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  • The Intellectual Properties of Learning

    A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke

    by John Willinsky ...
    Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products of knowledge a different legal and economic standing than other sorts of property.Willinsky begins with Saint Jerome in the fifth century, then ... Read more

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  • Empire of Words

    The Reign of the OED

    by John Willinsky ...
    What is the meaning of a word? Most readers turn to the dictionary for authoritative meanings and correct usage. But what is the source of authority in dictionaries? Some dictionaries employ panels of experts to fix meaning and prescribe usage, others rely on derivation through etymology. But perhaps no other dictionary has done more to standardize the English language than the formidable twenty ... Read more

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  • The New Literacy

    Redefining Reading and Writing in the Schools

    by John Willinsky ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Literacy
    Originally published in 1990. This book examines the innovative programs that changed the way reading and writing was taught during the previous ten years. Both teacher and critic of the New Literacy programs, the author gives a perspective that allows educators, parents, and other readers to assess the promise of these programs. Examining the work of educators from the USA, UK and Canada, he ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • If Only We Knew

    Increasing The Public Value of Social Science Research

    by John Willinsky ...
    In If Only We Knew John Willinsky uses current social issues and historical precedents to demonstrate that the social sciences can and should contribute far more to public knowledge than they have in the past. We have the technologies, Willinsky demonstrates, and need only the determination to create a public resource out of social research that can extend democratic participation and self ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Copyright's Broken Promise

    How to Restore the Law's Ability to Promote the Progress of Science

    by John Willinsky ...
    A comprehensive proposal for reforming copyright law to ensure sustainable public access to research and scholarship.Open access is widely supported by researchers, librarians, scholarly societies, and research funders, as well as large and small publishers. Yet despite this support—and the pandemic’s demonstration of the importance of open access for scientific progress—the scholarly publishing ... Read more

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  • The Communist Collection: 14 Insightful Books

    Radical Writings on Marxism, Anarchism, Revolution, Labor, and Utopian Socialism

    by Joseph J. Mereto, Petr Alekseevich kniaz Kropotkin, Lewis Henry Berens, Leon Trotsky, Mary Knight, Sergiei Nilus, Tommaso Campanella, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Hermynia Zur Mühlen, Boris Reinstein, Mack Reynolds, John Spargo, Paul Dukes, Bertrand Russell ...
    The Communist Collection: 14 Insightful Books assembles a deliberately wide-ranging archive of communist thought, utopian speculation, revolutionary argument, reportage, polemic, and fiction. Its contents move from early visions of communal order to analyses of capitalism, accounts of revolution, and later imaginative treatments of collectivist futures. Foundational theoretical texts sit beside ... Read more

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  • Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate

    A Treasury of Fairy Tales, Adventures, Nature Studies, Myths, and Moral Classics

    by C. E. Smith, Louey Chisholm, Harrison Weir, Harriet Putnam, Thomas Lambert Sappington, Carl Sandburg, Patten Beard, Margaret Warner Morley, Hector Malot, Charles Dickens, Catharine Shaw, Evelyn Sharp, Johanna Spyri, Heinrich Hoffmann, Roy Rutherford Bailey, Pamela Grey, E. Nesbit, Edward Stratemeyer, Loïs Bates, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Josephine Daskam Bacon, John Habberton, James Otis, Padraic Colum, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, E. Louise Smythe, F. J. Cross, Vesta J. Farnsworth, Douglas English, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Ella Rodman Church, H. Lee M. Pike, Luna May Ennis, Claire Martha Coburn, Florence Emma Voigt Mendel, Mary F. Nixon-Roulet, Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, Wm. H. Meadowcroft, Etta Blaisdell McDonald, James H. Shaw, Georgia Eldridge Hanley, W. Harcourt Bath, Paul B. Du Chaillu, Norman F. Langford, Jean M. Thompson, W. Warde Fowler, Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, Joseph Grinnell, Elizabeth Grinnell, Alfred John Church, Homer, A. L. O. E., C. M. Stevens, Francis La Flesche, Karl Friedrich Becker, George P. Upton, Paul Hume, Ruth Fox Hume, Rebecca Deming Moore, Helen Mildred Owen, L. Würdig, Elisha Noyce, Julia Dalrymple, Henry C. McCook, Jim Kjelgaard, William Shakespeare, Mary Elting, Edith M. Patch, Mary Proctor, Olive Thorne Miller, Kathrine Lois Scobey, Olive Brown Horne, H. R. Hall, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernadine Bailey, E. F. Buckley, Rupert Sargent Holland, Benjamin Brewster, Neltje Blanchan, Burren Laughlin, L. L. Flood, Sarath Kumar Ghosh, Dorothy Crain, Oliver Optic, Dillon Wallace, Charles H. L. Johnston, G. E. Mitton, Mary Macgregor, John Bunyan, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, Josephine Pollard, May Farinholt Jones, Harriet Pearl Skinner ...
    Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads

    Undersea Adventures, Naval History, Invention, and Wartime Tales from the Victorian Age to World War I

    by A. Frederick Collins, Virgil D. Collins, Edward Stratemeyer, Willis J. Abbot, Charles William Sleeman, Thomas W. Corbin, Charles W. Domville-Fife, Georg-Günther Freiherr von Forstner, Robert Fulton, Herbert C. Fyfe, Henry John Sir Newbolt, Freiherr von E. Spiegel, Farnham Bishop, Harold Wheeler, William Barclay Parsons, Paul König, Ajax, Jules Verne, Luis Senarens, T. D. Hallam, Victor G. Durham, Donald Grayson, A. Hyatt Verrill, Clair W. Hayes, H. Irving Hancock, Percy F. Westerman, James R. Driscoll, G. Harvey Ralphson, Elmer Tracey Barnes, John Blaine, Roy Rockwood ...
    The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads charts the submarine's emergence as both technological marvel and literary emblem of modernity. Ranging from technical exposition, naval history, and eyewitness-inflected discussion to adventure fiction, juvenile serials, and speculative romance, the volume reveals how undersea navigation inspired dreams of scientific mastery alongside ... Read more

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  • The World Stage: 25 Key Books Discussing Foreign Relations

    Diplomatic Memoirs, Imperial Encounters, World Wars, and the Evolution of International Order

    by Olga Alekseevna Novikova, James W. Gerard, John Hall, Henry Morgenthau, French Strother, G. F. Abbott, John Holladay Latané, Iraq Study Group, Gilbert Murray, Thomas Baines, Karl Max Fürst von Lichnowsky, Newton Macmillan, R. B. Haldane Viscount Haldane, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Joachim Hane, J. Ewing Ritchie, John Alfred Langford, William Le Queux, Percy F. Martin, Ephraim Douglass Adams, Ernest Mason Satow, John Harington Gubbins ...
    The World Stage: 25 Key Books Discussing Foreign Relations assembles a capacious archive of international thought, tracing diplomacy from imperial rivalry and wartime crisis to collective security and the strategic dilemmas of the postwar order. Its selections range across diplomatic memoir, political history, policy analysis, travel-inflected observation, polemic, and institutional report. ... Read more

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  • Prison Breaks: 13 Books of Prisoner-of-War Narratives

    Thirteen Prisoner-of-War Narratives of Escape, Endurance, Resistance, and Survival

    by Edward Edwards, George Pearson, Kenneth Darlaston Yearsley, Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston, John Alan Lyde Caunter, Mervin C. Simmons, Nellie L. McClung, Jean Martin, Pat O'Brien, A. J. Evans, Gunther Plüschow, E. H. Jones, Eric A. Keith, Horace Gray Gilliland, H. G. Durnford, W. H. Newlin ...
    Prison Breaks gathers thirteen prisoner-of-war narratives into a capacious study of captivity, ingenuity, endurance, and the contested ethics of escape. Moving between memoir, adventure chronicle, military testimony, and reflective autobiography, the volume makes confinement a literary as well as political condition. Accounts of audacious flight, clandestine planning, and survival beyond prison ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Pirate Saga: 43 Storybooks of Swashbuckling Adventures

    A Panoramic Anthology of Mutiny, Treasure, Maritime Outlaws, and Sea Adventure

    by Robert Ervin Howard, Booth Tarkington, Charles S. Brooks, Esmè Stuart, Samuel Fletcher, William MacLeod Raine, Nicholas Carter, Charles Dickens, John Masefield, Daniel Defoe, Frank Richard Stockton, Yung-lun Yüan, E. Keble Chatterton, Poul Anderson, Stanley Lane-Poole, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, Oscar Herrmann, Otto A. Rothert, E. Hamilton Currey, William Henry Giles Kingston, G. A. Henty, Howard Pyle, R. M. Ballantyne, Richard Clynton, Ruel Perley Smith, Harry Collingwood, Charles Boardman Hawes, Percy F. Westerman, Van Powell, Harold L. Goodwin, John C. Hutcheson, Bracebridge Hemyng, Howard Roger Garis, Carey Rockwell, Fanny Loviot ...
    The Ultimate Pirate Saga: 43 Storybooks of Swashbuckling Adventures assembles a capacious maritime archive in which piracy becomes a lens for adventure, empire, commerce, captivity, and moral ambiguity. Ranging from historical romance and boys' adventure fiction to detective tales, sea yarns, satire, and speculative voyages, the volume traces the changing literary uses of the pirate across ... Read more

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  • Echoes from the Poisoned Well

    Global Memories of Environmental Injustice

    by Jeffrey Stine, Four Arrows, K Animashaun Ducre Anya Bernstein, Marja K. Bulmer, Lois Gibbs, Renée K. Gosson, Peggy James, Jacqui Katona, Rauna Kuokkanen, Bill E. Lawson, Cynthia J. Miller, Pataka Moore, Paul C. Rosier, Jane Bloodworth Rowe, Jane Sayers, Rachael Selby, Phia Steyn, Jeffrey K. Stine, Julie Sze, Stephen Wallace Taylor, Elise Tempelhoff, Johann Tempelhoff, Guy Thompson, Nancy Unger, John Walsh ...
    The emerging environmental justice movement has created greater awareness among scholars that communities from all over the world suffer from similar environmental inequalities. This volume takes up the challenge of linking the focussed campaigns and insights from African American campaigns for environmental justice with the perspectives of this global group of environmentally marginalized groups. ... Read more

    $60.79 USD