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Ai Weiwei invited visitors to write postcards to prisoners around the world. This book delves into those postcards' lasting impact. Five former prisoners reflect on the experience of receiving hundreds of postcards. A statement by Ai Weiwei contextualize this extraordinary project. Photographs from the exhibition show visitors and the postcards they wrote. The book also includes a guide to defending human rights and four pre-addressed, tear-ou...

Salt Spring, Pender, Galiano, Mayne and Saturna are the best known of the Southern Gulf Islands. Their residents value a rich food and drink heritage, and experiment busily with new foods and approaches to improve diversity and flavour, and support special diets and local sustainability. They celebrate slow foods and slow islands, and many embrace a 100-mile or even a 100 yard diet. Organic Food is prominent in island life at farmers' markets,...

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei turns his attention to Alcatraza place he has never set foot, but that stands as a world-famous symbol of both incarceration and protest. This book offers an inside look at the site-specific body of work Weiwei has created for a major art exhibition on the island, happening from September 27, 2014 - April 26, 2015.

The Encyclopedia of Black Folklore and Humor presents a well-rounded social history of the African-American, and demonstrates very graphically in each of its seven sections the close relationship between folklore and history.

This collection of anecdotes, short stories, play excerpts, jokes, quips, and proverbs features literally hundreds of characters from the jesters of the Renaissance to the politicos of today. It provides an entertaining overview of 2, 500 years of Italian wit and humor. The hardcover edition of this title, originally published in 1997, is available on-demand. Also available in Kindle, Nook, and other popular eBook formats.

An outrageously funny collection of anecdotes, jokes, one liners, and limericks.

A coffee-table book packed with history, insider information and stunning photography of one of BC's scenic treasures The Gulf Islands.

Whales of the West Coast" is the whale book we have been waiting for." -Anne Moon, "Victoria Times-Colonist" Excerpted in "Canadian Forum