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  • Gay Marriage

    The Story of a Canadian Social Revolution

    by Sylvain Larocque ...
    Translated by Louisa Blair, Robert Chodos ...
    A history of the fight for same-sex marriage in Canada.Few issues have dominated recent Canadian politics like the legalization of same-sex marriage.As a political correspondent for The Canadian Press, Sylvain Larocque had a front-row seat for this battle in the fight for gay rights in Canada. He recounts the story here on every level, from the legal decisions to the social impact to the political ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Model Driven Engineering for Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems 2009

    Advances, Standards, Applications and Perspectives

    Edited by Jean-Philippe Babau, Mireille Blay-Fornarino, Sylvain Robert, Antonino Sabetta, Jöel Champeau ...
    Model Driven Engineering for Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems 2009: Advances, Standards, Applications and PerspectivesModel-based development methods, and supporting technologies, can provide the techniques and tools needed to address the dilemma between reducing system development costs and time, and developing increasingly complex systems. This book provides the information needed to ... Read more

    $142.00 USD

  • Ghost Lights

    Horror Short Stories

    by Ramsey Campbell, Christa Carmen, Eliza Clark, David Farrow, Montanna Rayne Harling, Rachel Harrison, Sally Hughes, Stephen D. Koester, Eric LaRocca, Josh Malerman, Mo Perkins, Laura Purcell, Keith Rosson, Michael Rowe, Robert Shearman, Angela Sylvaine, Carl Tait, C.J. Tudor, Stephen Volk, Ally Wilkes ...
    The fantastic seventh book in the horror anthology series which Booklist called "Highly recommended for longstanding horror fans and those readers who may not think horror is for them."Ghost Lights is the seventh volume in the non-themed horror series of original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris. This new anthology contains 20 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Last Judgment of Kings / Le Jugement dernier des rois

    A Bilingual Edition

    Translated by Yann Robert ...
    by Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803) ...
    Series series Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater
    First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette’s beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of the remaining kings and queens of Europe—paraded in chains like animals, made to brawl over a barrel of crackers, and finally obliterated by a spectacular volcanic eruption. Such is the shocking context—at once tragic and farcical—of the most infamous play of the French Revolution ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Power Forward

    Break Away 2

    by Sylvain Hotte ...
    Translated by Casey roberts ...
    Alex McKenzie is back, a promising young hockey player who hopes to make the juniors in Quebec City. Though he still prefers fishing and roaming bush roads on his quad, he trains hard under his demanding coach Larry in his hometown on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence. His buddy Tommy is vying to make the juniors too. Once in Quebec City, things change. Tommy gets sullen and obnoxious as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Break Away

    Jessie on my mind

    by Sylvain Hotte ...
    Translated by Casey Roberts ...
    Alexandre McKenzie lives in a town on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River. Summer finds him riding through the bush on his quad or fishing in an inland lake. In winter he is a promising midget hockey star who often takes refuge at his camp in the woods. But one fall, his stature and talent take a turn for the worse as he plunges into a relationship with a girl whose future appears plagued by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Power Forward

    A Novel

    by Sylvain Hotte ...
    Translated by Casey Roberts ...
    Series series Break Away series
    Alex McKenzie is a promising young hockey player with hopes of making the Quebec City junior hockey team. Once Alex and his friend Tommy, who is also vying to make the team, arrive in Quebec City, things begin to change. Tommy becomes sullen and obnoxious, hanging out with a bunch of dubious types. As the boys grow apart, tragedy befalls Tommy and their friendship is sorely tested. A thrilling yet ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Read more

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  • Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau'

    A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition

    by Denis Diderot, Marian Hobson (Editor), Kate E. Tunstall (Translator), Caroline Warman (Translator), Pascal Duc (Music editor) ...
    Series Book 4 - Open Book Classics
    In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is ... Read more

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  • The Incident at Antioch / L’Incident d’Antioche

    A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes

    by Alain Badiou ...
    Translated by Susan Spitzer ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a "politics of subtraction" far removed from party and state. Written with striking eloquence and extraordinary poetic richness, and shifting from highly serious emotional and intellectual drama to surreal comic interlude, the work features statesmen, workers, and revolutionaries struggling to ... Read more

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  • French Literature

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Carol Clark ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Boasting one of Western culture's oldest and richest literary traditions, French literature has long been a pioneer of style and innovation. From the farcical comedies of Moliere to the torment of Baudelaire's verse, it has inspired writers and artists everywhere throughout the ages. This comprehensive Beginner's Guide tells French literature's compelling story from the beginning right up to today ... Read more

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  • The Book of Gladness / Le Livre de Leesce

    A 14th Century Defense of Women, in English and French, by Jehan Le Fevre

    by Jehan Le Fèvre, Linda Burke ...
    The Book of Gladness (ca. 1380) contains one of the most powerful, original, and influential pro-feminine voices of the late Middle Ages. In a spirited riposte to the misogynist tradition, Le Fevre (with the help of Gladness, his lady-persona) boldly reinterprets the Bible while questioning ancient authorities in the light of "true" experience, especially his own.Despite its foundational ... Read more

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