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  • Ibero-American Ecocriticism

    Cultural and Social Explorations

    by J. Manuel Gómez, Rafael Andúgar, Megan Cole, Maria C. Fellie, Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves, Victoria Jara, Victoria Ketz, Julia A. Kushigian, Elizabeth G. Rivero ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Ibero-American Ecocriticism: Cultural and Social Explorations presents a distinct view of the diverse social and physical geographies of the Americas, their political and cultural connections to the Iberian Peninsula, and their relationship to the environment in its diverse representations. The topics ranging from myths and legends, poetics, young adult literature, arts and performance, to ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • The Image of the River in Latin/o American Literature

    Written in the Water

    by Renata Égüez, Bridget V. Franco, J. Manuel Gómez, Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, Julia A. Kushigian, Jeanie Murphy, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez, Elizabeth G. Rivero ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Although fictional—and often fantastic—representations of nature have been a distinguishing feature of Latin American literature for centuries, ecocriticism, understood as the study of literature as it relates to depictions of the natural world, environmental issues, and the ways in which human beings interact and identify with their natural surroundings, did not emerge as a field of scholarly ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba

    by Ramón Dacal Moure, Manuel Rivero de la Calle ...
    Series Book 349 - Pitt Latin American Series
    Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba presents a number of works, sixteen reproduced in color, by pre-Columbian artists from the archipelago, covering three millennia of human life in Cuba.Living under difficult conditions, the first Cubans sculpted their emotions, fears, and hopes on stone, shell, wood, and bones. Much of their art has not previously been available either within or outside of ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

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    by Ross King ...
    Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

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  • 1913

    The Year Before the Storm

    by Florian Illies ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside, Jamie Lee Searle ...
    **INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: This “absolute gem of a book” offers a month-by-month account of the year before World War I—one of the most exciting times in the 20th century (The Observer).“A sexy, comic and occasionally heartbreaking soap opera” for history buffs interested in 20th-century art, music, and literature (Washington Post).**It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Ay, Cuba!

    A Socio-Erotic Journey

    by Andrei Codrescu, David Graham ...
    The NPR reporter offers an "engaging and enlightening" window into late-90s Cuba, "from the cafes in Havana to the mysterious lairs of Santiago de Cuba" ( Kirkus Reviews).For NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, reporting from Cuba on the eve of Pope John Paul II's 1998 visit was an opportunity to understand the realities of life in a country that has long been the subject of stereotypes and ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Third World to First World - by One Touch

    Economic Repercussions of the Overthrow of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah

    by Crusading Engineer Robert Woode ...
    The book summarizes the vision and mission of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and his strategies for moving Ghana from a third world country to a first world by the shortest possible means. It also looks at the economic repercussions of his overthrow. It contains all the major infrastructural developments covering air, road, rail, sea transport, as well as telecommunication and major projects covering ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • The Last Trojan Hero

    A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

    by Philip Hardie ...
    “I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.” The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Story of Looking

    by Mark Cousins ...
    The acclaimed author and filmmaker's investigation into the human gaze through history, art and science, paints an illuminating portrait of our culture.Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into, looking can define us.In The Story of Looking, filmmaker and ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba

    Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300

    by Suzanne Preston Blier ...
    In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important and least understood early civilizations, one whose historic arts have long been of interest ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Pevsner: The Complete Broadcast Talks

    Architecture and Art on Radio and Television, 1945-1977

    by Stephen Games ...
    This book brings together the surviving texts of the 113 talks on art and architecture that we know of, given by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner on radio and television between 1945--1977. It includes the seven texts of the 1955 Reith Lectures in their original broadcast form, as well as lectures that Pevsner gave in German (for the BBC in London and RIAS in Berlin) and on the radio in New ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Art, Animals, and Experience

    Relationships to Canines and the Natural World

    by Elizabeth Sutton ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Elizabeth Sutton, using a phenomenological approach, investigates how animals in art invite viewers to contemplate human relationships to the natural world. Using Rembrandt van Rijn’s etching of The Presentation in the Temple (c. 1640), Joseph Beuys’s social sculpture I Like America and America Likes Me (1974), archaic rock paintings at Horseshoe Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, and examples ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD