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  • Charles Dickens: His Life and Work

    by Stephen Butler Leacock ...
    To say that this is Dickens bovrilised and peptonised—it is, as it were, all the biographies and Dickensiana subjected to some Chicagoan literary sausage-machine—is not to belittle Professor Leacock. The professor as usual is scarifying on schools and colleges. He is crisp, concise, dramatic. The book is a miracle of compression. It's the quantity plus quality of Dickens’s work which makes his ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Is a Verb

    How Well-Managed Teams Turn Purpose into Productivity

    by Stephen Butler, Karissa Price ...
    "Bold. Practical. Timely." - Jessica Jensen, Chief Marketing Officer, Indeed"Why Is a Verb combines incisive research insight with deep frontline experience to produce the kind of practical, evidence-based approach leaders have been hungering for-one that goes beyond merely articulating purpose to the real work of implementation." - Dan Witters, Research Director, Gallup National Health and Well ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Dawn of Canadian History

    Enriched edition. A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada and the coming of the White Man

    by Stephen Butler Leacock, Abigail Warren ...
    In "The Dawn of Canadian History," Stephen Butler Leacock presents a meticulously crafted narrative that integrates both humor and historical insight to unravel the early chronicles of Canada. With a literary style that deftly combines anecdotal storytelling and scholarly analysis, Leacock situates Canada's nascent history within a broader framework of colonial power dynamics and indigenous ... Read more

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  • Rise Up!

    Indigenous Music in North America

    by Craig Harris ...
    Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and wooden flutes, Indigenous music intersects with rock, blues, jazz, folk music, reggae, hip-hop, classical music, and more. Combining deep research with personal stories by nearly four dozen award-winning ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Future Folk Horror

    Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures

    by M. Keith Booker, Vicky Brewster, Garret L. Castleberry, Lauryn E. Collins, Stephanie Ellis, Tracy Fahey, Gemma Files, Phil Fitzsimmons, Sandra García Gutiérrez, Danielle Garcia-Karr, Kit Hawkins, Howard David Ingham, Paul A. J. Lewis, Kingsley Marshall, Conner McAleese, Jimmy Packham, James Rose, Brandon R. Grafius, Stephen Butler, Dr Reece Goodall, David Norris ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan past trying to consume the present, the contributors to this collection posit folk horror as being ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • John Banville and His Precursors

    Edited by Dr Pietra Palazzolo, Dr Michael Springer, Dr Stephen Butler ...
    Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville's most significant intellectual influences. The book explores how Banville's novels engage deeply with a wide range of sources, from literary figures such as Samuel Beckett, Heinrich von Kleist, Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Henry ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • God and Popular Culture

    A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry's Most Influential Figure [2 volumes]

    Edited by Stephen Butler Murray, Aimée Upjohn Light ...
    This contributed two-volume work tackles a fascinating topic: how and why God plays a central role in the modern world and profoundly influences politics, art, culture, and our moral reflection—even for nonbelievers.God—in the many ways that people around the globe conceptualize Him, Her, or It—is one of the most powerful, divisive, unifying, and creative elements of human culture. The two volumes ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Roadmap to Retirement Security

    How to Build and Conserve Retirement Wealth

    by Stephen Butler ...
    This book won't waste your time. It explains the fundamentals leading to investment success while avoiding the all-too-common "dumbed-down" information that just tells readers what they already know. Sophisticated concepts like "marked-to-market" and "the snapback phenomenon" and "Modern Portfolio Theory" are some of the book's themes that can lead to confidence and success as investors. For ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

    by Madelena Gonzalez, Stephen Butler, James Ward, Kevin De Ornellas ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATUREAn insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literatureThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, ... Read more

    $366.00 USD

  • Crime Fiction

    A Critical Casebook

    Edited by Stephen Butler, Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish ...
    Series Book 24 - Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
    In the second decade of the twenty-first century, crime fiction remains one of the most popular genres among both readers and writers. This compilation of essays attempts to trace the reasons behind this ongoing popularity as well as to offer a closer reading of a number of crime fiction texts from English, American, Swedish, Italian, Japanese and other national literatures. It contains twenty-one ... Read more

    $73.59 USD

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    Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

    Including a Biography of Stephen Leacock by Peter Gilchrist McArthur

    by Stephen Butler Leacock, Peter Gilchrist McArthur ...
    Narrated by Henry Marshall ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 36 min

    This annotated edition of "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" includes:A biography of Stephen Leacock By Peter Gilchrist McArthur (1923)."Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" is considered to be the masterpiece of Stephen Leacock. Originally published in 1912, it is a set of tales occurring in the fictional hamlet of Mariposa, on the shores of Lake Wissanotti. Many of the characters in the stories ... Read more

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  • Canadian History, Two Books

    by Stephen Leacock ...
    This file includes The Dawn of Canadian History, A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada and The Mariner of Malo, a Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacque Cartier, both from Chronicles of Canada and both first published in 1914. According to Wikipedia: "Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was an English-born Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. In the early ... Read more

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