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  • Baby Face / Face de bébé

    podle Sallie Fullerton ...
    Série Kniha 1 - DOCUMENTS
    Constructed with the tools of poetic and documentary convention—fragmentation, oral history, rhythmic and imagistic leaps—Baby Face / Face de bébé weaves a portrait of Denise Cassidy, known as Baby Face, the first woman to own a lesbian bar in Montréal.Iconoclastic and authoritative, revered and feared, Baby Face's story remains nevertheless largely undocumented. Yet for those in the know, the ... Přečtěte si více

    186,29 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

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  • Languages Fast and Easy ~ French

    podle O-O Happiness ...
    Remember trying to learn a language at school?Remember trying to get your head around conjugating verbs? Past tense, present tense, present participle, imperfect subjunctive? Yes, that's right, it was all mind numbing.Language is not about perfect grammar.Language is about communication.Why not try our system. ... Přečtěte si více

    64,08 Kč

  • Wisdom in Nonsense

    Invaluable Lessons from My Father

    podle Heather O'Neill ...
    Série série CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with those of the geniuses. —Heather O’Neill With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep a diary, and that ... Přečtěte si více

    167,69 Kč

  • Dreaming of Elsewhere

    Observations on Home

    podle Esi Edugyan ...
    Série série CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and where we are. Writing about belonging is not a simple task. Esi Edugyan chooses to intertwine fact and ... Přečtěte si více

    214,39 Kč

  • A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance

    Imagining Multilingualism

    podle Tomson Highway ...
    Série série CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    “Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only...” From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist of the world, playwright, pianist, polyglot, storyteller, and irreverent disciple of the Trickster, Tomson Highway rides roughshod through the languages and communities that have shaped him. Cree, Dene, ... Přečtěte si více

    214,39 Kč

  • Next Time There's a Pandemic

    podle Vivek Shraya ...
    Série série CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    "During my first post-lockdown massage, I willingly engaged in the requisite chit chat about lockdown experiences with my therapist. He gushed behind his mask: ‘Oh man. It was so great. Every day I woke up, drank coffee, read, rode my bike…’ My therapist’s description did sound pretty great. But it was nothing like my own anxiety-ridden ordeal… Had I done the lockdown wrong?” In Next Time There’s ... Přečtěte si více

    214,39 Kč

  • Ten Canadian Writers in Context

    Série série Robert Kroetsch Series
    Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from some of Canada’s most exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection is ... Přečtěte si více

    308,49 Kč

  • The Burgess Shale

    The Canadian Writing Landscape of the 1960s

    podle Margaret Atwood ...
    Série série The CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    "Atwood provides a window into her own early writing days . . . a treasure for readers interested in Canadian literature because this is where it all began." — Prairie Fire Review of Books"The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It's always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you're in ... Přečtěte si více

    237,29 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Yé-Yé Girls of '60s French Pop

    This delightfully illustrated exploration into 60s French pop, and the women who built it, reveals yé-yé music’s hip sensuality, humor, style and wit. We hear from and about Françoise Hardy, France Gall, Brigitte Bardot, Sylvie Vartan and dozens of other modern Lolitas, and the recklessly naughty Serge Gainsbourg. Modern-day yé-yé avatar Lio has written the book's Foreword. ... Přečtěte si více

    383,29 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Who Needs Books?

    Reading in the Digital Age

    podle Lynn Coady ...
    Série série CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    “We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there’s one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it.” What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges booklovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the ... Přečtěte si více

    167,69 Kč

  • Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology

    A collection of prose and poetry from emerging Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada

    To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Indigenous Voices Awards, an anthology consisting of selected works by finalists over the past five years, edited by Jordan Abel, Carleigh Baker, and Madeleine Reddon.Established in 2017, the Indigenous Voices Awards honour the sovereignty of Indigenous creative voices and nurture the work of emerging Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada.Through ... Přečtěte si více

    277,79 Kč

  • 150 autres phrases anglaises vraiment utiles

    150 phrases anglaises vraiment utiles

    podle Jenny Smith ...
    Série série 150 phrases anglaises vraiment utiles
    Vous voulez parler plus couramment l'anglais ?Vous voulez comprendre la langue de tous les jours et pas seulement l'anglais des manuels?J'ai enseigné l'anglais pendant de nombreuses années et j'ai vu que beaucoup d'étudiants se retrouvent coincés au niveau débutant ou intermédiaire. Ils apprennent les bases et ne peuvent pas aller de l'avant. Ce problème me frustrait vraiment parce que j'avais ... Přečtěte si více

    64,08 Kč