Toronto. Biography of a City, Now in paperback!, Paperback - Allan Levine

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyreAuthor(s): Allan LevineIllustration(s): Black and White PhotographsNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimension...

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Weaves political, social and art history of Florence into a lively whole. This book features photographs and illustrations and line drawings that d...

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A guide to the use of the avian embryo in studies of vertebrate development. It includes approaches to analysis of the chick genome, gene knock-out...

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Climate change was once understood as solely an environmental issue. A growing class of activists now claim climate change to be a gender, equity, ...

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When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. The dramatic events that followed have long been ign...

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Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's lauded and decorated heroes.

In Tiny Tales Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness and happiness in thirty short stories that range in length from the short...

For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - had been the city's lauded heroes, working t...

By attending to the divergent forces and actors involved in property development in different geopolitical contexts, The Speculative City illustrat...

Publisher: WheatmarkAuthor(s): Allan SpieglerNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 210 x 150 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Now in paperback: essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved poets that illuminate how he came to understand...

From the multi-award-winning Denise Mina comes a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history - the bloody assassination of ...

In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical asp...

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Reducere. How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writings Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Drive...

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Set on a farming estate in the upper reaches of the River Spey, Of Stone and Sky follows several generations of a shepherding family in a paean to ...

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The Christ Child in Medieval Culture is the first interdisciplinary investigation of how representations of the Christ Child were conceptualized an...

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This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature.Editor(s): Michael Sherberg

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