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  • Songs of Liberation in the Netherlands

    The Transatlantic Soundtrack of Freedom

    Edited by Frank Mehring ...
    When the Allied Forces arrived in the Netherlands after Operation Market Garden, the country's long-awaited liberation from National Socialist occupation finally came in the summer of 1945. With freedom reclaimed, a wave of joy and hope swept through the nation, finding its most powerful expression in the stirring liberation songs that resonated across the land. These songs, an evocative ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Environment in Sustainable American Studies

    Powered by Nature

    Edited by Frank Mehring ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
    The Environment in Sustainable American Studies offers a multifaceted exploration of the environment within American Studies, featuring contributions that scrutinize the intricate relationship between culture, power, and the environment. This book presents a cutting‑edge exploration of the current landscape of environmental American studies from transatlantic perspectives. It investigates this ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Hemingway and Africa

    by Miriam B. Mandel, Philip H. Melling, Silvio Calabi, Suzanne del Gizzo, Beatriz Penas Ibanez, Chikako Tanimoto, Erik Nakjavani, Frank Mehring, James Plath, Professor Jeremiah M Kitunda0, Kelli A. Larson1 ...
    Hemingway's two extended African safaris, the first in the 1930s and the second in the 1950s, gave rise to two of his best-known stories ("The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"), a considerable amount of journalism and correspondence, and two nonfiction books, Green Hills of Africa (1935), about the first safari, and True at First Light (1999; longer version, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren

    by Jonathan Lopez ...
    Now a major motion picture starring Guy Pearce, The Last Vermeer* is a revelatory biography of the world’s most famous forger—a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush—and a deliciously detailed story of deceit in the art world.It’s a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Edited by Jason W. Moore ...
    Series series Kairos
    The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition?Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these ... Read more

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  • The Diary Keepers

    World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

    by Nina Siegal ...
    A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary timesBased on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Black Faces, White Spaces

    Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

    by Carolyn Finney ...
    Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Edited by William Cronon ...
    A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Queer Ecologies

    Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire

    Edited by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Bruce Erickson ...
    Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental studies. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines present a focused engagement with the critical, philosophical, and political dimensions of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Pippi Longstocking

    Intermedial and International Approaches to Astrid Lindgren's Work

    Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Astrid Surmatz ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twentieth century. In this collection contributors consider films, music, and picturebooks relating to Lindgren, in addition to the author's reception internationally. Touching on everything from the Astrid Lindgren theme park at Vimmerby, Sweden to the ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Human Ecology

    How Nature and Culture Shape Our World

    by Frederick R. Steiner ...
    Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider how human cultures have been shaped by natural forces, and how we might use this understanding to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Free Gifts

    Capitalism and the Politics of Nature

    by Alyssa Battistoni ...
    An urgent critique of capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature, why it is driving our environmental crisis, and how we can reimagine our relationship to the natural worldCapitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. In Free Gifts, ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD