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  • The Orphan of Zhao

    by James Fenton ...
    In the aftermath of the massacre of a clan, an epic story of self-sacrifice and revenge unfolds as a young orphan discovers the shattering truth behind his childhood. Sometimes referred to as the Chinese Hamlet and tracing its origins to the 4th century BC, The Orphan of Zhao was the first Chinese play to be translated in the West.James Fenton's adaptation of The Orphan of Zhao premiered with the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • William Blake

    by James Fenton ...
    In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.Tyger Tyger, burning bright,In the forests of the night:What ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Love Bomb

    And Other Musical Pieces

    by James Fenton ...
    Three libretti—ranging in setting from Ancient Jerusalem to Pre-Apocalyptic London—from an acclaimed poet: "[James Fenton] writes as no one else dares to—with clarity, wit, and the simplest of rhymes." — Voice Literary SupplementThis volume of libretti marks new work—and new terrain—for James Fenton. Commissioned by companies in New York and England, these musical pieces make the most of the poet ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Don Quixote

    Based on the Novel

    by James Fenton, Miguel de Cervantes ...
    After a lifetime of reading books on chivalry, Don Quixote decides to embark on a quest of his own. Taking up a lance and sword, he sets out to become a wandering knight, defending the helpless and vanquishing the wicked.Hopelessly unprepared and increasingly losing his grip on reality, he travels across Spain accompanied by his faithful and equally ill-suited squire, each calamitous adventure ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Matter of the Heart

    A Monk's Journal

    by James Finley, Paul Quenon ...
    “This book is a treasure-chest of wisdom and beauty and fun. Brother Paul’s delight in the world, and his gift for putting words to wonder, would make his old novice master Thomas Merton beam. Best of all, a deep sense of contentment and peace arises from these pages that can remind the monk in every one of us how we might choose to live.” —Pico Iyer, author of The Half Known Life: In Search of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Academic English in Turbulent Times

    Edited by James Fenton, Julio Gimenez, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Percy, Mariangela Spinillo ...
    This volume shares proven strategies for Academic English teaching, research, and development in challenging circumstances. Through original first-hand experiences from around the world, the collection reveals how educators in higher education have responded to the specific needs and challenges of teaching second language learners in turbulent times, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Organised ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Selected Poems

    by D. H. Lawrence ...
    From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) the poems of D. H. Lawrence challenged convention and inspired later poets.This volume includes extensive selections from these and other editions, and contains some his most famous poems, such as 'Piano', a nostalgic reflection on lost youth and love for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Software Metrics

    A Rigorous and Practical Approach, Third Edition

    by Norman Fenton, James Bieman ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Innovations in Software Engineering and Software Development Series
    A Framework for Managing, Measuring, and Predicting Attributes of Software Development Products and ProcessesReflecting the immense progress in the development and use of software metrics in the past decades, Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach, Third Edition provides an up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to software metrics. Like its popular predecessors, this ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
    In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Jan Mayen

    Meanderings in Unfathomable Seas

    by James H C Fenton ...
    Series Book 3 - Polar Trilogy
    There are four main characters: James, Henrik, Henderson (Alastair) and Alison. They are thrown together by chance and, while passing the island of Jan Mayen in the Arctic, the fog temporarily lifts to reveal a dazzling white volcano; this event seems to bind them together and they make a pact to climb it one day. [The story arose when I once witnessed the volcano do just this.]Perhaps 'reaching ... Read more

    $4.67 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Misunderstanding the Internet

    by James Curran, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the world’s population. The internet’s meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies.However, much popular and academic writing about the internet continues to take a celebratory view, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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    Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Great Lakes Poets

    A celebration of American poetry

    by Ambrose Bierce, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Vachel Lindsay, James Madison Bell, Clara Ann Thompson, James Whitcomb Riley, Fenton Johnson, Alice Cary ...
    Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Darrell Joe, John-Michael MacDonald ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 41 min

    Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus