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  • The Mountain and the Valley

    by Ernest Buckler, Robert Gibbs ...
    Series series New Canadian Library
    The Mountain and the Valley is an affectionate portrait of David Canaan, a sensitive boy who becomes increasingly aware of the difference that sets him apart from his family and his neighbours. David’s desire to write is the secret that gives this haunting story its detailed focus and its poignant theme.Set in the years leading up to World War II and against the backdrop of the Annapolis Valley’s ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas

    by Robert Gibbs ...
    Robert Gibbs radically revises standard interpretations of the two key figures of modern Jewish philosophy--Franz Rosenzweig, author of the monumental Star of Redemption, and Emmanuel Levinas, a major voice in contemporary intellectual life, who has inspired such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray, and Blanchot. Rosenzweig and Levinas thought in relation to different philosophical schools and ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • Sheet Music

    by Robert Gibb ...
    In Robert Gibb’s second Autumn House Poetry collection, he finds sublime music in everyday city life. He offers a roadmap to hear the music of life and nature within the context of an industrial setting. ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pittsburghese

    by Robert Gibb ...
    Series series Wheelbarrow Books
    Pittsburghese, Robert Gibb’s latest book of poems, is a work of poignant remembrance, filled with revelations found in the everyday “debris of paradise.” The collection is anchored by personal and public histories, the city’s “consensus things” and “standard archaeologies,” as well as by music—jazz, blues, R&B and gospel—“sweet rebuttal” to the world’s “cold hymns.” Throughout, motifs function ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Among Ruins

    by Robert Gibb ...
    Series series Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry
    Among Ruins is the final volume of Homestead Works, a collection of four books of poetry that explore the industrial past and legacy of the old steel town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, and, by extension, Pittsburgh. ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Could a University Be?

    Revolutionary Ideas for the Future

    by Robert B. Gibbs ...
    Series series On Campus
    Students are not clients, job seekers, or consumers. Their purpose is the pursuit of knowledge. So why do universities largely restrict inquiry to professors and graduate students? In What Could a University Be? Robert Gibbs imagines a university focused on engaging students in research at all levels and across all faculties, including professional schools.Gibbs proposes a widely applicable model ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Song of the Seven Promises

    A Novel

    by Robert Sean Lewis ...
    Illustrated by Paul Gibbs ...
    Time slows to a halt in a vast, overbuilt city, entrapping its people on the day the city’s last child is born. Whisked to safety far away, Yeats is seven when he discovers a strange message tied to his past that hints he alone may be able to set the city right.After the enigmatic bookkeeper Riddle appears, Yeats is swept into an extraordinary journey. Travelling through distant lands, he uncovers ... Read more

    $6.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hormones, Cognition and Dementia

    State of the Art and Emergent Therapeutic Strategies

    Edited by Eef Hogervorst, Victor W. Henderson, Robert B. Gibbs, Roberta Diaz Brinton ...
    A decade ago, oestrogen-containing hormone therapy was viewed as a promising strategy for the prevention and treatment of dementia and age-related cognitive decline. However, treatment trials in women with Alzheimer's disease showed that oestrogens did not reverse cognitive impairment, and clinical trials in healthy older women indicated that oestrogens did not prevent cognitive decline. The Women ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Reasoning After Revelation

    Dialogues In Postmodern Jewish Philosophy

    by Steven Kepnes, Peter Ochs, Robert Gibbs ...
    In Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, three preeminent Jewish scholars debate the form and meaning of Postmodern Jewish Philosophy after the failures of the great secular ideologies of modern western civilization. Emulating the methods as well as the premises of Talmudic argumentation, the authors present their responses as dialogues joined by a common love of ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Suffering Religion

    Edited by Robert Gibbs, Elliot R. Wolfson ...
    In a diverse and innovative selection of new essays by cutting-edge theologians and philosophers, Suffering Religion examines one of the most primitive but challenging questions to define human experience - why do we suffer? As a theme uniting very different religious and cultural traditions, the problem of suffering addresses issues of passivity, the vulnerability of embodiment, the generosity of ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • Reforming Lessons: Why English Schools Have Improved Since 2010 and How This Was Achieved

    by Nick Gibb, Robert Peal ...
    Reforming Lessons provides a first-hand account of the ambitious programme of reform that has led to a transformation in English schools since 2010 and seen pupils rise through the ranks of international comparison tests such as PIRLS and PISA.Co-authored by former Schools Minister Nick Gibb and Headteacher Robert Peal, the book explores the key principles behind the reforms and reveals the impact ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • The Weimar Moment

    Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law

    by Rodrigo Chacón, Robert Gibbs, Udi Greenberg, Jeffrey C. Herf, Michael Hollerich, Gregory Kaplan, Michael McGillen, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Ulrich Rosenhagen, Klaus Tanner, Azzan Yadin-Israel, Samuel Moyn, Peter C. Caldwell, Michael W. Jennings, Gary Dorrien, Christophe Chalamet, Peter E. Gordon, John P. McCormick, Gabriel R. Ricci ...
    Series series Graven Images
    The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community”—or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race”—cannot but appeal to us today. This appeal—its historical grounding and content, its complexities and tensions, its variegated expressions across the ... Read more

    $210.59 CAD