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  • Making Markets More Inclusive

    Lessons from CARE and the Future of Sustainability in Agricultural Value Chain Development

    by K. McKague, M. Siddiquee ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Most studies of doing business at the "bottom of the economic pyramid" focus on viewing the poor as consumers, as micro-entrepreneurs, or as potential employees of local companies. Almost no analysis focuses on the poor as primary producers of agricultural commodities a striking omission given that primary producers are by far the largest segment of the working-age population in developing ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques

    Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States

    by Michael E. Heyes, Linda C. Ceriello, Thomas S. Franke, John Block Friedman, John W. Ellis-Etchison, Minji Lee, Susanne Margarit McColeman, Cathleen McKague, AnaMaria Seglie, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock0 ...
    Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques examines the intersection of religion and monstrosity in a variety of different time periods in the hopes of addressing two gaps in scholarship within the field of monster studies. The first part of the volume—running from the medieval to the Early Modern period—focuses upon the view of the monster through non-majority voices and accounts from those who were ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • THE PAPER BOAT: A novel on the life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

    by Elizabeth McKague ...
    The Paper Boat is a novel based on the life and work of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). The novel begins in Pisa, Italy, nine months before Shelley’s death and flashes back to trace his vigorous interior and multifarious exterior life. The book exhibits extensive and thorough research and although most of the scenes stem from accurate historical facts, it is a work of fiction. ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

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  • The Conformist

    by Alberto Moravia ...
    Series series Italia
    Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But then he is assigned ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • The Stress of Her Regard

    by Tim Powers ...
    World Fantasy Award WinnerMichael Crawford is forced to flee when discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed. Yet it is not the revengeful townspeople he fears but the deadly embrace of the malignant spirit that is claiming him as her bridegroom.But Crawford will not travel alone; soon he is aided by his fellow victims, the greatest poets of his day , Byron, Keats, and Shelley. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Poe's Murderers

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" were originally published in 1843 and "The Cask of Amontillado" in 1846. Even today, these stories have the ability to scare the unwary.Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was an American writer in the Romantic style and is best known for his stories of mystery and the macabre. ... Read more

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  • The Late Mattia Pascal

    by Luigi Pirandello ...
    Translated by Nicoletta Simborowski ...
    Pascal, a landowner fallen on hard times and trapped in a miserable marriage, runs away from home and wins a lot of money at the gaming tables in Monte Carlo. Meanwhile a body has been found in the millrace of his village and it is assumed that Pascal has killed himself. Seizing what looks like a chance to create a new life, he travels to Rome under an assumed name and struggles to invent a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Garden of Eden in Italy: Lake Como 1900, Illustrated.

    by Elizabeth Robbins Pennell, Joseph Pennell, Illustrator ...
    This essay idealizes the lake and the scenery, reflecting on Idyllic. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Mary's Monster

    Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

    by Lita Judge ...
    “Both timely and terrifying.” —Gregory Macguire, New York Times–bestselling author of WickedPairing free verse with over three hundred pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations, Mary’s Monster is a unique and stunning biography of Mary Shelley, the pregnant teenage runaway who became one of the greatest authors of all time.Legend is correct that Mary Shelley began penning Frankenstein in ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Almost Invincible

    A Biographical Novel of Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein

    by Suzanne Burdon ...
    "She is singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind. Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything else she undertakes, almost invincible."Mary Shelley began Frankenstein in 1814, when she was eighteen. By then, she had been living for two years in a scandalous relationship with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married with children. The novel was ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Professor and the Siren

    by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa ...
    Translated by Stephen Twilley ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalIn the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel The Leopard but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation.“The Professor and the Siren,” like The Leopard, meditates on the past and the passage of time, and also on the relationship between ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Gradiva - A Pompeiian Fancy

    by Wilhelm Jensen ...
    This antiquarian volume comprises Wilhelm Jensen's 1902 novel, Grandiva. First published in the "Neue Freie Presse", this text was inspired by an eponymous Roman bas-relief and would become the foundation for Sigmund Freud's seminal 1907 work 'Delusion and Dream'. Freud’s copy of this book can be found on the wall of his study in the Freud Museum at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London. A seminal book in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus