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An Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds, 1910-1935
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
How was the modernist movement understood by the general public when it was first emerging? This question can be addressed by looking at how modernist literature and art were interpreted by journalists in daily newspapers, mainstream magazines like Punch and …
Rod Mengham's new offering comprises two complementary halves: a poetic meditation on a place (the Bronze Age site of Grimspound on Dartmoor); and a series of short essays on different cultural habitats.Grimspound is a four-part work combining prose and verse, …
In Discipline, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn't and is, as performance, as struggle, …
View book details for By Snowshoe, Buckboard and Steamer
Women of the British Columbia Frontier
The vivid, personal accounts of four women who lived and travelled as settlers in early British Columbia“...a cloud passing away from the face of the moon revealed a band of wild horses bearing down upon us at a full gallop. …
NYLA
A Thoroughly Southern Mystery #10Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough always laughs at her husbands threat to handcuff her to her desk to keep her from snooping on the sinister. But when Starr Knight, the wild and flamboyant taxidermists daughters death is …
Legend Times Group
'Crosskey propels the plot at breakneck pace, depicts a frighteningly realistic world and conjures a truly poignant denouement' Guardian, Books of the Month'Keep this book far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality' Christina Dalcher, …
Legend Times Group
Shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read AwardShortlisted for Costa First Novel Award 2018Prima Magazine Best Books of the YearThe Reading Agency Top Debuts of 2018An important and timely story that explores the ongoing impact of war and how its often …
Legend Times Group
'The perfect concise guide to creating your own company from scratch: brilliant' Graham RichardsThe Seven Stages to Launch You to SuccessThere is much to consider when starting a business. Knowing what to do first, whether you have a concept that …
Legend Times Group
'Kim Fu skillfully measures how long and loudly one formative moment can reverberate' Celeste NgA group of young girls descend on a sleepaway camp where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets, and songs by the fire. Filled …
Paula won't rest until her mission is completed, even if she puts her life in danger to do so. He who has nothing to hide has nothing to fear, her new motto. Finding Diana in the USA will not be …
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A Novel Approach to Cinema
Counterpoint Press
One of the cleverest, most accessibly in-depth film books released this year . . . a smart-ass novelist exploring a cheesy-cheeky 80s sci-fi flick (Hartford Advocate). Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the …
Carolina Academic Press
The seventh edition of Understanding Copyright is a major revision of this classic student treatise. In addition to including the latest case law developments, this edition incorporates the Music Modernization Act of 2018. The seventh edition covers all aspects of …
Cian DeMarco e un musicista di talento - e un vampiro. E soddisfatto della sua vita da single a San Francisco, dove suona col suo gruppo al Club Royal tutti i fine settimana... finche non incontra una donna umana alla …
Those involved in the creation of public spaces think a great deal about the users of those spaces. Users think little, if at all, about those who create them. There are many: planners, developers, investors, contractors, special-interest groups, governments from …
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A Domestic Bliss Mystery #3
NYLA
A Domestic Bliss Mystery #3Sparkles with charm, design lore, and a sleuth with a great mantra. Cozy fans will embrace the Domestic Bliss series. Carolyn Hart, Edgar Award-winning author of Letters from HomeCaine delivers another top-notch Domestic Bliss whodunit...nifty decorating …
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Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada. Contemporaries came to believe that the best answer to common questions arose from deliberation among private individuals. Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
During the Italian Renaissance, dozens of early modern writers published collections of private correspondence, using them as vehicles for self-presentation, self-promotion, social critique, and religious dissent. Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance examines the letter collections …
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Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range …
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Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The University of Torontos Faculty of Medicine is North Americas largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes. It is where insulin was pioneered, stem cells were first discovered, …
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A Theory of Law and Democracy
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules. Although laws are created and interpreted in legislatures and courtrooms by individuals with very specialized knowledge, the practice …
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Designs and Trials in <em>Paradise Lost</em>
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost? In Looking into Providences, Raymond B. Waddington provides the first examination of this engaging subject. He explores the variety of implicit organizational structures or designs that govern Paradise Lost, and looks …
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Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In the English Renaissance, poetry was imagined to inspire moral behaviour in its readers, but the efficacy of poetry was also linked to 'conjuration,' the theologically dangerous practice of invoking spirits with words. Magical Imaginations explores how major writers of …
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Municipal Government in Canada's Provinces
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Municipalities are responsible for many essential services and have become vital agents for implementing provincial policies, including those dealing with the environment, emergency planning, economic development, and land use. In Foundations of Governance, experts from each of Canada's provinces come …
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The Cincinnati Lectures of 1959 on the Philosophy of Education
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Bernard Lonergan devoted much of his life's work to developing a generalized method of inquiry, an integrated view which would overcome the fragmentation of knowledge in our time. In Topics in Education Lonergan adapts that concern to the practical needs …
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Itineraries, Dreams, and Events in the Australian Western Desert
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account and anthropological study of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert. The outcome of fieldwork conducted in the area in the 1980s and …
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