Paula Bennett Books

Traditional schoolhouses and neighbourhood schools are disappearing at an alarming rate, making way for "big box" schools that serve multiple communities and adhere to the logic of modernization, centralization and uniformity. In Vanishing Schools, Threatened Communities, author Paul W. Bennett explores the phenomenon of school closures, focusing on Maritime Canada from 1850 until the present day. Here is a lively, stimulating book that examines the rise of common schooling from one-room schoolhouses that encouraged local democratic control through to the rise of "super-sized" schools governed by a vast bureaucracy that silences public participation. Though the public has not always remained silent, local "save our schools" movements have not succeeded in halting the march of "progress." Bennett sets out, in this colourful history of schools, to remind us of the principles that formed the basis of the public education system and urges us to return to these principles in order to better serve the needs of our children and our communities.

A warm and personal account of living in an historic New England Georgian house, and a journey into America's past through its history, traditions and recipes.

La 4e de couv. indique : "This internationally acclaimed study is a major contribution to our understanding of representations of female sexuality in Art and in literature. This edition includes a substantial new introduction by the author. Professor Bennett illuminates Dickinson's desire to be a "strong" woman poet against the background of her situation as a 19th-century woman. The authro provides clear, incisive analyses of Dickinson's poetry, with a wide-angle view of the poet's cultural situation. She also gives sensitive discussion of Dickinson's sexual imagery."

When it's police against the police it's a Blue on Blue and no good ever comes from it.Nick Shannon, fraud investigator, spent seven years in prison for the mercy killing of his quadriplegic sister. The hit-and-run driver who debilitated her is still at large so when Shannon is asked to clear the name of a police officer accused of embezzling a million pounds it seems like a golden opportunity to delve into the police files that someone is trying to keep a secret. Shannon digs deep into the murky world of the police and doesn't like what he finds.He wants justice and nothing will stop him. Except death, and that's exactly what someone has in mind.