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  • That Gun in Your Hand

    The Strange Saga of ‘Hey Joe’ and Popular Music’s History of Violence

    This is the story of a song. Yet, it is a song that binds nearly every strand of 20th-century American popular music. “Hey Joe” was written sometime in the early 1960s by a man named Billy Roberts, an obscure singer and guitarist from South Carolina who moved to New York City, drawn by the burgeoning folk music scene in Greenwich Village. It was a time when new, original material was scarce, ... Read more

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  • Whispering Pines

    Whispering Pines is the first comprehensive history of Canada’s immense songwriting legacy from Gordon Lightfoot to Joni Mitchell. Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. For most of the 20th century that audience lay outside Canada making the challenge that much greater. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Have Not Been the Same (rev)

    Published in autumn 2001 Have Not Been the Same became the first book to comprehensively document the rise of Canadian underground rock between the years 1985 and 1995. It was a tumultuous decade that saw the arrival of Blue Rodeo The Tragically Hip Sarah McLachlan Sloan Barenaked Ladies Daniel Lanois and many others who made an indelible mark not only on Canadian culture but on the global stage ... Read more

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  • International Student Mobility in Higher Education

    Case Studies in Agency

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers an in-depth look at the experiences of international students as they pursued undergraduate degrees in the US. Drawing on recurring interviews with the students and other qualitative data collected over four years, the book investigates how the students’ academic development intersected with other life factors, including their status as international students, their linguistic ... Read more

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  • Before They Make Me Run: Keith Richards and the Bust That Saved The Rolling Stones

    In the mid-1970s, after a decade as the undisputed "greatest rock and roll band in the world," The Rolling Stones were forced to confront not only the cold reality of the new punk rock era, but how guitarist Keith Richards' mounting personal problems were threatening the band's very existence.Keith's glorified image as rock's ultimate outlaw, as a counterpoint to singer Mick Jagger's image as rock ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ambulance Blues: Neil Young

    Series Book 4 - Summer Singles
    "Ambulance Blues” is excerpted from Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... From Hank Snow to The Band, available as a print or ebook.Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. While nearly every songwriter who successfully crossed this divide did so by ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Two Solitudes: The Tragically Hip

    Series Book 1 - Summer Singles
    "Two Solitudes" is excerpted from Have Note Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995, available as a print or ebook. Published in autumn 2001, Have Not Been the Same became the first book to comprehensively document the rise of Canadian underground rock between the years 1985 and 1995. It was a tumultuous decade that saw the arrival of Blue Rodeo, The Tragically Hip, SarahMcLachlan, Sloan, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Year's Man: Leonard Cohen

    Series Book 5 - Summer Singles
    "Last Year's Man" is excerpted from Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... From Hank Snow to The Band, available as a print or ebook. Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. While nearly every songwriter who successfully crossed this divide did so by ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trust Yourself: Blue Rodeo

    Series Book 2 - Summer Singles
    "Trust Yourself" is excerpted from Have Note Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995, available as a print or ebook. Published in autumn 2001, Have Not Been the Same became the first book to comprehensively document the rise of Canadian underground rock between the years 1985 and 1995. It was a tumultuous decade that saw the arrival of Blue Rodeo, The Tragically Hip, SarahMcLachlan, Sloan ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 3,000 Miles

    Nirvana's Kurt Cobain could not have envisioned what his death would mean to Generation X - or that he would influence one young man from small-town Quebec to take his own life . . . 3,000 Miles is the story of Andre, a man entering his twenties with very little going for him. The only stabilizing influence in his life is music, but the news of Kurt Cobain's suicide finally pushes him over the ... Read more

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  • Applying Use Cases

    A Practical Guide

    Use case analysis is a methodology for defining the outward features of a software system from the user's point of view. Applying Use Cases, Second Edition, offers a clear and practical introduction to this cutting-edge software development technique. Using numerous realistic examples and a detailed case study, you are guided through the application of use case analysis in the development of ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Urge for Going: Joni Mitchell

    Series Book 3 - Summer Singles
    "Urge for Going" is excerpted from Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... From Hank Snow to The Band, available as a print or ebook. Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. While nearly every songwriter who successfully crossed this divide did so by ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus