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  • The Double Hook

    by Sheila Watson, F.T. Flahiff ...
    Series series New Canadian Library
    In spare, allusive prose, Sheila Watson charts the destiny of a small, tightly knit community nestled in the BC Interior. Here, among the hills of Cariboo country, men and women are caught upon the double hook of existence, unaware that the flight from danger and the search for glory are both part of the same journey. In Watson’s compelling novel, cruelty and kindness, betrayal and faith shape a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sheila Watson

    Essays on Her Works

    by Sheila Watson ...
    Series Book 248 - Essential Writers Series
    Sheila Watson published the iconic novel, The Double Hook, in 1959 and influenced the writing styles of many Canadian authors who followed her, including: Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt and others. This is the first collection of essays devoted to all of Watson's writing as well as her work as editor and mentor. The collection examines not only The Double Hook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deep Hollow Creek

    by Sheila Watson, Jane Urquhart ...
    Series series New Canadian Library
    When Stella, fresh from her life in the city, arrives to take up her first teaching post in the one-room schoolhouse in a little frontier settlement in the British Columbia interior, she soon finds herself immersed in the stories she is told. Although an outsider in their midst, she sees that for those who dwell in this tiny community, life follows its destined course, amid conditions of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • National Museums and the Origins of Nations

    Emotional Myths and Narratives

    by Sheila Watson ...
    National Museums and the Origins of Nations provides the first international survey of origins stories in national museums and examines the ways in which such museums use the distant past as a vehicle to reflect the concerns of the political present.Offering an international comparison of institutions in China, North and South America, the Middle East, Europe and Australia, the book argues that ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage

    Edited by Sheila Watson, Katy Bunning, Amy Jane Barnes ...
    Series series Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
    Heritage’s revival as a respected academic subject has, in part, resulted from an increased awareness and understanding of indigenous rights and non-Western philosophies and practices, and a growing respect for the intangible. Heritage has, thus far, focused on management, tourism and the traditionally ‘heritage-minded’ disciplines, such as archaeology, geography, and social and cultural theory. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Museums and their Communities

    Edited by Sheila Watson ...
    Series series Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
    Using case studies drawn from all areas of museum studies, Museums and their Communities explores the museums as a site of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community.Focusing on the museum as an institution, and its social and cultural setting, Sheila Watson examines how museums use their roles as informers and educators to empower, or to ignore, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Museum Revolutions

    How museums change and are changed

    Edited by Suzanne MacLeod, Sheila Watson, Simon Knell ...
    This single-volume museum studies reference title explores the ways in which museums are shaped and configured and how they themselves attempt to shape and change the world around them.Written by a leading group of museum professionals and academics from around the world and including new research, the chapters reveal the diverse and subtle means by which museums engage and in so doing change and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • In the Skin of a Lion

    by Michael Ondaatje ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English ... Read more

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    by Michael Crummey ...
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  • The Inconvenient Indian

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
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  • The Curator's Handbook

    Museums, Commercial Galleries, Independent Spaces

    by Adrian George ...
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