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  • The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern

    A Complete History

    by David McPherson ...
    A complete history of Toronto’s legendary Horseshoe Tavern, “the Birthplace of Canadian Rock,” to coincide with its seventieth anniversary.Like the Queen Street strip that has been its home for seven decades, the Horseshoe Tavern continues to evolve. It remains as relevant today as it did when Jack Starr founded the country music club on the site of a former blacksmith shop. From country and ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Massey Hall

    by David McPherson ...
    The fascinating story of Canada’s most revered concert hall and the myriad artists who have graced its stage.Known for its intimacy and sense of occasion, a night at Toronto’s Massey Hall is magical for both audiences and performers. For many musicians, playing the hall is the surest sign that they have made it. Looking out over the crowd, performers often comment that they feel they have joined ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • 101 Fascinating Golf Facts

    by David McPherson ...
    Series Book 4 - 101 Fascinating Facts
    Tee off your season with 101 delightful trivia on the greatest game.Did you know:That a Canadian coined the term “mulligan” — a noun meaning “do-over” — which many recreational golfers take on the first tee after an errant drive?That the creators of one of the greatest board games ever, Trivial Pursuit, also built a devilish golf course north of Toronto?The world’s most expensive public golf ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts

    by David McPherson ...
    Series Book 2 - 101 Fascinating Facts
    101 true stories to surprise and delight Canadian music fans.Did you know that:Serena Ryder played the quietest concert ever from the ocean floor during low tide at Fundy National Park?“I’ll Never Smile Again,” the hit that launched Frank Sinatra’s career, was written by Toronto pianist Ruth Lowe?What about 12-year-old Liberty Silver singing in a reggae band that opened for Bob Marley at Madison ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Virtues of Limits

    by David McPherson ...
    Human beings seek to transcend limits. This is part of our potential greatness, since it is how we can realize what is best in our humanity. However, the limit-transcending feature of human life is also part of our potential downfall, as it can lead to dehumanization and failure to attain important human goods and to prevent human evils. Exploring the place of limits within a well-lived human life ... Read more

    $52.09 CAD

  • Virtue and Meaning

    A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective

    by David McPherson ...
    The revival of Aristotelian virtue ethics can be seen as a response to the modern problem of disenchantment, that is, the perceived loss of meaning in modernity. However, in Virtue and Meaning, David McPherson contends that the dominant approach still embraces an overly disenchanted view. In a wide-ranging discussion, McPherson argues for a more fully re-enchanted perspective that gives better ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

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    The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern

    A Complete History

    by David McPherson ...
    Narrated by Jeff Woods ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 42 min

    A complete history of Toronto’s legendary Horseshoe Tavern, “the Birthplace of Canadian Rock,” to coincide with its seventieth anniversary.Like the Queen Street strip that has been its home for seven decades, the Horseshoe Tavern continues to evolve. It remains as relevant today as it did when Jack Starr founded the country music club on the site of a former blacksmith shop. From country and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics

    Edited by Tristram McPherson, David Plunkett ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics. Forty-four chapters, all written exclusively for this volume, provide expert introductions to:the central research programs that frame metaethical discussionsthe central explanatory challenges, resources, and strategies that inform contemporary work in those research programsdebates over the status of metaethics, ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • The Longest Night

    A Military History of the Civil War

    by David J Eicher ...
    A riveting, indispensable history of the Civil War, told chronologically—from the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to the surrender in the summer of 1865—a conflict that James McPherson in the Foreword calls "the most dramatic, violent, and fateful experience in American history."In this compelling account of the American Civil War, noted historian David Eicher gives us an authoritative history of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Spirituality and the Good Life

    Philosophical Approaches

    Edited by David McPherson ...
    This book presents a broad philosophical study of the nature of spirituality and its relationship to human well-being, addressing an area of contemporary philosophy that has been largely underexplored. David McPherson brings together a team of scholars to examine the importance of specific spiritual practices (including prayer, contemplation, and ritual observance) and spiritually informed virtues ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Digital Leisure Cultures

    Critical perspectives

    Edited by Sandro Carnicelli, David McGillivray, Gayle McPherson ...
    The digital turn in leisure has opened up a vast array of new opportunities to play, learn, participate and be entertained – opportunities that have transformed what we recognise as leisure. This edited collection provides a significant contribution to our changing understanding of digital leisure cultures, reflecting on the socio-historical context within which the digital age emerged, while ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Philosophy and Climate Change

    Edited by Mark Budolfson, Tristram McPherson, David Plunkett ...
    Series series Engaging Philosophy
    Climate change is poised to threaten, disrupt, and transform human life, and the social, economic, and political institutions that structure it. Philosophy and Climate Change argues that understanding climate change, and discussing how to address it, should be at the very center of our public conversation. It shows that philosophy can make an enormous contribution to that conversation, but only if ... Read more

    $76.09 CAD