Bending Under the Yellow Police Tapes is the fourth full-length collection by Doyle, a prolific poet whose work appears in a nearly every issue of nearly every journal nowadays. It is the follow-up to his critically acclaimed Einstein Considers a Sand Dune, which was selected by David Kirby as the winner of the 2003 Steel Toe Books Prize in Poetry.

Written for concerned teachers and parents, this book describes the basics needed for an insight into dyslexia, covering description, assessment, diagnosis, parental rights, legislation and the statutory statementing process. This second edition has been fully revised, expanded and updated to incorporate recent research findings and modern practices, the Green Paper Meeting Special Educational Needs, DFES' National Literacy Strategy, the 2002 Code of Practice (Special Educational Needs) together with recommendations of professional bodies and supportive agencies. The aim of the book is to...

Most critics and literary historians have ignored Marxist-inspired creative literature in Canada, or dismissed it as an ephemeral phenomenon of the 1930s. Research reveals, however, that from the 1920s onward Canadian creative writers influenced by Marxist ideas have produced a quantitatively substantial and artistically significant body of poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction.

This book traces historically and evaluates critically this tradition, with particular emphasis on writers who were associated with, or sympathetic to, the Communist Party of Canada. After two chapters...

The Practical Vision: Essays in English Literature in Honour of Flora Roy contains essays offered as a tribute on the occasion of Dr. Flora Roy's retirement as a Canadian university teacher of English.

These essays reflect the literary interests and administrative activities of Dr. Roy and demonstrate the relationship between literature and the perennial human urge to achieve understanding and control of both the subjective and objective worlds.

From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, artists from across the ancient Americas created small-scale architectural effigies to be placed in the tombs of important individuals. These works in stone, ceramic, wood, and metal range from highly abstracted, minimalist representations of temples and houses to elaborate complexes populated with figures, conveying a rich sense of ancient ritual and daily life. Although described as models, these effigies were created not so much as reflections or prototypes of existing structures, but rather as critical,...