Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Burden of Desire

    Burden of Desire centres on the love triangle between bohemian Halifax south-end belle Julia Robertson, Dalhousie professor Stewart MacPherson, and young Anglican minister Peter Wentworth.Julia keeps a diary detailing her sexual fantasies, which she has with her at the moment of the blast that was the Halifax Explosion. She hides her diary in her coat, which is subsequently donated to a clothing ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Portrait of Julia

    A Novel

    In 1920 Julia Robertson is a young, beautiful war widow, aware of the radical new ideas bursting into the settled thinking of post-Victorian Canada. That new thinking, about the human unconscious through Freud and Jung, about sexual frankness, about women as well as skepticism about religion, shaped the emerging 20th century world and infused modern painting, music, and literature.Julia struggles ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Do You Speak American?

    Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations?These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Burden of Desire

    Burden of Desire centres on the love triangle between bohemian Halifax south-end belle Julia Robertson, Dalhousie professor Stewart MacPherson, and young Anglican minister Peter Wentworth.Julia keeps a diary detailing her sexual fantasies, which she has with her at the moment of the blast that was the Halifax Explosion. She hides her diary in her coat, which is subsequently donated to a clothing ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Thirty Years of Failure

    Understanding Canadian Climate Policy

    Thirty years ago, Canada was a climate leader, designing policy to curb rising emissions and demanding the same of other countries. But in the intervening decades, Canada has become more of a climate villain, rejecting global attempts to slow climate change and ignoring ever-increasing emissions at home.How did Canada go from climate leader to climate villain?In Thirty Years of Failure, Robert ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Coupling: The Playboy Interview

    50 Years of the Playboy Interview

    The couples who have loved the hardest, longest and most publicly over the last 50 years are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the tempestuous Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold to the eternally devoted John Lennon and Yoko Ono to the comically intertwined Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, these duos are the best evidence yet that two ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Breaking News

    Famous for his nearly forty years in broadcast journalism, Robert MacNeil is one of the most respected television journalists in America. Now in Breaking News, a blistering, behind-the-scenes novel about the savagely competitive world of television news, he writes about this world he knows best--a world where integrity is held hostage in the relentless pursuit of the bottom line.Anchorman Grant ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Holding IT Together

    Social Control in an Age of Great Transformation

    Can modern Civilization Transform Itself in Order to Survive?The prospects for humanity may look dismal now, but hope resides in realism, which means facing up to the destructive consequences of creating industrial-consumer societies. In Holding It Together: Social Control in an Age of Great Transformation, Dr. Robert MacNeil Christie explains how we got into this mess and what it will take to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Artists Communities

    A Directory of Residencies that Offer time and Space for Creativity

    The bible of creative residency programs returns, with fresh information and new features for artists of all disciplines. More than 300 programs worldwide are described, with 95 leading communities featured in two-page spreads with photographs. The user-friendly layout allows for quick scans of facility descriptions, deadlines, fees, selection processes, odds of acceptance, special programs, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Neoliberalism and Climate Policy in the United States

    From market fetishism to the developmental state

    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    This book explores how Washington’s efforts to act on climate change have been translated under conditions of American neoliberalism, where the state struggles to find a stable and legitimate role in the economy, and where environmental and industrial policy are enormously contentious topics.This original work conceptualizes US climate policy first and foremost as a question of innovation policy, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Portrait of Julia

    A Novel

    In 1920 Julia Robertson is a young, beautiful war widow, aware of the radical new ideas bursting into the settled thinking of post-Victorian Canada. That new thinking, about the human unconscious through Freud and Jung, about sexual frankness, about women as well as skepticism about religion, shaped the emerging 20th century world and infused modern painting, music, and literature.Julia struggles ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Looking for My Country

    Finding Myself in America

    Renowned journalist and author of the international bestseller Wordstruck, Robert MacNeil reflects on a life lived between nations, and why he finally decided to call himself an American.Growing up in Halifax during World War II, it seemed to Robert MacNeil that nothing of significance ever happened in Canada. From his mother’s obsession with all things English (even the marmalade) to his own love ... Read more

    $4.99 USD