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  • Knife on Snow

    by Alice Major ...
    What portents must you divine when a knife falls from the sky into your snow covered yard? With Knife on Snow, Alice Major employs history, myth, and science to understand a world ablaze.From the bitumen hills of Fort McMurray to the barren reaches of Iceland, Knife on Snow depicts an earth bathed in dragon’s breath, where like the Norse gods bound to their fate, we stand transfixed by the ... Read more

    Was $11.59 USD Now $3.99 USD

  • The Office Tower Tales

    by Alice Major ...
    Series Book English - cuRRents
    In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstones as Chaucer, The Thousand and One Nights, and Greek myth, readers meet receptionist Aphrodite, Sheherazad in PR, and Pandora, expectant grandmother from accounting, who gather to share tales during coffee breaks from their male-dominated engineering ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Welcome to the Anthropocene

    by Alice Major ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major’s most persistent question—“Where do we fit in the universe?”—is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, and consciousness, and challenges us to find some humility in our overblown sense of our cosmic ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Standard candles

    by Alice Major ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major’s earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle wonders in form and subject. Her voice resonates through experiments with old and new poetic forms as she imbues observed and imagined phenomena—from the centres of galaxies to the mysteries of her own backyard—with the most grounded and grounding ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Intersecting Sets

    A Poet Looks at Science

    by Alice Major ...
    Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as reductive or opposite to art. She surveys the sciences of the past half-century -- from physical to cognitive to evolutionary -- to shed light on why and how human beings create poems, challenging some of the mantras of postmodern thought in the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Jade Spindle

    by Alice Major ...
    An adventure in another world â a slender string universe that runs close to ours and was settled long ago by people of the Yellow Emperor. Headstrong Joss, her gangly twin Mark and their friends find an accidental channel to this alien landscape where they are tipped into its battles, journeys and intrigues. They meet naive kings, scheming courtiers, peasant girls and potters in a world where a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Triangularity

    Essays on Poetry, Science, and Spirit

    by Alice Major ...
    In a world defined by specialization and fragmentation, Alice Major’s Triangularity is a profound, timely challenge. Through personal essays and interspersed poems, Major reveals the deep connections between poetry, science, and spirit, proposing a new intellectual geometry. Science and spirit are the two sides of human inquiry—one seeking empirical mechanics, the other divine meaning. Poetry is ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • Cosmos

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    Throughout his long career, James Applewhite has skillfully navigated the world of science through poetry. His new book makes no exception, fearlessly exploring time and consciousness in relation to the universe as described by Big Bang cosmology -- and as experienced by human beings in the everyday world. Applying experiences from his present-day life as well as a multitude of memories from his ... Read more

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  • This World Is Full of Monsters

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    by Jeff VanderMeer ...
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  • This Explains Everything

    150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    by John Brockman ...
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