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  • On a Dark and Snowy Night ...

    On A Dark and Snowy Night...is how twenty-one short stories, by seventeen international contributors, begin.This simple prompt began a journey that culminated in this unique anthology with tales that run the gambit of humor, fear, happily-ever-afters, regrets, mystery, and joy.Curl up with your favorite beverage, a comfy blanket, and a warm fire, and prepare to enjoy tales that happened...On a ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Academic Foundations of Interpreting Studies

    An Introduction to Its Theories

    The Academic Foundations of Interpreting Studies is the first introductory course book that explores the theoretical foundations used in sign language interpreting studies. Authors Roy, Brunson, and Stone examine the disciplines whose theoretical frameworks and methodologies have influenced the academic study of interpreting. With this text, explanations for how interpreted events occur, how ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Interpreting As a Discourse Process

    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This book studies interpreting between languages as a discourse process and as about managing communication between two people who do not speak a common language. Roy examines the turn exchanges of a face-to-face interpreted event in order to offer a definition of interpreted events, describe the process of taking turns with an interpreter, and account for the role of the interpreter in terms of ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • The Crisis of Culture

    Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms

    Are we confronting a new culture--global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values? Olivier Roy's new book explains today's fractures via the extension of individual political and sexual freedoms from the 1960s. For Roy, twentieth-century youth culture disconnected traditional political protest from ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • American Film History

    Selected Readings, Origins to 1960

    This authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the rich and innovative history of this period in American cinema. Spanning an essential range of subjects from the early 1900s Nickelodeon to the decline of the studio system in the 1960s, it combines a broad historical context with careful readings of individual films.Charts the rise of film in early twentieth ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • American Film History

    Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present

    From the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic history during the second half of the twentieth-century through the present day.Considers essential subjects that have shaped the American film industry—from the impact of television and CGI to the ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • The Next Generation of Research in Interpreter Education

    Pursuing Evidence-Based Practices

    Series Book 10 - Interpreter Education
    This collection contributes to an emerging body of research in sign language interpreter education, a field in which research on teaching practices has been rare. The Next Generation of Research in Interpreter Education investigates learning experiences and teaching practices that provide the evidence necessary to inform and advance instructional approaches. The five studies included in this ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Discourse in Signed Languages

    Edited by Cynthia B. Roy ...
    Series Book 17 - Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities
    In this volume, editor Cynthia B. Roy presents a stellar cast of cognitive linguists, sociolinguists, and discourse analysts to discover and demonstrate how sign language users make sense of what is going on within their social and cultural contexts in face-to-face interactions. In the first chapter, Paul Dudis presents an innovative perspective on depiction in discourse. Mary Thumann follows with ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Is Europe Christian?

    As Europe wrangles over questions of national identity, nativism and immigration, Olivier Roy interrogates the place of Christianity, foundation of Western identity. Do secularism and Islam really pose threats to the continent's 'Christian values'? What will be the fate of Christianity in Europe? Rather than repeating the familiar narrative of decline, Roy challenges the significance of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Vinalhaven Island's Maritime Industries

    Series series Images of America
    Vinalhaven Island has been the home port of a productive commercial fishing fleet for over 200 years. By 1819, Vinalhaven vessels were fishing for cod and herring from Seal Island all the way to Labrador waters. By 1878, Carver's Harbor was lined with docks, fishhouses, a sail loft, a net factory, and the Lane & Libby fish plant. Throughout the 19th century, boats brought bait, salt, and supplies ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Edges

    by Léna Roy ...
    Narrated by Cynthia Holloway, Ryan Gesell ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 20 min

    Luke left his old life—his dead mother, his alcoholic father—behind in New York City when he came to Moab, Utah, eight months ago. Seventeen years old and technically a runaway, he found work and a new home at a youth hostel nestled in the red sandstone valley. Now, he has reinvented himself as a guy who lives for the present, and it seems to be working—particularly when it comes to his ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Dave Dashaway And His Giant Airship (Unabridged)

    by ROY ROCKWOOD ...
    Narrated by Cynthia Schofield ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 42 min

    How the Giant Airship was constructed and how the daring young aviator and his friends made the hazardous journey through the clouds from the new world to the old, is told in a way to keep the reader spellbound. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD