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  • The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers

    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form. Important thinkers whose Massey Lectures are lamentably out of print include the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr ... Read more

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  • The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross

    This revised edition of The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross was produced to mark the fourth centenary of the death of St. John of the Cross (1542–1591). The result is an English translation of his writings that preserves the authentic meaning of the great mystic’s writings, presents them as clearly as possible, and at the same time gives the reader the doctrinal and historical information ... Read more

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  • The Living Flame of Love: Study Edition

    St. John of the Cross described the stanzas of his poem, The Living Flame of Love, as the “songs of the soul in the intimate communication of the union of love with God.” The verses capture the mystical vistas from the summit of the saint’s spiritual journey, describing the mystery and powerful experience of divine transformation as the soul encounters and unites with the pure love of God.After ... Read more

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  • Urban Ornithology

    150 Years of Birds in New York City

    Urban Ornithology is the first quantitative historical analysis of any New York City natural area's birdlife and spans the century and a half from 1872 to 2016. Only Manhattan's Central and Brooklyn's Prospect Parks have preliminary species lists, not revised since 1967, and the last book examining the birdlife of the entire New York City area is now more than fifty years old.This book updates the ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Paving Our Ways

    A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements

    Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context.It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, Crete, Greece and Italy, before a review of pavements used by the Romans in their magnificent road system. ... Read more

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  • Crime, Community and Locale: The Northern Ireland Communities Crime Survey

    The Northern Ireland Communities Crime Survey

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: This text reports on the findings of the Communities Crime Survey, a communities-based survey carried out within Northern Ireland. The survey asked a number of questions beyond the usual remit of local crime surveys, in order to explore more fully a whole range of issues relating to the experience of living in a society where more obvious manifestations of ... Read more

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  • The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol. 2

    Series Book 2 - The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila
    This volume contains two of Teresa's most popular works: The Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle.Shortly after writing The Book of Her Life for her confessor, St. Teresa wrote The Way of Perfection at the request of her nuns who were eager to learn about prayer and contemplation. Throughout this work she teaches her nuns about prayer and also teaches us.Toward the end of her life, after she ... Read more

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  • More Lost Massey Lectures

    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form.This is the second volume of recovered lectures, a follow-on to The Lost Massey Lectures, and features: Nobel ... Read more

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  • The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, Volume One [Includes The Book of Her Life, Spiritual Testimonies and the Soliloquies]

    Series Book 1 - The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila
    This is the second edition of Volume One of The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, first woman doctor of the church. The translators have taken full advantage of all that recent scholarship has contributed to a better understanding of Teresa and her writings. This volume includes her first major work, The Book of Her Life, and two of her shorter works, the Spiritual Testimonies and the ... Read more

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  • The Educated Imagination

    by Northrop Frye ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    "What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?" Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this remains, of Northrop Frye's many books, perhaps the easiest introduction to his theories of literature and literary education. ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Progress

    by Ronald Wright ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water -- the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or ... Read more

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  • The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture

    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing stories, real and imaginary, than any of our ancestors. Whether or not this has been to our benefit is one of the questions raised by journalist and 1999 CBC Massey lecturer Robert Fulford. ... Read more

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