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Age of Monsters
Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters is a collection of stories focused on strange creatures in the vein of Pacific Rim, Godzilla, Cloverfield, and more. Opening with a foreword by Jeremy Robinsonauthor of Project Nemesis, the highest selling Kaiju novel in …
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Inspirational Stories of Everyday People
Inside each seemingly ordinary person is an extraordinary story waiting to be told.That's what author Keith Maginn discovered when he dug deeper to learn more about many of the people in his everyday life.One friend had overcome an addiction to …
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Reign of Monsters
Outland Entertainment
We are surrounded. A wealthy man hunts the kaiju that killed his daughter on an island inhabited by mega-fauna. They are everywhere. By the light of a campfire a young girl shares the true story of the epic brawl that …
Barron's Educational Series
A fun ESL guide to American culture and language. English USA Every Day helps familiarize immigrants and ESL learners with American culture and language in a fun, lighthearted way. Readers will learn about everything from finding a job and locating …
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Voices, Sabres and Silence
The History Press
On 16 August 1819 on St Peters Field, Manchester, a peaceful demonstration of some 60,000 workers and reformers was brutally dispersed by sabrewielding cavalry, resulting in at least fifteen dead and over 600 injured. Within days the slaughter was named …
Quercus
WHAT DOES FEMINISM REALLY ENTAIL?200 KEY IDEAS, MOVEMENTS, AND FEMINISTS, EXPLAINED IN AN INSTANTHaving an understanding of feminism is more important now than ever. But what really is feminism--in all its forms? Who were the key feminists, and what are …
Jenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh's city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns …
In Girl, Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and celebrate female identity and experience, and the dynamics of family and friendship. From a woman struck by lightning to …
Any translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as well as distinctive epic tropes including sea-crossings, oracular pronouncements, and encounters with the monstrous. This …
A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly's first collection, considers words, the power they impart, the power their absence withholds. Forgetting, mis-hearing, mis-remembering all challenge the imagination to find ways round and ways through. 'The idea of fluency interests meand whether …
Planning is central to ensuring that children and young people live in safe and secure places, and that they are included and can be active. There are few aspects of planners' work that do not directly impact children, from designing …
Tutorial Guide to AutoCAD 2020 provides a step-by-step introduction to AutoCAD with commands presented in the context of each tutorial. In fifteen clear and comprehensive chapters, author Shawna Lockhart guides you through all the important commands and techniques in AutoCAD …
View book details for How to Be a Spiritual Rebel
A Dogma-Free Guide to Breaking All the Rules and Finding Fearless Freedom
Dont let fear stand in the way of experiencing your authentic self. In this courageous, dogma-free guide, spiritual rebel and internationally renowned teacher Jac OKeeffe offers the keys to moving beyond the limited perceptions you have about yourself and toward …
Sequel to Truth Will OutA Merrychurch Mysteries CaseMany consider Naomi Teedle the village witch. Most people avoid her except when they have need of her herbs and potions. She lives alone on the outskirts of Merrychurch, and thats fine by …
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Understanding What Jesus Meant
Discovery House
Join Gary Inrig at the feet of Jesus and experience His parables as though for the first time. In The Parables, you'll feel as though you can smell the odors of Jewish villages, feel the dust of Galilean roads, and …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardos Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine is the first collection to examine how political, social, and economic transitions in post-Communist Ukraine are transforming gender roles and relations within the country. Leading Western and Ukrainian scholars and practitioners address a wide …
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Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In 1925, Beatrice Blackwood of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum took thirty-three photographs of Kainai people on the Blood Indian Reserve in Alberta as part of an anthropological project. In 2001, staff from the museum took copies of …
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Seamus Heaney and Eastern Europe
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In Gratitude for All the Gifts explores the literary and cultural links between the bestselling, Nobel Prize-winning Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney and the preeminent Eastern European poets of the twentieth century, including fellow Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew …
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Memory, Culture, Identity
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Shakespeares works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, …
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Representations of Madeleine de Vercheres and Laura Secord
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Heroines and History is a comparative study of the images of Laura Secord and Madeleine de Vercheres, symbols respectively of the nationalism of English-Canadian and French-Canadian loyalism and national identity. The authors explore the relations of gender, race/ethnicity, and imperialism …
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The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Thoroughly updated to include events that have occurred in the decade since it was originally published, this second edition of Making Work, Making Trouble re-establishes this work as the pre-eminent study of prostitution in Canada. Detailing the various forces that …
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The Mobility of Temperance in Renaissance England
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Colonial Virtue is the first study to focus on the role played by the virtue of temperance in shaping ethical debates about early English colonialism. Kasey Evans tracks the migration of ideas surrounding temperance from classical and humanist writings through …
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David Hume's Polite Rhetoric
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
History has shown us that the power of political speech can be put to both positive and manipulative ends - while rhetoric is a powerful tool for those who seek to persuade others to adopt their views, it can also …
View book details for Locating August Strindberg's Prose
Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The setting of a novel is more than just an anonymous, interchangeable backdrop. In Locating August Strindberg's Prose, Anna Westerstahl Stenport argues that spatial setting is a key - though often neglected - tool for exploring the fundamentals of European …
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