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Cleaving

Treadwell, Florence
Cleaving
In her first collection of poems and photographs, Florence Treadwell explores the nature of love as it is experienced within "the family romance" - in the ever-present shadow of the father. In poems and photographs connected by strong and subtle imagery, the narrator uncovers the protean nature of desire, but also her own strength as passed down through the women who have gone before, as power inherited and inherent.

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Does Canada Matter?: Liberalism and the Illusion of Sover...

Bolt, Clarence
Does Canada Matter?: Liberalism and the Illusion of Sovereignty
In this lucid yet impassioned book Clarence Bolt reveals how Canada is rapidly losing its sovereign status to the liberal, globalizing drive that has, since Confederation, endeavoured to eliminate regional diversity, self-reliance and distinctiveness by blending our regions into a centralized economic and political system. Echoing George Grant, Bolt proposes that Canada can remain a unique, sovereign state only by fostering sustainable regiona...

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Love's Silence and Other Poems

Han, Yong-Un / Kim, Jaihiun
Love's Silence and Other Poems
Yong-un Han (1879-1944) is recognized as Korea's finest Buddhist poet of the twentieth century and also one of the country's most influential political activists in the struggle against Japanese imperialism. Yong-un Han's Buddhist insights and political passion combine to give his poetry great spiritual power. Delighting in paradox, these are poems that tease us into a subtle understanding of the limitations of both self and union, while never...

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Transforming Electricity

Patterson, Walt
Transforming Electricity
Patterson reassesses the basic premise that guided electricity for more than a century in light of new understanding, pressures, and opportunities. He investigates the changes in progress, those that may follow, and their implications for policy. As the world pursues sustainable development, what might 'sustainable electricity' mean, and how can it be achieved? *Not available through Brookings in UK/Europe.

CHF 28.90

Resolving the Antibiotic Paradox: Progress in Understandi...

Symposium on Resolving the Antibiotic Pa / Rosen, Barry P. / Mobashery, Shahriar
Resolving the Antibiotic Paradox: Progress in Understanding Drug Resistance and Development of New Antibiotics
The title of this proceedings comes from the book The Antibiotic Paradox by Stuart B. Levy (Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992), referring to the paradox that the more antibiotics are used to treat infectious diseases, the less effective they become. When antibiotics were first introduced, they were considered wonder drugs because they were so effective. But with time bacteria have become resistant to nearly all antibiotics, and resistance is...

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Shakespeare: A Life

Honan, Park
Shakespeare: A Life
In the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date narrative of Shakespeare's life ever written, Park Honan uses a wealth of fresh information to alter dramatically our perceptions of the actor, poet, and playwright. The young poet's relationships, his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, and his own daughters, are seen in a new light, illuminating Shakespeare's needs, ha...

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