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  • Voltaire's Bastards

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West is a sweeping and provocative exploration of nothing less than the political, economic, social, and cultural origins of Western society. With great daring and originality, John Ralston Saul dissects the contradictions, delusions, and illusions that have brought the world to the brink of confusion and crisis, and shatters the myths ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • John Ralston Saul Reimagines Canada (4-Book Bundle)

    Reflections of a Siamese Twin, A Fair Country, The Comeback, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Canada has no greater interpreter and champion than John Ralston Saul, who for years has been challenging our common notions of Canada. These four books examine our history and myths, our relationships and modern reality, and together brilliantly portray a unique and remarkable country.Reflections of a Siamese TwinIn Reflections of a Siamese Twin, Saul turns his eye to an examination of Canada ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Unconscious Civilization

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Governor General's Award Winner Tenth Anniverary Edition, with a new preface Our society, John Ralston Saul argues in his 1995 CBC Massey Lectures, is only superficially based on the individual and democracy. Increasingly it is conformist and corporatist, a society in which legitimacy lies with specialist or interest groups and decisions are made through constant negotiations between these groups. ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Fair Country

    Telling Truths About Canada

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. An obstacle to our progress, Saul argues, is that Canada has an ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Doubters Companion

    A Dictionary Of Aggressive Common Sense

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    "How are citizens to enter into a public debate if the concepts which define our society and decide the manner in which we are governed are open neither to understanding nor to questioning?" According to bestselling novelist and essayist John Ralston Saul, the ramifications of asking this question are enormous. We live in an era of specialization, where decision makers, administrators, and process ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Collapse of Globalism Revised Edition

    And The Reinvention Of The World

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In 1999, John Ralston Saul began predicting that globalism would collapse. In 2005, he laid out this scenario in The Collapse of Globalism: and the Reinvention of the World Now he has enlarged the book, showing how today's crisis came about and suggesting what to do next. In this new edition, Saul describes the current financial crisis as a mere boil to be lanced. The far more serious problem is ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Canada has no better interpreter than prolific writer and thinker John Ralston Saul. Here he argues that Canada did not begin in 1867; indeed, its foundation was laid by two visionary men, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin. The two leaders of Lower and Upper Canada, respectively, worked together after the 1841 Union to lead a reformist movement for responsible government run by elected ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Company of Others

    Stories of Belonging

    by Sandra Shields ...
    Sandra Shields and David Campion are a married couple who collaborate on numerous narrative/photographic projects, including the book Where Fire Speaks, which won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2003. They live outside of Vancouver, BC.John Ralston Saul's numerous books include Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictorship of Reason in the West, Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Four Walls of My Freedom

    by Donna Thomson ...
    A riveting and redemptive family memoir, The Four Walls of My Freedom is Donna Thomson’s account of raising a son with cerebral palsy and a passionate appeal to change the way we think about “the good life.”Donna Thomson’s life was forever changed when her son Nicholas was born with cerebral palsy. A former actor, director, and teacher, Donna became his primary caregiver and embarked on a second ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reflections Of A Siamese Twin

    Canada At The Beginning Of The Twenty First Century

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In Reflections of a Siamese Twin, Saul turns his eye from a reinterpretation of the Western world to an examination of Canada itself. Caught up in crises—political, economic, and social—Canada continues to flounder, unable to solve or even really identify its problems.Instead, we assert absolute differences between ourselves: we are English or we are French; Natives or Europeans; early immigrants ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • The Comeback

    How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power And Influence

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Once again, John Ralston Saul presents the story of Canada’s past so that we may better understand its present – and imagine a better future.Historic moments are always uncomfortable, Saul writes in this impassioned argument, calling on all of us to embrace and support the comeback of Aboriginal peoples. This, he says, is the great issue of our time – the most important missing piece in the ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

  • 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

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD