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  • British Violin Makers

    This adaptable instrument's origins date back centuries. Celtic legends amuse us with mystical stories describing the creation of stringed music, but practical history recounts that the modern birth of the violin occurred in Italy as early as the sixteenth century. The skilled craft of hand production was renowned in France as well, but it is the British classic type and its history that W. ... Read more

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  • Ordinary People, Extraordinary Actions

    Refuge Through Activism at Ottawa’s St. Joe’s Parish

    Series series Politics and Public Policy
    Qu’est-ce qui motive « les gens ordinaires » à appuyer émotivement et financièrement les réfugiés ?Cette question tombe à point, compte tenu du fait que le nombre de personnes déplacées dans le monde d’aujourd’hui est toujours élevé. Afin d’aider à gérer cette crise, il est impératif que le gouvernement canadien détermine quelles politiques encouragent les bénévoles à accueillir les chercheurs d ... Read more

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    A Rare Recording of William Morris Meredith Jr. Reading His Own Poems

    Series Audiobook 184 - A Rare Recording of…

    Unabridged

    10 min

    William Morris Meredith Jr. (January 9, 1919 - May 30, 2007), born in New York City, was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980, and the recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In the following recordings Mederdith reads his poems "The Wreck of the Thresher," "Parents From The Cheer," "The Illiterate," and ... Read more

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    The Comedy-O-Rama Hour: The XM Satellite Years

    Unabridged

    30 hours 2 min

    Now available in one collection for you to enjoy!Long before Sgt. Lefty and the Camp Waterlogg gang took over, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour residents were parody versions of Mysteries (Sherlock Holmes), Old-time Radio (The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, etc.), SCI-FI (Willoughby and the Professor), Superheroes (Teaman and Polfroon), and more.“Those were the XM years,” explains Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev), who ... Read more

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  • Children of the Broken Treaty

    Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream

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    Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country’s history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree woman whom George Stroumboulopoulos named as one of “five teenage girls who kicked ass in history.”All Shannen wanted was a decent education. She found an ally in Charlie Angus, who ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Paintings of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)

    Series Book 39 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The American James Abbott McNeill Whistler was averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, establishing himself as a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". Finding a parallel between painting and music, Whistler entitled many of his paintings with musical names, emphasising the primacy of tonal harmony. His innovative and modern approach to art, at times resulting in ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Revolution

    The Global Race to Reinvent the State

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    Life and Art in London's Golden Age

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  • Selected Essays

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
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