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{"id":6818978594875,"title":"Perspectives on Our Age","handle":"perspectives-on-our-age","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight into Ellul's life, his work, and the origins and development of his beliefs and theories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Ellul, historian, theologian, and sociologist, was one of the foremost and widely known contemporary critics of modern technological society.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T15:33:45-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T14:20:01-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Ellul Jacques","Edited by Vanderburg Willem","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 1997-03-01"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":2195,"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":40249493618747,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846977","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Perspectives on Our Age - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2195,"weight":227,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887846977","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40249494601787,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848735","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Perspectives on Our Age - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848735","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40249494765627,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897311","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Perspectives on Our Age - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897311","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3730caba-07a7-41a1-8ebb-15c75412482e.jpg?v=1653883360"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3730caba-07a7-41a1-8ebb-15c75412482e.jpg?v=1653883360","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22140971024443,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.665,"height":648,"width":431,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3730caba-07a7-41a1-8ebb-15c75412482e.jpg?v=1653883360"},"aspect_ratio":0.665,"height":648,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3730caba-07a7-41a1-8ebb-15c75412482e.jpg?v=1653883360","width":431}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight into Ellul's life, his work, and the origins and development of his beliefs and theories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Ellul, historian, theologian, and sociologist, was one of the foremost and widely known contemporary critics of modern technological society.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Perspectives on Our Age
These interviews give unique insight into Jacques Ellul's life, his work, and the origins and development of his beliefs and theories.
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{"id":6818979020859,"title":"The Address Book","handle":"the-address-book","description":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into \"This whim \/ against what drifts to dark.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress where music and intelligence are the last guard against wind walls of real grief. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, these poems achieve their effect through total conviction; a complete immersion in the rich palette of human emotions — comfortable and otherwise. The collection's second half includes the author's versions from Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T15:33:47-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T14:20:38-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Heighton Steven","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2004-02-23"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40249494700091,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846984","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Address Book - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":127,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887846984","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22140950118459,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805"},"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into \"This whim \/ against what drifts to dark.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress where music and intelligence are the last guard against wind walls of real grief. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, these poems achieve their effect through total conviction; a complete immersion in the rich palette of human emotions — comfortable and otherwise. The collection's second half includes the author's versions from Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Address Book
A collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress.
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{"id":6818956247099,"title":"Past Imperfect","handle":"past-imperfect","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is the heartbreak tied to human love and there is heartbreak that points to notions of the divine. The poems in Suzanne Buffam's debut collection, Past Imperfect, enter the darkness of both -- at times simultaneously -- giving utterance to the breakage and shards of weak light found therein. Employing humour and directness to equal effect, \u003cem\u003ePast Imperfect\u003c\/em\u003e admits the self is fluid; so we wave farewell to many selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are poems of great intensity, driven by intelligence, tracing the barely knowable contours of a soul-in-progress. In a voice as confident, elegant, and vivid as it is brimming with doubt, \u003cem\u003ePast Imperfect\u003c\/em\u003e employs recurrent images like echoes or quiet obsessions. These become totems of absence, of presence, of the potential other, or simply, of the world as it is: breathtakingly beautiful, refusing to minister to our solitude.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T14:15:33-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T13:35:28-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Buffam Suzanne","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2005-04-01"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1695,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40249437388859,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887847264","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Past Imperfect - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":118,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887847264","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0ff3cb5f-0979-4d5b-bf16-297e18120094.jpg?v=1678601428"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0ff3cb5f-0979-4d5b-bf16-297e18120094.jpg?v=1678601428","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324561440827,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":2521,"width":1634,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0ff3cb5f-0979-4d5b-bf16-297e18120094.jpg?v=1678601428"},"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":2521,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0ff3cb5f-0979-4d5b-bf16-297e18120094.jpg?v=1678601428","width":1634}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThere is the heartbreak tied to human love and there is heartbreak that points to notions of the divine. The poems in Suzanne Buffam's debut collection, Past Imperfect, enter the darkness of both -- at times simultaneously -- giving utterance to the breakage and shards of weak light found therein. Employing humour and directness to equal effect, \u003cem\u003ePast Imperfect\u003c\/em\u003e admits the self is fluid; so we wave farewell to many selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are poems of great intensity, driven by intelligence, tracing the barely knowable contours of a soul-in-progress. In a voice as confident, elegant, and vivid as it is brimming with doubt, \u003cem\u003ePast Imperfect\u003c\/em\u003e employs recurrent images like echoes or quiet obsessions. These become totems of absence, of presence, of the potential other, or simply, of the world as it is: breathtakingly beautiful, refusing to minister to our solitude.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Past Imperfect
Suzanne Buffam's debut poetry collection admits the self is fluid -- so we bid farewell to many "selves."
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I had occasion to be speaking again with Mark in early February, when he suddenly said that he had a delicate\/awkward matter to raise with me. Apparently there was a possibility that President Bush would attend the UN meeting scheduled for the end of May, and the UN desperately wanted him to be there. I had been told (I can surmise by whom, but it was never revealed) that if I were to attack the United States before that date, the president probably wouldn't come. You must understand that though I take myself overly seriously from time to time, it was a bit much to think that my words could deter the President of the UNited States. Nonetheless, Mark said to me (I think I'm capturing it with authentic accuracy), \"Stephen, I must ask you, no, I must plead with you, no, I must instruct you that you are not to attack U.S. policy before the meeting in May. I don't care what you do after that, but beforehand, you must refrain from criticism.\" I could scarce credit what I was hearing. I laughed again, and told Mark that it seemed to me that things were verging on the absurd. On the other hand, I also assured him that I had no immediate plans to go on the attack, and if I did, I'd let him know in advance and resign with appropriate dignity. I relate these surreal circumstances because they speak to an UNlovely pattern of Pavlovian obeisance to the UNited States. Apparently, criticism is permitted of the G8, Tony Blair's Commission on Africa, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the Government of South Africa, the Government of Zimbabwe, the King of Swaziland, and the United Nations itself -- all of whom this book excoriates from time to time -- but almost never the sacrosanct \"integrity\" of the United States of America. But that's only one small part of my postscript to these lectures. 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Race Against Time
Humanitarian Stephen Lewis describes how the world is falling desperately short of UN goals for reducing poverty, inequality, and mortality rates.
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The Ethical Imagination
Ethicist and McGill University professor Margaret Somerville discusses how we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world.
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And we move through it as willingly, or compulsively, as the protagonist, the wind of love and hate at our backs.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Newsday","OtherText_Review_1":"...The Law of Dreams rings with a strange, hard poetry, a mingling of Behrens's rich narrative voice and scraps of startling wisdom that seem to emanate directly from Fergus's mind...In the life of this determined young man, Behrens illuminates one of the 19th century's greatest tragedies and the massive migration it launched. A novel that animates the past this vibrantly should make volumes of mere history blush. 'Life burns hot,' Fergus thinks, and so do these pages.","OtherText_Review_10":"Inspired by his own family history, Behrens has fashioned a paean to the strength of the human spirit that illuminates a piece of history. The law of dreams is to keep moving, and that's what Fergus does, taking advantage of opportunities even as he is haunted by dreams and hurt by betrayal. Behrens tells this story in spare prose that distills ideas to their essence, making this absorbing historical fiction.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_11":"One of the many fine things about Peter Behrens' stunningly lyric first novel, The Law of Dreams, is that it is emphatically a story of that great hunger, a work of richly empathetic imagination that reminds us once again of how powerful historical fiction can be in skilled hands. In fact, the story has a factual and emotional authenticity that calls to mind the similarly masterful debut Thomas Flanagan made with his now classic novel of Irish history, The Year of the French.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"LA Times","OtherText_Review_12":"The Law of Dreams is the best literary adventure novel I've read since Lonesome Dove, a brilliant heart-felt celebration of the capacity of the human spirit.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Howard Mosher","OtherText_Review_13":"The Law of Dreams lowers a tape recorder into the pit of history. All that was lost, everything we've forgotten, is suddenly restored. The research is prodigious, the story is epic, the structure is bold, and the ancient language is something new and wondrous to our ears.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Clark Blaise","OtherText_Review_14":"This book is a beautifully written, poetically inspired tale of heroism, love, yes and sex, and the triumph of the human spirit over murderous greed. It's a long road that Behrens makes shorter with many a surprising turn. The Law of Dreams is one great book. I stayed up into the wee hours to finish it. I envy you this journey.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Malachy McCourt","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_2":"...a compelling read, notable for its spare, lyrical use of language.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_3":"...an absorbing, unsparing and beautifully written account of one man's escape from the charnel house that Ireland became.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_4":"...enjoy the sprawling, cinematically rendered immigrant story.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"...there is much in The Law of Dreams...to excite admiration.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_6":"A lengthy yet surprisingly fast-moving story, The Law of Dreams is sure to establish this Canadian writer as a serious literary talent...Behrens' use of crisp dialogue clearly conveys the fear, the longing and the unbridled hope of a young man teetering on the brink between starvation and salvation. But it is in his economical narrative that Behrens truly shines. 'Life honed to the very edge. Sharpened on a whetstone. Chopping through the days. Working time like it was a sweep of hay.'","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_7":"An action-driven tale stuffed with fascinating historical research.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_8":"An emotional epic bearing echoes of Melville and Ondaatje, conveying scents and shimmers of a vanished world under the skin of our own.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Jonathan Lethem","OtherText_Review_9":"From a mountaintop in Ireland to the beckoning promise of America, there are scenes that will remain imprinted upon the reader's mind. 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The Law of Dreams
The Law of Dreams follows Fergus O'Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond.
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The Lost Massey Lectures
This anthology of early CBC Massey Lectures gathers the work of five of the great minds of modern times.
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The Order of Good Cheer
Master storyteller Bill Gaston bridges land and time in this illuminating historical novel of camaraderie and companionship.
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Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately, and Salt-Water Moon
This special one-volume edition contains the three major Mercer plays by David French: Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately and Salt-Water Moon.
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Thrifty
An entertaining guide to living the richly frugal life by bestselling author and national columnist Marjorie Harris.
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Guilt About the Past
Internationally acclaimed author Bernhard Schlink (The Reader) explores the phenomenon of guilt in the aftermath of war.
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The Good Body
Bill Gaston's classic hockey novel is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak.
