1.
Series:
A Wilder West
Rodeo in Western Canada
Paperback
Mary-Ellen Kelm
9780774820301
$27.95
HISTORY
Grade (US) from 17
Jul 01, 2012
A controversial sport, rodeo is often seen as emblematic of the West's reputation as a “white man's country.” A Wilder West complicates this view, showing how rodeo has been an important contact zone -- a chaotic and unpredictable place of encounter that challenged expected social hierarchies. Rodeo has brought people together across racial and gender divides, creating friendships, rivalries, and unexpected intimacies. Fans made hometown cowboys, cowgirls, and Aboriginal riders local heroes. Lavishly illustrated and based on cowboy/cowgirl biog...
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2.
Series: Studies in Canadian Military History
Give Me Shelter
The Failure of Canada’s Cold War Civil Defence
Paperback
Andrew Burtch
9780774822411
$32.95
HISTORY
Grade (US) from 17
Jul 01, 2012
How could you and your family survive a nuclear war? From 1945 onwards, the Canadian government developed civil defence plans and encouraged citizens to join local survival corps. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil defence program was widely mocked, and the public was still vastly unprepared for nuclear war. An exposé of the challenges of educating the public on the threat of nuclear annihilation, Give Me Shelter provides a well-grounded explanation of why Canada’s civil defence strategy ultimately failed. It is essential readin...
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3.
Series:
Jewels of the Qila
The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family
Paperback
Hugh J.M. Johnston
9780774822176
$32.95
HISTORY
Grade (US) from 17
Jul 01, 2012
This is a story about a remarkable Sikh family and the communities they lived in and supported in both Canada and India. Kapoor Singh Siddoo arrived in British Columbia in 1912 and overcame racial prejudice and legal discrimination to transform himself from labourer to lumber baron. He and his wife, Besant Kaur, fostered in their daughters a vision of service and activism that they fulfilled by establishing a hospital in Punjab and introducing an Indian spiritual tradition to their new home in Canada. Hugh Johnston tells their story with warmth...
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4.
Series: Law and Society
Conflict in Caledonia
Aboriginal Land Rights and the Rule of Law
Paperback
Laura DeVries
9780774821858
$32.95
LAW
Grade (US) from 17
Jul 01, 2012
In February 2006, First Nations protesters blocked workers from entering a housing development in southern Ontario. The protest highlighted the issue of land rights and sparked a series of ongoing events known as the “Caledonia Crisis.” This powerful account of the dispute links the actions of police, officials, and locals to non-Aboriginal discourses about law, landscape, and identity. DeVries encourages non-Aboriginal Canadians to reconsider their assumptions, to view “facts” such as the rule of law as culturally specific notions that prevent...
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5.
Series:
Principles of Tsawalk
An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis
Paperback
Umeek / E. Richard Atleo
9780774821278
$32.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Grade (US) from 17
Jul 01, 2012
Tsawalk, or “one,” expresses the Nuu-chah-nulth view that all living things – human, plant, and animal – form part of an integrated whole brought into harmony through constant negotiation and mutual respect. In this book, Umeek argues that contemporary environmental and political crises and the ongoing plight of indigenous peoples reflect a world out of balance, a world in which Western approaches for sustainable living are not working. Nuu-chah-nulth principles of recognition, consent, and continuity, by contrast, hold the promise of bringing ...
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6.
Series: Law and Society
The Environmental Rights Revolution
A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment
Paperback
David R. Boyd
9780774821612
$34.95
LAW
Grade (US) from 17
Dec 06, 2011
The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around the question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law? David Boyd answers this by moving beyond theoretical debates to measure the practical effects of enshrining the right in constitutions. His pioneering analysis of 193 constitutions and the laws and court decisions of more than 100 nations in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa reveals a positive correlation between constitutional protection and stronger...
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7.
Series: Nature | History | Society
Temagami's Tangled Wild
Race, Gender, and the Making of Canadian Nature
Paperback
Jocelyn Thorpe
9780774822015
$32.95
NATURE
Grade (US) from 17
Jul 01, 2012
Canadian wilderness seems a self-evident entity, yet, as this volume shows in vivid historical detail, wilderness is not what it seems. In Temagami’s Tangled Wild, Jocelyn Thorpe traces how struggles over meaning, racialized and gendered identities, and land have made the Temagami area in Ontario into a site emblematic of wild Canadian nature, even though the Teme-Augama Anishnabai have long understood the region as their homeland rather than as a wilderness. Eloquent and accessible, this engaging history challenges readers to acknowledge the e...
