Christopher Armstrong: 13 books
Civic Symbol
Creating Toronto's New City Hall, 1952-1966
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When Toronto’s New City Hall opened in 1965, it was an iconic modernist symbol for what was still a sedate and conservative city. Its futuristic design by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, composed of two curved towers flanking a clam-shaped council chamber, remains as strange and distinctive today...
The River Returns
An Environmental History of the Bow
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild, the Bow is now very much a human product:...
Wilderness and Waterpower
How Banff National Park Became a Hydro-Electric Storage Reservoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today's conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta's...
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land
Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalism. Music and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant cultural history. This book explores the ways in which Protestants have used and continue to use hymns to clarify their identity...
Indigo
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she’s become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become...
Climate Change
The Facts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.
Highlights...
by Kelley Armstrong, David Liss, Christopher Golden
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Four bestselling authors. One hellraising premise.
What if the dead could be summoned from their graves—for a price? What if a quartet of distinctive storytellers took a stab at this deceptively simple idea—on a dare? The answers lie here, in Four Summoner’s Tales, as these acclaimed writers...
The 2016 Presidential Election
The Causes and Consequences of a Political Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
The 2016 Presidential Election: The Causes and Consequences of a Political Earthquake critically analyzes the 2016 presidential election. The chapters in this book identify key factors behind the election of Donald J. Trump, explore the unconventional campaign, analyze the unexpected election result,...
Faces of Resistance
Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power.
In the sixteenth century, Q’eqchi’ Maya leader Aj Poop B’atz’ changed the course of Q’eqchi’ history by welcoming Spanish invaders to his community...
Shaping Shakespeare for Performance
The Bear Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference, sponsored by the American Shakespeare Center, brings together scholars, actors, directors, dramaturges, and students to share important new work on the staging practices...
by Christopher Drew Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (1724–1803) and his impact on architectural theory and pedagogy.
Despite not leaving any built work, Leroy is a major international figure of eighteenth-century architectural theory and culture. Considering...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
by Kate Armstrong, Carolyn Bain, Amy Balfour
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Fate il pieno di benzina e allacciate le cinture: quello che attraversa gli Stati Uniti è un viaggio pazzesco, che non dimenticherete facilmente. Del resto, non c’è modo migliore per conoscere questo immenso paese, dinamico e coinvolgente, che percorrerlo ‘on the road’. Per i vostri itinerari:...