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  • Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare

    The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union

    by H. Pieper ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front. ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Leisure

    The Basis of Culture

    by Josef Pieper ...
    One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act.Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Reinventing Cicero

    The Afterlife of the Speeches, Letters and Dialogues between 60 and 50 BCE

    Edited by Leanne Jansen, Christoph Pieper ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
    Exploring the reception of an influential phase in the life of the orator and politician Cicero, this volume focuses on the legacy of his public speeches, letters and political writings between 60-50 BCE. Faced with mounting public challenges, he developed an elaborate self-fashioning programme, reinventing himself as a republican statesman and political philosopher in works which have been ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

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  • I'm Alive

    Courage, Hope, and a Miracle

    by Duke Pieper, Jim Bruton ...
    The personal account of a promising high school hockey player who survived brain surgery and months of rehabilitation, infections, and temporary paralysisAn aspiring hockey star at Minnesota's elite Hill-Murray School, 15-year-old Duke Pieper faced a brain surgery with a five percent survival rate. In I'm Alive: Courage, Hope, and a Miracle, Duke recounts his personal and courageous war against ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Happiness and Contemplation

    by Josef Pieper ...
    “The ultimate of human happiness is to be found in contemplation.” In offering this proposition of Thomas Aquinas to our thought, Josef Pieper uses traditional wisdom in order to throw light on present-day reality and present-day psychological problems. What, in fact, does one pursue in pursuing happiness? What, in the consensus of the wisdom of the early Greeks, of Plato and Aristotle, of the New ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • Faith, Hope, Love

    by Josef Pieper ...
    This volume, three separate books in one edition, is a collection of Josef Pieper's famous treatises on the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love. Each of these treatises was originally published as a separate work over a period of thirty-seven years, and here they are brought together in English for the first time.The first of the three that he wrote, On Hope, was written in 1934 in ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Safety Engineering

    Fundamentals, Methods, Research topics

    Edited by Stefan Bracke, Ralf Pieper ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Safety engineering is an engineering discipline with an interdisciplinary and application-oriented focus. The main focus is on the knowledge-based development and application of methods for the analysis and prevention of hazards and the minimization of remaining hazards to human safety and health and to the environment, particularly in connection with technically complex products, systems and ... Read more

    $96.09 CAD

  • In Defense of Philosophy

    Classical Wisdom Stands Up to Modern Challenges

    by Josef Pieper ...
    This book is an engagement between a great modern philosopher defending classical philosophy against an army of challengers to the very notion of philosophy as classically conceived. It is written very much in the spirit of the scholastic disputations in the medieval universities, which produced the great Summas: a mutual search for truth, a philosophical laboratory, a careful winnowing of each ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Four Cardinal Virtues

    Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge

    by Josef Pieper ...
    In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues. ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • XPOMET©

    360° Next Generation Healthcare

    Edited by Ulrich H. Pieper, Alois G. Steidel, Jochen A. Werner ...
    As modern healthcare becomes increasingly personalized and data-driven, traditional healthcare is being transformed into a dynamic, multi-layered and highly connected global ecosystem. New players, such as medical entrepreneurs and tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Google and IBM Watson are continuing to expose and challenge the current healthcare market by providing innovative digital products and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • De-Centering Cold War History

    Local and Global Change

    Edited by Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, Fabio Lanza ...
    De-Centering Cold War History challenges the Cold War master narratives that focus on super-power politics by shifting our analytical perspective to include local-level experiences and regional initiatives that were crucial to the making of a Cold War world. Cold War histories are often told as stories of national leaders, state policies and the global confrontation that pitted a Communist Eastern ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Guide to Thomas Aquinas

    by Josef Pieper ...
    One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps the greatest philosopher ever, St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a biography of Aquinas, an overview of the 13th century he lived in, and a wonderful synthesis of his vast writings.Pieper shows how Aquinas reconciled the pragmatic thought of Aristotle with ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD