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  • Friends with Words

    Adventures in Languageland

    by Martha Barnette ...
    The word nerd gift book of the year! With warmth and humor, a popular radio and podcast host shares her love of language, weaving together linguistic history, regional phrases, the hidden poetry in etymologies, new words, and stories from her life and time on the air.Martha Barnette has spent two decades as the co-host of A Way with Words, lauded by Mary Norris in The New Yorker as “a virtual ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dog Days and Dandelions

    A Lively Guide to the Animal Meanings Behind Everyday Words

    by Martha Barnette ...
    From apian (like a bee) to zodiac (little-animals circle), a word book that spots the animal origins of words and names.There are mice in your muscles, and blackbirds in your merlot. Behind adulation is a dog's wagging tail. Peculiar houses a herd of cattle. Grubby is crawling with bugs. Wordhound Martha Barnette collects more than ... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    Friends with Words

    Adventures in Languageland

    by Martha Barnette ...
    Narrated by Martha Barnette ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    With warmth, a popular radio and podcast host shares her love of language, weaving together linguistic history, regional phrases, the hidden poetry in etymologies, new words, and stories from her life and time on the airMartha Barnette has spent two decades as the co-host of A Way with Words, lauded by Mary Norris in The New Yorker as “a virtual treasure house” and “‘Car Talk’ for Lexiphiles.” ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Rules for the World

    International Organizations in Global Politics

    by Michael Barnett, Martha Finnemore ...
    Rules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental insight that international organizations are bureaucracies that have authority to make rules ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Theatre Symposium, Vol. 17

    Outdoor Performance

    by Charlotte J. Headrick, Martha S. LoMonaco, Jane Barnette, Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Jeanmarie Higgins Williams, Angela Sweigart Gallagher, Landis K. Magnuson ...
    Series series Theatre Symposium Series
    Outdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events. The essays gathered in "Outdoor Performance," Volume 17 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, address outdoor theatre's many manifestations, including the historical and non-traditional.Among other subjects, these essays explore the ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Vanished Arizona

    Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman, Second Edition

    by Martha Summerhayes ...
    Series series Bison Classic Editions
    When Martha Summerhayes (1844–1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she “saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords,” but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude. Remonstrating with her husband, Jack Wyder Summerhayes, that she had only three rooms and a kitchen instead of “a whole house,” she was ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    A User's Guide to Democracy

    How America Works

    by Nick Capodice, Hannah McCarthy ...
    Narrated by Nick Capodice, Hannah McCarthy ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 52 min

    "An informative and appealing civics lesson for first-time voters and old hands alike."—Publishers WeeklyFrom Nick Capodice & Hannah McCarthy, the hosts of New Hampshire Public Radio’s Civics 101, and New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro, A User's Guide to Democracy is a lively crash course in everything you should know about how the US government works.Do you know what the Secretary of Defense does all ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Fetishized

    A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty

    by Kaila Yu ...
    Narrated by Kaila Yu ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 57 min

    A “raw and lyrical” (New York Times) memoir-in-essays from former pinup model and lead singer of Nylon Pink Kaila Yu, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women.No one fetishized Kaila Yu more than she fetishized herself. As a young girl, she dreamt of beauty. But none of the beautiful women on ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Square Meal

    A Culinary History of the Great Depression

    by Jane Ziegelman, Andrew Coe ...
    Narrated by Susan Ericksen ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929, America's relationship with food was defined by abundance. But the collapse of the economy, in both urban and rural America, left a quarter of all Americans out of work and undernourished—shattering long-held assumptions about the limitlessness of ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Pronoun Trouble

    The Story of Us in Seven Little Words

    by John McWhorter ...
    Narrated by John McWhorter ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 43 min

    With his trademark humor and flair, bestselling linguist John McWhorter busts the myths and shares the history of the most controversial language topic of our times: pronounsThe nature of language is to shift and evolve—but every so often, a new usage creates a whole lot of consternation. These days, pronouns are throwing curveballs, and it matters, because pronoun habits die hard. If you need a ... Read more

    $24.95 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Mad Hatters and March Hares

    All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

    Narrated by C.S.E. Cooney, Eric Michael Summerer ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 30 min

    From master anthologist Ellen Datlow comes an all-original of weird tales inspired by the strangeness of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.Between the hallucinogenic, weird, imaginative wordplay and the brilliant mathematical puzzles and social satire, Alice has been read, enjoyed, and savored by every generation since its ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD

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    Enough Is Enuf

    Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell

    by Gabe Henry ...
    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 49 min

    A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter.Why does the G in George sound different from the G in gorge? Why does C begin both case and cease? And why is it funny when a philologist faints, but not polight to laf about it? Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to write in English has, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook