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  • Tartini's Rest

    Tales Two Brothers Told

    by Robert Fraser ...
    "Without Contraries is no progression." - William BlakeBertram and Eustace are brothers. Bertram is extroverted, practical, a celebrity and a social success. Eustace is introverted, scholarly and shyly oblique. They understand neither themselves nor one another. Instead, they tell one another stories.Only two people see through their defences: their cousin Mimi, a retired violinist who lives in ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Ghosts on the Somme

    Filming the Battle, June–July 1916

    by Alastair H. Fraser, Andrew Robertshaw, Steve Roberts, Roger Smither ...
    The Battle of the Somme is one of the most famous, and earliest, films of war ever made. The film records the most disastrous day in the history of the British army—1 July 1916—and it had a huge impact when it was shown in Britain during the war. Since then images from it have been repeated so often in books and documentaries that it has profoundly influenced our view of the battle and of the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Chameleon Poet

    A Life of George Barker

    by Robert Fraser ...
    The poet George Barker was convinced that his biography could never be written. 'I've stirred the facts around too much,' he told Robert Fraser. 'It simply can't be done.' Eliot wrote of his 'genius'. Yeats thought him the most interesting poet of his generation. Dylan Thomas envied his power over women. War trapped him in Japan. In America he conducted one of the most celebrated love affairs of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes

    Rewriting the Script

    by Robert Fraser ...
    This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way.Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional methods of the Anglo-European bibliographic paradigm, and learn to appreciate instead the diversity of shapes that verbal expression has assumed across different societies. This change of attitude will ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Literature, Music and Cosmopolitanism

    Culture as Migration

    by Robert Fraser ...
    This book focuses on the twin arts of literature and music, supporting the notion that cosmopolitanism is the natural condition of all the arts, and that all culture - without exception - is migrant culture. It draws on examples ranging from the first to the twenty-first centuries AD, on locations as remote as Alexandria and Australia, on writers as different as Virgil and V.S.Naipaul, Arnold and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • World's Fairs on the Eve of War

    Science, Technology, and Modernity, 1937–1942

    by Robert Kargon, Morris Fraser Low, Arthur Molella, Karen Ann Fiss ...
    Since the first world's fair in London in 1851, at the dawn of the era of industrialization, international expositions served as ideal platforms for rival nations to showcase their advancements in design, architecture, science and technology, industry, and politics. Before the outbreak of World War II, countries competing for leadership on the world stage waged a different kind of war—with ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • After Ancient Biography

    Modern Types and Classical Archetypes

    by Robert Fraser ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, of responses to ancient biography of modern critics, and of its visible legacy in art and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Quality of the Light

    by Robert Fraser ...
    Autumn in London, Thatcher's Britain. As the rooms of the National Gallery echo to strange footsteps, and a bomb explodes in distant Brighton, a young painter receives a bizarre commission from his ailing and obsessive uncle. Gradually the past returns to engulf him, freighted by scenes and personalities he has long hoped to forget. In the year of the creation of the Turner prize, competing ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Wto And Environment-related International Trade Disputes, The: Biosecurity And Ecosystem Services Risks

    by Robert Fraser, David Charles Cook, Janet Haddock-fraser ...
    'This well-written and highly readable book makes a major contribution to advancing our understanding of the contribution that economics can make to analysing the impact of international trade policies for environmental risks … Regardless of the likelihood that the current WTO dispute settlement procedures can be changed in the way suggested by the authors of this book, it is essential reading for ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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    Kingdom Horizon

    Eight Reasons Why Earth's Greatest Days Are Unfolding

    by Robert Fraser ...
    Narrated by Robert Fraser ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 45 min

    Includes an AUDIOBOOK SUPPLEMENT with all the charts in the print book!The greatest days of planet earth are on the horizon. Contrary to popular belief, we actually have a bright future on planet earth. Yes, there are plenty of challenges to tackle, no question. But history and the Bible tell a very different story You may be surprised to learn how much the earth has changes in the 2000 years ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Golden Bough

    A Study in Magic and Religion

    by Sir James George Frazer ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906-15) which was abridged in 1922 by the author and his wife. That abridgement has never been ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Marxism and Urban Culture

    by Benjamin Fraser, Les Roberts, Malcolm Alan Compitello, Marc James Léger, Cayley Sorochan, Heather A. Vrana, Jeff Hicks, Kimberley DeFazio, Jelle Versieren, Brecht De Smet0, Manuel Yang1, Takeshi Haraguchi2, Kazuya Sakurada3 ...
    Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities—Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna—the contributions fuse political and theoretical concerns with analyses of urban cultural practices and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD