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  • Libraries and Care-experienced Children and Young People

    A Practical Guide

    by John Vincent ...
    Series series Libraries and Social Justice
    Drawing on the personal experience of library staff and young people, this essential guide provides guidance on how libraries can best support children and young people in care.Exploring practices that have proved beneficial and effective, and explaining why, this book gives readers the necessary tools to develop good practice in their own library to support vulnerable young people. Chapters ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Libraries and Sanctuary

    Supporting Refugees and New Arrivals

    by John Vincent ...
    Series series Libraries and Social Justice
    Libraries and Sanctuary is a practical guide to how libraries and their staff can support ‘new arrivals’ – people who have crossed borders to reach a country. The book looks at the different drivers behind an individual’s move, their need for signposting, and at the sorts of barriers that are faced by new arrivals and people seeking sanctuary. Readers will discover the background reasons for ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • White Lily

    by John Vincent ...
    Series series The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
    Why are my problems / always the worst? // And why / because I wrote that / do you think I don’t believe it?White Lily is John Emil Vincent’s love note to Louise Glück and Laurie Anderson, two artists inspired and bedevilled by white lilies.Under their spell the poet dives into parable, fable, received wisdom, compact discs, and ruined utopias like a gleeful truant child. The white lily is ever ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Spontaneous Collection of Past Works

    by John Vincent ...
    From comparing war poems to analyzing how synthetic grass acts as a symbol, this book consists of a spontaneous collection of John Vincent's past works. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire

    by John Vincent ...
    Series series The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
    Injury the guide explained / is what / guides explainChatty Cathy, while not the first talking doll, was certainly the most widely known, and the only one elevated to idiom. This unauthorized chronicle of her later career luridly illustrates the perils of reaching such linguistic heights with so very little to say.In The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire Jojo, Gypsy May, Marge, Tootles, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • LGBT People and the UK Cultural Sector

    The Response of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Heritage since 1950

    by John Vincent ...
    This book examines the complex and conflicting relationships between LGBT people and our cultural and heritage organisations including libraries, museums and archives. In this unique book established author John Vincent draws together current good practice, and also highlights issues which urgently still need to be addressed. To set the work of libraries, museums and archives in context, Vincent ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Bitter in the Belly

    by John Vincent ...
    Series series The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
    The past grabs back / what it lets us handleBitter in the Belly reckons with suicide’s wreckage. After John Emil Vincent’s best friend descends into depression and hangs himself, fluency and acuity lose their lustre.Vincent sorts through and tries to arrange cosmologies, eloquence, narrative, insight, only to find fatal limitations. He tries to trick tragedy into revealing itself by means of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ganymede's Dog

    by John Vincent ...
    Series series The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
    Took all this time to actually in fact bite our own tail to learn that that hurts; I guess it was worth it. / Developed a taste for tails.The prose poems of Ganymede's Dog startle myths back to life, whether Ganymede's abduction by Zeus in the form of an eagle, his abduction by a century's worth of Budweiser labels, Sophocles's boozy boy-chasing, or the dancing plague of 1518.John Emil Vincent ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Ganymede's Dog

    by John Vincent ...
    Series series The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
    Took all this time to actually in fact bite our own tail to learn that that hurts; I guess it was worth it. / Developed a taste for tails.The prose poems of Ganymede's Dog startle myths back to life, whether Ganymede's abduction by Zeus in the form of an eagle, his abduction by a century's worth of Budweiser labels, Sophocles's boozy boy-chasing, or the dancing plague of 1518.John Emil Vincent ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Old Age

    by John Vincent ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    Recent decades have seen a fundamental change in the age structure of many western societies. In these societies it is now common for a fifth to a quarter of the population to be retired, for fewer babies to be born than is required to sustain the size of the population and for life expectancy to exceed eighty years old. This book provides an overview of the key issues arising from this ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Happy Leons: Leon Happy Fast Food

    by John Vincent, Jack Burke, Rebecca Seal ...
    Series Book 14 - Leon
    'Cook yourself healthy and happy!' - the Sunday TelegraphThe home of healthy fast food brings you 100 new recipes that are not only quick and easy, but will do you good, too.From the very beginning, LEON has asked the question: why can't fast food be delicious and good for you? Well, it can - this book is packed with the quickest recipes from around the world that have been given a healthy-but ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Leon Fast Vegan

    by John Vincent, Rebecca Seal, Chantal Symons ...
    Series Book 11 - Leon
    NO MEAT, ONLY PLANTSA cookbook for vegans and anyone who wants more plants in their life, LEON Fast Vegan is all about delicious food, which just happens to be vegan. Whether you are looking for breakfasts or party food, weekday suppers or ambitious feasts, there is something here for everyone.With 200 recipes, the book is packed with everything from breakfast and brunch dishes to sharing plates ... Read more

    $10.99 USD