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  • Thinking about Architecture

    An Introduction to Architectural Theory

    by Colin Davies ...
    In order to understand architecture in all its cultural complexity it is necessary to grasp such basic concepts as representation, form and space. The aim of this book is to provide teachers, students, practising architects and general readers with a set of ideas that will enrich their conversation, their writing, and above all their thinking about architecture.The book is divided into eight ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Literature, Interpretation and Ethics

    by Colin Davis ...
    Literature, Interpretation and Ethics argues for the centrality of hermeneutics in the context of ongoing debates about the value and values of literature, and about the role and ethics of literary study. Hermeneutics is the endeavor to understand the nature of interpretation, as it poses vital questions about how we make sense of works of art, our own lives, other people and the world around us ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • The Last Professional

    by Ed Davis ...
    A hobo, a wanderer, a madman– three characters hurtling toward a heart-wrenching climax where their way of life, and their lives, hang in the balance.Lynden Hoover, a young man on the brink of a new beginning, cannot embrace it without confronting the traumas of his past. Help comes from The Duke, an old loner who calls America' s landscape his home. He clings to an honor code, but in fleeing from ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Silent Renoir

    Philosophy and the Interpretation of Early Film

    by Colin Davis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished directors in the history of world cinema. In the 1930s he directed a string of films which stretched the formal, intellectual, political and aesthetic boundaries of the art form, including works such as Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, La Grande Illusion, La Bête humaine and La Règle du jeu. However, the great director’s early ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • Critical Excess

    Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell

    by Colin Davis ...
    The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical Excess examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have had a huge, ongoing impact on the study of literature and film: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Žižek, and Stanley ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Levinas

    An Introduction

    by Colin Davis ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, widely recognized as one of the most important yet difficult philosophers of the 20th century.In this much-needed introduction, Davis unpacks the concepts at the centre of Levinas's thought - alterity, the Other, the Face, infinity - concepts which have previously presented readers with major problems of ... Read more

    $31.00 CAD

  • After Poststructuralism

    Reading, Stories, Theory

    by Colin Davis ...
    In the last decades of the twentieth century, French poststructuralist 'theory' transformed the humanities; it also met with resistance and today we frequently hear that theory is 'dead'.In this brilliantly argued volume, Colin Davis:*reconsiders key arguments for and against theory, identifying significant misreadings*reassesses the contribution of poststructuralist thought to the critical issues ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Postwar Renoir

    Film and the Memory of Violence

    by Colin Davis ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir’s work between his departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the impact of trauma.The 1930s ended in catastrophe for both for Renoir and for France: La Règle du jeu was a critical and commercial disaster on its release in July 1939 and in 1940 France was occupied by Germany. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Prefabricated Home

    by Colin Davies ...
    Prefabrication cannot be ignored, for it challenges the most traditional values of architecture. Architects may have neglected this area of practical construction, but they have much to learn from pattern-book houses, modular structures, Portakabins and mobile homes.The Prefabricated Home examines how the relationship between architecture and industrialized building has now become an urgent issue ... Read more

    $44.29 CAD

  • The World and the Stars

    by Tanith Lee, Chris Butler, Deborah Jay, Paul Laville, Liz Williams, Colin P Davies, Stephen Gaskell, Carmelo Rafala, Cherith Baldry ...
    Twenty-four of the most exciting voices in genre fiction bring you the world and the stars, each in their own individual way.Stories that explore the vast grandeur of the universe, worlds close to us, worlds far in the distance. Alternate Earths, colonies in the sky, engineered worlds, mystical battlegrounds, pirate seas, underground caverns, journeys in time and across the stars. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contested and Dangerous Seas

    North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion

    by Colin J. Davis ...
    Deep-sea fishing has always been a hazardous occupation, with crews facing gale-force winds, huge waves and swells, and unrelenting rain and snow. For those New England and British fishermen whose voyages took them hundreds of miles from the coastline, life was punctuated by strenuous work, grave danger, and frequent fear. Unsurprisingly, every fishing port across the world has memorials to those ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • 51 Amazing Sci-Fi Short Stories

    by R. R. Winterbotham, Malcolm Jameson, Ray Cummings, John Wiggin, Alexander M. Phillips, D. L. James, Ross Rocklynne, John Murray Reynolds, Nelson S. Bond, Carl Selwyn, Harry Walton, Ray King, Ed Earl Repp, George Danzell, Donald Wollheim, Robert Moore Williams, Leigh Brackett, Fremont Dodge, Hal Clement, Mary Carlson, Alexei Panshin, Colin Keith, James Bell, Linton Davies, L. Ron Hubbard, Alfred Bester, Lester Del Rey, Joseph E. Kelleam, E. A. Proulx, Keith Laumer, F. Anton Reeds, Murray Leinster, Bertrand L. Shurtleff, H. H. Holmes, Poul Anderson ...
    Rayguns, aliens, gorgeous women and unsavory evil-doers: 51 Amazing Science Fiction Short Stories collects some of the finest short sci-fi ever written, from masters such as L. Ron Hubbard, Ray Cummings, Lester Del Rey and more! ... Read more

    $0.68 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus