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  • Speechless

    by Anne Simpson ...
    A'isha Nasir is a Nigerian teenager who has been charged with adultery and sentenced to death. Sophie MacNeil is an ambitious young Canadian journalist who meets A'isha and writes an impassioned article about her plight. But when the article sets off waves of outrage and violence, Sophie is forced to come to terms with the naivete with which she approached the story. Who can — and should — tell a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Quick

    by Anne Simpson ...
    The human body is a world. How it contains all that it does, how it is altered, and how it is transformed after death are the concerns of Quick, a new collection of poetry from one of Canada’s most exciting poets. From the shock of a near-fatal car accident to a meditation on the body as one world within other, larger worlds, the book becomes an anatomy in itself. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Strange Attractor

    Poems

    by Anne Simpson ...
    A stunning new work from the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of Loop and Is.All of us are many selves within our lifetimes--one that is thrust upon us at birth, shaped during youth, and reconstructed throughout our lives. Who is this self? Who is this self in relation to others? In the coming-to-be of childhood or in the midst of illness, we face an unknown self within the one that is known. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Loop

    by Anne Simpson ...
    By the author of Light Falls Through You and the novel Canterbury BeachIn Loop, Anne Simpson explores the power, and the anguish, of many different modes of return – retrieval, revision, the covering of old ground with eyes wider and thoughts reconditioned by difficult wisdom. These poems occur at that place where a focused, compassionate vision comes to inhabit language and to find the forms that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Is

    by Anne Simpson ...
    A stunning new book of poems from the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of Loop.A cell is a world within a world within a world. In this remarkable new collection, Anne Simpson finds form and inspiration in the cell – as it divides and multiplies, expanding beyond its borders. As these poems journey from the creation of the world emerging out of chaos to the slow unravelling of a life that is ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Light Falls Through You

    by Anne Simpson ...
    Sensuously attentive to the world, intensely imagined, and musically driven, Light Falls Through You is a book that remembers the victims – of war, of atrocity, of casual violence – and calls upon language to render homage. Whether she is bringing poetry elegiacally to the service of an individual, to the masses of Rwandan dead or the casualties of the Montreal massacre, Anne Simpson writes ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Play World

    Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood

    by Patricia Anne Simpson ...
    Series series Max Kade Research Institute
    The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of Europe between 1631 and 1914, Patricia Anne Simpson argues that German material, literary, and pedagogical cultures were central to the construction of the modern ideas and realities of play and childhood in the transatlantic world.With attention to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Screening Solidarity

    Neoliberalism and Transnational Cinemas

    by Helga Druxes, Alexandar Mihailovic, Patricia Anne Simpson ...
    Western neoliberalism is a predatory outgrowth of late capitalism that overvalues competition, transferring the laws of the market to human relationships. This book advances the argument that anti-neoliberal cinemas of Europe, the United States, and the Russian Federation imagine and visualize alternatives to the non-sovereign realities of a neoliberal workplace that unequivocally endorses ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership

    From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel

    by Elisabeth Krimmer, Inge Stephan, Joyce Marie Mushaben, Lauren Nossett, Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker, Professor Margaretmary Daley, Professor Patricia Anne Simpson, Peter Hudis, Rachel J. Halverson0, Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge1, Seth Berk2, Stephen Milder3, Almut Almut Spalding4, Anke Gilleir5, Professor Aude Defurne6, Dorothee Beck7, Friederike Brühöfener8, Helga Helga Druxes9 ...
    The Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging their ability to lead has persisted for centuries, not least in Germany. Even today, resistance to women holding power is embedded in literary, cultural, andhistorical values that presume a fundamental opposition between the adjective "female" and the substantive "leader." Women who do achieve positions of leadership are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cultures of Violence in the New German Street

    by Patricia Anne Simpson ...
    In post-Wall Germany, violence—both real and imagined—is increasingly determining the formation of new cultural identities. Patricia Anne Simpson’s book focuses on the representation of violence in three youth subcultures often characterized by aggression as they enact a rivalry for supremacy on the new German “street”—the author’s operative metaphor to situate the cultural discourse about ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Enlightened War

    German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz

    by Elisabeth Krimmer, Professor Patricia Anne Simpson, Sara Eigen Figal, Ute Frevert, Waltraud Maierhofer, Wolf Kittler, Arndt Niebisch, David Colclasure, Felix Saure0, Galili Shahar1, Inge Stephan2, Johannes Birgfeld3 ...
    Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged European warfare from the Seven Years' War to the Napoleonic conquest of Europe. The essays in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Choosing Life

    When You Choose Life, You Are Given Life

    by Julia Anne Simpson ...
    When you choose life, you are given life.A riveting, heartfelt memoir, Choosing Life is a captivating and courageous story of how Julia was presented with the choice twice to be pressured by medical providers to abort her pregnancies or to trust God and choose life for her daughters. Through her journey, she became aware of God's protection, enduring love, and the threads of His canvas. Each ... Read more

    $9.99 USD