Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

Item(s) unavailable for purchase

Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.

itemsitem

- Includes eBooks
  
  Includes audiobooks
  
  Includes 30 hours of listening time
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Includes eBooks
  
  Includes audiobooks
  
  Includes 30 hours of listening time
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Includes eBooks

Includes audiobooks

Includes 30 hours of listening time

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Includes eBooks

Includes audiobooks

Includes 30 hours of listening time

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

Skip side bar filters

Presence

A Hidden History of the Female Body

by Erin Maglaque ...

**"[A] soulful, moving, sometimes cacophonous account of European women’s experiences and interior lives from about 1500 to 1800."—Mattie Kahn, The New York Times Book ReviewA vibrant history of women’s bodies, expertise, and work from a major new writer—stylish, revelatory, and liberating.**Today, we understand the mind and the body to be distinct; that the mind exercises control over the flesh. ... Read more

$19.19 CAD

**"[A] soulful, moving, sometimes cacophonous account of European women’s experiences and interior lives from about 1500 to 1800."—Mattie Kahn, The New York Times Book ReviewA vibrant history of women’s bodies, expertise, and work from a major new writer—stylish, revelatory, and liberating.**Today, we understand the mind and the body to be distinct; that the mind exercises control over the flesh.
... Read more
Venice's Intimate Empire

Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean

by Erin Maglaque ...

Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors. In Venice's Intimate Empire, she uses these two men and their families to showcase the relationship between humanism, empire, and family in the Venetian Mediterranean.Maglaque elaborates an ... Read more

$51.99 CAD

Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors. In Venice's Intimate Empire, she uses these two men and their families to showcase the relationship between humanism, empire, and family in the Venetian Mediterranean.Maglaque elaborates an
... Read more

The Italian Renaissance

Culture and Society in Italy

by Peter Burke ...

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological
... Read more
In Her Own Time

A Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women

by Maggie Siggins ...

It all started with an R.H. King Collegiate class of ’61 reunion: 26 women meeting 30 years after their graduation. Siggins was struck by their wide range of fascinating life stories. These, after all, were the women who were born during the war, had come of age in the ’60s, and were changed by the women’s movement of the ’70s. They had all stood at the forefront of one of the greatest revolutions ... Read more

$14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

It all started with an R.H. King Collegiate class of ’61 reunion: 26 women meeting 30 years after their graduation. Siggins was struck by their wide range of fascinating life stories. These, after all, were the women who were born during the war, had come of age in the ’60s, and were changed by the women’s movement of the ’70s. They had all stood at the forefront of one of the greatest revolutions
... Read more
A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

by Virginia Cox ...

Series series Short Histories
The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when ... Read more

$20.59 CAD

The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when
... Read more
Dante

A Life

by Alessandro Barbero ...

Translated by Allan Cameron ...

Dante brings the legendary author—and the medieval Italy of his era— to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing.Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries.However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

Dante brings the legendary author—and the medieval Italy of his era— to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing.Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries.However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the
... Read more
Of Woman Born

Motherhood as Experience and Institution

by Adrienne Rich ...

The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—she finds the ... Read more

$17.49 CAD

Also available as: Audiobook

The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—she finds the
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Venice Reconsidered

The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

by John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano ...

This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican ... Read more

$17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican
... Read more
The Whole Five Feet

What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everthing Else

by Christopher R. Beha ...

This unique memoir of reading the classics to find strength and wisdom "makes an elegant case for literature as an everyday companion" ( The New York Times Book Review).While undergoing a series of personal and family crises, Christopher R. Beha discovered that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics—the renowned "five foot shelf" of great world literature compiled in the early twentieth ... Read more

$14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This unique memoir of reading the classics to find strength and wisdom "makes an elegant case for literature as an everyday companion" ( The New York Times Book Review).While undergoing a series of personal and family crises, Christopher R. Beha discovered that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics—the renowned "five foot shelf" of great world literature compiled in the early twentieth
... Read more
Attention

Writing on Life, Art and the World

by Anne Enright ...

**One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026From one of our most distinguished literary voices, a defining essay collection blending personal reflection with urgent political writing and wide–ranging cultural criticism.**For thirty years Anne Enright―one of our greatest living novelists (Times)―has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

Also available as: Audiobook

**One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026From one of our most distinguished literary voices, a defining essay collection blending personal reflection with urgent political writing and wide–ranging cultural criticism.**For thirty years Anne Enright―one of our greatest living novelists (Times)―has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

by Carolyn Springer ...

During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression.Luxury armour ... Read more

$35.19 CAD

During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression.Luxury armour
... Read more
Act Natural

A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting

by Jennifer Traig ...

From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange and often contradictory history of Western parentingWhy do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? How did helicopter parenting develop if it used to be perfectly socially acceptable to abandon your children? Why do we encourage our babies to crawl if crawling won't help them learn to ... Read more

$25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: Audiobook

From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange and often contradictory history of Western parentingWhy do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? How did helicopter parenting develop if it used to be perfectly socially acceptable to abandon your children? Why do we encourage our babies to crawl if crawling won't help them learn to
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“erin maglaque”

Presence

Venice's Intimate Empire

People who read these also enjoyed

The Italian Renaissance

In Her Own Time

A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

Dante

Of Woman Born

Venice Reconsidered

The Whole Five Feet

Attention

Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

Act Natural

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“erin maglaque”

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed