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  • The Postliberal University

    Governance, Leadership, and Partisanship in Higher Education

    by Barrett J. Taylor, Brendan Cantwell ...
    An urgent exploration of the political and social conditions that shape contemporary higher education governanceIn the 2010s, many state governments began to meddle in the core academic activities of their universities. By the 2020s, such attacks were becoming widespread at the state and federal levels: grants and funding have been cancelled, DEI offices dismantled, student protesters detained, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Wrecked

    Deinstitutionalization and Partial Defenses in State Higher Education Policy

    by Barrett J. Taylor ...
    Higher education is a central institution in U.S. democracy. In the 2010s, however, many states that spent previous decades building up their higher education systems began to tear them down. Growing hostility toward higher education reflected changing social forces that remade the politics of U.S. higher education. The political Right became increasingly reliant on angry white voters as higher ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Unequal Higher Education

    Wealth, Status, and Student Opportunity

    by Barrett J. Taylor, Brendan Cantwell ...
    Series series The American Campus
    American higher education is often understood as a vehicle for social advancement. However, the institutions at which students enroll differ widely from one another. Some enjoy tremendous endowment savings and/or collect resources via research, which then offsets the funds that students contribute. Other institutions rely heavily on student tuition payments. These schools may struggle to remain ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Cover My Eyes

    by Taylor Barrett ...
    WINNER of the 2023 Writers NL Pitch Wars Award!It’s 1931 in Kansas, and twenty-three-year-old Jamie Foster is in desperate need of employment. Recklessly, she secures a job as an executioner, but quickly discovers the trauma that comes with it.Through this job she meets Eleanor Collins, a woman fleeing her hometown, and the two form a deep connection -- one that Jamie does not entirely understand ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Higher Education, Stratification, and Workforce Development

    Competitive Advantage in Europe, the US, and Canada

    Edited by Sheila Slaughter, Barrett Jay Taylor ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This work analyses how political economic shifts contribute to competition within higher education systems in the US, EU, and Canada. The authors highlight competition for prestige and public and private subsidies, exploring the consequences of these processes through theoretical and empirical analyses. Accordingly, the work highlights topics that will be of interest to a wide range of audiences. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Global Theatre from the Cherry Collective

    Six New Plays in Translation

    by Frédéric Sonntag, Jorgelina Cerritos, Freek Mariën, Gabrielle Chapdelaine, David Paquet, Rebekka Kricheldorf ...
    Translated by David Mckay, Anna Donko, Margaret Stanton, Neil Blackadder, Taylor Barrett Gaines, Leanna Brodie ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    The best contemporary plays from other countries can bring a strikingly fresh point of view to our English-language stages. Often, they can expand our sense of the playwriting form.For a decade, the Cherry Artists' Collective in Ithaca, NY, have sought out and developed new and unusual plays from across the globe that speak to English-language artists and audiences.This collection gathers together ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Cause at Heart: A Former Communist Remembers

    by Junius Irving Scales, Richard Nickson, Telford Taylor, Vernon Burton, James R. Barrett, Barbara Scales ...
    Born in 1920 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Junius Scales, whose great-uncle had been governor of the state, grew up in the privileged environment of his family’s estate. The only black people he knew were the servants. Wanting to improve the lot of workers, mainly African-American, he joined the Communist Party in 1939 while at the University of North Carolina, seeing in the Party an opportunity ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD

  • Sixteen and Counting

    The National Championships of Alabama Football

    by Eryk Anders, Javier Arenas, Wayne Atcheson, Allen Barra, John David Briley, Tommy Deas, Mitch Dobbs, Andrew Doyle0, Walter Maddox1, Kirk McNair2, Delbert Reed3, Tom Roberts4, Phil Savage5, Gene Stallings6, Erik Stinnett7, Steve Townsend8, Taylor Watson9, Mr. Winston Groom0, Keith Dunnavant1, Mr. Barrett Jones2 ...
    Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.Dating back to 1925, when Wallace Wade coached the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, the driving goal of every University of Alabama football season has been a national championship. A winning team surfaced that ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Novelist As Poet, The

    by Various, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte ...
    Narrated by James Taylor, Aidan Gillen, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner, Alex Jennings, Patricia Rodriguez, Marcus D'Amico, Tim Graham, Stella Gonet, Shyama Perera, Eve Karpf, Sean Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 37 min

    Novelists stake their claim as artists on works that encapsulate a whole world of characters and narrative across many, usually hundreds of pages. Some also take in other disciplines; plays, short stories, essays but many have also written poetry. For some it is even their first love but for their audience it is too often forgotten; relegated behind their longer works. Charles Dickens, Jane Austen ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wonder Clearing, Discussion Guide

    by Taylor Penfield ...
    The discussion guide for the novel, Wonder Clearing, comes at a critical moment for churches and nations. Both churches and nations are suffering through not only a terrible pandemic threatening physical health but also a pandemic of division that threatens the heart of our churches and the soul of civic society. Small groups using the discussion guide will focus on issues pertinent to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    'Membering Austin Clarke

    Narrated by Mark Taylor, Hillary Warden ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 37 min

    'Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like.Despite being one of Canada's most widely published, and most richly awarded writers, Austin Clarke (1934–2016) is not a household name. This collection addresses Clarke's marginalization in Canadian literature by ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Secret Warriors

    Key Scientists, Code Breakers and Propagandists of the Great War

    by Taylor Downing ...
    Narrated by Sean Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 24 min

    The First World War is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided by brutal machinery that cost the lives of many. But behind all of this a scientific war was also being fought between engineers, chemists, physicists, doctors, mathematicians and intelligence gatherers. This hidden war was to make a positive and lasting contribution to how war was ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook