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  • Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems

    A Comparative Approach

    by Peter John, Shaun Bevan, Will Jennings, Bryan D. Jones, Michelle C. Whyman, Sylvain Brouard, Emiliano Grossman, Isabelle Guinaudeau, Arco Timmermans, Gerard Breeman, Frédéric Varone, Isabelle Engeli, Pascal Sciarini, Roy Gava, Christian Breunig, Brandon Zicha, Anne Hardy, Jeroen Joly, Tobias Van Assche, Enrico Borghetto, Marcello Carammia, Francesco Zucchini, Laura Chaqués-Bonafont, Anna M. Palau, Luz M. Muñoz Marquez, Martial Foucault, Éric Montpetit ...
    What will gain the system's attention? "Explores the dynamics of a broad range of policy issues in different countries . . . an important scholarly contribution." — Political Studies ReviewBefore making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy

    by Carol Christian, Jean-René Roy ...
    Are we alone in the Universe? Was there anything before the Big Bang? Are there other universes? What makes stars shine? Where does Earth's water come from? Why is the night sky dark? Was there ever life on Mars? How do telescopes work? This engaging guide book answers all these questions and hundreds more, making it a practical reference for anyone who has ever wondered what is out in the cosmos, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Theology and Technique

    Toward an Ethic of Non-Power

    by Jacques Ellul ...
    Translated by Christian Roy ...
    Theology and Technique is a posthumous, incomplete volume drafted in the 1970s that nevertheless constitutes a significant addition to the Ellul corpus. Working from Jacques Ellul's original outline, a collaborative team including three of Ellul's children, a grandson, and Ellul scholars has assembled previous partial publications that Ellul himself approved for eventual incorporation along with ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Green Light

    A Self-Critique of the Ecological Movement

    by Bernard Charbonneau ...
    Translated by Christian Roy ...
    The Green Light ('Le Feu Vert') offers an original and profound exploration of the roots of environmental philosophy and the Anthropocene. Bernard Charbonneau situates the wellspring of the ecological movement in the dialectics of Nature and Freedom, and their needful but uneasy joining against the totalizing system of technological society that threatens them both. Using this paradoxical tension ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Modelling and Simulation in Science, Technology and Engineering Mathematics

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (MS-17)

    Edited by Surajit Chattopadhyay, Tamal Roy, Samarjit Sengupta, Christian Berger-Vachon ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume contains the peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (MS-17), held in Kolkata, India, 4th-5th November 2017, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Modelling and Simulation Techniques in Enterprises (AMSE, France) in association with the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET, UK), Kolkata Network.The contributions ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

    Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

    by Peter L. Berger ...
    Influential scholar Peter L. Berger explores the sociological underpinnings of religion and the rise of a modern secular societyAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work of social theory. Berger examines the roots of religious belief and its gradual dissolution in modern times, applying ... Read more

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  • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

    by James C. Scott ...
    Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Biblical Critical Theory

    How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture

    by Christopher Watkin ...
    *With a foreword from Tim Keller*A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a way that is biblically faithful and culturally sensitive.In Biblical Critical Theory, Christopher Watkin shows how the Bible and its unfolding story help us make sense of modern life and culture.Critical theories exist to critique what we think we know about reality and the social, political, and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)

    Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

    by James K. A. Smith ...
    Series series The Church and Postmodern Culture
    The philosophies of French thinkers Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault form the basis for postmodern thought and are seemingly at odds with the Christian faith. However, James K. A. Smith claims that their ideas have been misinterpreted and actually have a deep affinity with central Christian claims.Each chapter opens with an illustration from a recent movie and concludes with a case study considering ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

    Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

    by Peter L. Berger ...
    Influential scholar Peter L. Berger reveals five signs that point to the supernatural and its place in a modern secular societyAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger examines religion in twentieth-century Western society, exploring the social nature of knowledge and its effect on religious belief. Using five signs evident in ordinary life—order, play, hope, damnation, and humor—Berger ... Read more

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  • Discovering Girard

    by Michael Kirwan ...
    The work of René Girard is hugely influential in literature and cultural studies. But it is in understanding the relationship between religion and violence that his theory has created the greatest impact. Girard’s understanding of mimetic rivalry and conflict and of scapegoating are seen by many to be the key to a completely new understanding of Christianity.Girard’s name evokes curiosity and – ... Read more

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  • On Equilibrium

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    What does John Ralston Saul's influential philosophical trilogy Voltaire's Bastards, The Doubter's Companion and The Unconscious Civilization mean for the real lives of individuals? Is it possible to apply his groundbreaking theories to everyday life?On Equilibrium presents us with a virtual "how to" of the ways that ideas can translate into action. Saul explains how our different qualities give ... Read more

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