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  • Dysfunction and Decentralization in New Media Art and Education

    by Robert W. Sweeny ...
    When using digital technologies, many types of dysfunction can occur, ranging from hardware malfunctions to software errors to human ineptitude. Many new media artworks employ various strategies of dysfunctionality in order to explore issues of power within societies and culture. Robert W. Sweeney examines how digital artists have embraced the concept of the error or glitch as a form for freedom – ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Digital Visual Art Education

    Making, Learning, and Teaching with Digital Media

    by Robert Sweeny ...
    Series Book 10 - Visual Communication
    This book presents a detailed analysis of digital media as it is currently being used by visual artists. It places these works into a theoretical framework that is useful for research in fields such as Media Studies, Studio Art, and Art and Design Education. The primary goal is to emphasize the multidisciplinary aspects of digital visual art, and to propose a field of study that is unique to this ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Why Did We Choose to Industrialize?

    Montreal, 1819-1849

    by Robert Sweeny ...
    Series Book 28 - Études d’histoire du Québec / Studies on the History of Quebec
    The choice to industrialize has changed the world more than any other decision in human history. And yet the three prevailing explanations - the technical (new energy sources), the Marxist (new social relations), and the neo-liberal (people became more industrious) - are inadequate in making sense of this fundamental change. In mid-nineteenth-century Montreal, as in other early industrializing ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Toto's Tale

    The Wizard Was Odd Trilogy

    by Robert (Bob) Moyer, Christian Stiehl, Anna Shpylevska, Ryan Durney, Maria Riega, Ruslan Vigovsky ...
    A Wizard of Oz, Epic Adventure...For 21st Century Readers A commemorative series from a unique perspective, Toto's! A multidimensional plot-twister w updated cast of wondrous, quirky misfits. A couple of days in Oz equals a year in Kansas where Uncle Henry is dying; If the Wizard will provide the cure, Will Dorothy find her way home…and in time, to make a difference? Alongside Toto, you will ride ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mere and Easy

    Collage as a Critical Practice in Pedagogy

    by Jorge Lucero, Michael Biggs, Ian Buchanan, Daniela Büchler, Paul Duncum, Charles R Garoian, Kit Grauer, Anniina Suominen Guyas, Kathleen Keys, Dan Nadaner0, Ryan Patton1, Janet N Stevenson2, Robert W Sweeny3, Stuart Thompson4 ...
    Series series Common Threads
    Collage making offers everyone from small children to trained artists the ability to express themselves through images. In this new Common Threads collection, Jorge Lucero draws on the archive of the journal Visual Arts Research to present articles focused on the place of collage in fine art and education. Guided by the twinned concepts of mereness --collage's reputation as a trifle--and easiness ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Charles Sweeny, the Man Who Inspired Hemingway

    by Charley Roberts, Charles P. Hess ...
    Charles Sweeny (1882-1963) was the heir to a fortune. Renouncing a life of comfort, he became a warrior for causes he believed in. Twice kicked out of West Point, he fought in revolts against three Latin American dictators. He was a decorated officer in the French Foreign Legion and in the U.S. Army during World War I, a brigadier general in the Polish-Soviet War and a military advisor in the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 28 No. 2, 2017

    by Ian Wereley, Ted Binnema, Béatrice Craig, IAN MCKAY, BETTINA BRADBURY, MAGDA FAHRNI, KATHRYN MCPHERSON, ROBERT C.H. SWEENY, ELIZABETH BLACKMAR, Tracy Neumann, DESMOND FITZ-GIBBON, ALEXIA YATES ...
    Series Book 28 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    The importance of decisions regarding the allocation of jurisdiction over Indigenous affairs in federal states can only be understood well when studied transnationally and comparatively. Historians of Canada appear never to have considered the significance of the fact that the British North America Act (1867) gave the Canadian federal government exclusive jurisdiction over Indian affairs, even ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • A Fair Country

    Telling Truths About Canada

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. An obstacle to our progress, Saul argues, is that Canada has an ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Quebec

    by John A. Dickinson, Brian Young ...
    John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's recent political history and includes an updated bibliography and chronology and new illustrations. A Canadian classic, A Short History of Quebec ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • John Ralston Saul Reimagines Canada (4-Book Bundle)

    Reflections of a Siamese Twin, A Fair Country, The Comeback, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Canada has no greater interpreter and champion than John Ralston Saul, who for years has been challenging our common notions of Canada. These four books examine our history and myths, our relationships and modern reality, and together brilliantly portray a unique and remarkable country.Reflections of a Siamese TwinIn Reflections of a Siamese Twin, Saul turns his eye to an examination of Canada ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Tax, Order, and Good Government

    A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917

    by Elsbeth Heaman ...
    Series Book 240 - Carleton Library Series
    Was Canada’s Dominion experiment of 1867 an experiment in political domination? Looking to taxes provides the answer: they are a privileged measure of both political agency and political domination. To pay one’s taxes was the sine qua non of entry into political life, but taxes are also the point of politics, which is always about the control of wealth. Modern states have everywhere been born of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Working Families

    Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal

    by Bettina Bradbury ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    Working Families takes the reader onto the streets of Montreal and into the homes of its working-class families during the years that it became a major, industrial city. Between the 1860s and 1890s the expansion of wage labour changed the bases of family survival. It offered new possibilities and created new points of tension within the families of the emerging working class. Here we meet the men, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD