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  • The Religious Sense

    New Revised Edition

    by Luigi Giussani, John E. Zucchi ...
    The Religious Sense, the fruit of many years of dialogue with students, is an exploration of the search for meaning in life. Luigi Giussani shows that the nature of reason expresses itself in the ultimate need for truth, goodness, and beauty. These needs constitute the fabric of the religious sense, which is evident in every human being everywhere and in all times. So strong is this sense that it ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Mad Flight?

    The Quebec Emigration to the Coffee Plantations of Brazil

    by John Zucchi ...
    Series Book 45 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
    On 15 September 1896, nearly a thousand people prepared to board a steamer in the port of Montreal, headed for Santos, Brazil, and on to the coffee plantations of São Paulo, while a crowd of a few thousand pleaded with them to stay.Families were split as wives boarded without husbands, or husbands without wives. While many prospective migrants were convinced to get off the boat, close to five ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Is It Possible to Live This Way? Volume 3: Charity

    An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence

    by Luigi Giussani, John Zucchi ...
    This volume of Is It Possible to Live this Way, a translation of Luigi Giussani's Si Può Vivere Così?, addresses the virtue of charity. A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church - that is, have chosen to live their lives in the world according to the "evangelical counsels" of poverty, chastity, and obedience - it ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 24 No. 2, 2013

    by Jane Freeland, Peter Cook, Andrea McKenzie, Simon Devereaux, Elsbeth Heaman, Derek Murray, John Zucchi, Weiting Guo, Evgeny Efremkin, Nicole C. O’Byrne, Rebecca C. Hughes, Rosanne Waters, Jason Colby ...
    Series Book 24 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    Beginning with Columbus’ 1493 report of kings among the “Indians,” European expeditionaries regularly perceived Indigenous leaders as kings during the first century of colonialism in the Americas. English and French narratives of the sixteenth century, following the models of early Spanish and Portuguese accounts, brought to light the existence of Aboriginal monarchs throughout the Americas, from ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    A Critical Appraisal

    Edited by Jack P. Greene, Philip D. Morgan ...
    Series series Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time
    Atlantic history, with its emphasis on inter-regional developments that transcend national borders, has risen to prominence as a fruitful perspective through which to study the interconnections among Europe, North America, Latin America, and Africa. These original essays present a comprehensive and incisive look at how Atlantic history has been interpreted across time and through a variety of ... Read more

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  • The Fire and the Tale

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Lorenzo Chiesa ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenaciously resists creation, ... Read more

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  • The Atlantic World

    Edited by D'Maris Coffman, Adrian Leonard, William O'Reilly ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    As the meeting point between Europe, colonial America, and Africa, the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena, but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over thirty chapters, all written by experts in the field, The Atlantic World takes up these debates and gathers together key, original scholarship to provide an authoritative survey of this ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Globalizing Confederation

    Canada and the World in 1867

    Edited by Marcel Martel, Adrian Shubert, Jacqueline Krikorian ...
    Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17 scholars to provide an international perspective on Canada’s Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in British North America, Globalizing Confederation unpacksa range ofviewpoints, including those from foreign governments, British colonies, and ... Read more

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  • Beauty

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Read more

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  • The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished—Not Cancelled

    by Mark Milke ...
    From assaults on historical figures such as John A. Macdonald to cancel culture and charges that Canada is a genocidal nation-state, the country that every generation and every immigrant built is now facing routine and corrosive attacks.How did this happen?In this new book, twenty critical thinkers provide answers: we are awash in relentless grievance narratives and utopians who expect Canada’s ... Read more

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  • The Courage to Create

    by Rollo May ...
    What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life, but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around?In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement.A renowned therapist and inspiring guide, ... Read more

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  • Empires of the Atlantic World

    Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

    by Prof. J. H. Elliott FBA ...
    This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the ... Read more

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