Almost Islands is a memoir of Collis's friendship with and regular visits to legendary poet Phyllis Webb--now in her nineties and long enveloped in the silence which followed her last published book i
These long poems continue the poet's ongoing argument with Wordsworth and the English poetic response to the commons and the land. Collis visits English lakes, but also the Tar Sands, and stands in th
Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the majority of the English common lands were enclosed, depriving communities of their independence and self-sufficiency. Recurring peasant revolts fail
To the Barricades moves back and forth between historical and contemporary scenes of revolt, from nineteenth-century Parisian street barricades to twenty-first-century occupations and street marches,
Somewhere at the core of almost every intellectual discipline is an attempt to explain change ? why and how things change, and how we negotiate these transformations. These are among the most ancient
Structured in three parts, On the Material is a meditation on language, geography, socioeconomics and the body, moving from the glut of fossil-fuelled consumer excess to the materiality of a single bo
Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, most of the English common lands were enclosed?taken, by force, out of the hands of local collective use and privatized. The resistance to capitalism’s
Poetry. ANARCHIVE initiates an ongoing project that takes up the history of anarchist uprisings as a site for poetic archeology. ANARCHIVE investigates two propositions: that there is a necessarily fa
Poetry. Stephen Collis's forebears emigrated from Scotland to work in the coal mines that flourished on Vancouver Island from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s. In this book-length poem, he plunges bac
In the tradition of Borges, Nabakov, and Bolano, The Red Album is a work of fiction that turns itself inside out. Divided into two parts, the book begins with an edited and footnoted narrative of dubi
In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety
This handy textbook covers all you need to know to get started using Powerpoint for presentations.Learning Made Simple books give you skills without frills. They are matched to the main qualifications
This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies that compete internationally or face international competitors. Designed around the course at Harvard Bu
Examines the challenges faced by designers and builders of medieval castles, discussing how they were used, notable structures, and defending the castles from invaders.
For most of the applications, rubber must be reinforced with certain fillers such as carbon blacks, silica or clay. As compared with microfiller reinforced rubber, nanofiller reinforced rubber exhibi
Corporate Strategy by Collis and Montgomery employs a single consistent framework for the analysis of corporate-level strategy. Based on the latest research in the resource-based view of the firm and
