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  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including `The Red-Headed League', `The Blue Carbuncle', and `The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gained ... Read more

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  • Rock, Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, 1966-1970

    How the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground Defined an Era

    by Doyle Greene ...
    The convergence of rock music, counterculture politics and avant-garde aesthetics in the late 1960s underscored the careers of the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and the Velvet Underground.This book examines these artists' relationships to the historical avant-garde (Artaud, Brecht, Dada) and neo-avant-garde (Warhol, Pop Art, minimalism), considering their work in light of ... Read more

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  • The Mexican Cinema of Darkness

    A Critical Study of Six Landmark Horror and Exploitation Films, 1969-1988

    by Doyle Greene ...
    Following the national and international upheaval and tragedy in 1968, Mexican "trash cinema" began to shift away from the masked wrester genre and towards darker, more explicit films, and disturbing visions of the modern world: films which can be called "avant-exploitation." This work covers six of those films: El Topo, Mansion of Madness, Alucarda, Guyana, Crime of the Century, Birds of Prey, ... Read more

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  • The Rock Cover Song

    Culture, History, Politics

    by Doyle Greene ...
    Cover songs operate as a form of cultural discourse across various musical genres and different societal, historical and political conditions. Case studies include a comparative analysis of Jimi Hendrix's and Whitney Houston's versions of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as well as a mapping of the trajectory of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" from the original version by the Rolling Stones through ... Read more

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  • Mexploitation Cinema: A Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, Ape-Man and Similar Films, 1957-1977

    A Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, Ape-Man and Similar Films, 1957-1977

    by Doyle Greene ...
    Thanks in large part to an exploitation film producer and distributor named K. Gordon Murray, a unique collection of horror films from Mexico began to appear on American late-night television and drive-in screens in the 1960s. Ranging from monster movies clearly owing to the heyday of Universal Studios to the lucha libre horror films featuring El Santo and the "Wrestling Women," these low-budget ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including `The Red-Headed League', `The Blue Carbuncle', and `The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gained ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • The Victorian Mystery Megapack: 27 Classic Mystery Tales

    The theme of this Megapack is classic mystery and crime fiction from the Victorian era. We have taken the liberty of extending the qualifying publication dates to the end of World War I, since that event marked more of a turning point in world literature than the advent of the Edwardian Age. Certainly the spirit of Victorian crime fiction continued beyond Queen Victoria. This volume contains 25 ... Read more

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  • Test Talk

    Integrating Test Preparation into Reading Workshop

    Under No Child Left Behind, nearly every teacher faces a high-stakes balancing act; managing the often incompatible responsibilities of teaching students meaningfully or preparing them for standardized tests. Through their experiences teaching at a school that struggled to meet state test standards driven by NCLB, authors Amy Greene and Glennon Melton discovered a way to raise scores without ... Read more

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  • Reason Against the Unseen - 3 Classic Uncanny Mystery Tales & Novels

    Enriched edition. The Adventure of the Devil's Foot, The House in the Mist, The Phantom of the Opera, etc.

    Dive into 'Reason Against the Unseen - 3 Classic Uncanny Mystery Tales & Novels,' a compelling anthology that seamlessly melds the intellectual rigor of deductive reasoning with the eerie allure of the unknown. This exquisite collection showcases a range of literary styles inherent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, inviting readers to explore narratives that balance logic with the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Detective Stories - Volume 2: E M Delafield to Anna Katharine Green

    The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Read more

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    The Sign of the Four

    Unabridged

    4 hours 15 min

    "The Sign of the Four" (also known as "The Sign of Four") is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this captivating mystery, Holmes and his loyal companion, Dr. John Watson, unravel a complex plot involving service in the East India Company, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts known as "the Four" ... Read more

    $10.53 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Top 10 Short Stories, The - European Murder

    The ten best murder short stories of all time by European authors

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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