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  • Friendship and Faith: Cistercian Men, Women, and Their Stories, 1100-1250

    by Brian Patrick McGuire ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    In these articles Professor McGuire explores the riches of the Cistercian exemplum tradition. These texts are made up of brief stories, often with a miraculous content, which provided moral support for novices and monks in Cistercian abbeys all over Europe in the High Middle Ages. The Cistercians have been seen mainly in terms of their great writers like Bernard of Clairvaux and the impressive ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier

    How Midcentury Modernism Shaped Our View of the Future

    by Dan Chavkin, Brian McGuire ...
    Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969) was the first installment of one of the most successful and longest-running television franchises of all time. Today, Trek fans champion its writing, progressive social consciousness, and aesthetic. Designing the Final Frontier is a unique, expert look at the mid-century modern design that created and inspired that aesthetic. From Burke chairs to ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Bernard of Clairvaux

    An Inner Life

    by Brian Patrick McGuire ...
    In this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages' most consequential men, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to offer a refreshing interpretation that finds within this grand historical figure a deeply spiritual human being who longed for the reflective quietude of the monastery even as he helped shape the destiny of a church and a continent. Heresy and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Book: A Futurist's Manifesto

    A Collection of Essays from the Bleeding Edge of Publishing

    by Hugh McGuire, Brian O'Leary ...
    The ground beneath the book publishing industry dramatically shifted in 2007, the year the Kindle and the iPhone debuted. Widespread consumer demand for these and other devices has brought the pace of digital change in book publishing from "it might happen sometime" to "it’s happening right now"—and it is happening faster than anyone predicted.Yet this is only a transitional phase. Book: A ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Trade Politics

    Edited by Brian Hocking, Steven McGuire ...
    Trade has always been an intensely political activity. Its conduct determines the well-being of entire national communities, and expansion of trade since the Second World War has been one of the major engines of world economic growth. In this new, fully updated edition, leading experts from around the world provide a comprehensive overview of the politics of international trade in the twenty-first ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Jean Gerson

    Early Works

    Here are selected seminal writings of Jean Gerson (1363-1429), chancellor of the University of Paris, academic, humanist, Christian teacher and reformer, and one of the greatest theologians and mystical writers of the middle ages. ... Read more

    $28.14 CAD

  • An Unexpected Journal: Mystery

    Volume 6, #1

    by An Unexpected Journal, Jasmin Biggs, Sojourna Howfree, Kim Hylnad, Tim McGuire, Erica Milecki McMillan, Brian Melton, Seth Myers, Rebekah Valerius, Jacqueline Wilson, Ted Wright ...
    Series Book 1 - Volume 6
    Mystery: Detecting Truth in the DarknessA good mystery brings the reader into the mind of the detective: searching for clues, questioning suspects, and coming to conclusions.We like to play along, hoping to crack the case before the ultimate reveal. In a way, it feels like our real lives as we try to piece together the parts of our existence and discover what they mean.That is why mysteries are ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Re-Thinking Autism

    Diagnosis, Identity and Equality

    by Saqib Latif, Tom Billington, Gail Simon, Richard Hassall, Brian McCabe, Anne McGuire, Dan Goodley, Rafaela Zorzanelli, Nick Hodge, Graham Collins, Kim Davies, Tom Muskett, Francisco Ortega, Clarice Rios, Ginny Russell, Mark Haydon Haydon Laurelut ...
    Challenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this book questions the lazy prejudices and assumptions that can surround autism as a diagnosis in the 21st Century.Arguing that autism can only be understood through examining 'it' as a socially or culturally produced phenomenon, the authors offer a critique of the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • In the Valley of Wormwood

    Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age

    by Thomas Merton OCSO ...
    Series Book 233 - Cistercian Studies Series
    Shortly after entering the monastic life in December 1941, a relatively unknown Trappist monk called Frater Louis-who would later be known to the world by his given name, Thomas Merton-began to pen biographical sketches of early Cistercian blessed and saints. These were initially collected, printed, and bound inexpensively, with no mention of the author, by the Abbey of Gethsemani. They are now ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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    A Novel

    by Anthony Doerr ...
    *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to ... Read more

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  • Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul

    Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition

    by Ralph Whitney Mathisen ...
    A study of the collapse of Roman rule in ancient Gaul and the shift to Germanic power.Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still matters of debate among students of classical history. In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD