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  • Improving Learning, Skills and Inclusion

    The Impact of Policy on Post-Compulsory Education

    by Frank Coffield, Sheila Edward, Ian Finlay, Ann Hodgson, Ken Spours, Richard Steer ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    How can opportunities for teaching and learning be improved to ensure that many more people participate, gain qualifications and obtain decent jobs? Will government policies enable us to achieve these goals? What new ideas do we need to ensure a more inclusive, equitable and efficient learning system? These are some of the main concerns which underlie this thought-provoking book coming from a ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Seven Letters to Melin

    Essays on the Soul, Science, Art and Mortality

    by Josef Šafarík ...
    Translated by Ian Finlay Stone ...
    Series series Václav Havel Series
    Josef Šafařík’s Seven Letters to Melin is an exploration of man’s alienation from nature—and from himself—in the modern technological age. Conceived as a series of letters to Melin, an engineer who believes in the value of science and technical progress, the book grows skeptical of such endeavors, while also examining mankind’s search for meaning in life. To help uncover this meaning, Šafařík ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Changing Vocational Education and Training

    An International Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Ian Finlay, Stuart Niven, Stephanie Young ...
    Vocational Education and Training (VET) has been the focus of change for some years. Many nations have developed VET systems with long-term strategies that benefit their economies, including co-ordinating economic, industrial and VET policies and achieving consensus among major stakeholders in the system.Changing Vocational Education and Training focuses on how the principles of stakeholding, ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • From Laughter to Forgetting

    A Sourcebook of Czech Avant-Garde Discourses

    Edited by Zuzana Ríhová ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    A comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde.In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European modernism and the avant-garde has been increased attention to texts and traditions that have long stood in the shadow of the French, German, and British traditions that dominate the canon. Yet this more expansive view of European modernism and the avant-garde has been hindered by the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Midway

    Letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Stephen Bann 1964-69

    by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Stephen Bann ...
    Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was one of Scotland's leading twentieth-century public intellectuals, and famously one of its most brilliant and combative correspondents. His letters raise issues of particular and widespread interest both within Scotland and further afield. His correspondence with Stephen Bann, the English poet and academic, have a very special place in this context. These letters ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Stonypath Days

    Letters between Ian Hamilton Finlay and Stephen Bann 1970-72

    by Ian Hamilton Finlay ...
    These letters to (and from) Finlay’s friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned Little Sparta’. They cover Finlay’s turn away from poetry towards sculpture and garden design, and the thinking behind, and consequences of, this development. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Charles IV

    Portrait of a Medieval Ruler

    by Václav Žurek ...
    Translated by Ian Finlay Stone ...
    A critical examination of the life and legacy of Charles IV.Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, has been called “one of the most learned and diplomatically skillful sovereigns” of the fourteenth century. Having moved the seat of the Holy Roman Empire to Prague and founding the first university in Central Europe, Charles IV is a towering figure in Czech history and a crucial ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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  • A Most Dangerous Book

    Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

    by Christopher B. B. Krebs ...
    The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height ... Read more

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  • Irrational Man

    A Study in Existential Philosophy

    by William Barrett ...
    Widely recognized as one of the finest introductions to existentialist philosophy ever written, Irrational Man helped introduce existentialism to an American audience when it was first published in 1958.Barrett writes with eloquence and clarity about concerns that remain as relevant today as ever: the persistence of the irrational and absurd, the search for meaning in a fractured world, and ... Read more

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  • Illuminations

    Essays and Reflections

    by Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...
    Translated by Henry Zohn ...
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  • King and Emperor

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