This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is breathtaking, and so much greater than many critics have suggested. To illustrate this, the...
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Author:Edwards, MartinSummary: - Author:Crystal, DavidSummary:
In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, the foremost expert on linguistics David Crystal draws on the 100 words that best illustrate the huge variety of developments and events that have shaped our vernacular...
- Author:Schurman, BradleySummary:
A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age--when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen--and explores what it could mean for our collective future.
- Author:McKee, JonathanSummary:
Ever regret something you've posted'Honestly' How smart are you being when it comes to streaming, messaging, gaming, commenting...' The Teen's Guide to Social Media & Mobile Devices will help you navigate...
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A critical interrogation of the relationship between cultural practices and human rights in Africa rooted in Afrocentricity and emancipatory social work. Cultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tensions...
- Author:Eisenberg, Emma CopleySummary:
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering, but never arrived. Using the past and the present, Eisenberg shows how...
- Author:Kaufman, MichaelSummary:
From founding the White Ribbon Campaign, the world's largest organized effort of men working to end violence against women, in the early 1990s, to his appointment as the only male member of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council,...
- Author:Woolley, BryanSummary:
A collection of personal essays written between 1976 and 1983 for The Dallas Times Herald. They have a universality and a timelessness that makes them suitable for a much wider audience than the population of one urban area of Texas....
- Author:Hewitt, BenSummary:
This is the captivating story of a small town coming back to life. Hardwick, Vermont, has jump-started its economy through a local, self-sustaining food system, surviving with its network of community support.
- Author:Li, Jessica Tsui-yan, Poy, VivienneSummary:
Highlighting the geopolitical and economic circumstances that have prompted migration from Hong Kong and mainland China to Canada, The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities examines the Chinese Canadian community as a...
- Author:Alexander, ElizabethSummary:
In 2020 after the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Alexander turned a mother's eye to her sons' and students' generation, observing the race-based violence that they could not be shielded from...
- Author:Micallef, ShawnSummary:
What do your Eggs Benedict say about your notions of class' Every weekend, in cities around the world, bleary-eyed diners wait in line to be served overpriced, increasingly outrE food by hungover waitstaff. For some, the ritual we call...
- Author:Lancaster, Roger N.Summary:
Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to...
- Author:Dice, MarkSummary:
The author, a media analyst, presents his analysis and perspective on the evolution of today's news platforms, from the expansion into social media as well as his thoughts on the underlying methods and motivations of today's news and...
- Author:King, ThomasSummary:
In his 2003 Massey lecture, award-winning author and scholar Thomas King looks at the breadth and depth of Native experience and imagination. Beginning with Native oral stories, King weaves his way through literature and history,...
- Author:King, ThomasSummary:
Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King...
- Author:Lights, ZionSummary:
The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting is the first book of its kind. Journalist, science writer and mother Zion Lights has researched all those questions that beset new or expecting parents, not just about environmental issues but also...
- Author:Lumpkin, RamonaSummary:
Born into privilege but expected to use her advantages for the good of others, Senator Nancy Ruth has led an uncommon, unconventional life. From her religious ministry to rewriting Canada’s national anthem to make it gender-neutral,...
- Author:Nayeri, DinaSummary:
What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought to, and yet there are more than twenty-five million refugees in the world. Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and...
- Author:Dickey, ColinSummary:
"Absolutely perfect for the current moment." —Buzzfeed America's favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomena In a world where...
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