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8.
Series:
Tibet Wild
A Naturalist's Journey on the Roof of the World
Hardcover
George B. Schaller
9781610911726
$43.95
HISTORY
Oct 03, 2012
Tibet Wild follows Dr. Schaller’s expeditions to the Tibetan Plateau from 1984 until the present day. Dr. Schaller’s exploration of different aspects of the wildlife and culture of the region show how the growth of permanent houses, roads, fences, and other structures on the Tibetan Plateau is impacting wildlife and human communities. Woven through each chapter is the idea that education as well as partnerships between government, religious groups, and conservation organizations are the best hope for protecting unique wildlife and landscapes in...
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9.
Series:
River Notes
A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
Hardcover
Wade Davis
9781610913614
$33.95
NATURE
Oct 17, 2012
It’s an alarming if little-known fact: one of the world’s mightiest rivers, the Colorado, no longer reaches the sea. Every drop of its water is allocated to agriculture and communities along the way and none remains for the Colorado Delta at river’s end, a once-thriving estuary that supported North America’s most diverse biosphere. The Colorado draws attention the river’s plight as well as to the larger issue of the looming global water crisis. It follows Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading advocate for water conservation and river restoration, em...
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10.
Series:
The Columbia River Treaty Revisited
Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty
Paperback
Barbara Cosens
9780870716911
$36.95
LAW
Dec 01, 2012
The Columbia River Treaty, passed in 1964, split hydropower and flood control regulation of the river between Canada and the US. Either country must provide ten-years' notice of termination, and certain provisions expire in 2024. Thus, efforts are underway to understand and predict changes in the basin that might warrant a change in the treaty. This collection of writings is an important contribution to the effort to explore the question of water governance in the face of uncertainty. The contributors to this important volume are experts involv...
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11.
Series:
Corporation 2020
Transforming Business for Tomorrow's World
Hardcover
Pavan Sukhdev
9781610912389
$43.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 27, 2012
There is an emerging consensus that all is not well with today’s market-centric economic model. Although it has delivered wealth over the last half century and pulled millions out of poverty, it is recession-prone, leaves too many unemployed, creates ecological scarcities and environmental risks, and widens the gap between the rich and the poor. In Corporation 2020, Pavan Sukhdev lays out a sweeping new vision for tomorrow’s corporation: he presents new approaches to measuring the true costs of business and the corporation’s obligation to socie...
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12.
Series:
A Newer World, A
Politics, Money, Technology, and What's Really Being Done to Solve the Climate Crisis
Hardcover
William F. Hewitt
9781584659631
$41.00
NATURE
Jun 01, 2012
Here is a story that has not previously been adequately told: the story of the developments, trends, and visionary people that are, in many ways, mitigating the climate crisis and turning sustainable development into reality, not just a grand concept. In A Newer World, environmentalist William F. Hewitt explores the advances in business and finance, politics, design, science, and engineering that are transforming the world around us right now, even as the dire climatic consequences of the industrialization of our economies have become ev...
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13.
Series:
Global Farms Race
Land Grabs, Agricultural Investment, and the Scramble for Food Security
Paperback
Michael Kugelman
9781610911870
$37.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 04, 2012
As we struggle to feed a global population speeding toward nine billion, we have entered a new phase of the food crisis. Wealthy countries that import much of their food, along with private investors, are racing to buy or lease huge swaths of farmland abroad. The Global Farms Race is the first book to examine this burgeoning trend in all its complexity, considering the implications for investors, host countries, and the world as a whole. The debate over large-scale land acquisition is typically polarized, with critics lambasting it as a form of...
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14.
Series:
The Thistle and the Drone
How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam
Hardcover
Akbar Ahmed
9780815723783
$45.99
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Mar 07, 2013
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States declared war on terrorism. More than ten years later, the results are decidedly mixed. Here world-renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed reveals an important yet largely ignored result of this war: in many nations it has exacerbated the already broken relationship between central governments and the largely rural Muslim tribal societies on the peripheries of both Muslim and non-Muslim nations. The center and the periphery are engaged in a mutually destructive civil war across the gl...
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15.
Series:
The Path to Zero
Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers
Paperback
Richard Falk
9781612052144
$28.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Oct 01, 2012
Nuclear weapons are not a subject of intense public discussion and debate, but they should be. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were only the beginning; in recent times, nuclear annihilation at the hands of rogues and terrorists has become an even greater concern than the specter of nuclear war between superpowers. In a series of clear, calm, well-reasoned dialogues, longtime scholars and practitioners of peace Richard Falk and David Krieger probe key questions about our nuclear reality, offering new insights and proposals. Although the authors ag...
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16.
Series: Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies
Encountering the Stranger
A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue
Paperback
Leonard Grob
9780295992020
$52.50
RELIGION
Grade (US) from 17
Jan 03, 2013
In an age when "collisions of faith" among the Abrahamic traditions continue to produce strife and violence that threatens the well-being of individuals and communities worldwide, the contributors to Encountering the Stranger--six Jewish, six Christian, and six Muslim scholars--takes responsibility to examine their traditions' understandings of the stranger, the "other," and to identify ways that can bridge divisions and create greater harmony.
17.
Series: Brookings FOCUS Book
Mr. Putin
Operative in the Kremlin
Hardcover
Fiona Hill
9780815723769
$32.00
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 15, 2012
Observers have variously said that Putin has no face, no substance, no soul; he is "the man from nowhere" – a nobody, who can appear to be anybody. But Putin only wants the world to see him that way, and he has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal who he really is. Drawing on many sources, including their own personal encounters with him, the authors argue that there are, in fact, several "real" Putins. They concentrate on five essential ones: Putin the Statist, Putin the Survivalist, Putin the Outsider, Putin the Free Marketeer, and Putin...
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18.
Series:
Informer 001
The Myth of Pavlik Morozov
Paperback
Yuri Druzhnikov
9781412849616
$26.95
HISTORY
Sep 01, 2012
During the period when Russia was under Stalin, a young boy named Pavlik Morozov informed the OGPU (now called the KGB) that his father was an enemy of the regime. As a result, Pavlik’s father was arrested and disappeared in a Soviet concentration camp. Enemies of the party later killed the boy, whereupon people proclaimed him a hero. Informer 001 is the first independent study of the Morozov affair. In book after book, author Druzhnikov discovered inconsistencies on every fact relating to Morozov. As Druzhnikov pieced together the story...
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19.
Series: The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
Israel
A History
Hardcover
Anita Shapira
9781611683523
$62.00
HISTORY
Jun 01, 2012
Written by one of Israel’s most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century to the present day. Organized chronologically, the volume explores the emergence of Zionism in Europe against the backdrop of relations among Jews, Arabs, and Turks, and the earliest pioneer settlements in Palestine under Ottoman rule. Weaving together political, social, and cultural developments in P...
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20.
Series:
China's Terracotta Warriors
The First Emperor's Legacy
Paperback
Liu Yang
9780980048490
$39.95
ART
Grade (US) from 17
Nov 01, 2012
With contributions from leading scholars, China’s Terracotta Warriors presents a panoramic view of the artistic, military, and administrative achievements of the Qin state and empire under the powerful ruler who proclaimed himself First Emperor of China. In addition to presenting findings from his tomb complex, it examines the period preceding his reign (246–210 BCE) and his establishment of the Qin empire and dynasty in 221 BCE. The Qin state had been in existence for over half a millennium before the First Emperor came to the throne, and its ...
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21.
Series:
Mudras of India
A Comprehensive Guide to the Hand Gestures of Yoga and Indian Dance
Hardcover
Cain Carroll
9781848190849
$61.00
HEALTH & FITNESS
Aug 15, 2012
For thousands of years hand mudras have been used in India for healing, storytelling, emotional expression, and to evoke and convey elevated spiritual states. For the first time, the elaborate system of mudras – as applied in yoga and Indian dance – has been organized into a comprehensive, fully-indexed, and cross-referenced format that allows readers access to this still esoteric body of knowledge. Mudras of India presents over two hundred fifty photographed hand mudras, each with detailed instructions on technique, application, health and spi...
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22.
Series:
Baby Shiatsu
Gentle Touch to Help Your Baby Thrive
Paperback
Karin Kalbantner-Wernicke
9781848191044
$26.95
HEALTH & FITNESS
Sep 15, 2012
Babies feel intuitively what scientists have needed painstaking research to establish: being touched and caressed is good for you. It makes you clever and cheerful, strengthens the parent-child bond, and lays the foundation for a healthy life. With baby shiatsu you can support your child's development. The gentle pressure-point massage meets the needs of tiny babies. This book shows you the various shiatsu techniques step by step.
23.
Series: Epistemologies of Healing
Moral Power
The Magic of Witchcraft
1st edition
Paperback
Koen Stroeken
9780857456595
$45.99
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jun 01, 2012
Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patient’s recovery. Healers turn the table on the witch through rituals showing that the community and the ancestral spirits side with the victim. In contrast to biomedicine, their magic and divination introduce moral values that assess the state of the system and that remove the obstacles to what is taken as k...
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24.
Series: JKP Essentials
Understanding Stammering or Stuttering
A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals
Paperback
Elaine Kelman
9781849052689
$26.95
MEDICAL
Jun 15, 2012
This book explains the characteristics of stammering and uses illuminating first-hand accounts to demonstrate the common feelings of anguish experienced and provide clarity on what the child is likely to need in terms of support at home, school and in social situations. Packed with helpful advice for carers about how to build a child's confidence, it presents a variety of techniques and tips to alleviate the stammer and improve self-esteem and school performance.
25.
Series:
Can I tell you about Epilepsy?
A guide for friends, family and professionals
Paperback
Kate Lambert
9781849053099
$17.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 18
Jun 15, 2012
Meet Ellie – a young girl with epilepsy. Ellie invites readers to learn about epilepsy from her perspective. She introduces us to some friends who help present the varying forms of epilepsy. Ellie and her friends help children to understand the obstacles that they face by telling them what it feels like to have epilepsy, how it affects them physically and emotionally, how epilepsy can be treated and how the condition is often misunderstood by people who do not know the facts.
26.
Series:
Asperkids
An Insider's Guide to Loving, Understanding and Teaching Children with Asperger Syndrome
Paperback
Jennifer Cook O'Toole
9781849059022
$26.95
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Jul 15, 2012
As a parent, a teacher and an Aspie herself, Jennifer Cook O'Toole provides a unique insider's look into Asperger syndrome. She shows how to help children on the spectrum by understanding how they think and exploiting their special interests to promote learning. The author discusses theory of mind, the necessity for concrete forms of communication, and ways to inspire imagination through sensorial experiences. In particular she explores the untapped power of special interests, explaining how to harness these interests to encourage academic, soc...
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27.
Series:
A Brief Guide to Autism Treatments
Paperback
Elisabeth Hollister Sandberg
9781849059046
$27.95
PSYCHOLOGY
Dec 15, 2012
The number of intervention options available for children with autism can be overwhelming for parents. This book provides brief, user-friendly descriptions of the most commonly publicized treatments for autism, summarizing the available information in an objective and accessible way. Each short chapter covers a single treatment and includes a definition and description; a summary of the prevailing information gleaned from popular press; a summary of what the science says; and an idea of potential costs to parents and schools. This straight-talk...
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28.
Series:
Getting into the Game
Sports Programs for Kids with Autism
Paperback
Veronica Smith
9781849052498
$33.95
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Jul 15, 2012
Participation in individual and team sports plays an important part in children's development and promotes growth in a number of areas. As well as the obvious health benefits, sport also provides the perfect backdrop to teach young people with autism about rules, strategy and teamwork – all invaluable lessons that can be applied to wider society. By detailing six of the most popular sports, cycling, ice skating, swimming, soccer, taekwondo, and tennis, and including the unique experiences of families of children with autism, it offers all the i...
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29.
Series: Dance and Performance Studies
Turning the Tune
Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village
1st edition
Hardcover
Adam Kaul
9781845456238
$175.99
PERFORMING ARTS
Nov 01, 2009
The last century has seen radical social changes in Ireland, which have impacted all aspects of local life but none more so than traditional Irish music, an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad. The author focuses on a small village in County Clare, which became a kind of pilgrimage site for those interested in experiencing traditional music. He begins by tracing its historical development from the days prior to the influx of visitors, through a period called "the Revival," in which traditional Irish music was rev...
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30.
Series:
The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen
Siam's Great Folk Epic of Love and War
Paperback
Chris Baker
9786162150456
$105.00
FICTION
Grade (US) from 17
Dec 13, 2012
Siam's folk epic of love, war, and tragedyKhun Chang Khun Phaen is one of the most famous works of old Thai literature. The plot is a love story, set against a background of war, and ending in high tragedy. This folk epic was first developed in oral form for popular performance with lashings of romance, adventure, violence, farce, and magic. It was later adopted by the Siamese court and written down, with two kings contributing. This first-ever translation is based on Prince Damrong?s standard edition of 1917-18, with over a hundred passages re...
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31.
Series:
The Look of the Book
Manuscript Production in Shiraz, 1303-1452
Hardcover
Elaine Wright
9780295991917
$112.50
ART
Grade (US) from 17
Jan 23, 2013
The Look of the Book assesses the role of the city of Shiraz in Iranian book production between the early fourteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. It is the first detailed analysis of all aspects of the book--illumination, codicology, illustration, calligraphy, and binding--during this significant era when the "look of the book" was transformed. Four periods of change are identified: the years following 1340, until the end of Injuid rule in Shiraz; the later 1350s and the 1360s, during Muzaffarid rule; the years from 1409 to 1415, when the Timur...
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32.
Series: Northwest Reprints Series
Voyage of a Summer Sun
Canoeing the Columbia River
Paperback
Robin Cody
9780870716614
$24.95
TRAVEL
Age (years) from 0 - 99
Nov 01, 2012
“A spellbinding journey into the heart and soul of the West … Humorous, meditative, powerful, this work holds the reader like a magical eddy.” – Craig Lesley, author of The Sky Fisherman In his insightful and elegant prose, Robin Cody shares his twelve-hundred-mile, eighty-two-day journey in a canoe, from the Columbia River’s source in the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. At water level, the great river offers up a surprisingly vibrant mix of turbulence, river folk, wildlife, and stories – a view of the West that is seldom seen.
33.
Series:
Four Thousand Hooks
A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of Alaska
Hardcover
Dean Adams
9780295991979
$26.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Grade (US) from 17
Oct 01, 2012
As Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking. It is the summer of 1972, and the sixteen-year-old narrator is at the helm. Dean Adams tells how he came to be a crew member on the Grant and unfolds a tale of adventure that reads like a novel—full of drama, conflict, and resonant portrayals of halibut fishing. At sea, the Grant’s crew teach Dean the daily tasks of baiting thousands of longline hooks and handling the catch, and on shore they lead him through the seedy bars and guilty pleasures of Kodiak. Four Thousand Hooks ...
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34.
Series:
With Blood in Their Eyes
Hardcover
Thomas Cobb
9780816521104
$30.95
FICTION
Sep 13, 2012
Thomas Cobb, author of Crazy Heart and Shavetail, has taken up a dramatic episode in the American West in this powerful and meticulously researched nonfiction novel. Richly authentic and beautifully written, With Blood in Their Eyes breathes dramatic new life into a nearly forgotten episode of the American West, when the Power brothers engaged the Graham County Sheriff’s Department in the bloodiest shootout in Arizona history.
35.
Series: Mingling Voices Series
Sefer
Paperback
Ewa Lipska
9781927356029
$14.99
FICTION
Grade (US) from 17
Nov 01, 2012
Poetic, witty, and ever so faintly surreal, Sefer delicately explores the legacy of the Holocaust for the postwar generation, a generation for whom a devastating history has grown distant, both temporally and emotionally. The novel’s protagonist, Jan Sefer, is a psychotherapist living in Vienna—someone whose professional life puts him in daily contact with the traumas of others but who has found it difficult to address his own family background, especially his memories of his father. With its fragmentary structure and its preference for hints r...
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36.
Series:
Passageways
Paperback
Camille Dungy
9781931883214
$14.95
POETRY
Oct 05, 2012
With these stories, and dozens of rollicking poems and fiction pieces, Passageways presents a full range of fresh international literature never before seen in America. It includes a glimpse of a new story by Catalan author Quim Monzo, alongside other international powerhouses such as Fanny Rubio, Elvira Navarro, Yves Bonnefoy, and Naja Marie Aidt. To highlight the work of the translators who bring this work into English, Passageways includes short introductory essays from Lydia Davis, Peter Bush, Natasha Wimmer, Forest Gander, Valzhyna ...
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37.
Series: Sun Tracks
Corpse Whale
Paperback
dg nanouk okpik
9780816526741
$20.95
POETRY
Oct 11, 2012
A self-proclaimed, “vessel in which stories are told from time immemorial,” poet dg nanouk okpik seamlessly melds both traditional and contemporary narrative, setting her apart from her peers. The result is a collection of poems that are steeped in the perspective of an Inuit of the twenty-first century – a perspective that is fresh, vibrant, and rarely seen in contemporary poetics.