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  • Young Eliot

    From St. Louis to The Waste Land

    by Robert Crawford ...
    "A rich exploration of Eliot's life, his grinding labors and excoriating intelligence." —Edna O'Brien, The New York Times Book ReviewThe award-winning biographer Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a comprehensive account of the poetic genius of T.S. Eliot. Young Eliot traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from his childhood in St. Louis to the publication ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Eliot After The Waste Land

    by Robert Crawford ...
    Young Eliot: From St. Louis to "The Waste Land" was hailed as "exceptional" and "assiduous" ( The New York Times). Robert Crawford's meticulous, incisive scholarship continues in Eliot After "The Waste Land", an invaluable record of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet, and troubled man.After being kept from the public for more than fifty years, the letters between T. S. Eliot and his ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Book of Iona

    An Anthology

    by Robert Crawford ...
    Writings about the Scottish island from throughout history and today, from the likes of novelists, poets, playwrights, saints, queens, and more.This anthology is comprised of creative prose, nonfiction, and poetry that ranges from St. Columba to the present day, all linked by the isle of Iona. Featuring specially commissioned work by Meaghan Delahunt, Jennie Erdal, Sara Lodge, Victoria Mackenzie, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tundra-Taiga Biology

    by Robert M. M. Crawford ...
    The Arctic Tundra and adjacent Boreal Forest or Taiga support the most cold-adapted flora and fauna on Earth. The evolutionary capacity of both plants and animals to adapt to these thermally limiting conditions has always attracted biological investigation and is a central theme of this book. How the polar biota will adapt to a warmer world is creating significant and renewed interest in this ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Kalevala - The Ancient Epic of Finland

    by Elias Lonnrot, John Martin Crawford ...
    Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 6 min

    The Kalevala is the signature work of traditional Finnish culture. In story after story, it explores the human and divine world as understood by the traditional runic singers of the north. It sings of how the universe came to be, how the natural world works, how divine and supernatural worlds relate to the world of humankind, how human beings relate to each other, how good and evil and life and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Full Volume

    by Robert Crawford ...
    Holding in balance the ecological and the technological, ancient and modern, Full Volume sings languages and cultures, people and habitats burgeoning on the brink of extinction. From revved-up battle-cry to nervous whisper, these lyrical poems praise intricate abundance.Assured in its rhymes and cadences, Full Volume is often attentive to poetry in other tongues, not least Gaelic. As their tones ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Old World

    by Robert Crawford ...
    **Traversing the globe, Old World is a generous, playful collection about the issues facing our planet today, from a major Scots poet and biographer of T.S. Eliot'For intellectual range, emotional depth, and lexical shimmer, Crawford is unsurpassed' Sunday Herald**Mixing lyricism, play, and vulnerability, Old World explores the issues facing our planet in the twenty-first century, from European ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Bard

    by Robert Crawford ...
    No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns and no biographer has captured his energy, brilliance and radicalism as well as Robert Crawford does in The Bard. To his international admirers Burns was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet he was 'sprung...from raking of dung', and to his political enemies a 'traitor'. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Scotland's Books

    The Penguin History of Scottish Literature

    by Robert Crawford ...
    From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature.In Scotland's Books poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Masculinity

    by Robert Crawford ...
    In MASCULINITY, Robert Crawford elegantly explores many aspects of that troubling concept, from imperial militarism to his own experiences as father, husband, and son. By turn affectionate and amusing, painful and self-excoriating, Crawford wryly examines, sometimes in intimate detail, what it is to be male - from awkward, unsporty and even more awkward adolescent, to husband, father of a child ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Oral History and Business

    Disruption and Continuity

    by Robert Crawford, Matthew Bailey ...
    This book introduces business historians to oral history methodologies and approaches.Using four distinct oral history case studies to explore ideas of disruption and continuity in business history over the second half of the twentieth century, Robert Crawford and Matthew Bailey demonstrate how critical engagement with oral history approaches serves to enhance and enliven business history as well ... Read more

    $41.21 CAD

  • The Scottish Ambassador

    by Robert Crawford ...
    One of Scotland’s most celebrated poets, Robert Crawford has long been a passionate and articulate ambassador for his country and its culture, its people and its landscape. The Scottish Ambassador fuses individual and communal voices in poems that resonate far beyond their points of origin. Engaging with Zoroastrian, Chinese and Greek as well as with Scottish antecedents, Crawford’s poems have an ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD