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  • Art, Labour and American Life

    1930–2020

    by Ben Hickman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have been shaped by work’s transformations over the last century. Describing the complex relations between cultural forms and the work practices, Art, Labour and American Life explores everything from Fordism to feminization, from whitecollar ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Protecting and Safeguarding Children in Schools

    A Multi-Agency Approach

    by Mary Baginsky, Jenny Driscoll, Carl Purcell, Jill Manthorpe, Ben Hickman ...
    Schools play a vital role in safeguarding children and young people, yet there has been little research into how schools identify and respond to child protection concerns, and their engagement with local authority children’s services.This book highlights the findings of a major ESRC-funded study on the child protection role played by schools, their decision-making processes and involvement in ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The New American Poetry

    Fifty Years Later

    by Carla Billitteri, Terence Diggory, David Herd, Ben Hickman, Megan Swihart Jewell, Burt Kimmelman, Joe Moffett, John R. Woznicki, Paul R. Cappucci, Seth J. Forrest0, Joshua S. Hoeynck1, Peter Middleton2 ...
    The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen’s 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called “the fountainhead of radical American poetics.”The New American Poetry is referred to in every literary history of post-World War II American poetry. Allen’s anthology has reached its fiftieth anniversary, ... Read more

    $51.09 USD

  • Crisis and the US Avant-Garde

    Poetry and Real Politics

    by Ben Hickman ...

    $92.99 USD

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  • A Darwinian Left

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    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Darwinism Today series
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  • An Analysis of John Berger's Ways of Seeing

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    Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how our assumptions affect how we see a painting. He moves on to consider the role of women in artwork, particularly ... Read more

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  • The Canadian Modernists Meet

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    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem 'The Canadian Authors Meet' sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada's formative movements in modernist poetry, fiction, and drama. As did Scott's poem, Dean Irvine's collection raises questions - ... Read more

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