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Wobblies of the World

A Global History of the IWW

Edited by Peter Cole, David Struthers, Kenyon Zimmer ...

Series series Wildcat
The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to its revolutionary, internationalist outlook. By using powerful organising methods including direct-action and direct-democracy, it put power in the hands of workers. This philosophy is labeled as ‘revolutionary industrial unionism’ and the members called ... Read more

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The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to its revolutionary, internationalist outlook. By using powerful organising methods including direct-action and direct-democracy, it put power in the hands of workers. This philosophy is labeled as ‘revolutionary industrial unionism’ and the members called
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Sacred Trash

The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

by Adina Hoffman, Peter Cole ...

Series series Jewish Encounters Series
**NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALISTPart of the Jewish Encounter series**One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the unlikely start to what would prove a remarkable, continent ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

**NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALISTPart of the Jewish Encounter series**One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the unlikely start to what would prove a remarkable, continent
... Read more
Journey of Hope: The Games Are Over

by Peter Cole ...

Throughout this book individuals will learn how to be vigilant, how not to get hurt, how not to be betrayed or defied.For it is said, that the ones that hurt you are those that are close to you, perhaps they are envious of you for some reason or another. It is frustrating and disappointing to find that those individuals are acting in this etiquette.Remember too that there are so many people out ... Read more

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Throughout this book individuals will learn how to be vigilant, how not to get hurt, how not to be betrayed or defied.For it is said, that the ones that hurt you are those that are close to you, perhaps they are envious of you for some reason or another. It is frustrating and disappointing to find that those individuals are acting in this etiquette.Remember too that there are so many people out
... Read more
WJEC/Eduqas Religious Studies for A Level & AS - Religion and Ethics Revised

by Peter Cole, Nick Heap ...

Our popular Religion and Ethics student book has been completely revised and updated to provide a single book for AS and A-level.Written by a team of experienced teachers and authors with an in-depth understanding of teaching, learning and assessment at AS and A-level, this accessible and engaging student book will support your students throughout the course and help them prepare for the exams.- ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

Our popular Religion and Ethics student book has been completely revised and updated to provide a single book for AS and A-level.Written by a team of experienced teachers and authors with an in-depth understanding of teaching, learning and assessment at AS and A-level, this accessible and engaging student book will support your students throughout the course and help them prepare for the exams.-
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Cosmology

A Very Short Introduction

by Peter Coles ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history of the subject, the development of the Big Bang theory, and more speculative modern issues like quantum cosmology, superstrings, and dark matter. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of ... Read more

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This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history of the subject, the development of the Big Bang theory, and more speculative modern issues like quantum cosmology, superstrings, and dark matter. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of
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Speaking for Ourselves

Environmental Justice in Canada

Edited by Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Pat O'Riley ...

The concept of environmental justice has evolved over the past two decades to offer a new direction for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity and the environmental aspects of sustainability has been little studied in Canada.Speaking for Ourselves draws ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

The concept of environmental justice has evolved over the past two decades to offer a new direction for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity and the environmental aspects of sustainability has been little studied in Canada.Speaking for Ourselves draws
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The Dream of the Poem

Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492

Series series The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time.Peter Cole's translations reveal this ... Read more

$40.69 CAD

Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time.Peter Cole's translations reveal this
... Read more
Hymns & Qualms

New and Selected Poems and Translations

by Peter Cole ...

"[Peter Cole's] poetry is perhaps most remarkable for its combination of intellectual rigor with delight in surface, for how its prosody returns each abstraction to the body, linking thought and breath, metaphysics and musicality. Religious, erotic, elegiac, pissed off—the affective range is wide and the forms restless."—Ben Lerner, BOMBHymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole's ... Read more

$15.19 CAD

"[Peter Cole's] poetry is perhaps most remarkable for its combination of intellectual rigor with delight in surface, for how its prosody returns each abstraction to the body, linking thought and breath, metaphysics and musicality. Religious, erotic, elegiac, pissed off—the affective range is wide and the forms restless."—Ben Lerner, BOMBHymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole's
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War Songs

by 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, James E Montgomery, Richard Sieburth, Peter Cole ...

Series Book 41 - Library of Arabic Literature
Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warriorFrom the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his father and tribe. He defied social norms and, despite ... Read more

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Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warriorFrom the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his father and tribe. He defied social norms and, despite
... Read more
Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing

Coming Home to the Village

by Peter Cole ...

Series Book 42 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
we are narrators narratives voices interlocutors of our own knowings we can determine for ourselves what our educational needs are before the coming of churches residential schools prisons before we knew how we knew we knew In a gesture toward traditional First Nations orality, Peter Cole blends poetic and dramatic voices with storytelling. A conversation between two tricksters, Coyote and Raven, ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

we are narrators narratives voices interlocutors of our own knowings we can determine for ourselves what our educational needs are before the coming of churches residential schools prisons before we knew how we knew we knew In a gesture toward traditional First Nations orality, Peter Cole blends poetic and dramatic voices with storytelling. A conversation between two tricksters, Coyote and Raven,
... Read more
A Broken Flute

The Native Experience in Books for Children

by Marlene R. Atleo, Linda L. Baldwin, Lois Beardslee, Maria Beardslee, Kimberly Blaeser, Peter Blue Cloud, Joseph Bruchac, Naomi R. Caldwell, Ella Rose Callow, April L. Carmelo, Robin Carneen, Peter Cole, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Radley "Sonny" Davis, RobetteAnne Dias, Judy Dow, Judy Zalazar Drummond, Carolyn Dunn, Marcia Fenn, Karen Frank, L Frank, Trudy Frank, Cora Garcia, Paula Giese, Desiree Future Goss, Reva Maria S. Gover, Lakota Harden, Heather Harris, Raven Hoaglen, S Sethlyn Honeycutt, Coral Johnson, Angela Jones, Dakota Jones, Lenore Keeshig-Tobias, Janet King, Michael Lacapa, Cindy LaMarr, Barbara C. Landis, Mayana Lea, Linda Lilly, Nora Lucas, Patricia Mack, Pamela Ann Martell, Elizabeth Martinez, Janet McAdams, Dennis McAuliffe Jr., Connie McPhee, Jean Paine Mendoza, Adrianne C. Micco, Deborah A. Miranda, Lisa A. Mitten, MariJo Moore, Patricia North, Jim Northrup, Marco Palma, Carol Pancho-Ash, Della Patrick, Barbara Potter, Ryan Potter, Rachel Potter, Sachiko Reed, Debbie A. Reese, Elizabeth Reese, Tracey Robinson, LaVera Rose, Wendy Rose, Gayle Ross, Johnny Rustywire, Crystal Salas-Patten, Margaret Sam-Cromarty, Cheryl Savageau, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Monica A. Spencer, Nisha Supahan, Mary TallMountain ...

Series series Contemporary Native American Communities
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children is a companion to its predecessor published by Oyate, Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children. A compilation of work by Native parents, children, educators, poets and writers, A Broken Flute contains, from a Native perspective, "living stories," essays, poetry, and hundreds of reviews of "children's books about ... Read more

$68.99 CAD

A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children is a companion to its predecessor published by Oyate, Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children. A compilation of work by Native parents, children, educators, poets and writers, A Broken Flute contains, from a Native perspective, "living stories," essays, poetry, and hundreds of reviews of "children's books about
... Read more
Dockworker Power

Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area

by Peter Cole ...

Series series Working Class in American History
Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2019A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2018Dockworkers have power. Often missed in commentary on today's globalizing economy, workers in the world's ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2019A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2018Dockworkers have power. Often missed in commentary on today's globalizing economy, workers in the world's ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes.
... Read more

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