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  • The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue

    by Tom Rankin ...
    This introductory essay uses William Eggleston as the point of entry to preview the entire photography issue and includes striking photographs from Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Susan Harbage Page—as well as exploring the stunning work of Paul Kwilecki. “Photography in its finest and most decisive moments is about those tired or ignored or unseen parts of our lives, the mundane ... Read more

    Was $4.99 CAD Now $3.99 CAD

  • Grammar

    A Linguists' Guide for Language Teachers

    by Tom Rankin, Melinda Whong ...
    Traditionally, there has been a disconnect between theoretical linguistics and pedagogical teacher training. This book seeks to bridge that gap. Using engaging examples from a wide variety of languages, it provides an innovative overview of linguistic theory and language acquisition research for readers with a background in education and teacher training, and without specialist knowledge of the ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Into the Flatland

    Photographs from a return to the old family farm on the Mississippi DeltaCapturing the rich contrasts of the land and the intimate history of generations in the Mississippi Delta, Into the Flatland, by Kathleen Robbins, is a series of photographs documenting the terrain, people, and culture of her ancestry. The photographer returned to her family's farm Belle Chase as an adult in 2001 after ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Place

    Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia

    Edited by Tom Rankin ...
    Series series Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
    Though artistic and ambitious, Paul Kwilecki (1928–2009) chose to remain in Bainbridge, Georgia, the small Decatur County town where he was born, raised, and ran the family’s hardware store. He had always been interested in photography and taught himself how to use a camera. Over four decades, he documented life in his community, making hundreds of masterful and intimate black-and-white prints ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town

    Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South

    by Berkley Hudson ...
    Series series Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
    Photographer O. N. Pruitt (1891–1967) was for some forty years the de facto documentarian of Lowndes County, Mississippi, and its county seat, Columbus — known to locals as “Possum Town.” His body of work recalls many FSA photographers, but Pruitt was not an outsider with an agenda; he was a community member with intimate knowledge of the town and its residents. He photographed his fellow white ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Anatomy and Physiology for Midwives and Perinatal Healthcare Professionals - E-Book

    by Tom McEwan, Jean Rankin ...
    Now featuring a new author team and a new and expanded title, Anatomy and Physiology for Midwives and Perinatal Healthcare Professionals, 5th Edition, remains a core text for undergraduate and postgraduate education and is an ideal resource to support those working in maternity and perinatal care. This highly popular textbook presents reproductive anatomy and physiology in a manner which is ideal ... Read more

    $59.19 CAD

  • The True Gospel Preached Here

    by Bruce West ...
    Bruce West's color photographs document the spiritual and creative work of a self-proclaimed preacher, artist, architect, the Reverend H. D. Dennis, and his wife, Margaret, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. This book explores the fantastic world of the elderly couple who devoted more than twenty years of their lives to converting Margaret's Grocery store into a one-of-a-kind nondenominational church. ... Read more

    $34.79 CAD

  • Cultural Sustainabilities

    Music, Media, Language, Advocacy

    by Jeff Todd Titon, Aaron S. Allen, Michael B. Bakan, Robert Baron, Daniel Cavicchi, Timothy J Cooley, Mark F. DeWitt, Barry Dornfeld, Thomas Faux0, Burt Feintuch1, Nancy Guy2, Mary Hufford3, Susan Hurley-Glowa4, Patrick Hutchinson5, Michelle Kisliuk6, Pauleena M. MacDougall7, Margarita Mazo8, Dotan Nitzberg9, Jennifer C. Post0, Tom Rankin1, Roshan Samtani2, Jeffrey A. Summit3, Joshua Tucker4, Rory Turner5, Denise Von Glahn6, Thomas Walker7 ...
    Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural Sustainabilities presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Spirit of the Delta

    The Art of Carolyn Norris

    by Dorothy Sample Shawhan, Patti Carr Black, Tom Rankin, R. Kim Rushing ...
    Raised in West Virginia, self-taught artist Carolyn Norris (b. 1948) moved as a young woman of twenty-one to Cleveland, Mississippi, a quintessential Delta railroad town on the famous blues Highway 61. To create one of her first paintings, she tore the wooden back off a dresser to use as a canvas. She painted with available house paint and completed the painting with face makeup. Thus began the ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The South in Color

    A Visual Journal

    by William Ferris ...
    Series series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
    Since the moment William Ferris’s parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. The sixties and seventies were a particularly significant period for Ferris as he became a pathbreaking documentarian of the American South. This beautiful, provocative collection of 100 of Ferris’s ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Novel Ideas

    Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process

    by Barbara Shoup, Margaret-Love Denman, Charles Johnson, Dorothy Allison, Ha Jin, Jane Smiley, Jill McCorkle, Lee Smith, Lewis Nordan, Michael Chabon, Michael Cunningham, Patricia Henley, Peter Cameron, Richard Ford, Robb Forman Dew, S. J. Rozan, Sheri Reynolds, Theodore Weesner, Tom Rankin, Valerie Martin, Wally Lamb, Sena Jeter Naslund ...
    Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to enhance its use in the writing classroom.Dorothy Allison recalls "deliciously self-indulgent" days of ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Stop the Press

    The Complete BBC Radio 4 Comedy Quiz Series

    by Grant Stott, Jo Caulfield, Gary Robertson ...
    Narrated by Jan Ravens, Lucy Porter, Ian Rankin, Tom Urie, Scott Agnew, Sean Biggerstaff, Various ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 30 min

    Grant Stott is joined by team captains Jo Caulfield and Gary Robertson in the panel game that pits journalists against the people they're reporting onHold the front page - it's Stop the Press, the comedy quiz where the points really matter! Recorded live in Edinburgh, each show sees well-known entertainers taking on keen newshounds in a bid to find out who knows more about their own specialist ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD