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  • Double Helix of God

    by Glen Pearson ...
    Tossed onto an Italian beach by a hostile sea, Enzo Rossi discovers that he not only has a concussion but also the ability to see developments and even God more clearly than ever. An architect by training, Enzo is recruited to save the deteriorating Bell Tower in Tuscany's city of San Gimignano. His new insights provide him with new solutions for fixing a centuries-old problem. Double Helix of God ... Read more

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  • Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing

    Process Elements and Recent Advances

    A single-volume resource featuring state-of-the art reviews of key elements of the roll-to-roll manufacturing processing methodologyRoll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing is an important manufacturing technology platform used extensively for mass-producing a host of film-type products in several traditional industries such as printing, silver-halide photography, and paper. Over the last two decades, ... Read more

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  • The Unravelling

    What Canada Lost Along the Way

    by Glen Pearson ...
    The Unravelling is the story of how Canada made a covenant with its people — and how, over four decades of deliberate political choices dressed as economic necessities, that covenant was broken. Glen Pearson, who grew up in post-war Canada and watched the entire arc unfold in real time, tells this story with the moral seriousness it deserves: tracing the extraordinary post-war achievement of the ... Read more

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  • The Second Nation

    by Glen Pearson ...
    Something is emptying out of Canadian life, and no one is quite naming it.The volunteers who used to come don't come anymore. The Legion halls and service clubs and community leagues are folding one by one. A country is retreating, house by house and heart by heart, into a comfortable and well-appointed solitude — even as it pours billions into building its future.In The Second Nation, Glen ... Read more

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  • The Last Signal

    by Glen Pearson ...
    Dan Costain has built a company worth billions by connecting the world. Synapse reaches two billion people across 190 countries. He has sat in the Oval Office. He has never been unreachable. Then his mother disappears. Donna Costain, 75, has spent twenty-two years working in one of the most remote regions of South Sudan — a place her son has never visited, a life he has never fully understood. ... Read more

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  • Life Among the Stones

    One Family's Struggle With Alzheimer's

    by Glen Pearson ...
    At 81 years of age, Alberta Alexander discovers she had Alzheimer's. A Life Among the Stones tells of how this remarkable women bring the power of her personality to bear on the challenge. And to the delight of those around her, hidden treasures of personality and insight are revealed. And Alberta has one precious secret hidden in her garden - a secret that tells of a remarkable life. ... Read more

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  • Last Best Hope

    The Remarkable Outlook of Abraham Lincoln

    by Glen Pearson ...
    Abraham Lincoln, America's greatest president, was a remarkably complex yet simple man, caught in the blood and conflict of America's greatest years of violence. His personality, rich and textured with years of poverty and affluence, rural realities and urban richness, ambition and humility. His lessons for today's faith communities are more necessary than ever. ... Read more

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  • The Forge and the Velvet Trap

    How Catastrophie Bilds Civilizations - and How Comfort Undoes Them

    by Glen Pearson ...
    In the spring of 1945, the survivors of the Depression and two world wars sat down and built a world. The welfare state. The United Nations. The Marshall Plan. NATO. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the space of five extraordinary years, a generation educated by catastrophe produced the most ambitious and durable institutional architecture in human history. They built it because they ... Read more

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  • A Future to Build

    Canada in the 21st Century

    by Glen Pearson ...
    Across the essays that follow, there will be proposals foreconomic reform, institutional redesign, democratic innova‐tion, and civic repair. But more than that, there’s an ethic - asense that we cannot build a better Canada without firstbelieving we are still capable of shared purpose.The time is right for this conversation. The global contextdemands it. Democracies around the world are being ... Read more

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  • Eternal Return

    by Glen Pearson ...
    Catherine O'Hara, Minister of the Environment in the Government of Canada, explores uncharted regions in the Amazonian rainforest and comes out a change and more determined woman. Her life turns upside down after an official visit to China, leaving her with choice but to oppose her own Prime Minister. The results are electric. ... Read more

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  • The Painter's Wounds

    by Glen Pearson ...
    Virginia Hadley returns to her home in MackinacIsland, suffering from a serious case of PTSD after herhelicopter crashes in Afghanistan. With her parentsin a senior's facility and her life in shambles, she turnsto the painter's canvas once more in search ofhealing.In a remarkable journey involving Sam, an Iraq Warveteran, the island's famous art gallery, the healing ofnature, and the unexpected ... Read more

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  • Echoes of Eden

    by Glen Pearson ...
    Echoes of Eden is a literary novel of ideas set against the moral unravelling of North America in the mid-2020s. Blending fiction, essay, and social commentary, it follows Thomas Avery, a 65-year-old writer for The Atlantic, as he undertakes a late-career effort to renew the moral language of public life at a moment when democracy, neighbourliness, and trust appear to be failing.Thomas believes ... Read more

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