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  • Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe

    Memory, Melancholy, and the Emblematic Tradition

    by William E. Engel ...
    Bringing to bear his expertise in the early modern emblem tradition, William E. Engel traces a series of self-reflective organizational schemes associated with baroque artifice in the work of Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe. While other scholars have remarked on the influence of seventeenth-century literature on Melville and Poe, this is the first book to explore how their close readings of ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Chiastic Designs in English Literature from Sidney to Shakespeare

    by William E. Engel ...
    Paying special attention to Sidney's Arcadia, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare's romances, this study engages in sustained examination of chiasmus in early modern English literature. The author's approach leads to the recovery of hidden designs which are shown to animate important works of literature; along the way Engel offers fresh and more comprehensive interpretations of seemingly ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History

    John Day and the Fabrication of a Protestant Memory Art

    by William E. Engel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Early Modern Authorship
    This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnic cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look, style, and authorized content of some of the most influential books produced in early modern Britain. In his hybrid role as stationer, publisher, entrepreneur, and author, John Day, master printer of England’s Reformation, produced the premier navigation handbook, state-approved ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • The Last Card

    Inside George W. Bush's Decision to Surge in Iraq

    Edited by Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jeffrey A. Engel, Hal Brands, William Inboden ...
    This is the real story of how George W. Bush came to double-down on Iraq in the highest stakes gamble of his entire presidency. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly thirty senior officials, including President Bush himself, The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process by which Bush overruled much of the military leadership and many of his trusted advisors, and authorized the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    50 Short Story Masterpieces you have to listen before you die (Golden Deer Classics)

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, O.Henry, Mark Twain, Kahlil Gibran, W.W. Jacobs, Anonymous, Thomas Jefferson, Founding Fathers, Plato, Lord Alfred Tennyson, T.S. Eliot, William Dean Howells, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leo Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bram Stoker, Sun Tzu, Edgar Allan Poe, Lao Tzu, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, Patrick Henry, H.G. Wells, Saki, Herman Melville, Clement Clarke Moore, Bret Harte, Immanuel Kant, Jack London, Henry Ford, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Perrault, Anton Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, John Muir ...
    Narrated by Michael Scott ...

    Unabridged

    32 hours 31 min

    F.Scott Fitzgerald - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 02. O.Henry - The Gift of the Magi 03. Mark Twain - On The Decay of the Art of Lying 04. Sun Tzu - The Art of War 05. E.A. Poe - The Raven 06. Kahlil Gibran - The Madman 07. W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw 08. Anonymous - Aladdin 09. The Founding Fathers - The Declaration of Independence 10. Plato - The Apology of Socrates 11. Lord Alfred ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Portfolio Design for Interiors

    by Harold Linton, William Engel ...
    Portfolio Design for Interiors teaches the aspiring interior designer how to create a professional quality portfolio. Using real examples of outstanding student portfolios, authors Harold Linton and William Engel demonstrate how to analyze, organize, problem-solve, and convey diverse types of visual and text information in various forms of historic, contemporary, and innovative styles. The text ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England

    Edited by William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane, Grant Williams ...
    Drawing together leading scholars of early modern memory studies and death studies, Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England explores and illuminates the interrelationships of these categories of Renaissance knowing and doing, theory and praxis. The collection features an extended Introduction that establishes the rich vein connecting these two fields of study and investigation. Thereafter, the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Shakespearean Death Arts

    Hamlet Among the Tombs

    Edited by William E. Engel, Grant Williams ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • The Good Place and Philosophy

    Everything is Forking Fine!

    by William Irwin ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    Dive into the moral philosophy at the heart of all four seasons of NBC’s The Good Place, guided by academic experts including the show’s philosophical consultants Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and featuring a foreword from creator and showrunner Michael SchurExplicitly dedicated to the philosophical concepts, questions, and fundamental ethical dilemmas at the heart of the thoughtful and ambitious ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

    A Critical Anthology

    Edited by William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane, Grant Williams ...
    This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Your Legacy

    A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History

    by Schele Williams ...
    Illustrated by Tonya Engel ...
    Your Legacy is a proud, empowering picture book introduction to African American history that celebrates and honors enslaved ancestors from author Schele Williams and illustrator Tonya Engel.Your story begins in Africa.Your African ancestors defied the odds and survived 400 years of slavery in America and passed down an extraordinary legacy to you.Beginning in Africa before 1619, Your Legacy ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Your Legacy Begins

    First Words to Empower

    by Schele Williams ...
    Illustrated by Tonya Engel ...
    Start your child’s journey with words that inspire confidence and connection.From the moment little ones begin to speak, every word shapes how they see themselves and the world. Your Legacy Begins is a beautifully illustrated keepsake that introduces empowering first words—like “love,” “kind,” and “brave”—to nurture self‑esteem and emotional growth from day one.Perfect for baby showers, birthdays, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus