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  • The Bauhaus Ideal Then and Now

    An Illustrated Guide to Modern Design

    by William Smock ...
    The Bauhaus Ideal is both a picture book and a guidebook to the fascinating and enduring legacy of modernist design, and to the continuing influence of Bauhaus on interior design—not just on architecture, but also on furniture, glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils: the whole range of domestic arts.This unique volume introduces modern design principles and examines them from an historically ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bobby, Lord of Acton Waters

    by William Smock ...
    Do you secretly admire kids who talk back, who break the rules and defy their elders? Meet Bobby, age 11. He rules a castle and all the lands around it. No one tells him what to do. He refuses to go to school, eat spinach, or even take a bath.One thing eludes Bobby. He can't order people to like him. One day a wandering minstrel comes to town - Fahd, from faraway North Africa. He sings for small ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Bauhaus Ideal Then and Now

    An Illustrated Guide to Modern Design

    by William Smock ...
    The Bauhaus Ideal is both a picture book and a guidebook to the fascinating and enduring legacy of modernist design, and to the continuing influence of Bauhaus on interior design—not just on architecture, but also on furniture, glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils: the whole range of domestic arts.This unique volume introduces modern design principles and examines them from an historically ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Semite

    A Memoir of Algeria

    by Denis Guenoun ...
    Translated by Ann Smock, William Smock ...
    In this vivid memoir, Denis Guénoun excavates his family's past and progressively fills out a portrait of an imposing, enigmatic father. René Guénoun was a teacher and a pioneer, and his secret support for Algerian independence was just one of the many things he did not discuss with his teenaged son. To be Algerian, pro-independence, a French citizen, a Jew, and a Communist were not, to René's ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture

    by Ryan G. Duns, T. Derrick Witherington, Jordan Almanzar, Brian Bajzek, Erik Buys, George A. Dunn, Justin Lee, Daniel DeForest London, John C. McDowell0, Stephanie Perdew1, Robert Grant Price2, Anna Scanlon3, Ryan Smock4, Matthew William Brake5, Paolo Diego Bubbio6 ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    In René Girard, Theology, and Popular Culture, fifteen contributors consider how Girard’s mimetic theory can be used to uncover and probe the theological depths of popular culture. Creative and critical engagement with Girard’s theory enables the contributors to offer fresh and exciting interpretations of movies (The Devil Wears Prada, Mean Girls, Star Wars), television (Hoarders, Cobra Kai), ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake ...
    Illustrated by Quentin Blake ...
    'But...but...who are you?' Little Billy asked.'We are the Minpins,' the tiny man said, 'and we own this wood'.Billy's mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond.So, one day, that's exactly what he does!There he meets the Minpins, tiny tree-dwelling people whose children are the size of matchsticks. They live in fear of the terrible, galloping GRUNCHER ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • What Are You Looking At?

    The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art

    by Will Gompertz ...
    For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year—and are confused—What Are You Looking At? by former director of London’s Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderfully lively, accessible narrative history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day.What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Little Foxes

    by Michael Morpurgo ...
    A spellbinding animal story from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo.Bullied at school, nagged in Aunty May's tenth-floor council flat, there's only one place ten-year-old Billy really feels alive – in the wilderness by the canal. There he watches a cygnet on the water and protects a family of fox cubs. Then his secret place is discovered and the fox family decimated. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • From Bauhaus to Our House

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    After critiquing―and infuriating―the art world with The Painted Word, the award-winning author Tom Wolfe shares his less-than-favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House.In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How Architecture Works

    A Humanist's Toolkit

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    The prize-winning scholar's "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture ( Booklist , starred review).We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic and winner of the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Language of Things

    by Deyan Sudjic ...
    We live in a world drowning in objects. But what do they tell us about ourselves?In The Language of Things, Deyan Sudjic charts our relationship - both innocent and knowing - with all things designed. From the opulent excesses of the catwalk, or the technical brilliance of a laptop computer, to the subtle refinement of a desk lamp, he shows how we can be manipulated and seduced by our possessions ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • How to Eat Fried Worms (Scholastic Gold)

    by Thomas Rockwell ...
    Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully ...
    A fifty dollar bet to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days? It seems like a no-brainer to Billy, but he finds it's easier said than done especially when Alan the bully stands between him and the prize.By way of a bet, Billy gets into the uncomfortable position of having to eat fifteen worms. The worms are readily supplied by his opponent, and Billy has a free choice of condiments, from peanut butter ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD