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  • Whose Will Be Done?

    Essays on Sovereignty and Religion

    by John Dyck, Paul Rowe, M. Christian Green, Robert Joustra, Marc Livecche, Andrés Pérez-Baltodano, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Jens Zimmermann0 ...
    What is the proper relationship of religion to power? In this collection of essays, a group of interdisciplinary scholars address that question, building on the scholarship of the late Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain. The first section of this book provides the reader with three previously unpublished essays by Elshtain on the subject of political sovereignty, followed by an interview with the noted ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Managing Madness

    Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada

    by Erika Dyck, Alex Deighton ...
    The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century.Built in 1921, Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was considered the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

    The Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Vol. 3: 1843–1848

    Edited by Harvey Dyck, Ingrid Epp, John R. Staples ...
    Series series Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789–1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite colony of Molochnaia.The third and final volume of Cornies’s papers, this ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Politics and the Religious Imagination

    Edited by John H.A. Dyck, Paul S. Rowe, Jens Zimmermann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
    Politics and the Religious Imagination is the product of a group of interdisciplinary scholars each analyzing the connections between religious narratives and the construction of regional and global politics, combining a set of theoretical and philosophic insights with several case studies that represent varied geographies and religious customs.The past decade has seen increasing interest in the ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Christians and the Middle East Conflict

    Edited by Jens Zimmermann, Paul Rowe, John Dyck ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
    Christians and the Middle East Conflict deals with the relationship of Christians and Christian theology to the various conflicts in the Middle East, a topic that is often sensationalized but still insufficiently understood. Political developments over the last two decades, however, have prompted observers to rediscover and examine the central role religious motivations play in shaping public ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • You Are Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!

    The Year's Work on The Room, the Worst Movie Ever Made

    by Landon Palmer, Nathan Abrams, Lenika Cruz, James Curnow, John Donegan, John Dyck, Ernest Mathijs, Matt Foy, Keith Kahn-Harris, Amanda Ann Klein, James MacDowell, Renee Middlemost, Ross Morin, Hario Satrio Priambodho, Carter Soles, Ellen Wright ...
    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    When released in 2003, The Room, an obscure, self-financed relationship drama by an eccentric self-taught filmmaker named Tommy Wiseau, should have been completely forgotten. Yet nearly two decades later, "the worst movie ever made"—as many a critic would have it—has become the most popular cult film since The Rocky Horror Picture Show.In You Are Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!, contributors explore this ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

    Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume II: 1836–1842

    by Ingrid I. Epp ...
    Series series Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as "model colonists" to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. The three volumes of Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe document the Tsarist Mennonite ... Read more

    $97.59 CAD

  • Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

    Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume I: 1812-1835

    by Ingrid I. Epp ...
    Series Book 1 - Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as “model colonists” to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

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    How American Wheat Remade the World

    by Scott Reynolds Nelson ...
    An "incredibly timely" global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world's largest empires (Financial Times).To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain—along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate ... Read more

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  • The Battle for God

    A History of Fundamentalism

    by Karen Armstrong ...
    In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people. In The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong brilliantly and sympathetically shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Reality Hunger

    by David Shields ...
    A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead.Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete ... Read more

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  • The Bad and Downright Ugly of the German-Russian Volga Colonies

    by D. Philipp Kaiser ...
    Third book in my series on German-Russians of the Volga Colonies. The goal of this book is to identify the hardships that my German-Russian ancestors endured and overcame in the Volga Colonies. The First Chapter covers their emigration to the Volga Colonies. The Second Chapter covers the Shock and Disappointment, Death Rate, Wild Weather, Sickness, and Food Shortages that they endured. Chapter 3 ... Read more

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