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  • The Creative Spark

    How musicians, writers, explorers, and other artists found their inner fire and followed their dreams

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Who is the market?Anyone who appreciates creativity or seeks to be creativeFans or the musicians, writers and other creative people interviewed in the bookAnyone who loves music and/or literature and wants to know the stories behind some of the great works of our timesSelf-improvers, seekers, and the intellectually curiousArtists and other creative types including writers, musicians, painters, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Crooked Line

    The Perils and Rewards of a Life in Freelance Journalism

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Behind the scenes of a globe-spanning career in freelance journalismA Crooked Line celebrates an age when print journalism changed lives and made the world a better place. That era may be winding down, but this perceptive book makes the case for why incisive writing will always matter.Over the course of his 40-year career, Michael Shapiro has reported from more than 20 countries, writing for ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • Living a Purposeful Life

    Searching for Meaning in All the Wrong Places

    by Kalman J. Kaplan ...
    While meaning and purpose are often seen as synonymous, this book argues that they sometimes are in opposition, the search for meaning at times suicidal, and living with purpose life-enhancing and invigorating. No people seemed to search for meaning in their lives more than did the ancient and classical Greeks. They were not content with living simple lives but oftentimes took on gargantuan tasks ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Sense of Place

    Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer’s conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Historiography

    A Multi-Genre, Trans-Disciplinary Inquiry

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Responding to the question, "What can a multi-genre approach to historiography contribute to political inquiry?", the textual itineraries in the book's chapters juxtapose macropolitical narratives—official geopolitical, state-sponsored history—with the micropolitical expressions of those who have been subjected to a continuum running from neglect, through dispossession, to genocide. With a focus ... Read more

    $63.59 CAD

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  • The Quest for the Golden Honey

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Young bees strike out on their own in a pirate ship in search of treasure.Captain Mark and the rest of the baby bees have the adventure of their lives as they run into a notorious villain bee.Can they get past the villain bee and get the treasure? ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Thinking Outside the Canon

    Political Theory as Textual Odyssey

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has adapted multidisciplinary practices and unconventional texts across his career to develop a more diverse model of doing theory. Theorizing textuality and historiography, Shapiro draws on a variety of disciplinary idioms and texts that span across genres and geographies, ranging from ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

  • The Logic of Language

    A Semiotic Study of Speech

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays bare––for students, scholars and advanced readers alike––the lineaments of an understanding of what makes language the sign ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • Bottom of the Ninth

    Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    This account of the expansion of the major leagues is "a fascinating look at an almost forgotten era . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons" ( Cleveland Plain Dealer).In Bottom of the Ninth, Michael Shapiro brings to life a watershed moment in baseball history, when the sport was under siege in the late 1950s. He reveals how the legendary executive Branch Rickey saw the game's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Violence

    Humans in Dark Times

    by Brad Evans, Natasha Lennard, Simon Critchley, George Yancy, Zygmunt Bauman, Adrian Parr, Henry A. Giroux, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Simona Forti, Bracha L. Ettinger, Cary Wolfe, Richard J. Bernstein, Moira Weigel, Oliver Stone, Alfredo Jaar, Tom McCarthy, John Akomfrah, David Theo Goldberg, Christopher Alden, Jake Chapman, Brian Massumi, Elaine Scarry, Erin Manning, Michael J. Shapiro, Allen Feldman, Mickey Mod, Jack Halberstram, Gottfried Heinwein, Neo Muyanaga ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method

    After the Aesthetic Turn

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Interventions
    This groundbreaking and innovative text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how "method" can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways.Drawing on a broad range of philosophical and methodological theory as well as a wide variety of artistic sources from fine art to cinema and from ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • The Time of the City

    Politics, philosophy and genre

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Interventions
    The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies from the mosaic of states to the global network of cities, the book draws on urban theory rather than traditional forms of official city politics. Deriving their methodological ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD