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      Being in Being

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      Being in Being contains three masterpieces by legendary Haida mythteller Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay. The shortest recounts the high points of the legend of his family. The second, Raven…

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      Nine Visits to the Mythworld

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      In the Fall of 1900, a young American anthropologist named John Swanton arrived in the Haida country, on the Northwest Coast of North America, intending to learn everything he could…

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      Everywhere Being Is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking

      Robert Bringhurst

      In this companion volume to The Tree of Meaning, Robert Bringhurst collects twenty essays under the subversive principle that everything is related to everything else. His studies build upon this…

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      The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0

      Robert Bringhurst

      Renowned typographer and poet Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide. Combining the practical, theoretical, and historical, this edition is completely updated, with a…

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      The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0

      Robert Bringhurst

      Renowned typographer and poet Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide. Combining the practical, theoretical, and historical, this edition is completely updated, with a…

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      The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada

      Robert Bringhurst

      In this fascinating study, Robert Bringhurst takes readers on a walking tour through the bramble of book design, from the mid-18th century to the present day. Along the way, he…

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      Palatino: The Natural History of a Typeface

      Robert Bringhurst

      The biography of one of world’s most popular typefaces. Whether one likes Palatino or not, Mr. Bringhurst’s book is an instant classic. -The Wall Street Journal

      Hermann Zapf was one…

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      The Ridge

      Robert Bringhurst

      A new collection from one of Canada's finest contemporary poets.

      In The Ridge, Robert Bringhurst offers a work of nonfiction in poetic form, intensely focused on the ecological past, present…

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      What is Reading For?

      Robert Bringhurst

      This succinct and thoughtful essay is the text of a talk commissioned for a symposium entitled The Future of Reading which was held at RIT in June 2010.

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      Selected Poems

      Robert Bringhurst

      Robert Bringhurst is one of the world’s foremost mythologists and typographers, and without doubt a major poet. –Poetry

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      A Story as Sharp as a Knife

      Robert Bringhurst

      The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For a thousand years and more before the Europeans came, a…

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      Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music

      Robert Bringhurst

      Dazzling collection of poems, songs and lyric meditations.

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      The Beauty of the Weapons

      Robert Bringhurst

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      Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: The Arts of Robert Bringhurst

      How a multi-talented artist and scholar turned voices of pre-industrial poet-thinkers into texts relevant for today’s world, and tomorrow’s.

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      Breathing Earth: The Polyphonic Lyric of Robert Bringhurst

      Leonor Maria Martinez Serrano

      Breathing Earth: The Polyphonic Lyric of Robert Bringhurst examines the innovative poems for multiple voices composed by the Canadian poet by drawing on the main insights of biosemiotics, ecophilosophy and…

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      Arabic Typography: History and Practice

      Titus Nemeth

      An unprecedented synthesis and in-depth account of recent scholarship on Arabic typographic history and a concise guide on Arabic typography addressing all key areas.

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      Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis

      Robert Bringhurst,Jan Zwicky

      Two powerful writers draw upon philosophy to find a roadmap for grace and equanimity in the face of the death of our planet.

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      The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind and Ecology

      Robert Bringhurst

      Poems, where I come from, writes Robert Bringhurst, are spoken to be written and written to be spoken. The Tree of Meaning is a book of critical prose composed in…

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      He Who Hunted Birds In His Father’s Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Myth, With a Foreword by Richard Bringhurst and a New Afterword by the Author

      Gary Snyder,Robert Bringhurst,Gary Snyder

      In 1951, as a student of anthropology in Oregon, Gary Snyder set himself to the task of analyzing the many levels of meaning a single Native American myth might hold…

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      The Raven Steals the Light

      Bill Reid,Robert Bringhurst

      Presented here are 10 authentic retellings of traditional Haida myths and folktales. The stories range from bawdy tales of how the first Haida were brought to the Queen Charlotte Islands…

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      News and Weather: Seven Canadian Poets: Robert Bringhurst, Margaret Avison, Terry Humby, Brent MacKay, Guy Birchard, A.F. Moritz, Alexander Hutchison

      August Kleinzahler

      This anthology cuts into the Canadian poetry scene on a fresh, oblique angle. Included are Robert Bringhurst, Margaret Avison, A.F. Moritz, Guy Birchard, Terry Humby, Alexander Hutchinson and Brent MacKay.

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      Thunder from the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics

      Photographs courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune.

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      Thunder from the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics

      Photographs courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune.

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