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    The History of Lacrosse

    by Frank Grant ...
    Narrated by William Logan, Jason Hill ...

    Unabridged

    31 min

    This book gives a detail history of Lacrosse. Individuals will learn about the plays, positions, and basics of lacrosse through a visual retelling of different situations of the game. The History of Lacrosse also offers a wealth of information for the experienced player. ... Read more

    $10.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Theology of Literature

    The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities

    by William Franke ...
    With the tools of far-reaching revolutions in literary theory and informed by the poetic sense of truth, William Franke offers a critical appreciation and philosophical reflection on a way of reading the Bible as theological revelation. Franke explores some of the principal literary genres of the Bible—Myth, Epic History, Prophecy, Apocalyptic, Writings, and Gospel—as building upon one another in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Thoughtful Muse

    Autobiography in Occasional Verse

    by William Franke ...
    The verses in this book were written in re-creational moments of reflection, whether on specific incidents or on constants of existence perceived in particular places under unique circumstances. They aim to preserve and convey some vestige of these revelatory experiences. They strive to raise the attendant illuminations into a heightened consciousness that opens upon the universal relatedness of ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sins Of Our Imagination

    by William Franks ...
    Sins Of Our Imagination is about the human condition: the ways of the world and our attempt to understand and master it. Do we begin to understand the ways of the world? What makes us who we are. The mysteries, trying to figure it all out, especially when love and spy-craft, what some call espionage, the spy game, are thrown in...the perverted view of our invincibility, man's folly and redemption. ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature

    The Hope for Planetary Salvation

    by William Franke ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Literature
    Pandemics and Apocalypse rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Dante, Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for contemplating the significance of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. It concerns how we are to confront ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • The Sign of the Swan

    How French Symbolist Poetry Re-envisions Reality

    by William Franke ...
    Offers a fresh interpretation of French Symbolist poetics, showing how Mallarmé, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud used visionary, transformative language to challenge modern secular perceptions of reality and reveal the enduring power of poetry.Despite intensive scholarly activity around its various protagonists, there is surprisingly little comprehensive attempt at critical interpretation in English of ... Read more

    $26.19 CAD

  • The Vagabond Scholar

    Poems of My Life and Thought in Several European Lands

    by William Franke ...
    William Franke wrote these poems full of youthful inspirations in lyrical verse in the 1980s after completing an MA degree in philosophy and theology at Oxford University. Leaving Oxford, he embarked in the summer of 1980 on the “grand tour” of Europe in the tradition of British aristocrats from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. He followed the footsteps of the archetypal French vagabond ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Identities and Social Justice

    Reconceiving Ethics and Politics in the Wake of Wokeism

    by William Franke ...
    Western democracies are being remade under the banner of "woke," and the argument has stalled. Both sides now insist that who we are decides what we may say — and the more sharply identities are drawn, the less we can hear one another. William Franke, a philosopher of literature and religion at Vanderbilt, proposes an unexpected way out. Drawing on the tradition of negative theology, which reaches ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agriculture for Beginners

    by Midwest Journal Press, Charles William Burkett, Frank Lincoln Stevens ...
    Series Book 2 - Living With the Land
    Since its first publication "Agriculture for Beginners" has found a welcome in thousands of schools and homes.Naturally many suggestions as to changes, additions, and other improvements have reached its authors.The authors hope and think that the remaking of the book has added to its usefulness and attractiveness.They believe now, as they believed before, that there is no line of separation ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dantologies

    Theoretical and Theological Turns in Dante Studies

    by William Franke ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
    This book comprises a searching philosophical meditation on the evolution of the humanities in recent decades, taking Dante studies as an exemplary specimen. The contemporary currents of theory have decisively impacted this field, but Dante also has a strong relationship with theology. The idea that theology, teleology, and logocentric rationalities are simply overcome and swept away by new ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason

    by David Hirsch, Dan Van Haften ...
    The secrets of one of history's greatest orators are revealed in "one of the most stunningly original works on Abraham Lincoln to appear in years" (John Stauffer, professor of English and history, Harvard University).For more than 150 years, historians have speculated about what made Abraham Lincoln truly great. How did Lincoln create his compelling arguments, his convincing oratory, and his ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testament

    Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation

    by William Franke ...
    Modelling knowledge as revelation and theology as poetry, this powerful new reading of the Vita nuova not only challenges Dante scholars to reconsider the book's speculative emphases but also offers the general reader an accessible yet penetrating exploration of some of the Western tradition's most far-reaching ideas surrounding love and knowledge. Dante's 'little book', included in full here in ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD