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  • Past Tense, Forever Present: Remembering 9/11

    by David Churchill ...
    Series series Critics at Large
    The ramifications of 9/11 are still being felt today. And those ramifications will continue to be felt for generations to come. Everyone's world changed irrevocably on that morning. Eleven years later wars are still being fought as a result and nut cases who think it was an inside job continue to spout their poison. Twenty-five, fifty, one hundred years from now, someone will still be looking at ... Read more

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  • Ball of Fire

    The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball

    by Stefan Kanfer ...
    As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, “queen of the B-pluses.” But on the small screen she was a superstar–arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV. In this exemplary biography, Stefan Kanfer explores the roots of Lucy’s genius and places it in the context of her conflicted and sometimes bitter personal life.Ball of Fire gives us Lucy in all her contradictions. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • THE ONE YOU OVERLOOKED

    by MAD GENEUS ...
    THE ONE YOU OVERLOOKED is a collection of spoken word pieces that takes you on a journey of a biracial kid raised in a low socioeconomic neighborhood, who overcame both political and racial obstacles in life. Fighting the pain from within and making it through the structure of todays' society. This audiobook dives into the ups and downs that were crucial to the creation of a MAD GENEUS. It is ... Read more

    $2.81 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not With A Bang But A Whimper

    The Politics and Culture of Decline

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    A beautifully-written and thought-provoking collection of essays on social, political and literary issues as diverse as violent crime on Britain's streets, the effects of the welfare state, modern architecture and the respective merits of Shakespeare and Dr. Johnson. Dalrymple uses examples from his long career as a prison doctor and his travels to every corner of the globe to illustrate his ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Ban This Filth!

    Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive

    by Ben Thompson ...
    In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement for censorship: the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, now Mediawatch-uk.For almost forty ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • It's Your Time You're Wasting

    A Teacher's Tales of Classroom Hell

    by Frank Chalk ...
    Frank Chalk is an ordinary teacher in an ordinary British school... a school where the kids get drunk, beat up the teachers and take drugs - when they can be bothered to turn up.It's Your Time You're Wasting is the blackly humorous diary of a year in his working life.Chalk confiscates porn, booze and errant trainers, fends off angry parents and worries about the conscientious pupils whose lives ... Read more

    $3.75 CAD

  • Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu

    by Maurice Joly ...
    Series Book 1 - Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu
    This book has traits that can be applied to all governments, but it has one precise goal: to personify one political system in particular that has not varied in its methods for a single day since the unfortunate and, alas, already too faraway date of its inauguration.This is not a lampoon or a pamphlet; the senses of modern people are already too policed to accept violent truths about contemporary ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Sports Film

    Games People Play

    by Bruce Babington ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    After covering the genre's early history and theorizing its general characteristics, this volume then focuses on specific instances of sports films, such as the biopic, the sports history film, the documentary, the fan film, the boxing film, and explores issues such as gender, race, spectacle and silent comedy. Four major films are then closely analysed – Chariots of Fire, Field of Dreams, the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • MTV and Teen Pregnancy

    Critical Essays on 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom

    Edited by Letizia Guglielmo ...
    In 2009, 16 and Pregnant premiered on MTV, closely followed by the spinoffs Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2. Because of their controversial portrayals of teenage mothers, the shows have received ongoing media attention. While some argue that the programs could play a factor in reducing the number of teen pregnancies, others claim the shows exploit young women and glamorize their situations. Among these ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • A Most Canadian Odyssey

    Education Diplomacy and Federalism, 1844-1984

    by John Allison ...
    This book was first published as a peer-reviewed monograph by Althouse Press at Western University in London, Canada. Now, the original manuscript has been reprinted for worldwide distribution.Drawing on historical research, John Allison documents the history and development of Educational Diplomacy in Canada. In setting the stage, he looks at its early development via the voyages of Egerton ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Without Contention – the Plight of Homeless Veterans

    by David Lefavor ...

    $2.82 CAD

  • Ainâ??t That a Knee-Slapper

    Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century

    by Tim Hollis ...
    There was a time when rural comedians drew most of their humor from tales of farmers' daughters, hogs, hens, and hill country high jinks. Lum and Abner and Ma and Pa Kettle might not have toured happily under the "Redneck" marquee, but they were its precursors.In Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century, author Tim Hollis traces the evolution of this classic American form ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD