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  • Symphony Nova Scotia at 54

    A Milestone of Musical History

    by Mary Lu MacDonald, Adrian Hoffman, Jane Gordon ...
    Music has been a significant part of life in Mi’kma’ki for many thousands of years, and classical music in particular since the founding of Halifax in 1749. Musicians of various European origins brought their instruments, musical traditions, and tastes with them, and their commitment to and joy of music-making planted the seeds for the vibrant Symphony Nova Scotia we know today. The region’s ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • How Not To Get Old

    One Woman's Quest to Take Control of the Ageing Process

    by Jane Gordon ...
    'A jolly quest to make the greying years more colourful' The TimesWhen journalist Jane Gordon was hospitalised and left immobile after a nasty car accident, dependent on others to feed her and help her to the bathroom, she suddenly had to confront what it might be like to one day be old and infirm.Determined to not only regain her strength but find ways to stay physically and mentally fit for as ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement

    by Jane Gordon ...
    Why have statelessness and contemporary enslavement become endemic since the 1990s? What is it about global political economic policies, protracted warfare, and migration rules and patterns that have so systemically increased these extreme forms of vulnerability? Why have intellectual communities largely ignored or fundamentally rejected the concepts of statelessness and contemporary enslavement? ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Postcolonialism and Political Theory

    by Lucian M. Ashworth, Phillip Darby, Enrique Dussel, Graham Finlay, Alice Feldman, M.I Franklin, Jane Gordon, Lewis Gordon, Hwa Yol Jung, E San Juan Jr, John Savage, Joan W. Scott ...
    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial studies, as well as to the urgent need within world politics, to turn towards a multiplicity ... Read more

    $54.29 USD

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    How Not To Get Old

    One Woman's Quest to Take Control of the Ageing Process

    by Jane Gordon ...
    Narrated by Juliet Aubrey ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 11 min

    'A jolly quest to make the greying years more colourful' The TimesWhen journalist Jane Gordon was hospitalised and left immobile after a nasty car accident, dependent on others to feed her and help her to the bathroom, she suddenly had to confront what it might be like to one day be old and infirm.Determined to not only regain her strength but find ways to stay physically and mentally fit for as ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Passion to Dance

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  • Local Histories/Global Designs

    Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of ... Read more

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  • The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument

    A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument

    by David Schoenbaum ...
    The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it.A 16-ounce package of polished wood, strings, and air, the violin is perhaps the most affordable, portable, and adaptable instrument ever created. As congenial to reels, ragas, Delta blues, and indie rock as it is to solo Bach and late Beethoven, it has been played standing or ... Read more

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  • Moral Relativism

    by Professor Steven Lukes ...
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  • Art and Politics

    The History of the National Arts Centre

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    Short-listed for the Ottawa Book Awards, 2010This is the story of the creation and first four decades of one of Canada’s pre-eminent cultural organizations. While it documents the history of Canada’s National Arts Centre in Ottawa, it also tells the story of the arts in Canada from the 1960s to 2006. The story breaks down into three parts: the years of creation and early growth, fuelled by the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

    by John S Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Phillips ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist ... Read more

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