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A dazzling tour of the fifty best and most important Grateful Dead concertsA Grateful Dead concert, argues Ray Robertson, is life: alternately compelling and lackluster, familiar and foreign, occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. And usually all in the same show. Although the Grateful Dead stopped the same day Jerry Garcia’s heart did, what the band left behind is the next best thing to being there in the third row. Courtesy of their uno...

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Robertson and Chaney examine how the early antecedents of police brutality like plantation overseers, the lynching of African American males, early race riots, the Rodney King incident, and the Los Angeles Rampart Scandal have directly impacted the current relationship between communities of color and police. Using a phenomenological framework, they analyze how African American college students perceive police to determine how race, gender, an...

Born a slave in 1847, but raised as a free man on the world-renowned, African-American Elgin Settlement near present-day Chatham, Ontario, David King is a man whose life has been defined by his violent rebellion against the very person who freed him - the Reverend William King.

For readers, period: a book about book lovers, for book lovers. Editorial comps include 84, Charing Cross road and Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy. Secondary theme: assisted suicide. Hyper-contemporary: concerned with the effects of COVID-19 on small business, especially bookshops, and captures the pandemic existentialism that may lead one to stay up all night reading Foucault, not that we know anyone like that. Train...

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Robertson and Chaney examine how the early antecedents of police brutality like plantation overseers, the lynching of African American males, early race riots, the Rodney King incident, and the Los Angeles Rampart Scandal have directly impacted the current relationship between communities of color and police.

A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death-and an argument for how it can make us happy.

Excerpt from The Preservation and Management of Vegetation in Ravines in Highland Park, Illinois: A ReportHighland Park, both from aesthetic and erosion-control points of view. Much of the beauty of the ravines is due to the lovely woods with their spectacular display of spring wildflowers. The plants also significantly retard the rate of erosion in the ravines. To make these comments more graphic, try to visualize the ravines if they were tot...

Excerpt from The Preservation and Management of Vegetation in Ravines in Highland Park, Illinois: A ReportHighland Park, both from aesthetic and erosion-control points of view. Much of the beauty of the ravines is due to the lovely woods with their spectacular display of spring wildflowers. The plants also significantly retard the rate of erosion in the ravines. To make these comments more graphic, try to visualize the ravines if they were tot...

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One of todays best young novelists, Ray Robertson has collected his most entertaining, insightful, controversial and funniest reviews and essays written over that last five years.

A lively coming-of-age novel that records the collision of small town life with the earth-shattering news headlines of 1979.

Examines the state of Canadian literature today by exploring independent publishing, the awards culture, and the commercialisation of even the most un-commercial of booksWith contributions from Ryan Bigge, George Fetherling, and Stephen Henighan, this volume is both entertaining and thought provoking.

A long leering look at the meaning of life, with a voice like Nick Hornby's and smarts all its own.

Peter Bayle heavy drinker, philosopher, and scholar is assigned to visit a town in Kansas to write an article about hockey in Middle America.

Set in nineteenth-century Chatham, David's rebellious hero breaks us in to a little-known place and time in black history.

A hard-drinking hockey journalist encounters unsavory characters while on assignment in Kansas and realizes his life can't be the same.