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Catch and Release
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 15.00This vibrant blend of memoir, travelogue, and reflection on the deep truths of angling is framed around an annual fishing trip that Mark Kingwell and his father and two brothers take each year to British Columbia. Between the drinking, the cigars, and the piloting of a small dingy, Kingwell, previously of the belief that "fishing is stupid," finds... more...
Concrete Reveries
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 24.95An exploration of urbanism, personal identity, and how the space we live in shapes us According to philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell, the transnational global city?New York and Shanghai?is the most significant machine our species has ever produced. And yet, he says, we fail again and again to understand it. How do cities shape us, and... more...
Glenn Gould
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 18.99Glenn Gould, one of the world's most renowned classical musicians of the twentieth century, was also known as an eccentric genius?solitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage performances in 1964, Gould concentrated instead on mastering the various media: recordings, radio, television, and print. His sudden death at age fifty stunned... more...
Rites of Way
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2009; US$ 29.95There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanescent and multidimensional concept that too often escapes... more...
The Idler's Glossary
Biblioasis 2008; US$ 11.95For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, people who work have disparaged those who prefer not to. This glossary playfully explores the etymology and history of hundreds of idler-specific terms and phrases, while offering a foundation for a new mode of thinking about work and labor. more...
The Wage Slave's Glossary
Biblioasis 2011; US$ 11.95A second volume of anti-economic etymological revaluation, playfully continuing the authors' search for a new mode of thinking about work. more...
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 70.00Canada?s foremost architectural office Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, founded in 1987 in Toronto, is one of most innovative architectural offi ces in North America today. They have made a name for themselves both for their integrated design process embodying collaboration with experts, clients and future users as well as the diversity... more...
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