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  • The Christian Intellectual Tradition from the Reformation to the Modern Era

    A Reader and Companion

    by Josh Reeves, Kirstin Birkhaug, Annalise DeVries, Gabrielle Ray, Jennifer Woodruff Tait ...
    This reader with commentary helps Christians understand and critically examine major arguments that have been made in the Western intellectual tradition through an examination of great texts. The book explores themes related to the natural world, human nature, politics, and God.The core of a liberal arts education lies in the debates made possible by a shared set of texts and questions. Combining ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Maadi

    The Making and Unmaking of a Cairo Suburb, 1878–1962

    by Annalise J.K. DeVries ...
    A fresh perspective on the global economic influences that shaped modern Egypt through the history of an affluent Cairo suburb, MaadiIn the early years of the twentieth century, a group of Egypt’s real-estate and transportation moguls embarked on the creation of a new residential establishment south of Cairo. The development was to epitomize the latest in community planning, merging attributes of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Turks Today

    by Andrew Mango ...
    Eighty years have passed since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the Turkish Republic out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and set it on the path of modernisation. He was determined that his country should be accepted as a member of the family of civilised nations.Today Turkey is a rapidly developing country, an emergent market and a medium-sized regional power with the second strongest army in NATO ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Death of Adam

    Essays on Modern Thought

    by Marilynne Robinson ...
    In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne Robinson repeatedly ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A History of Modern Oman

    by Jeremy Jones, Nicholas Ridout ...
    The ideal introduction to the history of modern Oman from the eighteenth century to the present, this book combines the most recent scholarship on Omani history with insights drawn from a close analysis of the politics and international relations of contemporary Oman. Jeremy Jones and Nicholas Ridout offer a distinctive new approach to Omani history, building on postcolonial thought and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Seekers

    The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

    by Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Series Book 3 - Knowledge Series
    Throughout history, from the time of Socrates to our own modern age, the human race has sought the answers to fundamental questions of life: Who are we? Why are we here?In his previous national bestsellers, The Discoverers and The Creators , Daniel J. Boorstin first told brilliantly how e discovered the reality of our world, and then he celebrated man's achievements in the arts. He now turns to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • South Sudan

    A New History for a New Nation

    by Douglas H. Johnson ...
    Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    Africa’s newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually associated with the violence of slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an arena for a complex mixing of peoples, languages, and beliefs. The nation’s diversity is both its strength and a challenge as its people attempt to overcome the legacy of decades of war to build a new ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • What Are We Doing Here?

    Essays

    by Marilynne Robinson ...
    New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner.Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Treasured

    How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

    by Christina Riggs ...
    A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society.When it was discovered in 1922, in an Egypt newly independent of the British Empire, the 3,300-year-old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world. The boy-king became a household name overnight and kickstarted an international obsession that continues to this day. From pop culture and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Why I am not a Christian

    and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief.Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought we to behave? Russell snatches that comfort away, leaving us instead with other, more troublesome alternatives: responsibility, ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    by Max Weber ...
    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a seminal exploration of the relationship between religious beliefs and economic behavior within the framework of Western society. Max Weber examines how Protestant, particularly Calvinist, values contributed to the development of modern capitalism by fostering a spirit of disciplined labor, frugality, and rational organization. Through his ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Popular Culture and Political Identity in the Arab Gulf States

    Edited by Robert Springborg, Alsharekh Alanoud ...
    Series Book 6 - SOAS Middle East Issues S.
    As the Gulf assumes an ever more important identity in the global political economy, we see the emergence of a new popular and political culture underpinning its increasingly self-confident national identities. This volume explores the new dynamism of the Gulf, reflected not just in high-rise buildings and booming stock markets, but also manifested in the realms of art, ideas and expression, and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus