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  • Reframing Decadence

    C. P. Cavafy's Imaginary Portraits

    by Peter G. Jeffreys ...
    During his sojourn in England during the 1870s, a young Cavafy found himself enthralled by the aesthetic movement of cosmopolitan London. It was during these years that he encountered the canvases and personalities of Pre-Raphaelite painters, including Burne-Jones and Whistler, as well as works of aesthetic writers who were effecting a revolution in British literary culture and channeling ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • Rapunzel

    The Graphic Novel

    by Stephanie True Peters ...
    Illustrated by Jeffrey Stewart Timmins ...
    Series series Graphic Spin
    Long ago, a beautiful maiden named Rapunzel lived a life of loneliness. Taken at birth by an evil witch, she remained hidden, locked within a giant tower. Then one day, a prince heard her voice through the forest. To reach her, he must climb Rapunzel’s lovely locks and avoid being caught by the witch. ... Read more

    $29.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Constantine Cavafy

    A New Biography

    by Gregory Jusdanis, Peter Jeffreys ...
    A long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern poets.In 1933, on his seventieth birthday, the poet Constantine Cavafy died in an Alexandrian hospital, surrounded by friends. He left behind a small, curated oeuvre of 154 poems, along with fragments and drafts of incomplete works. Throughout his life, Constantine had kept a tight grip on the distribution of his poetry, but ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of C. P. Cavafy

    Edited by Peter Jeffreys, Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos ...
    Series Book 175 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Known as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his life as part of the Greek minority community in Alexandria, Egypt. He was inspired by the possibilities offered by peripheries, whether sexual, geographic, or historical. Volumes of his poems, widely translated into English, give anglophone readers access to his distinctive mixture of irony and tenderness, directness ... Read more

    $52.22 CAD

  • Globalization and Food Sovereignty

    Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food

    Edited by Peter Andree, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael Bosia, Marie-Josee Massicotte ...
    In recent years, food sovereignty has emerged as a way of contesting corporate control of agricultural markets in pursuit of a more democratic, decentralized food system. The concept unites individuals, communities, civil society organizations, and even states in opposition to globalizing food regimes.This collection examines expressions of food sovereignty ranging from the direct action tactics ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Unequal Gains

    American Growth and Inequality since 1700

    by Peter H. Lindert, Jeffrey G. Williamson ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    "Brilliant. . . . A masterpiece in quantitative and qualitative economic research destined to become a classic in its field." ― Library JournalUnequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States. While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson focus instead on income—and the result is a bold ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Zero Piranesi

    SAC Journal 5

    by Peter Eisenman, Jeffrey Kipnis, Stephen Turk, Michael Young, Giacomo Pala, Parsa Khalili, Marrikka Trotter ...
    Series Book 5 - SAC Journal
    ZERO PIRANESI Giovanni Battista Piranesi's engravings, Campo Marzio dell'antica Roma of 1762, have a peculiar position within the discipline of ar- chitecture. With their dissemination, the folio collection of six etch- ings have till this day nurtured architects' speculations on the city. Since the Enlightenment, they - and in particular the Campo Marzio plan - have fuelled research, discussions ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clinical Handbook of Neuromuscular Medicine

    Edited by David Walk, Jeffrey Allen, Peter I. Karachunski, Georgios Manousakis ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This updated and expanded new edition provides a concise introduction to the Neuromuscular Medicine subspecialty of neurology for residents and fellows. It's organized by disease states and includes chapters on diagnostic and management tools of particular relevance, including muscle and nerve biopsy, EMG and nerve conduction studies, neuromuscular genetic testing, and rehabilitation interventions ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • States of Emergency

    British Governments and Strikebreaking since 1919

    by Keith Jeffrey, Peter Hennessy ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Economics and Society
    States of Emergency (1983) examines the co-ordinated Government planning in Britain to counter major strikes in vital industries, an effort that began in earnest during the aftermath of the First World War. Contingency planning by Whitehall ministers and officials aims to calculate the point at which trade union demands plunge the country into chaos, and how best to mitigate the effects of ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The Inner Life of Animals

    Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

    by Peter Wohlleben ...
    Translated by Jane Billinghurst ...
    Series Book 2 - The Mysteries of Nature
    “Like The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben's The Inner Life of Animals will rock your world. Surprising, humbling, and filled with delight, this book shows us that animals think, feel and know in much the same way as we do—and that their lives are, to them, as precious as ours are to us.”—Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an OctopusThrough vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Warriors for the Working Day

    by Peter Elstob ...
    Series Book 6 - Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics
    Based on Peter Elstob’s own wartime experiences, Warriors for the Working Day follows one tank crew as they proceed from the beaches of Normandy into newly liberated Western Europe, brilliantly evoking the claustrophobia, heat and intensity of tank warfare. ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

    Edited by Peter W. G. Morris, Jeffrey K. Pinto, Jonas Söderlund ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last 50 years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic ... Read more

    $57.59 CAD