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“christopher bray”

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  • The Kingdom of Heaven with Boots On

    A Camino Tale

    by Christopher Bray ...
    The author of this memoir thought he was walking the Camino alone until, on the evening of the 4th of September 2017, a clairvoyant hospitelera told him someone was walking with him. It’s the son who killed himself 26 years earlier. After this revelation the pilgrimage to Santiago becomes a walk into a mirror: the further they walk onwards together, the deeper they return to the past. In this way ... Read more

    $8.39 CAD

  • 1965

    The Year Modern Britain was Born

    by Christopher Bray ...
    There is Britain before 1965 and Britain after 1965 - and they are not the same thing.1965 was the year Britain democratised education, it was the year pop culture began to be taken as seriously as high art, the time when comedians and television shows imported the methods of modernism into their work.It was when communications across the Atlantic became instantaneous, the year when, for the first ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Sean Connery

    The measure of a man

    by Christopher Bray ...
    Sean Connery's personification of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain and its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. But while Bond would make Connery the first actor to command a million dollar-plus fee, the man himself was forever pouring scorn on the fantasies audiences found it increasingly hard to separate ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Earthly Things

    Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking

    by Christopher Key Chapple, Philip Clayton, John Grim, Matthew Hartman, Graham Harvey, Christopher Ives, Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Catherine Keller, Kimerer L. LaMothe, Sam Mickey, Kevin Minister, Sarah Pike, Joerg Rieger, Terra S. Rowe, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Kevin Schilbrack, Mary Evelyn Tucker, O'neil Van Horn, Carol Wayne White ...
    Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

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    A Square Deal (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Theodore ROOSEVELT ...
    Narrated by Lamont Bray, Luis Googe, Christopher Martin, Liza Smart ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 47 min

    Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States when president William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. As the youngest president, Roosevelt advanced the progressive Republican program known as the “Square Deal” focused on conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. Expanding on this theme, “The matter contained is this book has ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

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    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Keita Ali is on the run.Like every boy on the mountainous island of Zantoroland, running is all Keita’s ever wanted to do. In one of the poorest nations in the world, running means respect. Running means riches—until Keita is targeted for his father’s outspoken political views and discovers he must run for his family’s survival.He signs on with notorious marathon agent Anton Hamm, but when Keita ... Read more

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  • Circus: A Story from Circus

    by Claire Battershill ...
    The CBC Literary Award–winning title story from Claire Battershill’s debut collection, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award and the PEN International / New Voices Award.For as long as Susan can remember, the circus has been part of her family’s DNA – her mother was a gifted contortionist, and her ... Read more

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  • A Spectacle of Dust

    The Autobiography

    by Pete Postlethwaite ...
    Vibrant and candid memoirs of the late, great British character actor, Pete Postlethwaite.After training as a teacher, Pete Postlethwaite started his acting career at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where his colleagues included Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Antony Sher and Julie Walters. After routine early appearances in small parts for television programmes such as THE PROFESSIONALS, Postlethwaite ... Read more

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  • The Sacred Universe

    Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

    by Thomas Berry ...
    "Dedicated readers of ecology, theology, or religious philosophy will want to savor each one [of these essays]" from the renowned environmental thinker ( Library Journal).A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destruction of ecosystems and the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transforming Worldviews

    An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change

    by Paul Hiebert ...
    In the past, changes in behavior and in belief have been leading indicators for missionaries that Christian conversion had occurred. But these alone--or even together--are insufficient for a gospel understanding of conversion. For effective biblical mission, Paul G. Hiebert argues, we must add a third element: a change in worldview. Here he offers a comprehensive study of worldview--its philosophy ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Hoax

    Science, Philosophy and Culture

    by Alan Sokal ...
    In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity'. It was reviewed, accepted and published. Sokal immediately confessed that the whole article was a hoax - a cunningly worded paper designed to expose and parody the style of ... Read more

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  • Robertson Davies

    Magician of Words

    by Nicholas Maes ...
    Series Book 24 - Quest Biography
    Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930’s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995) was one of Canada’s pre-eminent literary voices for more than a half-century.Davies, with his generous beard and donnish manner, was ... Read more

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