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  • Identities and Audiences in the Musical

    An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3

    Edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very basis for our engagement with the genre. In this third volume of the reissued Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, chapters focus on race, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Media and Performance in the Musical

    An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 2

    Edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    For the past several years, the American musical has continued to thrive by reflecting and shaping cultural values and social norms, and even commenting on politics, whether directly and on a national scale (Hamilton) or somewhat more obliquely and on a more intimate scale (Fun Home). New stage musicals, such as Come from Away and The Band's Visit, open on Broadway every season, challenging ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Histories of the Musical

    An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 1

    Edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a mélange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and burlesque, minstrelsy and jazz, musicals have always sought to amuse more than instruct, and to make money more than make political change. In ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Fifty Years of Personality Psychology

    Edited by Kenneth H. Craik, Robert Hogan, Raymond N. Wolfe ...
    Series series Perspectives on Individual Differences
    Assembling original papers by the field's foremost investigators, this history demonstrates the continuity and progress made across five decades of personality psychology research. In addition to providing a historical perspective for the discipline, the work aims to inspire a more coherent agenda for future research. ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Scituate Reservoir

    by Raymond A. Wolf ...
    Series series Images of America
    In 1772, portions of Providence received water through a system of hollowed out logs. By 1869, seventeen years after Zachariah Allen campaigned for a public water supply, the public voted in favor of introducing water into the city from the Pawtuxet River in Cranston. By 1900, it was clear that more, purer water was needed. A public law was approved on April 21, 1915, creating the Providence Water ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Villages of Scituate

    by Raymond A. Wolf ...
    Series series Images of America
    In 1915, the general assembly appointed the Providence Water Supply Board to condemn 14,800 acres of land in rural Scituate. The hardworking people of the five villages were devastated. By December 1916, notices were delivered to the villagers stating that the homes and land they had owned for generations were to be taken and destroyed. Construction was well under way by 1921, and water was being ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

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    Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in thisstartlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees—including the main accusers ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Right and Wrong

    How to decide for yourself, make wiser moral choices and build a better society

    by Hugh Mackay ...
    How can you be sure you're doing the right thing? Can some actions be legally right, yet morally wrong? What are the rights and wrongs of leaving a relationship? Are the rules different for sex? Is it always wrong to tell a lie? Why be good?No one pretends that making moral choices is easy. In this updated edition, which includes a new prologue on the moral minefields of power and wealth, Hugh ... Read more

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  • Murder at Rocky Point Park

    Tragedy in Rhode Island's Summer Paradise

    by Kelly Sullivan Pezza ...
    The true story of a heartbreaking crime at a nineteenth-century amusement park.On a summer day in 1893, against a backdrop of laughter and barrel organ music at Rocky Point Amusement Park, little Maggie Sheffield was murdered—by her own father.But the tragedy aroused a strange reaction from the peaceable community of Warwick, Rhode Island, as many seemed to be more concerned for the murderer, ... Read more

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  • The King's Best Highway

    The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America

    by Eric Jaffe ...
    A VIVID AND FASCINATING LOOK AT AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST STORIED HIGHWAY, THE BOSTON POST ROADDuring its evolution from Indian trails to modern interstates, the Boston Post Road, a system of over-land routes between New York City and Boston, has carried not just travelers and mail but the march of American history itself. Eric Jaffe captures the progress of people ... Read more

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  • '78

    The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, and a Divided City

    by Bill Reynolds ...
    Now in paperback: the inside story behind a crucial chapter in Red Sox lore-and a turbulent time in a troubled city.George Steinbrenner called it the greatest game in the history of American sports. On a bright October day in 1978, the Boston Red Sox met the New York Yankees for an epic playoff game that would send one team to the World Series-and render the other cursed for almost a quarter of a ... Read more

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  • The Alchemy of Freedom

    The Philosophers' Stone and the Secrets of Existence

    by A. H. Almaas ...
    Well-known spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas uses the metaphor of the mysterious philosopher's stone to discuss a tremendous liberating power that leads to endless enlightenmentFor millennia alchemists sought the philosophers’ stone, the miracle substance believed to be the key to all the secrets of existence. The quest was fueled by some of the prime questions of human existence: What am I? Why am I ... Read more

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