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  • Co-wives and Calabashes

    by Sally Price ...
    Series series Women And Culture Series
    A fascinating exploration into the world of the Saramaka Maroons of the Suriname rain forest, Co-wives and Calabashes examines the status of women in this polygynous and matrilineal society as reflected in its social structure and in its art. The product of seventeen years of research, the book draws upon a rich variety of resources — from bawdy popular songs to dusty museum artifacts, from ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Crafting Gender

    Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean

    This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is not solely the province of women, but folk art by women in Latin America has received little sustained attention. Crafting Gender begins to redress this gap ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Saamaka Dreaming

    When Richard and Sally Price stepped out of the canoe to begin their fieldwork with the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in 1966, they were met with a mixture of curiosity, suspicion, ambivalence, hostility, and fascination. With their gradual acceptance into the community they undertook the work that would shape their careers and influence the study of African American societies throughout the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Equatoria

    A postmodern romp through the rain forest, Equatoria is both travelogue and cultural critique. On the right-hand pages, the Prices chronicle their 1990 artifact-collecting expedition up the rivers of French Guiana, and on the left, stage an accompanying sideshow that enlists the help of Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Alex Haley, James Clifford, Eric Hobsbawn, Germaine Greer ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Maroons in Guyane

    Past, Present, Future

    Series Book 42 - Race in the Atlantic World
    For more than four centuries, communities of maroons (men and women who escaped slavery) dotted the fringes of plantation America, from Brazil through the Caribbean to the United States. Today their descendants still form semi-independent enclaves—in Jamaica, Brazil, Colombia, Belize, Suriname, Guyane, and elsewhere—remaining proud of their maroon origins and, in some cases, faithful to unique ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Stedman's Surinam

    Life in an Eighteeth-Century Slave Society

    The famed account of 18th-century slavery in South America, "made more readable by moderate editorial changes . . . A well-accomplished abridgment" ( Colonial Latin American Historical Review).This abridgment of Richard and Sally Price's acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on John Gabriel Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Devil in My Friend

    The Inside Story of a Malibu Murder

    by Ivor Davis ...
    Narrated by Liam Price ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    If you liked The Stranger Beside Me, this book is for you. Follow Ivor and Sally Davis through their investigation into their longtime friend and neighbor when he is arrested for the murder of his wife and stepson.Ivor and Sally Davis were horrified when their Malibu neighbors, Verna Roehler and her son, Doug died in a terrible boating accident. The nightmare only continued when her husband, their ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam

    Transcribed for the First Time From the Original 1790 Manuscript

    When John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796—a bowdlerized edition "full of lies and nonsense"—Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century slave society, including graphic accounts of the worlds of both masters and slaves, it also contained vivid ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urogynaecology

    Series series Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
    Urogynaecological problems are one of the most common reasons that women are referred to the hospital services, and can account for up to a fifth of the gynaecological surgery waiting list at any time. Pelvic floor problems can have a huge impact on the patient's quality of life, and therefore should be managed appropriately. Compact, portable, and comprehensive, this new addition to the Oxford ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Ward-based Critical Care: a guide for health professionals

    Like the original Ward-based Critical Care, this second edition aims to guide practitioners in the initial management of critically ill adult patients within the ward setting. It should be of value to a wide range of healthcare professionals, including junior doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and students. It will also be relevant to practitioners who are moving into any setting that cares for ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Ward-Based Critical Care: A guide for healthprofessionals

    This book aims to guide practitioners in the initial management of the critically ill patient within the ward setting. It is aimed at a range of healthcare professionals including junior doctors, registered nurses physiotherapists and students. It is also relevant to practitioners who are moving into a setting that cares for acutely ill patients. It is divided into sections according to the ABCDE ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the ... Read more

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