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  • The Stone Face

    by William Gardner Smith ...
    A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961.As a teenager, Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack, and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Tradition and Modernity

    Christian and Muslim Perspectives

    by David Marshall, Vincent J. Cornell, Janet Soskice, Philip Jenkins, Recep Şentürk, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʿim, David Bentley Hart, Stephen M. Fields, Abdullah Saeed, Paul Weston0, John Milbank1, Joseph E. B. Lumbard2, Lucy Gardner3, Sajjad Rizvi4, Rowan Williams5 ...
    Tradition and Modernity focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking especially at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries. ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    An Audio Bundle: Blood & The War

    by Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, George Pickett, Lt. Colonel W.W. Blackford, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Sarah Morgan Dawson, George T. Stevens, John McElroy, William T. Sherman, Adeline Grey; William Manchester, Paul Fussell, Cornelius Ryan, James J. Fahey, A.J. Liebling, Janet Flanner, David Kenyon Webster, Lewis H. Carlson. ...
    Narrated by Christopher Graybill, Delores King Williams, Grover Gardner, Barrett Whitener, Terrence Aselford, Colleen Delany. ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 33 min

    In Blood, the Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers and observers that includes Abraham Lincoln, ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Metabolist Imagination

    Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction

    by William O. Gardner ...
    Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authorsThe devastation of the Second World War gave rise to imaginations both utopian and apocalyptic. In Japan, a fascinating confluence of architects and science fiction writers took advantage of this space to begin remaking urban design. In The Metabolist Imagination, William O. Gardner ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Life Of Stephen A. Douglas

    by William Gardner ...
    The life of Stephen A. Douglas traces the evolution of a major political figure whose journey from modest beginnings to national prominence reflects the tensions and ambitions shaping a transforming nation. The book examines formative influences, highlighting how early struggles, limited resources, and a determined pursuit of education shaped a strong public voice. It follows the individual’s rise ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

    by William Gardner ...
    De mortuis nil nisi bonum, (of the dead speak nothing but good), is the rule which governed the friends of Stephen A. Douglas after his death. “Of political foes speak nothing but ill,” is the rule which has guided much of our discussion of him for forty years. The time has now arrived when we can study him dispassionately and judge him justly, when we can take his measure, if not with scientific ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

    by William Gardner ...
    "The Life of Stephen A. Douglas" by William Gardner is a comprehensive biography that delves into the life and political career of one of America's most influential figures during the 19th century. Douglas, known for his role in the debates with Abraham Lincoln and his advocacy for popular sovereignty, played a pivotal role in shaping the political landscape of the United States. Gardner ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Before the Fall

    An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House

    by William Gardner ...
    William Safire was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon from 1968 to 1973. During that time, as a Washington insider, Safire was able to observe the thirty-seventh president in his entirety: as noble and mean-spirited; as good and bad; as a man desirous of greatness. Rarely has there been a White House memoir more intimate or revealing in its exploration of the great events that took place "before the ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Behavior Modification in Mental Retardation

    The Education and Rehabilitation of the Mentally Retarded Adolescent and Adult

    by William Gardner ...
    In this important book, one of the most exciting and promising developments in clinical psychology-behavior modification is applied to the treatment of the mentally retarded, particularly those whose behavior poses difficult problems for institutions. Professor Gardner presents an easily intelligible yet detailed account of the concepts and practices of behavior modification and the underlying ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Tunnel

    by William Gardner ...
    In September 1963 President Kennedy commissions intelligence officer Tom Grant to ferret out stolen gold and other treasure that vanished while in the hands of Nazi army officials.Grant soon discovers that nothing in his training at Langley and Fort Benning could adequately prepare him to deal with the deceitful minds and extreme dangers that lie ahead of him. He is caught in a web of intrigue and ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

    by William Gardner ...
    Biography of Lincoln's opponent. According to Wikipedia: "Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 - June 3, 1861) was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed series of debates. He was ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Jamaica

    From its Discovery by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1872

    by William James Gardner ...
    This systematic history of Jamaica was written after the abolition of slavery by a man imbued with a sense of 18th-century liberalism. It is based on public records and archives, and the mass of pamphlet literature which had been published over the years. ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD