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In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467010344Author Eloise RobbertzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188457011Author Veronika BlomgrenPage Count 172Imprint Define FinePublisher Define FineWeight(grams) 340g

An up-to-date look at the life and work of Pitseolak Ashoona.An up-to-date look at the life and work of Pitseolak Ashoona.About the AuthorDorothy Harley Eber is the author of Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life, When the Whalers Were Up North: Inuit...

Examining the creative acts of witness, remembrance, and resistance in writing by women of colour from a postcolonial feminist perspective.Examining the creative acts of witness, remembrance, and resistance in writing by women of colour from a...

This book examines the role of the Dutch Catholic church, and especially of the bishops, in ensuring the solidarity of the Catholic subculture for so many years and, more remarkably, in promoting drastic social and political changes after Vatican II...

How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire's loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and 1940s responsive to and responsible for such shifts?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780352299Author C J KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 680Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 36mm

Universal in scope, and unusually diversified in content, this work encompasses human efforts, struggles, and concerns from cosmology to sociology. Suffused with benevolent irony and, at times, sardonic humor, it depicts our species' struggle against...

Northrop Frye describes the way symbols operate as media of exchange in literature, drawing examples from English literature in difference periods. Eva Kushner examines the increased freedom on expression possible to Renaissance poets because of the...

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In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, David A. Gerstner reveals the crucial role of early cinema in consolidating a masculine...

Finalist: Raymond Klibansky Book Prize Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada (2008) Making a connection between photography and memory is almost automatic. Should it be? In Scissors, Paper, Stone Martha Langford explores the nature of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780352039Author Matthew WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Upfront PublishingPublisher Upfront Publishing

Victor Herbert is one of the giants of American culture. As a musician, conductor, and, above all, composer, he touched every corner of American musical life at the turn of the century, writing scores of songs, marches, concerti, and other works. But his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922168962Author Cory BernardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Connor Court PublishingPublisher Connor Court Publishing

In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the late 1890s and the eve of the First World War moving pictures...

Christie and Gauvreau look at the ways in which reformers expanded the churches' popular base through mass revivalism, established social work and sociology in Canadian universities and church colleges, and aggressively sought to take a leadership role...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420804621Author Marvelous Dance MinistriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 63gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932099355Author Osman KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Tughra BooksPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 377g

Part document and part visual poem, Far from Zion is the response of a young American Jew to the historical experience of Ashkenazic Jewry in the last century. In the spirit of a contemplative but unsentimental reckoning, the photographs consider the...

A revealing look at the role of government policy on the ideology of NFB documentaries.A revealing look at the role of government policy on the ideology of NFB documentaries.About the AuthorZoe Druick teaches media and cultural studies, communications,...

How do Christians keep from losing their faith when they discover that other faiths are as justified as their own? Mark McLeod-Harrison draws on his training in analytic philosophy and his knowledge of Christian mysticism to provide a compelling analysis...

The definitive biography of a free-spirited artist whose paintings are among the most immediately recognizable Canadian artworks of the 1930s and 1940s.The definitive biography of a free-spirited artist whose paintings are among the most immediately...

McGill University's Faculty of Music - now the Schulich School - has been a centre of new music in Canada for decades, helping to shape contemporary composition, electro-acoustic research, performance, and sound recording. Compositional Crossroads...

A social history of Protestantism and Catholicism in Canada since 1800A social history of Protestantism and Catholicism in Canada since 1800.About the AuthorMichael Gauvreau is professor of history, McMaster University, and the author and editor of...

This outrageous book of cute cartoon creatures boasting larger-than-life proportions is guaranteed to make you guffaw. A unique and inexcusable glimpse of nature's lesser-known creations, this menagerie will show you a side of the animal kingdom you'll...

This 104-page book offers an expert's guide to Morocco, with 11 itineraries and excursions taking in the country's greatest attractions, ranging from the mosques of Casablanca to the souks of Fez. It also includes a chapter detailing Morocco's history...

Make over 35 fabulous projects, from quick and easy scarves to mug cosies. The granny square is the starting point for many people when they first learn to crochet, but as their skills progress, this versatile crochet block is often forgotten. In Granny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905139170Author Pamela Des BarresFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Helter Skelter PublishingPublisher Helter Skelter PublishingWeight(grams) 675g

Contrary to the myth which divorces modernist painting from literature, this new interpretation of Whistler shows that his art was profoundly influenced by it. The book also examines the nature of Whistler's modernity, his relationship with English and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781856850483Author Ian GillanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Smith GryphonPublisher John Blake Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 611g

Life hasn't always been so kind to Julia Roberts - the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. Paul Donnelly takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride, from the success of "Pretty Woman" to the high-profile flop "Hook" and the re-establishment of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847324405Author Terry BurrowsFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Carlton Books LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

How to Read Houses is an insider's guide to recognising and appreciating the diversity of domestic architecture that reflects the location, the fashion and the technological savoir-faire of the age - from Tudor timber-frames to the truly unconventional...

John Everett Millais (1829-96) is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of his generation. He was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and was later president of the Royal Academy of Arts. Less well-known are his 400 designs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711903418Page Count 79Imprint Wise PublicationsPublisher Omnibus Press

Lauren Guthrie was a very popular finalist in BBC TV's Great British Sewing Bee. Now Lauren wants to show anyone who has been bitten by the sewing bug how beautiful, useful things for your home, for yourself and for family and friends can be only a...

Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance,...

In 2005, filmmaker Christopher Nolan redefined Batman for a new generation with "Batman Begins", followed in 2008 by "The Dark Knight", and now 2012's conclusion to the trilogy, "The Dark Knight Rises". Here, for the first time, is an in-world...