A note to US-based customers: All Lit Up is pausing print orders to the USA until further notice. Read more
All Books
All Books in this Collection
Showing 2545–2560 of 9481 results
-
Feet of the Angels
$16.95Ever since her brother’s untimely death, Marie has been fascinated with angels, believing her brother has become one. Now as a young woman, she has dedicated her doctoral thesis to the subject: the sudden portrayal of angels with feet in Renaissance paintings. As Marie tries to analyze the motive behind this, she begins to uncover questions of existentialism, societal perceptions of women, and the meaning of art and life. Her biggest challenge, though, becomes grasping a seemingly impossible understanding of her brother’s suicide, and dealing with her own dislocation.
-
Felt
$24.95 -
Feminism(s) on the Edge of the Millennium
$19.95This book showcases the work and contribution of graduate students to current feminist debates and the development of ‘new’ feminist theory.
-
Feminist Politics, Activism and Vision
$34.95This volume brings together essays of remarkable variety and fresh insights from leading feminists around the world. The engaged and sophisticated personal accounts, political speeches and academic articles collected here reveal a vibrant and multifaceted transnational feminist movement struggling not just for women’s equality in existing structures but to redefine wealth, work, peace, democracy, leadership, sexuality, family, human rights, development, community and citizenship for a future world that welcomes diversity and honours and supports all life.
-
Feminist Utopias
$22.95Like feminism, utopias are intended to bring about shifts in consciousness by critiques of the status quo. In this brilliant collection of articles, authors examine feminist utopias, highlighting what they see as visionary, exciting and useful, as well as the pitfalls. By operating in the here and now, the articles included in the volume present alternative ways of thinking and a space for evoking social change.
-
Fences in Breathing
$18.95Invited to a quiet Swiss château by the enigmatic Tatiana Beaujeu Lehmann, Anne begins to slowly write a novel in a language that is not hers, a language that makes meaning foreign and keeps her alert to the world and its fiery horizon. Will the strange intoxication that takes hold of her and her characters – sculptor Charles; his sister Kim, about to leave for the Arctic; Kim’s love, June, owner of a video store; and Laure Ravin, a lawyer obsessed with the Patriot Act – allow her to break through the darkness of the world
Fences in Breathing, first published and critically lauded in French as La capture du sombre, is a disquieting, dexterous, and defiant missive, another triumph by one of North America’s foremost practitioners of innovative writing.
-
Feral Mermaids
$22.95Prepare for a deep-sea dive into a mysterious underworld of eroticism, rage, and renewal.
Acclaimed poet Shannon Webb-Campbell’s latest collection introduces us to feral mermaids, deceptive half-fish women who ruthlessly bite back against the patriarchy and colonial curses. Part myth and part magic, these defiant sea witches turn heads with their human torsos and finned tails, invoking sea gardens of chaos and inviting the stars inside for a nightcap.
Drawing on a fevered past, divine present and cast-off future, they thrive in the witching hour and possess the power to change the tides. They subvert and reclaim culture, calling across intergenerational wavelengths, their voices reaching backwards and forwards in time.
Evoking an Atlantic bohemian gothic, Feral Mermaids is a masterful and inventive work of imagination, blurring witchery and resilience, while conjuring a heady mix of folklore, tarot, herbal wisdom, and popular culture. With intoxicating power, these subversive sea women hold conch shells up to our ears and sing out for the matriarchy.
-
Fernie at War
$24.95From “enemy alien” internment camps to WWI disillusionment – these are the five pivotal years that shaped Fernie, BC, a city instrumental to the national identity of Canada. Fernie, a small community located in BC’s Kootenay region, entered the First World War in 1914 with optimism and a sense of national pride-it emerged five years later having experienced staggering losses and multiple controversies that threatened to tear their community apart. As a resource-based economy with unusually large and varied immigrant populations, and exceptionally high recruitment levels, Fernie was profoundly affected by conflicting impulses of labour, loyalty and ethnicity. Demands for internment of enemy aliens, resistance to prohibition and moral reform, the consequences of natural and man-made disasters, the unprecedented banning of recruitment, and the western labour revolt were all issues that contributed to a war-time experience for Fernie that was more dramatic and more revealing of underlying tensions than that of any other Canadian community. In his new book, Fernie at War, historian and author Wayne Norton explores what it meant to live in Fernie during those confusing and divisive years.
-
Fetishes of the Floating World
$20.00Governor General’s Award-winning poet Don Domanski’s posthumous last collection once again melds perception-expanding environmental poetry and metaphysics into a seamless, moving lyric whole.
Fetishes of the Floating World continues Don’s lifelong exploration of mystical ecology. It is an invitation to experience the sacred dimensions of what-is and to become more intimate with the strangeness that haunts our lively, changeable world. Here is a spirituality that doesn’t turn its back on the material and immerses us in earthly being.
The sustained apprehension of deep time underlies every moment of this work; every moment is held up against that more-than-human span and is relinquished to it. Domanski’s full-bodied, incantatory language will penetrate your very marrow, calling you out of yourself to testify to the world’s “inclement graces.”
“Domanski’s poems are intimate, but intimate on a grand scale. As far as I am concerned, there is no better poet writing in English.” — Mark Strand on All Our Wonder Unavenged
-
Fever
$16.95Erotic and absurdist, Leanne Averbach’s fever docu-rides a life examined through multifarious experiences. Through her iconoclastic lens, life as a former left-wing activist and trade union organizer takes shape with indelible moments spent in factories or incarcerated in jail cells. Averbach’s work contains vivid tales of love, family encounters, and the mad poetry of harsh international realities. With its unique blend of the personal and the political, fever burns with the engagement of the most committed poetry.
-
Few and Far
$19.95Jilted by her near-beau in England, Florence Southam travels to the exotic new world of the Saskatchewan Prairies, both to attend the wedding of her closest friend and to recover from her recent disappointment. Through Florence’s eyes, the reader encounters a Victorian settlement attempting to mimic society life in England. Cannington is home to a medley of Canadians, British expatriates and would-be aristocrats. Despite outward appearances, Florence soon discovers that in Cannington, social niceties quickly give way to the practicalities of survival, and her own unquestioned beliefs are suddenly thrown into doubt by new possibilities of selfhood, and the potential of finding love outside the conventional social norms of her upbringing.
-
Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel
$16.95David Starkey’s A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel is a far-ranging and fearless collection, of great humour and intelligence and sympathy. Ranging through philosophy and art and history — both global and domestic — these poems skillfully chronicle the darkness that is our current age and condition, and the pinpricks of light thta may show us the way out.
-
Fiction for Lovers
$19.95Fiction For Lovers is a collection of short stories depicting human intimacy as a stage for aggressive and violent deterioration. Vivisection, traditionally held as a repellant and punishable act, becomes a progressive marital aid. Worms the size of buildings, bugs numbering in the millions, and the partial logic of appearance are combined in new and refreshing ways, making Fiction For Lovers another must-read from the pen of this popular writer.
-
Fidget
$16.95Fidget is writer Kenneth Goldsmith’s transcription of every movement made by his body during 13 hours on Bloomsday (June 16) 1997. It is a hypnotic work, strangely compelling and disorienting at the same time; you’ll never think about your body in the same way again.
Originally commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art as a collaboration with vocalist Theo Bleckmann, Fidget attempts to reduce the body to a catalogue of mechanical movements by a strict act of observation. The stress of this rigorous exercise creates a condition of shifting reference points and multiple levels of observation that inevitably undermines the author’s objective approach, and the trajectory of the work begins to change.
The text of Fidget is followed by an afterword written by Marjorie Perloff, which both explains the circumstances of the project’s creation (including the important role Jack Daniel’s plays in the latter part of the text) and explores its results.
-
Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador
$34.95A rich and informative guide to the common—and uncommon—beauty of the island of Newfoundland.
The most comprehensive guide of its kind on the market today, the Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador features more than 900 photographs and illustrations; from flora and fauna to icebergs and weather, no stone is left unturned in this perfect introduction to the island’s life and landscape.
Compiled and edited by Memorial University biologist Michael Collins and professor Derek Wilton, with contributions from over twenty renowned experts, the guide is accessible, durable, perfectly sized, and indexed for ease of use in the field. You’re ready. Now explore.
-
Field Notes on Listening
$18.00When Kit Dobson’s daughter looked at the field of stars on the screen at the beginning of a new Star Wars movie in the theatre and remarked to her father, “Yeah, right. There’s not that many stars,” Dobson suddenly realized his daughter had never truly seen the night sky. From then on Dobson began to think seriously about how little we, as humans, interact with the natural world and how that has changed our place within it. Field Notes on Listening is a response to our lack of connection to the land we call home, the difficult history of how many of us came to be here and what we could discover if we listened deeply to the world around us. Written in brief, elegant sections, Field Notes on Listening starts at Dobson’s kitchen table, a family heirloom, and wends through time and space, looking at his family’s lost farm, the slow violence of climate change, loss of habitat, the tensions of living in late-stage capitalism and through careful listening strives to find a way through it all, returning, in the end, to home and the same table.