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  • The Aesthetic Value of the World

    by Tom Cochrane ...
    In The Aesthetic Value of the World, Tom Cochrane defends Aestheticism, the claim that everything is aesthetically valuable and that a life lived in pursuit of aesthetic value can be a particularly good one. Furthermore, in distilling aesthetic qualities, artists have a special role to play in teaching us to recognize values; a critical component of virtue. Cochrane grounds his account upon an ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Emotional Mind

    A Control Theory of Affective States

    by Tom Cochrane ...
    In this book, Tom Cochrane develops a new control theory of the emotions and related affective states. Grounded in the basic principle of negative feedback control, his original account outlines a new fundamental kind of mental content called 'valent representation'. Upon this foundation, Cochrane constructs new models for emotions, pains and pleasures, moods, expressive behaviours, evaluative ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Identity in Science Fiction

    Brain Transplants and Other Misadventures

    Edited by Dr Tom Cochrane ...
    Featuring classic authors and brand new work, we are confronted with a fundamental metaphysical challenge in every story. Are we souls, brains, animals, or patterns of information? Are the Buddhists right to say that the self is an illusion? Do we survive under conditions such as total amnesia, or the replacement of our brains by machine parts? Each story is accompanied by an introductory overview ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Emotional Power of Music

    Multidisciplinary perspectives on musical arousal, expression, and social control

    Edited by Tom Cochrane, Bernardino Fantini, Klaus R. Scherer ...
    Series series
    How can an abstract sequence of sounds so intensely express emotional states? How does music elicit or arouse our emotions? What happens at the physiological and neural level when we listen to music? How do composers and performers practically manage the expressive powers of music? How have societies sought to harness the powers of music for social or therapeutic purposes? In the past ten years, ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Ed Kennedy's War

    V-E Day, Censorship, and the Associated Press

    by Ed Kennedy ...
    Series series From Our Own Correspondent
    On May 7, 1945, Associated Press reporter Ed Kennedy became the most famous -- or infamous -- American correspondent of World War II. On that day in France, General Alfred Jodl signed the official documents as the Germans surrendered to the Allies. Army officials allowed a select number of reporters, including Kennedy, to witness this historic moment -- but then instructed the journalists that the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy

    by Max van Manen ...
    Bestselling author Max van Manen’s Researching Lived Experience introduces a human science approach to research methodology in education and related fields. The book takes as its starting point the "everyday lived experience" of human beings in educational situations. Rather than rely on abstract generalizations and theories in the traditional sense, the author offers an alternative that taps the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • A Man Called Intrepid

    The Incredible True Story of the Master Spy Who Helped Win World War II

    by William Stevenson ...
    A New York Times Best Seller!The classic real-life story of the superspy whose vast intelligence network helped defeat the Nazis in World War II.A Man Called Intrepid is the account of the world’s first integrated intelligence operation and of its master, William Stephenson. Codenamed INTREPID by Winston Churchill, Stephenson was charged with establishing-and running-a vast, worldwide intelligence ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Paris 1919

    Six Months That Changed the World

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt us still.Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize • Winner of the PEN Hessell ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • How Churchill Saved Civilization

    The Epic Story of 13 Years That Almost Destroyed the Civilized World

    by John Harte ...
    How Churchill Saved Civilization resolves the lingering mysteries surrounding the causes of the Second World War, and what transpired during the war to bring its end result. It proposes answers to such questions as Why were the Allies unprepared?”, Why did France collapse so quickly?”, Why didn’t the British government accept Hitler’s peace proposals?” and Why did the Germans allow Hitler to ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Jouissance

    Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction

    by Darian Leader ...
    Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term has fallen into a purely descriptive use that closes down more questions than it opens up. Although assumed to explain the coalescence of pleasure and pain, it tends to cover a range of quite different ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Donovan

    America's Master Spy

    by Richard Dunlop ...
    The fascinating biography of the man who laid the foundation for the CIA.One of the most celebrated and highly decorated heroes of World War I, a noted trial lawyer, presidential adviser and emissary, and chief of America’s Office of Strategic Services during World War II, William J. Donovan was a legendary figure. Donovan, originally published in 1982, penetrates the cloak of secrecy surrounding ... Read more

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  • Hermeneutics for Clinicians

    Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice

    by Donna M. Orange ...
    Utilizing the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the ethics of Emmanuel Lévinas, The Suffering Stranger invigorates the conversation between psychoanalysis and philosophy, demonstrating how each is informed by the other and how both are strengthened in unison. Orange turns her critical (and clinical) eye toward five major psychoanalytic thinkers – Sándor Ferenczi, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, D. W. ... Read more

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