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  • Douglas DC-8

    A Legends of Flight Illustrated History

    by Wolfgang Borgmann ...
    The Douglas DC-8, first flew in 1958, making it one of the first long-range commercial jetliners. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life

    A Philosophical Inquiry

    by Albert Borgmann ...
    Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernible even in such an inconspicuous action as switching on a stereo, has global effects: it sharply divides life into labor and leisure, it sustains the industrial democracies, and it fosters the view that the earth itself is a technological device. He ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Philosophy of Language

    Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues

    by A. Borgmann ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book deals with the philosophy of language and with what is at issue in the philosophy of language. Due to its intensity and diversity, the philosophy of language has attained the position of first philosophy in this century. To show this is the task of Part Two. But the task can be accomplished only if it is first made clear how language came to be a problem in and for philosophy and how ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Crossing the Postmodern Divide

    by Albert Borgmann ...
    In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of society's ills to every sphere of contemporary social life, and goes beyond the language of postmodern discourse to offer a powerfully articulated ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • De Havilland DH.106 Comet

    A Legends of Flight Illustrated History

    by Wolfgang Borgmann ...
    This book is the perfect addition to the A Legends of Flight Illustrated History seriesAs the first jetliner operated in scheduled service, the de Havilland Comet is a very important aircraft type in airline history. It set the standards for modern air transport and is therefore a MUST for this book series ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Stocks and ETF Guide: The Complete Guide for Intelligent Investing in the Stock Market, Targeted Wealth Building, and Secure Retirement Planning - Including Workbook and Day Trading Instructions

    by Moritz Borgmann ...
    The inflation is eating away at your savings, and everything is getting more expensive? Riester and savings accounts no longer contribute to building wealth but only bring wrinkles of concern? And you're wondering if it's even possible to build wealth on an average salary? Luckily, yes – and how this is possible with stocks and ETFs, even for financial market novices, you'll learn in this book! ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Real American Ethics

    Taking Responsibility for Our Country

    by Albert Borgmann ...
    America is a wonderful and magnificent country that affords its citizens the broadest freedoms and the greatest prosperity in the world. But it also has its share of warts. It is embroiled in a war that many of its citizens consider unjust and even illegal. It continues to ravage the natural environment and ignore poverty both at home and abroad, and its culture is increasingly driven by ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Literacy Tools in the Classroom

    Teaching Through Critical Inquiry, Grades 5-12

    by Richard Beach, Gerald Campano, Melissa Borgmann, Brian Edmiston ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    This innovative resource describes how teachers can help students employ “literacy tools” across the curriculum to foster learning. The authors demonstrate how literacy tools such as narratives, question-asking, spoken-word poetry, drama, writing, digital communication, images, and video encourage critical inquiry in the 512 classroom. This dynamic text will inspire teachers to:Work together to ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • ONE YEAR

    Volume IV

    by Kari Borgmann ...
    Sydnie and Mahlon are taking the biggest step of their lives: moving in together. But the quiet life they envisioned in a century-old farmhouse is quickly becoming a beautiful, crowded chaos. As Sydnie's son Randy returns home to navigate life as a single father and her daughter-in-law Cassidy prepares for a wedding and a new baby, the farmhouse walls are bursting with the complexities of a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Postphenomenological Investigations

    Essays on Human–Technology Relations

    by Lenore Langsdorf, Annamaria Carusi, Marie-Christine Nizzi, Fernando Secomandi, Asle Kiran, Frances Bottenberg, Chris Kaposy, Adam Rosenfeld, Andrew Feenberg, Søren Riis, Don Ihde, Kirk M. Besmer, Aud Sissel Hoel, Yoni Van Den Eede, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis, Diane Michelfelder, Albert Borgmann ...
    Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
    Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human–Technology Relations provides an introduction to the school of thought called postphenomenology and showcases projects at the cutting edge of this perspective. Postphenomenology presents a unique blend of insights from the philosophical traditions of phenomenology and American pragmatism, and applies them to studies of user relations to ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Community in the Digital Age

    Philosophy and Practice

    by Andrew Feenberg, Phillip E. Agre, Maria Bakardjieva, Bruce Bimber, Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Amitai Etzioni, Tetsuji Iseda, Diane Elizabeth Johnson, Richard Kahn0, Douglas Kellner1, Yumiko Nara2, Mark Poster3, Douglas Schuler4, Leslie Regan Shade5, Sherry Turkle6 ...
    Is the Internet the key to a reinvigorated public life? Or will it fragment society by enabling citizens to associate only with like-minded others? Online community has provided social researchers with insights into our evolving social life. As suburbanization and the breakdown of the extended family and neighborhood isolate individuals more and more, the Internet appears as a possible source for ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

  • Moral Soundings

    Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life

    by Richard Rorty, Steven Fesmire, Stanley Kurtz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jerry Weinberger, Leon Kass, Jane Smiley, Thomas Pogge, Richard Pipes, James Twitchell, David Marsland, David Bosworth, Christina Hoff Sommers, Edward W. Said, Janet C. Gornick, Isabel V. Sawhill, Albert Borgmann, Jerry L. Walls, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Cornel West ...
    Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects diversified essays around a structured theme: does Western culture face a moral crisis of values? Prominent voices in the humanities and social sciences provide a range of perspectives on a concentrated ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD