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1.
Series:
After Ted & Sylvia
Paperback
Crystal Hurdle
9781553800101
$15.95
POETRY
Aug 16, 2003
One of the greatest mad, sad literary love affairs of the twentieth century was that between poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In her collection of poems, Hurdle adapts her own research on their lives to explore the love and loss in this relationship of poetic collaboration and rivalry, which lasts, in Hurdle's recreation, even after Plath's suicide in 1963 and Hughes' death in 1998. At points, the poet-narrator forms a literary ménage à trois with the two poets as she struggles obsessively to understand their own lives as individual artists a...
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Series:
Bialystok to Birkenau
The Holocaust Journey of Michel Mielnicki
Paperback
Michel Mielnicki
9780921870777
$19.95
HISTORY
Nov 16, 2000
The testimony of survivors is the ultimate refutation of claims that the Holocaust did not occur. In this profoundly honest Holocaust memoir, Michel Mielnicki takes us from the pleasures and charms of pre-war Polish Jewry (now entirely lost) into some of the darkest places of the twentieth century.
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Series:
Max Frisch
Three Plays
Paperback
Max Frisch
9781553800002
$18.95
DRAMA
Sep 16, 2002
The three plays collected in this volume were the first of Max Frisch's dramatic works to reach the public. Now for the first time they appear in English, thanks to the translation skills of Michael Bullock. These three plays are of special interest both to students of modern drama and admirers of Frisch. Santa Cruz (1944), Frisch's first dramatic effort, has as its subtitle "A Romance," and represents an element of fantasy that runs through all his writing, but was never again to occupy such a preeminent position. Now They're Singing Again (1...
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Series:
Ghost Children
Paperback
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
9780921870784
$13.95
POETRY
Oct 16, 2000
The poems in Ghost Children explore the spiritual and psychological losses suffered by child survivors of the Holocaust. The title points both to the one and a half million children murdered in the Holocaust and to the many child survivors who have lived out their lives as "ghosts," never managing to allow their childhood self to surface in their adult lives. Drawing on her own experience of life as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto and her escape, Lillian Boraks-Nemetz divides her journey of discovery into three sections. She begins by travelling b...
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Series:
Grandchild of Empire
About Irony, Mainly in the Commonwealth
Paperback
W.H. New
9781553800019
$12.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Feb 16, 2003
As W.H. New's Grandchild of Empire shows, irony is not dead, but has found fresh purpose. New looks at the politics of irony in modern writing and explains how it relates to imperial history, how it impacts upon personal memories, how it speaks from the margin, and how it indirectly teaches us to resist presumptuous authority. Focusing on postcolonial poetry and prose, but also including autobiographical incidents and memories, New establishes how irony speaks "about" from the outside. He emphasizes the importance of voice in communicating what...
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Series:
Exile & The Sacred Travellers, The
Paperback
Marie-Claire Blais
9780921870791
$15.95
FICTION
Nov 16, 2000
In this collection of nine short stories and the powerful novella "The Sacred Travellers," Marie-Claire Blais offers an exploration of the major themes of her work: the pain of desire, the fragility and vulnerability of the human spirit, the quest for purity and generosity, and the pitiless search for truth. The characters in this new collection are all exiles, all fighting to inhabit new beings. Yet the exile explored by Marie-Claire Blais is far more than a matter of circumstance; itis the metaphysical exile of humans wandering the face of th...
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Series: Canadian Disaster
Shadows of Disaster
Paperback
Cathy Beveridge
9781553800026
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Feb 16, 2003
-"Sometimes it's good to take a risk." Twelve-year-old Jolene knows that her grandfather's words are true, but she's not a risk-taker like her twin brother. Frustrated, Jolene convinces herself that it would be easier to take risks if she were a boy. Her grandfather disagrees, but then her father thinks her grandfather might be as crazy as his old stories. For her part, Jolene thinks her father, who's trying to preserve history in a Museum of Disasters, is the crazy one. Jolene learns the truth when they take a trip to the Crowsnest Pass to re...
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Series:
Steveston
Paperback
Daphne Marlatt
9780921870807
$16.95
POETRY
Mar 16, 2001
Ronsdale Press offers a new edition of Steveston, this much loved work by two of Canada's finest poets and photographers. For this edition, Daphne Marlatt has written a new poem, never before published, to offer a postscript from 2001 on the original 1974 undertaking. At the publisher's request, Robert Minden has returned to his photographic archive bringing 9 additional images of Steveston and New Denver to light. In addition, Marlatt and Minden have rethought their decision to interleave poems and photos, and have, instead, created two separ...
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Series:
At The Mercy Seat
Paperback
Susan McCaslin
9781553800033
$15.95
POETRY
Feb 16, 2003
At the Mercy Seat explores the relentlessness of mercy as it permeates the natural world and also our relationships, openning them to mystery. Whether the poems reclaim biblical stories or the voices of McCaslin's poetic progenitors, they are compelling and finely nuanced events leading to a contemplative being-in-the-world, in which spirit and matter, the sacred and profane, the delicate and the disturbing develop as a unified field.
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Series:
Blue in this Country
Paperback
Zoe Landale
9780921870814
$13.95
POETRY
Mar 16, 2001
Zoë Landale's new collection of poetry is remarkable for its fusion of rocky hardness with the luminosity of coastal British Columbia. As a poet, Landale has the lyric ability to evoke the particular with such warmth and grace that one cannot help becoming aware of a spiritual dimension.
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Series:
Of Irony, Especially in Drama
Paperback
G.G. Sedgewick
9781553800040
$19.95
Aug 16, 2003
Ronsdale Press is pleased to announce a new edition of this landmark book on irony, first published in 1935 by the University of Toronto Press, and frequently reprinted. Professor Sedgewick begins his discussion by recognizing that irony is a way of speaking with which we are all familiar, a figure of speech used in daily conversation. But there are other ironies: those of allegory, of understatement, of detachment, of fate, and especially the irony used in drama. Sedgewick explores how the various meanings of irony have developed ? through So...
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Series:
Hurricanes over London
Paperback
Charles Reid
9780921870821
$8.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Mar 16, 2001
Browsing in his grandfather's study, young Jamie discovers a notebook entitled "This Was My War" and finds himself pulled into the life of East End London teenagers whose adolescent years were overtaken by the devastation of World War II. As Jamie follows his grandfather's story in which "war" changes from silver screen exploits to bombs exploding on neighbourhood streets and the deaths of friends, John Wayne is superseded by real life heroes such as Canadian ace pilot Willie McKnight, who won two DFCs (Distinguished Flying Crosses) in his sort...
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Series:
When Eagles Call
Paperback
Susan Dobbie
9781553800057
$19.95
FICTION
Feb 16, 2003
In this historical novel, Susan Dobbie takes us inside the world of Kimo Kanui, a young Kanaka man who leaves his native Hawaii in the early nineteenth century at a time when thousands of his people were leaving to find work abroad. Dobbie portrays Kimo signing on with the Hudson's Bay Company and being sent as a labourer to Fort Langley on the banks of the Fraser River. When Eagles Call offers a rich and colourful account of daily life with the Company on the Pacific Northwest, with its long days of harsh work, its exotic voyageurs and its tr...
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Series:
Essential Stankiewicz, The
On the Importance of Political Theory
Paperback
W.J. Stankiewicz
9780921870838
$23.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 16, 2001
The Essential Stankiewicz gathers together a selection of the core materials from a lifetime of writing by one of the most eminent political philosophers of our time. Written in a clear and lucid style, this volume can be appreciated by both the professional political scientist and the educated layman interested in the concepts and issues that have formed our time.
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Series:
Chretien and Canadian Federalism
Politics and the Constitution: 1993-2003
Paperback
Edward McWhinney
9781553800064
$19.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Aug 16, 2003
Constitutionalist Ted McWhinney draws on his extensive experience in the workings of our federal system to discuss the need for modernization and updating to meet the radically new demands of the plural, multicultural Canada of the 21st century. His focus is on law-in-action - the "living law" of contemporary intergovernmental practice - rather than the abstract law in books of the Constitution Act of 1867, which was fashioned on imperial, British stereotypes for a colonial society.
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Series:
Essential Stankiewicz, The
On the Importance of Political Theory
Hardcover
W.J. Stankiewicz
9780921870845
$39.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 16, 2001
The Essential Stankiewicz gathers together a selection of the core materials from a lifetime of writing by one of the most eminent political philosophers of our time. Written in a clear and lucid style, this volume can be appreciated by both the professional political scientist and the educated layman interested in the concepts and issues that have formed our time.
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Series:
Adrift in Time
Paperback
John Wilson
9781553800071
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Aug 16, 2003
Set in the present day, John Wilson's young adult novel Adrift in Time explores the tensions in family life between parents and children. It also demonstrates how the new generation's knowledge of the family's past can ease those tensions. The novel opens with Ian, a teenager, finding that he no longer enjoys spending his summer holidays at the family cottage on Mayne Island in British Columbia. He misses the fun of being with his friends in the city. Arguments with his father grow more and more frequent, and Ian feels that his dad refuses to ...
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Series:
Double Crossings
Madness, Sexuality and Imperialism
Paperback
Anne McClintock
9780921870852
$8.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Mar 16, 2001
In her University of British Columbia Sedgwick Lecture for 2000, Professor Anne McClintock ranges from England to America, to the Congo and South Africa, and from the early nineteenth century to the present. She reveals the connections among gender, race and madness created by the dominant power centres.
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Series:
Strongman
The Doug Hepburn Story
Paperback
Tom Thurston
9781553800095
$19.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 16, 2003
Tom Thurston has written the first biography of one of Canada's athletic legends, Doug Hepburn. Born in Vancouver with a club foot and a severe alternating squint, Doug decided as a boy to surmount his disabilities by training with weights, setting his sights on becoming the world's strongest man. And this he achieved. Doug is now known as the grandfather of modern "power weightlifting." Doug was World Weightlifting Champion in Stockholm in 1953, and he won the gold medal in the British Empire Games in Vancouver in 1954. Joe Weider and others ...
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Series:
Tenth Pupil, The
Paperback
Constance Horne
9780921870869
$8.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 16, 2001
The Tenth Pupil, for readers eight to fourteen, is set in a small logging camp on Vancouver Island in 1934. Eleven-year-old Trudy Paige enjoys her life in Mellor's Camp. She has a loving family, a shaggy dog, friends, a swimming hole, a fishing stream, books to read, wild animals to lend a touch of danger, and a friend in Vancouver to visit. She especially enjoys school, until the government threatens to close the school because there are only nine children, and ten are legally required if the government is to fund the school. Unexpectedly, Sh...
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Series:
Tibetans in Exile
The Dalai Lama & the Woodcocks
Paperback
Alan Twigg
9781553800798
$21.95
HISTORY
Oct 01, 2009
Alan Twigg has here recovered the amazing story of how George and Ingeborg Woodcock, while travelling in northern India in 1961, encountered many of the Tibetan refugees who had recently fled over the mountain passes. Appalled by the condition of the children - huddled together with inadequate bedding, surviving on a diet of thin soup and steamed dumplings - the Woodcocks vowed to help. Hearing of this, one of the Tibetans said, "You must absolutely come and see uncle." This was KhandoYapshi, the Dalai Lama's niece. Among the first Westerners ...
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Series:
Beginnings
Stories Of Canada's Past
Paperback
Ann Walsh
9780921870876
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 16, 2001
Ann Walsh has selected fourteen captivating stories written by accomplished authors from across Canada for this historical anthology. Each of the stories focuses on a "first-time" historical experience, such as the meeting between natives and Europeans at Fort St. James; the ship carrying filles du roi as brides for the settlers of New France; the first elections in which women in Canada were allowed to vote; the first gourmet meal cooked in a CPR rail camp for Cornelius Van Horne; a mine disaster in the Crowsnest Pass, with the subsequent intr...
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Series:
No Time to Mourn
The True Story of a Jewish Partisan Fighter
Paperback
Leon Kahn
9781553800118
$21.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 01, 2004
Growing up Jewish in the little town, or shtetl, of Eisiskes near the Polish-Lithuanian border, Leon Kahn experienced a peaceful childhood until September 1, 1939 when Hitler's forces attacked Poland. Only sixteen years of age, Kahn watched as the women and children of his community were herded into a gravel pit and murdered. Realizing that to stay meant certain death, Kahn tore off his yellow star of David identifying him as a Jew, and fled with his father, brother and sister to the Polish forests and the uncertain welcome of a few farmers wh...
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Series:
Casanova Sexicon, The
A Manual for Liberated Men
Paperback
Eric Nicol
9780921870883
$18.95
HUMOR
Sep 16, 2001
What does Jacques Casanova, demonstrably the world's greatest lover, have to say to heterosexual men of the 21st century? Do his celebrated memoirs provide a message for the muddled swains of our time, whose sex drive is often stuck in neutral because liberated women can be a scary climb? The answer, one that Casanova was accustomed to hearing: si . . . oui . . . yes! The Casanova Sexicon organizes his life's enlightening episodes and insights in alphabetically arranged sections, with blithe if moot commentary, for easy study and memorization.
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Series:
Gold Rush Orphan
Paperback
Sandy Frances Duncan
9781553800125
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Apr 08, 2004
In Gold Rush Orphan Sandy Frances Duncan has woven a fascinating tale of hardship and adventure based on her grandfather's gold rush journal entries of his 1898 trip to the Klondike. The arduous trek to the goldfields comes alive in the fictionalized story of Jeremy Britain, a young teen who joins James Fraser and his companions to search for the gold that would make their fortunes. Duncan begins the story in the gold rush port of Skagway where Jeremy has a run-in with the infamous Soapy Smith and his gang. The cruelties and lawlessness of life...
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Series:
Peyote
Paperback
Stefan Schutz
9780921870890
$14.95
FICTION
Sep 17, 2001
In this darkly comic monologue by one of the masters of contemporary German theatre, a German tourist visiting Banff is forced to wait out a thunderstorm in the cabin of an old shaman. By the time the night is over he has been humiliated, mocked, and enlightened, has undergone a nightmare voyage through the worlds of the living and the dead, and has been initiated into ancient shamanistic mysteries and into the peyote cult. All is, however, not as it seems. Stefan Schütz turns long practice at rewriting Greek tragedies in the context of contem...
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Series:
Free Will
Paperback
Harold Rhenisch
9781553800132
$14.95
POETRY
Jan 01, 2004
Harold Rhenisch's first artistic love was the theatre. Twenty-eight years after first playing Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he brings Shakespeare alive for us in this sparkling and inventive work fusing drama, poetry and consummate clowning. These poems are onstage, under the lights, dressed in greasepaint and tights. Some of them are vaudeville acts, others are new stagings of Shakespeare's plays, scripts for Punch and Judy puppet theatre, stand-up comedies and carnie shows, while others include versions of Shakespeare's sonnets set on pr...
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Series:
Poems For a New World
Paperback
Connie Fife
9780921870906
$13.95
POETRY
Sep 16, 2001
Connie Fife is one of Canada's warrior poets. Poems for a New World, her third book of poems, refuses to take prisoners. She writes of Oka and Gustafson Lake, of the police shooting of a Native mother and child, as well as the NATO genocide in Yugoslavia. Reflecting on her own life, she carves out a space for new forms of loving that will act as a transforming force for people of all colours so that they may breathe the air of freedom, the air of a world rich in biodiversity. Revolutionary as they may be, these poems also care about language, ...
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Series:
No Ordinary Mike
Michael Smith, Nobel Laureate
Paperback
Eric Damer
9781553800149
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 01, 2004
Michael Smith burst into public view in 1993 as the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of site-directed mutagenesis, the process by which genes can be changed under laboratory conditions for medical and research purposes. Smith became a local hero not only because of the honour and prestige represented by the award but also because he donated his time, energy, and prize money to charitable causes. Smith's down-to-earth modesty, wit, and ready acknowledgment of support from scientific colleagues and the people of Bri...
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Series:
Jeannie and the Gentle Giants
Paperback
Luanne Armstrong
9780921870913
$8.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Jan 17, 2002
Jeannie and the Gentle Giants, a novel for readers eight to fourteen, deals with the problems experienced by children when they are taken from their parents and have to make a new life with foster parents in a new community. In Jeannie's case, the problems begin when her mother falls ill and can no longer care for her. Taken from her home, placed with foster parents and unable to discover the whereabouts of her ill mother, young Jeannie withdraws into herself and can think only of running away. Gradually her defences are breached by two immens...
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Series:
Servile Ministers
Othello, King Lear and the Sacralization of Service (the 2003 Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture)
Paperback
Michael Neill
9781553800156
$8.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Mar 01, 2004
In his 2003 Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture, Michael Neill takes us deep into the cultural complexities of Shakespeare's world. With special attention to the two plays Othello and King Lear, Neill explores the various Elizabethan meanings surrounding the concept of "service." In the ordered, hierarchical world of the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-centuries, the idea of service as a sacred duty to God and God's representatives penetrated all of society so that each and every person was linked to others within a pattern of sacred serv...
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Series:
Judge's Wife, The
Memoirs of a BC Pioneer
Paperback
Eunice M.L. Harrison
9780921870920
$19.95
HISTORY
May 16, 2002
These memoirs offer a compelling account of life in early British Columbia from the 1860s to the first decade of the 20th century. The wife of Judge Eli Harrison, one of the province's foremost lawyers and judges, Mrs. Harrison gives intimate glimpses into daily life in Victoria, Nanaimo and New Westminster, and her visits as a young woman to Granville (as Vancouver was then called) for dances and picnics. Mrs. Harrison describes the interests of a well-educated woman of her time who was fascinated by the growth of British Columbia. She knew m...
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Series:
Sobering Dilemma
A History of Prohibition in British Columbia
Paperback
Douglas L. Hamilton
9781553800163
$21.95
HISTORY
Sep 15, 2004
Does drug prohibition work? There are many governments, police forces, jailers and drug testers who say it does. Prohibition is the favoured choice in dealing with intoxicants in the world today. But how well does it stand up to the test of history - in particular, our own history in British Columbia? The province has seen two harsh liquor prohibitions: first on its Native population from 1854 to 1962, and second, on the entire population, during the 1917-1921 period. Sobering Dilemma examines both, touching on the province's longtime fondness...
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Series:
Generation of Caliban, The
Paperback
Jonathan Goldberg
9780921870937
$8.95
Jan 17, 2002
In his University of British Columbia Sedgewick lecture for 2001, Professor Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways in which contemporary writers and critics have identified with Shakespeare's figure of Caliban in his play The Tempest as a means of exploring the relationship of the colonized to the colonizer. Examining the work of the great Barbadian novelist and critic George Lamming and others, Goldberg details the various ways in which contemporary writers have re-interpreted Caliban and the language imposed on him. In its simplest articulation,...
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Series:
Reckless Women
Paperback
Cecelia Frey
9781553800170
$14.95
POETRY
Aug 21, 2004
Reckless women inhabit the spaces of these poems: women who dare to travel without maps or even "a single sign," women who dare the seduction of cliff edge leaps into deadly waters, women who dare the midnight garden to ensure their crop. When Cecelia Frey considers the pain recklessness causes to others, she returns to the source that impels a reckless nature. There Frey finds women who challenge the empty spaces of the psychic frontier, women who let themselves be seduced by the vanilla man (or is it the other way around?), female magicians,...
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36.
Series: Craft
Craft Perception and Practice
A Canadian Discourse, Volume 1
Paperback
Paula Gustafson
9780921870944
$24.95
CRAFTS & HOBBIES
Sep 16, 2002
Canada's ceramists, tapestry weavers, and other craft artists are recognized amongst the world's finest artisans. Nationwide the craft industry has more than 25,000 practitioners and annual sales in excess of $1 billion, making it one of Canada's unrecognized success stories. Craft Perception and Practice celebrates the excellence of Canadian crafts by bringing together twenty-four essays and critical commentaries by sixteen independent critics and curators, professional artists, art historians, and studio art instructors.
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Series: Literary Origins of BC
First Invaders
The Literary Origins of British Columbia
Paperback
Alan Twigg
9781553800187
$21.95
HISTORY
Aug 21, 2004
This unprecedented volume about British Columbia's earliest authors and first explorers (prior to 1800) provides a fascinating range of characters, events and intrigues. The names Cook and Quadra ring a bell for most of us, as do Bering and Vancouver, but what about the first year-round European resident of B.C., the Irish drunkard John Mackay? He voluntarily wintered at Nootka Sound in 1786 well before the more famous John Jewitt became the so-called "white slave" of Chief Maquinna in1803. A year later the first European woman to visit and wri...
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Series:
Discovery By Design
The Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of BC Origins & History 1907-2001
1st edition
Hardcover
Eric Damer
9780921870951
$29.95
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Jan 17, 2002
From steam power and biplanes to today's high tech world of robots and spacecraft, Damer offers a compelling history of UBC's Department of Mechanical Engineering. Woven throughout the history are hard-working and high-spirited students, distinguished and energetic faculty members, and powerful university administrators who encouraged or restricted change. Rich in detail, Damer's history will appeal to those interested in the history of engineering education, universities and the research life of Canada. This handsome hardcover volume contains ...
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Series: Canadian Disaster
Chaos in Halifax
Paperback
Cathy Beveridge
9781553800194
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Aug 21, 2004
"I wish I wasn't a twin." Twelve-year-old Jolene is determined to find independence from her brother, Michael, during a family trip to research the Halifax explosion of 1917 for her father's Museum of Disasters. When her grandfather finds a time crease into the past, Jolene discovers a new friend and the importance of family and loyalty in a world torn apart by World War I. When Michael joins them, however, the past suddenly becomes much more complicated.
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Series:
Last Trip to Oregon, The
Poems in Wake of Red's Death
Paperback
George Payerle
9780921870968
$15.95
POETRY
Feb 17, 2002
In these elegiac poems, George Payerle registers the experience of life continuing after the death of his closest friend, the BC poet and historian Charles "Red" Lillard. The poems describe their last trip together to the dry landscape of Central Oregon, circle to Alberta and then turn home to the wetscape of the Shadow Weather Coast. Throughout are woven meditations on music, particularly the Beethoven quartet Opus 131, in which the triumph of the ordinary (mundane) becomes a portal to the extraordinary (the divine). Memory becomes prayer, wi...
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Series:
Spontaneous Overflows and Revivifying Rays
Romanticism and the Discourse of Improvisation
Paperback
Angela Esterhammer
9781553800200
$8.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Sep 01, 2004
In this Garnett Sedgewick lecture given to the Department of English at the University of British Columbia in 2004, Angela Esterhammer introduces us to the art of the nineteeth-century Italian improvvisatori, who created spontaneous verses on topics chosen by their audiences. English Romantic poets such as Shelley and Byron witnessed some of these performances, especially by Tomasso Sgricci, and were greatly impressed. The ability of the improvvisatori touched on the very essence of poetic creation: is it simply, as the improvvisatori would se...
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Series:
Llamas in the Laundry
Hardcover
William New
9780921870975
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Jun 16, 2002
Have you ever wondered if porcupines are ticklish, if fish wash, or how to say Rhinosterous? Do you know how to make a child-high sandwich? How porridge gets on the ceiling? What happens when your favourite aunt wears a wig? Why uncles wear plaid? William New's rhyming verse enacts all these situations, ranging from the madcap to the mysterious. The poems are complemented by Vivian Bevis's full page, full colour illustrations which capture the high-spirited and impetuous qualities of the verse. A companion volume to their highly successful Van...
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Series:
Dream Helmet
Hardcover
William New
9781553800217
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Jan 30, 2005
Join the children in this delightful picture book, children who dream of skateboarding through the galaxy, of meeting a guitar-playing hippopotamus, of feeding a baby brother who eats EXPLOSIVELY! Find the knock-kneed knight! Travel to Saskatchewan "without your socks and sandals on" - and by the end of the book you'll be walking with an elephant and dancing with an elephant seal, able to speak "Tuque Talk" and sing a "Great Lake Rag"!
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Series:
Adultery Poems, The
Paperback
Nancy Holmes
9780921870982
$13.95
POETRY
Sep 16, 2002
Adultery with its pleasure, pain and outrage! No one writes the poetry of adultery as does Nancy Holmes. For her guide, she takes the poet Ovid who schools her in his tender cynicism and teaches her the art of love.
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Series:
Charlatan
Paperback
Steven Laird
9781553800224
$14.95
POETRY
Mar 15, 2005
With a precise eye for form and a clear love for the tone and timbre of language, Steven Laird creates a profound and surreal sense of place and time, upending it all with brilliant irony. Running through this collection is a disturbing sense that even the clearest perceptions - shaped by habits of speech and thought - can be treacherous, and standing on the highest rocks is a perilous act of faith.
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Series:
First Day of Winter, The
Paperback
Laura Lush
9780921870999
$13.95
POETRY
Sep 16, 2002
Laura Lush's new collection of poems is nature poetry at its strongest and most insightful, the images connecting to give voice to our many uncertainties as we creep further into an already darkening twenty-first century. With an unwavering eye, Lush focuses on the spiritual tenacity needed to make our way through difficult times. Lush's sharply drawn images make us aware that winter braces the soul, enlivening the instinct for life - as we turn to face the cold wintry blast. "Winter," she says, "teaches us to love the long / liturgies of ice, ...
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Series:
Jean Coulthard
A Life in Music
Paperback
William Bruneau
9781553800231
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 15, 2005
Jean Coulthard demonstrated that a Canadian woman could be a successful professional composer, whose music was, and still is, played extensively in concert halls across Canada and internationally. Through her seven-decade career she composed in every genre of traditional classical music: opera, symphonies, concerti, chamber music, keyboard, voice, and choir. Coulthard's story was more than that of artist and teacher. She made a place for herself in a male-dominated university and, as a westerner, she fought for the artists of her community. As...
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Series:
Hamatsa
The Enigma of Cannibalism on the Pacific NW Coast
Paperback
Jim McDowell
9780921870470
$21.95
HISTORY
Mar 16, 1997
For more the 200 years, controversy has simmered over the subject of cannibalism on the Pacific Northwest Coast. So heated has the topic become that many scholars have hesitated to engage in the debate. Now, using an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural approach, historian Jim McDowell offers a comprehensive study of cannibalism on the coast. Beginning with the many supposed "man-eating" incidents recorded by European and American explorers and traders who visited Nootka Sound between 1744 and 1884, McDowell shows how the accounts were coloured by...
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Rilke's Late Poetry
Duino Elegies, The Sonnets to Orpheus and Selected Last Poems
Paperback
Rainer Rilke
9781553800248
$16.95
POETRY
Feb 15, 2005
The late poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the summits of European poetry in the twentieth century. Completed in 1922, as were T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and James Joyce's Ulysses, Duino Elegies ranks with them as a classic of literary Modernism and as an inquiry into the spiritual crisis of modernity. The ten long poems grapple with the issue of how the human condition and the role of art have altered in the modern era, with the decline of religion and the acceleration of technology. 1922 also saw the unexpected birth and co...
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Willobe of Wuzz
Paperback
Sandra Glaze
9780921870487
$8.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Aug 16, 1997
"Wuzz is a place not far from here. It's like here. Almost." Thus begins Willobe of Wuzz, the coming-of-age story of a dragon like no other - a dragon who uses his fire power to bake rather than burn, and who'd rather paint pictures than fight with knights. When Willobe wins the friendship of Princess Emily the Resourceful, a major flare-up with his grandfather Cedric results, and a fiery family secret is inadvertently revealed. Estranged from his family, Willobe withdraws to the mountains of Wuzz. Here he often feels, but is not in fact, alon...
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Rosie's Dream Cape
Paperback
Zelda Freedman
9781553800255
$8.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Apr 15, 2005
Based on a true story, this charming juvenile novel tells of how eleven-year-old Rosie and her grandmother Bubba Sarah arrive in Toronto from Russia after fleeing one of the purges that carried away Rosie's mother, a famous Russian dancer. To help make ends meet, Rosie works in Yitzy's factory sewing velvet capes for Eatons, all the while dreaming of making such a cape from scraps, and wearing it to Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre. Although Yitzy warns Rosie, "don't steal the scraps," she cannot resist, and each evening when she dumps the sc...
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Modern Korean Verse in Sijo Form
Paperback
Jaihiun Kim
9780921870494
$16.95
POETRY
Aug 16, 1997
A decade in the making, Jaihiun Kim's Modern Korean Verse in Sijo Form offers what will be the twentieth century's definitive collection of sijo. Kim begins with the work of Nam-son Ch'oe in the early 20th century and brings the collection up to date with recent poems from Chi-yob Yi and P'il-gon Kim. Similar to the Japanese haiku in its brevity and imagery, Korean sijo has shown itself to be remarkably responsive to contemporary concerns. Employing the modern idiom but retaining a hint of Eastern tonality, Kim offers Westerners a rich and rar...
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Series: Craft
Craft Perception and Practice
A Canadian Discourse, Volume 2
Paperback
Paula Gustafson
9781553800262
$26.95
CRAFTS & HOBBIES
Nov 01, 2005
This third and final volume in the Craft Perception and Practice series features 21 essays and critical commentaries by acclaimed Canadian practitioners, educators and curators, demonstrating the range of critical thought about craft as presented in symposiums, exhibition catalogues and art journals. Over 40 full-colour photographs of works in craft media - including fibre, glass, ceramics, metal, wood and "new materials" - accompany the essays.
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Series:
Brave Soldiers, Proud Regiments
Canada's Military Heritage
Paperback
Allen Andrews
9780921870500
$24.95
HISTORY
Oct 16, 1997
Designed for the general reader as well as the student of Canadian history, Brave Soldiers, Proud Regiments recounts the colourful story of our military's past through the personalities and accomplishments of its soldiers. The twenty-six chapters commence with the 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the stirring story of Loyalist soldiers during the American Revolution.
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Series:
John Muir
West Coast Pioneer
Paperback
Daryl Ashby
9781553800279
$21.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Dec 01, 2005
This historical biography - based on the life of British Columbia pioneer John Muir - tells the amazing story of a family from Scotland who came out to Canada in the late 1840s to work as "consignee" labourers for the Hudson's Bay Company. Daryl Ashby recreates the story of the Muirs' struggle to develop a place for themselves in the hierarchic colony ruled by James Douglas. With their vision of a country based on democratic principles, the Muirs fought to bring a new way of life to the West Coast. Drawing on the Muir family diaries, Ashby rec...
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Series:
Holding One's Time in Thought
The Political Philosophy of W.J. Stankiewicz
Hardcover
Bogdan Czaykowski
9780921870517
$37.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Nov 16, 1997
This collection of essays evolved from a colloquium held at the University of British Columbia in 1995 to honour the eminent political scientist and aphorist W.J. Stankiewicz. A theorist and consultant on political decisions, Stankiewicz has been noted for his ability to bring the classical concepts of political science into the decision-making rooms of everyday political action. He has written on concepts such as democracy, ideology, liberalism, equality and justice, authority and sovereignty, violence and social change, property and happiness...
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Series:
Dark Times
Paperback
Ann Walsh
9781553800286
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 28, 2005
The result of a cross-Canada contest for the best short stories about young people's experience of loss and grief, Dark Times is a superb anthology about a topic that often remains hidden but is crucial in the development of a child's sense of identity.
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Series:
Holding One's Time in Thought
The Political Philosophy of W.J. Stankiewicz
Paperback
Bogdan Czaykowski
9780921870524
$18.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Nov 16, 1997
This collection of essays evolved from a colloquium held at the University of British Columbia in 1995 to honour the eminent political scientist and aphorist W.J. Stankiewicz. A theorist and consultant on political decisions, Stankiewicz has been noted for his ability to bring the classical concepts of political science into the decision-making rooms of everyday political action. He has written on concepts such as democracy, ideology, liberalism, equality and justice, authority and sovereignty, violence and social change, property and happiness...
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Series:
Mandorla
Paperback
Nancy Holmes
9781553800293
$15.95
POETRY
Aug 21, 2005
Motherhood-personal, historical, mythological. Mandorla is all about mothers and children, especially the mothering of challenging children, children with disabilities. In the first section of Nancy Holmes' new collection of poems, the Virgin Mary is the archetypal suffering mother who worries about the fate of her son. Through a poetic re-drawing of the hieratic poses of icons of the Virgin in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Holmes comes to recognize the fear and absolute love for a child who is fated to be different. The second section moves ou...
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Series:
Second Earth, A
Paperback
Harold Enrico
9780921870531
$14.95
POETRY
Sep 16, 1997
Harold Enrico is a rare poet who combines the deepest traditions of our history, our spirituality, with the colourful imagery of the Pacific Northwest. He has been hailed as a major poetic voice by George Woodcock, praised by Theodore Roethke, and selected by Poetry Chicago and Choice magazine. A Second Earth contains the finest poems from his three earlier collections - Now, A Thousand Years from Now, Rip Current and Dog Star - along with a substantial section of new poems.