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  • Science of the Seance

    Transnational Networks and Gendered Bodies in the Study of Psychic Phenomena, 1918-40

    by Beth A. Robertson ...
    In the 1920s and ’30s, people gathered in darkened rooms to explore the paranormal through seances. They were motivated by grief, spiritual devotion, or a desire to be entertained. Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a small transnational group and their quest for objective knowledge of the supernatural, casting new light on how science, metaphysics, and the senses collided to inform ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 23 No. 1, 2012

    by Beth A. Robertson, Michael Eamon, Robin Jarvis Brownlie, Dan Horner, Colin Grittner, Joanna L. Pearce, Dominique Marquis, Benjamin Bryce, Rebecca Beausaert, Janice Cavell, Joan Sangster, Allan Downey ...
    Series Book 23 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    At the height of the American Revolution in 1779, the Quebec Library was created by Governor Sir Frederick Haldimand. For Haldimand, the library had a well-defined purpose: to educate the public, diffuse useful knowledge, and bring together the French and English peoples of the colony. Over the years, the memory of this institution has faded and the library has tended to be framed as an historical ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

    by Erving Goffman ...
    From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma is analyzes a person’s feelings about himself and his relationship to people whom society calls “normal.”Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically ... Read more

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  • What Is a Canadian?

    Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses

    Edited by Irvin Studin ...
    Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading Canadians — he calls them “sages” — to tell us what they believe defines us. The people who responded eagerly, to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Jeepers Creepers

    Canadian Accounts of Weird Events and Experiences

    by John Robert Colombo ...
    Here are over 40 scary, hair-raising, and frightening stories of the supernatural and the paranormal. These are first-person narratives that are unexplained and possibly inexplicable. All of them have been reported to John Robert Colombo, Canada's Master Gatherer of the Arcane, by men and women from various parts of the country, and they're published here in the words of the informants themselves, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of Quebec

    by John A. Dickinson, Brian Young ...
    John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's recent political history and includes an updated bibliography and chronology and new illustrations. A Canadian classic, A Short History of Quebec ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Not God

    A History of Alcoholics Anonymous

    by Ernest Kurtz ...
    A fascinating account of the discovery and program of Alcoholics Anonymous, Not God contains anecdotes and excerpts from the diaries, correspondence, and occasional memoirs of AA's early figures.The most complete history of A.A. ever written, this book is a fast-moving and authoritative account of the discovery and development of the program and fellowship that we know today as Alcoholics ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Living the Enlightenment

    Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe

    by Margaret C. Jacob ...
    Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported masonic lodges and found in them a new forum that was constitutionally constructed and logically egalitarian. Originating in the Middle Ages, when stone ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife

    by Victor Zammit, Wendy Zammit ...
    There could be many reasons why you are interested this book. Perhaps you are just curious about the afterlife. Or perhaps you have experienced the death of a loved one. It may be that you have had an out of body experience or a near death experience or another mystical experience. Or you may be realizing that we all inevitably have to make the journey to the afterlife one day. If you have been ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Empire Within

    Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal

    by Sean Mills ...
    Series Book 23 - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec
    In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonization to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Ghost Hunters

    William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

    by Deborah Blum ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poision Squad and The Poisoner's Handbook tells the amazing story of William James's quest for empirical evidence of the spirit worldWhat if a world-renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Union of the Canadas 1841-1857

    The Growth of Canadian Institutions

    by J.M.S. Careless ...
    Series Book 10 - The Canadian Centenary Series
    Volume X of the Canadian Centenary SeriesNow available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.J.M.S. Careless looks at how the Act of Union of 1841, which was ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD