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{"id":6819071918139,"title":"Beyond Fate","handle":"beyond-fate","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn spite of modern ideals and achievements in the area of freedom and choice, people today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught -- in a word, fatalistic. \u003cem\u003eBeyond Fate\u003c\/em\u003e, Margaret Visser's 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, examines why.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis timely and important book investigates what fate means, and where the propensity to believe in it and accept it comes from. Visser takes an ancient metaphor -- ubiquitous, influential, perhaps unavoidable -- where time is \"seen\" and spoken of as though it were space; she examines how this way of picturing reality can be a useful tool to think with -- or, on the other hand, may lead us into disastrous misunderstandings. There are ways out. But first, by observing how fatalism manifests itself in our daily lives, in everything from table manners and shopping to sport, we understand our profound attachment to fate, so that we can consider its role in our lives and our cultures. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T17:46:33-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T16:23:12-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Visser Margaret","House of Anansi Press","Massey Lectures","pub date: 2002-10-23","The CBC Massey Lectures"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40249698648123,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846793","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Beyond Fate - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":181,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887846793","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40249702285371,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848469","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Beyond Fate - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848469","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40249702645819,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895676","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Beyond Fate - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895676","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0df8461a-08a4-47f1-b13c-206802ecc17b.jpg?v=1653883375"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0df8461a-08a4-47f1-b13c-206802ecc17b.jpg?v=1653883375","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22140971581499,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.627,"height":2397,"width":1504,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0df8461a-08a4-47f1-b13c-206802ecc17b.jpg?v=1653883375"},"aspect_ratio":0.627,"height":2397,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0df8461a-08a4-47f1-b13c-206802ecc17b.jpg?v=1653883375","width":1504}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn spite of modern ideals and achievements in the area of freedom and choice, people today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught -- in a word, fatalistic. \u003cem\u003eBeyond Fate\u003c\/em\u003e, Margaret Visser's 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, examines why.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis timely and important book investigates what fate means, and where the propensity to believe in it and accept it comes from. Visser takes an ancient metaphor -- ubiquitous, influential, perhaps unavoidable -- where time is \"seen\" and spoken of as though it were space; she examines how this way of picturing reality can be a useful tool to think with -- or, on the other hand, may lead us into disastrous misunderstandings. There are ways out. But first, by observing how fatalism manifests itself in our daily lives, in everything from table manners and shopping to sport, we understand our profound attachment to fate, so that we can consider its role in our lives and our cultures. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Beyond Fate
In her 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Visser examines why, in spite of modern ideals and freedoms, people often feel fatalistic.
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A classic of Canadian literature by the great Québécoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec.
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The Last Good Funeral of the Year
A pensive and poignant recollection of love, loss, marriage, mental health and the life events that have shaped the author's identity.
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to 11
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As Long as the Rivers Flow
The story of Larry Loyie's last summer before entering residential school.
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This is a marvellous book.","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_19":"Soaring.","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"matrix","OtherText_Review_2":"...here is writing that examines the richness of the everyday with an incredibly keen eye and renders it without sentimentality but with profound empathy.","OtherText_Review_20":"There is no one else in the country who can touch Lisa Moore's elegant rendering of language...She's distinctive, and what she does with language is nothing less than dazzling, and then there is her uncanny ability to inhabit every pore and sinew of her endearingly human characters...What she does with language is pure art.","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Salty Ink","OtherText_Review_21":"This mesmerising book is full of tears, and is a graceful meditation on how to survive life's losses.","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Marie Claire","OtherText_Review_22":"...a stark tale of cauterizing grief, one that left me spellbound in admiration...a well-conceived work of the imagination...","OtherText_Review_22_Src":"Sun Times (Owen Sound)","OtherText_Review_23":"[February] is what great prose should be...a work of art...a moving narrative of risk, love, loss, and surviving...","OtherText_Review_23_Src":"Newfoundland Quarterly","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"matrix","OtherText_Review_3":"...Moore has established with her second novel a distinctive voice in Canadian literature. 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February
Lisa Moore's unforgettable second novel examines the aftermath of 1982's Ocean Ranger disaster within the community of St. John's.
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Every Object Has a Story
Twenty-one Canadians share their personal connections with a unique object from the ROM’s collection in this extraordinary volume.
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Sundays Are for Feasts
Will Yasmine’s hummus taste like the real thing — and impress Ammo Farouk?
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ages 12
to 18
/ grades 7
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Who We Are in Real Life
Fans of Rainbow Rowell and Casey McQuiston will fall for this story of tabletop gaming, romance and epic campaigns — both in game and IRL.
