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  • The Origins of the Grand Alliance

    Anglo-American Military Collaboration from the Panay Incident to Pearl Harbor

    by William T. Johnsen ...
    This "uncommonly astute study" examines the early development of the US-UK military alliance that would eventually lead to victory in WWII (Paul Miles, author of FDR's Admiral).On December 12, 1937, Japanese aircraft sank the American gunboat Panay outside Nanjing, China. Although the Japanese apologized, President Roosevelt set Captain Royal Ingersoll to London to begin conversations with the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World of René Girard

    Interviews

    Edited by Nadine Dormoy ...
    Series series Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
    In 1988, Nadine Dormoy conducted a series of interviews with René Girard at a pivotal moment in his career, just after a number of books and conferences had situated his work in a new context of research on self-organizing systems. In these interviews, Girard discusses the flurry of intellectual activity that followed the landmark 1981 Stanford University conference, Disorder and Order. Attended ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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  • Eisenhower in War and Peace

    by Jean Edward Smith ...
    **NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch“Magisterial.”—The New York Times**In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America’s thirty-fourth president. Here is Eisenhower the young dreamer, charting a course from Abilene, ... Read more

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  • Evil in Modern Thought

    An Alternative History of Philosophy

    by Susan Neiman, Susan Neiman ...
    A compelling look at the problem of evil in modern thought, from the Inquisition to global terrorismEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • The Best Little Army In The World

    by J. L. Granatstein ...
    This is the story of the Canadian First Army that fought its way from Juno Beach at D-Day in June, 1944, through Normandy, into the Netherlands to liberate that country, to the terrible battles in the Scheldt area, and finally into Germany in 1945. This is also the story of how Canada, which had no army to speak of in 1939, raised a citizen army and turned it into one of the very best fighting ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • All Desire is a Desire for Being

    by René Girard ...
    A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational myths to the modern era, the visionary thinker Rene Girard identified the constant, competing desires at the heart of our existence - desires that we copy from others, igniting a contagious violence. ... Read more

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  • Why We Are Restless

    On the Modern Quest for Contentment

    by Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey ...
    Series series New Forum Books
    A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change—even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin and Jenna Storey offer a profound and beautiful ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

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  • The Mantle of Command

    FDR at War, 1941–1942

    by Nigel Hamilton ...
    This intimate biography reveals how FDR took personal charge of the military during WWII: "Splendid . . . the memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" ( New York Times Book Review).Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful—and underappreciated—command of the Allied war ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Divine Fury

    A History of Genius

    by Darrin M. McMahon ...
    Genius. With hints of madness and mystery, moral license and visionary force, the word suggests an almost otherworldly power: the power to create, to divine the secrets of the universe, even to destroy. Yet the notion of genius has been diluted in recent times. Today, rock stars, football coaches, and entrepreneurs are labeled 'geniuses,' and the word is applied so widely that it has obscured the ... Read more

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  • World War II

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gerhard L. Weinberg ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then did it come about that there was a Second World War causing twice the 30 million deaths and many times more destruction as had been caused in the previous conflict? In this Very Short Introduction, Gerhard L. Weinberg provides an ... Read more

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  • The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

    Fourth Edition

    by Roland Greene ...
    Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • December 1941

    Twelve Days that Began a World War

    by Evan Mawdsley ...
    An account of the dramatic turning point in World War II that marked "the dawn of American might and the struggle for supremacy in Southeast Asia" ( Times Higher Education).In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded . . ... Read more

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