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  • The Great Modern Poets

    An anthology of the essential poets and poetry since 1900

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major writers such as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Langston Hughes and W.B. Yeats. For each, Michael Schmidt provides an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Death Flight

    Apartheid's secret doctrine of disappearance

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    In the late 1970s, as the apartheid government fought a desperate and dirty battle to stay in power, its security forces devised a chilling new tactic. A shadowy, top-secret unit called Delta 40 was established, tasked with the murder of hundreds of ANC, PAC, and SWAPO members. Victims’ bodies were flung from aircraft into the Atlantic Ocean. Based on the detailed analysis of flight logs and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Unicorn Dreams

    by Mary Schmidt, Michael Schmidt ...
    In Unicorn Dreams, children learn how to pretend play. It's important for children to learn the concept of, and how to pretend play (make-believe or imaginative play), as this fosters a child's creativity and sparks discussions with your child, which in turn helps your child's thinking skills when working out a new situation during play. Imaginative play contributes to the development of all ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michael Schmidt: Selected Poems

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    The Selected Poem ebooks are a new 'digitalonly' series drawn from the works of smith|doorstop poets published during the last 26 years.Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947. He studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford. He is Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University and a Writer in Residence at St John's College, Cambridge. He is a founder (1969) and editorial and managing director ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zwielicht Classic 19

    by Michael Schmidt, Adrian van Schwamen, Andrea Tillmanns, Uwe Durst, Karin Reddemann, Peter Schünemann, Philip Krömer, Josef Helmreich, Manuel Otto Bendrin, Andreas Flögel, Martin Ruf, Jo Piccol, William Chambers Morrows ...
    Zwielicht Classic 19 bringt Kurzgeschichten, Artikel, Illustrationen und Übersetzungen ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Donald Trump v. The United States

    Inside the Struggle to Stop a President

    by Michael S. Schmidt ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter chronicles the clash between a president and the officials of his own government who tried to stop him.“A meticulously reported volume that clearly benefits from the author’s extraordinary access . . . [a] startling dissection of the Trump presidency.”—The New York Times**Donald Trump v. The ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Harvill Book of 20th Century Poetry in English

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    Michael Schmidt’s anthology includes the work of more than a hundred poets from every part of the English-speaking world. What links their diverse voices is a common language: each poem, in its own way, adds to the resources of the medium and makes it new.The poems in this book are allowed to slip free of their moorings in the biography and history of the last century to create new spaces and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Novel

    A Biography

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Here They Are

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947. He studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Manchester and visiting professor at Bolton University. He is a founder (1969) and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press Limited, and a founder (1972) and general editor of PN Review. He has written poetry, fiction and literary history, and is ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gilgamesh

    The Life of a Poem

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it tells the story of a great king, his heroism, and his eventual defeat. It is a story of monsters, gods, and cataclysms, and of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Being a Scientist

    Tools for Science Students

    by Michael H. Schmidt ...
    Being a Scientist is a comprehensive introduction to the many aspects of scientific life beyond the classroom and laboratory. Written with undergraduate science majors in mind, the book covers ethics, the philosophical bases of scientific methods, library research, reading, peer review, creativity, proposal and paper writing, and oral and poster presentations.In contrast to other texts in the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Council of Egypt

    by Leonardo Sciascia ...
    The Benedictine whisked a brush of multicoloured feathers over the top of the book, puffed out his plump cheeks like the god of winds in an old nautical map, blew black dust from the leather cover, and, with a shiver of what in the circumstances seemed delicate trepidation, laid the volume open on the table.Palermo, 1783: The barons pursue feuds and petty plotting. Their wives indulge in forbidden ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD