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  • A Girl Named Lovely

    One Child's Miraculous Survival and My Journey to the Heart of Haiti

    by Catherine Porter ...
    An insightful and uplifting memoir about a young Haitian girl in post-earthquake Haiti, and the profound, life-changing effect she had on one journalist's life.In January 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people and paralyzing the country. Catherine Porter, a newly minted international reporter, was on the ground in the immediate aftermath. Moments after ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On Justification

    Economies of Worth

    by Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles. On Justification is the ... Read more

    $74.79 CAD

  • The Populist Century

    History, Theory, Critique

    by Pierre Rosanvallon ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Populism is an expression of anger; its appeal stems from being presented as the solution to disorder in our times. The vision of democracy, society, and the economy it offers is coherent and attractive.At a time when the words and slogans of the left have lost much of their power to inspire, Pierre Rosanvallon takes populism for what it is: the rising ideology of the twenty-first century. In The ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Zbigniew Brzezinski

    America’s Grand Strategist

    by Justin Vaïsse ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    As National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928–2017) guided U.S. foreign policy at a critical juncture of the Cold War. But his impact on America’s role in the world extends far beyond his years in the White House, and reverberates to this day. His geopolitical vision, scholarly writings, frequent media appearances, and policy advice to decades of presidents from ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

    by Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre, Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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    A Girl Named Lovely

    One Child's Miraculous Survival and My Journey to the Heart of Haiti

    by Catherine Porter ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    An insightful and uplifting memoir about a young Haitian girl in post-earthquake Haiti, and the profound, life-changing effect she had on one journalist's life.In January 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people and paralyzing the country. Catherine Porter, a newly minted international reporter, was on the ground in the immediate aftermath. Moments after ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Queer Turn in Feminism

    Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender

    by Anne Emmanuelle Berger ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Commonalities
    More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of the Atlantic. Looking at these theories through lenses that are both “American” and “French,” thus ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Essays from the Edge

    Fifty years of mountain writing

    by Dennis Gray ...
    Essays from the Edge gathers fifty years of selected writing by Dennis Gray, one of British climbing's most influential voices. These twenty-one essays, spanning one of British mountaineering's most exciting periods, provide a compelling narrative of a life studying the art of climbing and of living it first-hand on the cliffs and mountains of the world in the company of some of the sport's most ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD

  • Good Bread Is Back

    A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It

    by Steven Laurence Kaplan ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    In Good Bread Is Back, historian and leading French bread expert Steven Laurence Kaplan takes readers into aromatic Parisian bakeries as he explains how good bread began to reappear in France in the 1990s, following almost a century of decline in quality. Kaplan describes how, while bread comprised the bulk of the French diet during the eighteenth century, by the twentieth, per capita consumption ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Wild Diplomacy

    Cohabiting with Wolves on a New Ontological Map

    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    by Baptiste Morizot ...
    Series series SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
    Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleStarting from a specific case, the spontaneous return of wolves to France and the intense conflicts that event has triggered, the French philosopher Baptiste Morizot invites us to think about what he calls "diplomacy with living beings." How can we conceive ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • The Arachnean and Other Texts

    by Fernand Deligny ...
    Translated by Drew S. Burk, Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Univocal
    The network as a mode of beingIn 1968, Fernand Deligny established a “network” for informally taking care of children with autism that was more than a mere site of living; it was a milieu created out of a reflection on the mode of being autistic. What is a space perceived outside of language? What is the form of a movement without perspective or goal? How do we engage with a world that is not our ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Forms of the Visible

    An Anthropology of Figuration

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Imagery and figuration are not just figments of an artist’s imagination. Perception and imagination are always shaped by what habit has taught us to discern. The visual path we spontaneously trace through the world depends on where we are situated in the four regions of the ontological archipelago: animism, naturalism, totemism or analogism. Each of these four regions corresponds to a way of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD