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  • Myth, Manhood, and Curriculum

    Towards Truth, Self-Cultivation, and Reparation

    by James P. Burns ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    This book explores the historicized complexities of myths of manhood through a curriculum study that examines the historical emergence of the current propagandization of attacks on manhood in US public life.Narratives about manhood and masculinity are often predicated on concepts of violence, such as the “war on men/boys,” which posits a “demasculization” of men that threatens the global white ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Scanned

    by James Ray Burns ...
    Ne'er do well Jake, after a mediocre military service is just trying to get by in the galaxy. A string of odd jobs and bad luck have left him stranded and broke on the mining planet of Kerella V. A chance encounter with a beautiful woman named Shelain, an alien from a race called Meridian's, drags him into a plot by blood thirsty aliens known as the Basnigh, to overthrow the Consortium; a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brief History of the Knights Templar

    by James Burnes ...
    It was in the year 1119, the twentieth of the Christian dominion in Syria, that nine pious and valiant Knights, the greater part of whom had been the companions of Godfrey de Bouillon, formed themselves into an association, the object of which was to protect and defend Pilgrims on their visits to the holy places. These Knights, of whom the two chief were Hugo de Payens and Godfrey de St. Omer, ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Curriculum and the Problem of Violence

    Biopolitics, Truth, History and Fascism

    by James P. Burns ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    This book is a genealogical inquiry into the present problem of violence, in the United States and internationally, through the lens of curriculum theory. It explores a constellation of problems including war, authoritarianism, post-truth, social disparities, and increasingly onerous surveillance technologies. Arguing that the current problem of violence is neither new nor aberrant, the author ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Vineyard of Liberty, 1787–1863

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 1 - The American Experiment
    A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War.The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic's early decades, as well as the roles of heroes from ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leadership

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines transformational leaders from Moses to Machiavelli to Martin Luther King Jr. in this "impressive book" ( The Washington Post).Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns has spent much of his career documenting the use and misuse of power by leaders throughout history. In this groundbreaking study, Burns examines the qualities that make ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Transforming Leadership

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner examines the history of leadership, and the crucial role of leaders in a healthy democracy.In Transforming Leadership, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures—from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment's ideals of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment

    Re-thinking Curriculum as Counter-Conduct and Counter-Politics

    by James P. Burns ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Winner of the 2019 AERA Division B (Curriculum Studies) Outstanding Book AwardThis book explores curriculum inquiry through the theoretical lens of governmentality as a site of disciplinary biopolitics and a system of heteropatriarchal political economy. Examining the powerscape in which education is currently situated, the author offers a conceptual framework for curriculum scholarship based on ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • The Southern Soldier Boy: A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy

    Enriched edition. A Confederate Soldier's Harrowing Journey Through Civil War

    by James Carson Elliott, Adrian Burns ...
    In "The Southern Soldier Boy: A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy," James Carson Elliott presents a poignant and evocative exploration of a young Confederate soldier's experiences during the American Civil War. The narrative employs a blend of vivid imagery and lyrical prose, immersing readers in the emotional and physical struggles of war. Elliott's keen attention to detail and his ability to ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Experiment

    The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series series The American Experiment
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1940–1945)

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 2 - Roosevelt
    The "engrossing" Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning history of FDR's final years (Barbara Tuchman).The second entry in James Macgregor Burns's definitive two-volume biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt begins with the president's precedent-breaking third term election in 1940, just as Americans were beginning to face the likelihood of war. Here, Burns examines Roosevelt's skillful ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fire and Light

    How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explores history's most daring and transformational intellectual movement, the European and American Enlightenment.In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World. They transformed thought, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook