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Raymond Klibansky: A Life in Philosophy Raymond Klibansky 9780228014379
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $34.96Born in Paris in 1905 to a German-Jewish family from Frankfurt and dying a century later in Montreal, Raymond Klibansky lived a life indelibly coloured by the history of the twentieth century. His... -
New Letters of David Hume by Raymond Klibansky 9780199693238
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $50.41This volume, first published in 1954, is one of three presenting the correspondence of David Hume, one of the great men of the eighteenth century. It complements J. Y. T. Greig's two-volume Letters... -
Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art by Raymond Klibansky
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $68.94Saturn and Melancholy remains an iconic text in art history, intellectual history, and the study of culture, despite being long out of print in English. Rooted in the tradition established by Aby... -
Babel and the Ivory Tower: The Scholar in the Age of Science by W. David Shaw 9780802079985
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $61.93Torn between the competing forces of scholarship as a profession and scholarship as a calling - between Babel and the Ivory Tower - the modern academic faces a dilemma: should she or he try to... -
![Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art by Martha Langford 9780773540781 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6583703/6660624/9780773540781__20662.1738899953.jpg?c=1 "Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art by Martha Langford 9780773540781 [USED COPY]")
Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art by Martha Langford 9780773540781 [USED COPY]
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $16.74Finalist: 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,... -
White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada by Daniel Coleman 9780802037077
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $58.90In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies around Canadian whiteness and examines its roots as a literary project of early colonials and... -
Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature: Economic Liberalization and Social Change in Nepal by Onno Oerlemans 9780802086976
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $41.38Given current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists surveying the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight. In this timely study, Onno Oerlemans extends... -
Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 by Steven High
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $37.36Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis... -
![The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape by Susan Glickman 9780773517325 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6584501/6661422/9780773517325__28462.1738900922.jpg?c=1 "The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape by Susan Glickman 9780773517325 [USED COPY]")
The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape by Susan Glickman 9780773517325 [USED COPY]
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $13.87Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English and the Raymond Klibansky Prize, "The Picturesque and the Sublime" is a cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from... -
Gramsci's Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School by Peter Ives 9780802094445
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Antonio Gramsci and his concept of hegemony have permeated social and political theory, cultural studies, education studies, literary criticism, international relations, and post-colonial theory. The... -
Robert Browning's Language by Donald S Hair 9781487591267
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94What are the influences that shaped the language used by one of the nineteenth century's greatest writers? How did his religious beliefs, the books he owned, the paintings and music he loved, affect... -
Animals and Nature: Cultural Myths, Cultural Realities by Rod Preece 9780774807241
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $88.13"No one tradition alone offers a sufficient respect for other species. Taken together, they may offer a prospect for saner human-animal relations." - From the bookWestern conceptions of objectivity... -
Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) by Veronica Strong-Boag
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $34.96Frequently dismissed as a 'nature poet' and an 'Indian Princess' E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was not only an accomplished thinker and writer but a contentious and passionate personality who... -
On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 by Adele Perry 9780802083364
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $33.95"On the Edge of Empire" is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and... -
The Violin Lover by Susan Glickman 9780864924339
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.16Set in Jewish London in the 1930s, Susan Glickman's The Violin Lover is written against the backdrop of Hitler's escalating campaign against the Jews. This beautifully written novel tells the story... -
Literary Celebrity in Canada by Lorraine York 9780802092823
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $39.38In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey... -
Literary Celebrity in Canada by Lorraine York 9781487521394
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey... -
The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China by James A. Flath 9780774810340
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33History and art come together in this definitive discussion of the Chinese woodblock print form of nianhua, literally "New Year pictures." By analyzing the role of nianhua first in the home and later... -
Brute Souls, Happy Beasts, and Evolution: The Historical Status of Animals by Rod Preece
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.69In this provocative inquiry into the status of animals in human society from the fifth century BC to the present, Rod Preece provides a wholly new perspective on the human-animal relationship. He... -
The Dark Side of Genius: The Melancholic Persona in Art, ca. 1500-1700 by Laurinda S. Dixon 9780271059365
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $44.11In The Dark Side of Genius, Laurinda Dixon examines "melancholia" as a philosophical, medical, and social phenomenon in early modern art. Once considered to have a physical and psychic disorder, the...