A love story, tale of adventure, historical thriller, and evocative tour of Barcelona, this work is a dazzling blend of the surreal and the ordinary, a novel that beguiles and disturbs in equal measure.
Beautifully packaged with wood block illustrations, this collection of Psalms is presented in the ancient Japanese form of haiku poetry. Here are praises to a spiritual power presented in a stark and clear fashion. These readings will challenge those familiar with the Psalms to look for new meaning while introducing these prayers to a whole new ...
In Nationalism without Walls, Richard Gwyn argues that Canadians are in the midst of a crisis that has almost nothing to do with Quebec, and everything to do with the strains caused by the 'identity politics' of language, race, and gender, and by the inequalities caused by the global economy and neoconservative politics. If we come through this ...
The first full-scale biography of Canada's first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers. The first volume of Richard Gwyn's definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his emigration with his family to Kingston, Ontario, to his days ...
'There has been a pressing need for a book like this for some time. Gwyn cogently reviews the literature on discourse analysis as it pertains to medical and health matters. Introducing original research from his own studies allows him to vividly illustrate just how important it is to understand the role played by discourse. Students of health ...
The extraordinary life of Joey Smallwood is the stuff of fiction - literally: Wayne Johnston's acclaimed novel, "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams", draws heavily on this definitive biography. And no wonder! Set against a colourful background in stirring times it has, as its hero, a character whose career defied both convention and the odds. ...
Pierre Elliott Trudeau continues to hold a mysterious and spellbinding fascination for Canadians. "The Hidden Pierre Trudeau is an extraordinary look at the reverence that lay "hidden" behind the famous irreverence. This collection of personal memories and astute analysis examines our former prime minister's spirituality and theolgy. It shows how ...
Seldom has there been a political leader so complex, so impossible to predict, so difficult to understand, so private and yet so public, as Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister from 1968 to 1979, and again from 1980 to 1984. "Canadians came to embrace him as they had no other leader since Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister from 1896 until ...
What kind of poetry is being written in Wales today, who are the poets, where are they from, where are they going? This anthology of thirty-six poets from Wales--18 women and 18 men--was put together with the underlying premise that poetry reflects a state of astonishment before the world as well as the means for that astonishment. With the ...
Musician and translator Lucas has reformed his nomadic ways to settle in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter. Intrigued by some cryptic instructions on the back of an anonymous postcard, Lucas finds himself compelled into a love-affair with the sophisticated Nuria. But his attraction is obsessive and vulnerable in turns: can we trust this man's version of ...
This vivid and deeply moving new translation of the Psalms is based on the ancient Japanese form of Haiku poetry, which evokes a sense or feeling in a rigid pattern of three-line verse made up of seventeen syllables. This interpretation challenges readers who are familiar with text and introduces the Psalms to new audiences. Its simplicity will ...
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