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  • The Great Modern Poets

    An anthology of the essential poets and poetry since 1900

    An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major writers such as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Langston Hughes and W.B. Yeats. For each, Michael Schmidt provides an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Death Flight

    Apartheid's secret doctrine of disappearance

    In the late 1970s, as the apartheid government fought a desperate and dirty battle to stay in power, its security forces devised a chilling new tactic. A shadowy, top-secret unit called Delta 40 was established, tasked with the murder of hundreds of ANC, PAC, and SWAPO members. Victims’ bodies were flung from aircraft into the Atlantic Ocean. Based on the detailed analysis of flight logs and ... Read more

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  • Donald Trump v. The United States

    Inside the Struggle to Stop a President

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter chronicles the clash between a president and the officials of his own government who tried to stop him.“A meticulously reported volume that clearly benefits from the author’s extraordinary access . . . [a] startling dissection of the Trump presidency.”—The New York Times**Donald Trump v. The ... Read more

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  • Unicorn Dreams

    In Unicorn Dreams, children learn how to pretend play. It's important for children to learn the concept of, and how to pretend play (make-believe or imaginative play), as this fosters a child's creativity and sparks discussions with your child, which in turn helps your child's thinking skills when working out a new situation during play. Imaginative play contributes to the development of all ... Read more

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  • Now In November

    Now in November I can see our years as a whole. This autumn is like both an end and a beginning to our lives, and those days which seemed confused with the blur of all things too near and too familiar are clear and strange now.Forced out of the city by the Depression, Arnold Haldmarne moves his wife and three daughters to the country and tries to scratch a living from the land. After years of ... Read more

    $13.29 CAD

  • The Harvill Book of 20th Century Poetry in English

    Michael Schmidt’s anthology includes the work of more than a hundred poets from every part of the English-speaking world. What links their diverse voices is a common language: each poem, in its own way, adds to the resources of the medium and makes it new.The poems in this book are allowed to slip free of their moorings in the biography and history of the last century to create new spaces and ... Read more

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  • Being a Scientist

    Tools for Science Students

    Being a Scientist is a comprehensive introduction to the many aspects of scientific life beyond the classroom and laboratory. Written with undergraduate science majors in mind, the book covers ethics, the philosophical bases of scientific methods, library research, reading, peer review, creativity, proposal and paper writing, and oral and poster presentations.In contrast to other texts in the ... Read more

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  • Michael Schmidt: Selected Poems

    The Selected Poem ebooks are a new 'digitalonly' series drawn from the works of smith|doorstop poets published during the last 26 years.Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947. He studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford. He is Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University and a Writer in Residence at St John's College, Cambridge. He is a founder (1969) and editorial and managing director ... Read more

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  • New Poetries V

    An Anthology

    Edited by Michael Schmidt ...
    Compiling the work of writers from Canada, England, Iran, New Zealand, the Philippines, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, and the United States, this poetry anthology is a celebration of the diversity and possibility of new poetry in English. Ranging in age from early 20s to late 60s, each poet offers a different approach to language and form. Poetry lovers and academics will appreciate the rich ... Read more

    $30.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Building a Space-Faring Civilization

    Advancing the Renaissance of Science, Medicine and Human Performance in Civilian Spaceflight

    Building a Space-Faring Civilization: Advancing the Renaissance of Science, Medicine, and Human Performance in Civilian Spaceflight explores an expanding, unique new trajectory for humankind—the settlement of space by civilians. For the first time in history, average humans can contemplate journeys to Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars with the idea of space settlement as a plausible reality. As the ... Read more

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  • Gilgamesh

    The Life of a Poem

    Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it tells the story of a great king, his heroism, and his eventual defeat. It is a story of monsters, gods, and cataclysms, and of ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD