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In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters-one of the pioneering collectors of African American music-writes of a trip to West Africa where he found "a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he]...

Few movie stars have meant as many things to as many different audiences as the iconic Marlene Dietrich. The actress-chanteuse had a career of some seventy years: one that included not only classical Hollywood cinema and the concert hall but also silent...

How prominent Canadian revivalists used commerce and entertainment to advance their Christian causes.How prominent Canadian revivalists used commerce and entertainment to advance their Christian causesAbout the AuthorKevin Kee is Canada Research Chair in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801980695Author HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Haynes Manuals IncPublisher Haynes Manuals IncWeight(grams) 1376gDimensions(mm) 277mm * 207mm...

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The first full-length study of English-Canadian womenThe first full-length study of English-Canadian women's playwriting at the turn of the twentieth centuryAbout the AuthorCAReviews"Kym Bird's considerable primary research constitutes the book's most...

In The Heavens Are Changing Susan Neylan offers a fresh perspective on Aboriginal encounters with Protestant missions, exploring how the Tsimshian in nineteenth-century British Columbia took an active and important role in shaping forms of Christianity...

Explores the relationship between memory, language, and geography.Explores the relationship between memory, language, and geography.Reviews"In Aurian Haller's poetry, the mist is part of the machinery on the West Coast, along with the hoppers and flumes,...

Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico's...

An imaginative exploration of power and the public and private lives of CongrAn imaginative exploration of power and the public and private lives of Congregation superiors.About the AuthorColleen Gray is adjunct professor, Canadian history, Queen's...

A lucid and lively exploration of the issues of religion and gender in Hindi drama from the 1880s to the 1960sA lucid and lively exploration of the issues of religion and gender in Hindi drama from the 1880s to the 1960sAbout the AuthorDiana Dimitrova is...

How prominent Canadian revivalists used commerce and entertainment to advance their Christian causes.How prominent Canadian revivalists used commerce and entertainment to advance their Christian causes.About the AuthorKevin Kee is Canada Research Chair...

Based on ethnographic research by an interdisciplinary team of scholars and activists, Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana illuminates the role that religion plays in the civic and political experiences of new migrants in the United States. By...

In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire management.About the AuthorStephen J. Pyne is a...

This book celebrates noted Seattle sculptor Phillip Levine's fifty-year anniversary as the creator of works inspired by the worlds of dance, song, sport, and social commentary. It includes a valuable autobiographical essay by the sculptor. Contributions...

Thomas T. Wilson is described in the preface of this book as "probably the best-known unknown painter in the Northwest." Most of his early paintings still hang within the houses of his original buyers. Very few of his paintings are in public spaces, and...

A moral exemplum about courtship and marriage, this "essentially Canadian" tale, which takes place in the 1760s, reflects its author's profound and sometimes disturbing knowledge of the bicultural and bilingual society in which she lived.Book...

Kroeker argues that in trying to make their theological ethics relevant to economic policy Christian social ethicists have accepted assumptions that are incompatible with theological beliefs. Starting with the Social Gospel movement, he discusses the...

Presbyterianism was not only the largest and most influential Protestant denomination in the Maritimes during much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but also one of the largest and most influential Protestant denominations in Canada. While...

The first part, set on an island in central Africa among descendants of classical Greek civilization, was printed in 1789 but immediately suppressed by Cumberland. A passage describing society everywhere except on the utopian island as oligarchic and...

In the first comprehensive, theoretically informed work in English on Quebec cinema, Marshall views his subject as neither the assertion of some unproblematic national wholeness nor a random collection of disparate voices that drown out or invalidate the...

Unusual yet reasonable approaches to living life as a Christian.Unusual yet reasonable approaches to living life as a Christian.About the AuthorMonsignor Luigi Giussani (1922-2005) was the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873494045Author Krause PublicationsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint KP BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 364g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793836024Author Cynthia P. GallagherPage Count 224Imprint TFH Publications,U.S.Publisher TFH Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 670gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Wolfgang Hohl, an architecture software specialist, shows you how to use freeware correctly for architecture visualizations in 'Interactive Ambient'. The book begins with an overview of real-time visualization possibilities before showing the reader how...

A detailed assessment of the degree to which religious commitment, or lack thereof, affects the psychological state of Canadians and the social fabric of CanadaA detailed assessment of the degree to which religious commitment, or lack thereof, affects...

This collection presents a rich, multidisciplinary inquiry into the role of religion in the Mexican American community. Breaking new ground by analyzing the influence of religion on Mexican American literature, art, activism, and popular culture, it...

Ricardo Sternberg's astonishing third collection brings together poems both lyrical and complex, transparent and resonant.Ricardo Sternberg's astonishing third collection brings together poems both lyrical and complex, transparent and resonant.About the...

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In jazz circles, players and listeners with "big ears" hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this interdisciplinary collection explores the terrain opened up...

Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period from 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of documentary in the 1910s and 1920s, proliferated in the...

When nature goes haywire in Texas, it isn't usually an earthshaking event. Though droughts, floods, tornadoes, and hail all keep Texans talking about the unpredictable weather, when it comes to earthquakes, most of us think we're on terra firma in this...

St. Patrick did not consider himself a man of letters; the short texts that survive reflect, however, his powerful personality. A contemporary and fellow missionary of St. Patrick, Secundinus is an enthusiastic admirer and defender of St. Patrick in this...

In Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, citizenship, and consumerism. Nickelodeon is arguably the most commercially successful cable network ever. Broadcasting...

James Applewhite has produced nine extraordinary books of poetry. This volume is the first anthology of his remarkable oeuvre. It brings together chronologically arranged selections from all of his previous books, from the first, published in 1975,...

A moving personal account of one manA moving personal account of one man's spiritual and intellectual journey.About the AuthorCAReviews'"This is a well researched, carefully written, and interesting biography of a significant figure in recent Canadian...

Rawlyk argues that in the early part of this century the Maritime Baptist mainstream was far more accommodating and open-minded than Baptists in central Canada and the West. He shows that during the fundamentalist-modernist controversies of the 1920s...

In his chapter on Acadia, Barry Moody argues that the university has been surprisingly open to a variety of theologies and pedagogical perspectives, tracing this to the liberality and breadth of vision of Nova Scotia Baptists. His study helps explain the...

A detailed look at the work of RussiaA detailed look at the work of Russia's most popular film director.About the AuthorDavid MacFadyen is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. He has written extensively on Soviet popular culture and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639021042Author Paulina BochenskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams)...