Depledge, John S. Garrison, Marissa Nicosia ...
    This volume consists of fourteen original essays that showcase the latest thinking about John Milton's emergence as a popular and canonical author. Contributors consider how Milton positioned himself in relation to the book trade, contemporaneous thinkers, and intellectual movements, as well as how his works have been positioned since their first publication. The individual chapters assess Milton ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Dragonfly Genera of the New World

    An Illustrated and Annotated Key to the Anisoptera

    by Rosser W. Garrison, Natalia von Ellenrieder, Jerry A. Louton ...
    Winner of the Single Volume Reference/Science award of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards given by the Association of American PublishersDragonfly Genera of the New World is a beautifully illustrated and comprehensive guide to the taxonomy and ecology of dragonflies in North, Middle, and South America. A reference of the highest quality, this book reveals the striking beauty and ... Read more

    $127.49 CAD