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“benjamin james authers”

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  • A Culture of Rights

    Law, Literature, and Canada

    by Benjamin James Authers ...
    With the passage into law of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, rights took on new legal, political, and social significance in Canada. In the decades following, Canadian jurisprudence has emphasised the importance of rights, determining their shape and asserting their centrality to legal ideas about what Canada represents. At the same time, an increasing number of Canadian ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Survival

    by Michael Bryson ...
    Series series FPQ
    Toronto in the twenty-first century: At night, a beacon on a lonely ancient lake, a drainage pond from the last ice age. In the daytime, a bulwark of glass, glinting in the radiant sun. Joe, Mary, and her cat, Sam, sit in a lakeside condo, trapped by a crazed, mysterious sniper. What has become of their lives? What has become of their city? What has become of their century? As the situation begins ... Read more

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  • The Sasquatch at Home

    Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling

    by Eden Robinson ...
    Series series The Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
    The award-winning Indigenous author of Monkey Beach shares tales from her family, her life, and her culture.In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. Robinson shared an intimate look into the intricacies of family, culture, and place through her talk, "The Sasquatch at Home." Robinson's ... Read more

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  • Bright Lights on Broadway

    by Dave Margoshes ...
    Series series FPQ
    Having lived a long, eventful life, Charlie Weinheimer’s only regret is that he has no one to carry on after him. After a near-death experience, he resolves to find out whether a secret buried in his past is proof he has a legacy after all.“Margoshes gives us the life of Charlie Weinheimer: quadruple bypass patient, widower whose children all die tragically young, but not a whiner. In his hospital ... Read more

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  • Where the Truth Lies

    Selected Essays

    by Rudy Wiebe ...
    Series Book 14 - Writer as Critic
    “The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully.”Where the Truth Lies collects forty years of essays and speeches that award-winning author Rudy Wiebe has crafted throughout his career. In this illuminating and wide-ranging selection, Wiebe provides a look behind the curtain, revealing his thought processes as he worked on many of his great books. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Packing the Court

    The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court

    by James Macgregor Burns ...
    From renowned political theorist James MacGregor Burns, an incisive critique of the overreaching power of an ideological Supreme CourtFor decades, Pulitzer Prize-winner James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. In Packing the Court, he turns his eye to the U.S. Supreme Court, an institution that he believes has become more powerful, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Abuse of Discretion

    The Inside Story of Roe v. Wade

    by Clarke D. Forsythe ...
    Based on 20 years of research, including an examination of the papers of eight of the nine Justices who voted in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, Abuse of Discretion is a critical review of the behind-the-scenes deliberations that went into the Supreme Court's abortion decisions and how the mistakes made by the Justices in 1971-1973 have led to the turmoil we see today in legislation, politics, and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies

    Edited by Smaro Kamboureli, Robert Zacharias ...
    Series Book 5 - TransCanada
    Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our understanding of the Canadian nation-state. The essays are tied together as instances of critical practices that reveal the relations and exchanges that take ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Consumption of Justice

    Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264–1423

    by Daniel Lord Smail ...
    Series series Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
    In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Little Eurekas

    A Decade's Thoughts on Poetry

    by Robyn Sarah ...
    A reader-friendly miscellany of essays, appreciations, reviews, and conversations, published in newspapers and literary magazines over the past ten years, these are pieces that will resonate equally with the lay poetry lover and the specialist. This collection explores all aspects of a life in poetry: reading it, writing it, teaching it, editing it, publishing it, reviewing it. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction

    by Colin Hill ...
    Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction and poetry. Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction re-evaluates Canadian literary culture to posit that it has been misunderstood because it is ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Towards A Jurisprudence of State Communism

    Law and the Failure of Revolution

    by Cosmin Cercel ...
    More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political theorists and scholars of post-communism to define and classify them. Drawing on philosophical inquiry, jurisprudential analysis and intellectual history, this book traces the impact of communist ideology and practice ... Read more

    $68.99 USD