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  • A Horse's Life

    by Dr. Stephen Peters, Mark Rashid, Crissi Mcdonald ...
    What if the key to a calmer, more responsive horse wasn't a new training method, but a better understanding of how the horse's brain actually works?In A Horse's Life: The Neuroscience of Equine Welfare, neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Peters, internationally recognized horseman Mark Rashid, and clinician Crissi McDonald bring together brain science and decades of hands-on horse experience to explain ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Impossible Reversal

    A History of How We Play

    by Peter D. McDonald ...
    Tracing the cultural history of play—from Fluxus to SimCityGames and gamified activities have become ubiquitous in many adults’ lives, and play is widely valued for fostering creativity, community, growth, and empathy. But how did we come to our current understanding of what it means to play? The Impossible Reversal charts the transformation of notions of playfulness beginning in the second half ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Animal Nutrition

    by Peter McDonald, J.F.D. Greenhalgh, Colin Morgan, R Edwards, Liam Sinclair, Robert Wilkinson ...
    The latest edition of Animal Nutrition has been updated thoroughly to provide a clear and comprehensive introduction to the science and practice of animal nutrition. This classic, market-leading text is a trusted resource for undergraduates studying Animal Science, Veterinary Science, Agriculture, Biology and Biochemistry. It is supported by key experimental evidence throughout about modern ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Homeric Hymns

    by Peter McDonald ...
    In this unique and finely-wrought collection, award-winning poet and scholar Peter McDonald gives us the first contemporary translation of the Homeric Hymns; a collection of 33 anonymous Ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. From Zeus to Aphrodite, Apollo to Hermes, each hymn tells a story about a particular god, and every poem is a miniature epic in itself. As McDonald explains in his ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Run and Jump

    The Meaning of the 2D Platformer

    by Peter D. McDonald ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    How abstract design decisions in 2D platform games create rich worlds of meaning for players.Since the 1980s, 2D platform games have captivated their audiences. Whether the player scrambles up the ladders in Donkey Kong or leaps atop an impossibly tall pipe in Super Mario Bros., this deceptively simple visual language has persisted in our cultural imagination of video games. In Run and Jump, Peter ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Literature Police

    Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences

    by Peter D. McDonald ...
    'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.' As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital borderline has seldom been so clearly demarcated. Just how murky it can sometimes be is compellingly exemplified in the case of apartheid South Africa. For reasons that were neither obvious nor historically ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • One Little Room

    by Peter McDonald ...
    A poignant exploration of memory, history, and identity through the lens of confined spaces.In One Little Room, Peter McDonald delves into the depths of personal and historical memory, transforming ordinary spaces into gateways of freshly imagined realities. From a Belfast childhood to encounters with historical figures like St.-John Perse, these poems reconstruct public and private histories, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stink: The Super-Incredible Collection

    by Megan McDonald ...
    Illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds ...
    Series series Stink
    What is way cooler than a story about Stink? Three of them – all tucked together in one hilarious set. No lie!Judy Moody's pesky younger "bother" – encyclopedia in hand, zany schemes in mind, and comical comebacks at the ready – has totally come into his own with a compelling, kid-friendly series. Now it's easy for young readers to jump-start their Stink collection with a set offering a trio of ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • The Poems of W.B. Yeats

    Volume One: 1882-1889

    Edited by Peter McDonald ...
    Series series Longman Annotated English Poets
    In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This edition of Yeats’s poetry presents all his verse, both published and unpublished, ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Poems of W. B. Yeats

    Volume Two: 1890-1898

    Edited by Peter McDonald ...
    Series series Longman Annotated English Poets
    In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This edition of Yeats’s poetry presents all his verse, both published and unpublished, ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Artefacts of Writing

    Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing

    by Peter D. McDonald ...
    Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states conceptualise language, culture, and community. Drawing on a wealth of evidence, from Victorian scholarly disputes over the identity of ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Anita's Bar

    by Peter McDonald ...
    Nick Bolton returns to Hobart from London after his mother’s death. Feeling his life to be without direction, he meets the enigmatic Anita and starts working at Anita’s Bar. A tragedy occurs, and Nick finds himself at the centre of a tale of revenge and retribution where old friendships are tested and it becomes impossible not to take a stand. Must good people suffer in order to right a wrong? ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD