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    Styles of Radical Will

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag’s second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.In “The Aesthetics of Silence,” Sontag examines how silence mediates the role of art as a form of spirituality in an increasingly secular culture. “The Pornographic Imagination” ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Madwoman in the Attic

    The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

    by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar ...
    Series series Veritas Paperbacks
    "A feminist classic."—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review“A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.”—Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book WorldA pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Where the Stress Falls

    Essays

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 40 min

    Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer—more than forty longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideasThirty-five years after her first collection, the classic Against Interpretation, America’s most important essayist chose more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the previous twenty years. ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Harvard Medical School Guide to Achieving Optimal Memory

    by Susan Gilbert, Aaron P. Nelson ...
    Series series Harvard Medical School Guides
    From a leading expert at one of the world's most respected medical schools--a complete program for achieving optimal memory, for life!Ever find yourself walking into a room and forgetting why? Having trouble remembering that pesky password or your siblings' birthdays? Don't panic. Memory lapses like these are common, especially after age forty. But memory loss isn't inevitable or irreversible. You ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 38 min

    In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the ... Read more

    $20.54 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Against Interpretation, and Other Essays

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 7 min

    Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Under the Sign of Saturn

    Essays

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 9 min

    Sontag’s most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America’s leading essayists, Sontag’s writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others.The collection includes a variety of her well-known essays. In ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Still Mad

    American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

    by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar ...
    A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women’s movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it.Forty years after their first groundbreaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar map the literary history of feminism’s second wave.From its stirrings in the midcentury—when ... Read more

    $20.59 CAD

  • The Grieving Garden

    Living with the Death of a Child

    by Suzanne Redfern, Susan K. Gilbert ...
    A Portable Support Group for Parents Who Have Lost a Child "A variety of backgrounds and circumstances, along with a shared dedication to speak out on a notoriously unspeakable loss, make this brave volume cathartic and comforting; grieving parents may well find it invaluable."—Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review) Every year, some two million parents in the US suffer the death of a son or daughter. ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Praxis in Student Affairs

    Social Justice in Action

    Edited by Susan B. Marine, Chelsea Gilbert ...
    Student affairs work—like higher education—is fundamentally about change. Principally, the change work performed by student affairs practitioners is about supporting the growth and development of individual students and student groups. Increasingly, that work has called for practitioners to become more active in working to change higher education so that it lives up to its radically democratic, ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology

    Issues and Dilemmas - A Reader in Science Communication

    Edited by John K. Gilbert, Susan M. Stocklmayer ...
    Science communication seeks to engage individuals and groups with evidence-based information about the nature, outcomes, and social consequences of science and technology. This text provides an overview of this burgeoning field ─ the issues with which it deals, important influences that affect it, the challenges that it faces. It introduces readers to the research-based literature about science ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Fall of Marigolds

    by Susan Meissner ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 48 min

    A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away....September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus