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  • Begging for Vultures

    New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009

    by Lawrence Welsh ...
    Series series Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
    The poetry of Lawrence Welsh crosses many borders, from South Central Los Angeles, where he was raised, to El Paso, where he has lived for almost twenty years. A newspaper man turned poet, a punk rock songwriter who became an English teacher, an Irishman at home in Texas, Welsh gives voice to the famous, the infamous, and the forgotten. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Evidence-Based Crime Prevention

    Edited by Doris Layton MacKenzie, Brandon C. Welsh, David Farrington, Lawrence Sherman ...
    Crime prevention policy and practice is, on the whole, far from objective. Instead of being based on scientific evidence, the crime policy agenda is seemingly driven by political ideology, anecdotal evidence and programme trends. Evidence-Based Crime Prevention seeks to change this by comprehensively and rigorously assessing the existing scientific knowledge on the effectiveness of crime ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD

  • Cutting the Wire

    Photographs and Poetry from the US-Mexico Border

    by Bruce Berman, Ray Gonzalez, Lawrence Welsh ...
    Cutting the Wire, a masterful collaboration between photographer Bruce Berman and poets Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh, offers us a way to look again, to really look, at the border between Mexico and the United States. Berman, who has photographed and lived in El Paso for decades, is a documentarian who uses his camera to record what’s in front of him rather than for, as he puts it, “mere self ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Selected Stories

    by D. H. Lawrence ...
    This collection of short stories traces D. H. Lawrence's development as a writer. His early tales often draw on personal experiences, as in 'Odour of Chrysanthemums', a work he described as 'full of my childhood's atmosphere', while the horror of the First World War haunts 'England, My England'. Later stories, such as 'Things', powerfully express his evolving ideas about the duality of our lives. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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