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God can take the wreckage of our pasts and repurpose it for His glory! In Life Repurposed, storyteller and revelatory teacher, Thom Gardner, takes you on a healing journey with the Holy Spirit to bring beauty and purpose to the painful, broken areas of...

Since the mid-1950s, successive Canadian governments have responded to US ballistic missile defence initiatives with fear and uncertainty. Officials have endlessly debated the implications - at home and abroad - of participation. Drawing on previously classified government documents and interviews with senior officials, James...

Architecture plays a powerful role in nation building. Buildings and monuments not only constitute the built fabric of society, they reflect the intersection of culture, politics, economics, and aesthetics in distinct social settings and distinct times. From first contact to the postmodern city, this...

In the first full-length biography of John William Dawson (1820-1899), eminent scientist and principal of McGill University, Susan Sheets-Pyenson highlights the extraordinary scope of Dawson's educational and scientific career and his commitment to science, rationality, and the advancement of knowledge. Dawson was born and...

Biotechnology Unglued explores this question in a well-considered investigation of the effects of technology on social cohesion. The essays present case studies of how various applications in agricultural, medical, and forensic biotechnology have affected the cohesiveness of agricultural communities, citizens, consumer groups, scientific communities,...

While volumes have been written about the Protestant missionary movement in China, scant attention has been paid to the role of nursing and nurses in these missions. Set against a backdrop of war and revolution, Healing Henan brings sixty years of missionary nursing out...

States of Nature is one of the first books to trace the development of Canadian wildlife conservation from its social, political, and historical roots. While noting the influence of celebrity conservationists such as Jack Miner and Grey Owl, Tina Loo emphasizes the impact of...

For thousands of years, Pacific salmon have been the focus for the economic and social development of societies, both ancient and modern, around the rim of the North Pacific Ocean. After lengthy oceanic migrations, the salmon pass through coastal waters of Alaska, British Columbia,...

The Exchange University addresses crucial questions facing today's university, including the commercialization of research and teaching; intensifying government-university relationships; marketization and commodification; and policy and functional responses within the academy. The book will interest practitioners, students, and academics in educational studies, policy studies, and...

Melvin Charney (1935-2012) spent his career working on the border between art and architecture. His internationally celebrated art employed a variety of media including photography, montage, painting, sculpture, and temporary and permanent installations, relentlessly pursuing the meaning of architectural images in the age of...

Ugly, gangling, and tormented by agonising illness, Major General James Wolfe was an unlikely hero. Yet in 1759, on the Plains of Abraham before Quebec, he won a battle with momentous consequences. Wolfe's victory, bought at the cost of his life, ensured that English,...

This thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric and performance in Canada's response to environmental challenges. Canadians, despite their national penchant for environmental discussion, have fallen behind their G-8 peers in both domestic commitments and international actions. In a cogent examination of the issue,...

The Other Quiet Revolution traces the under-examined cultural transformation woven through key developments in the formation of Canadian nationhood, from the 1946 Citizenship Act and the 1956 Suez crisis to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-70) and the adoption of the federal...

New to the NCL! Forty-one sparkling classics of Quebec fiction In these fantastic tall tales a bull turns into a lawyer, a lonely Alberta cow's ghost longs for Quebec, and Ulysses comes back to Ithaca Corner, Ontario. Jacques Ferron writes metaphysical fables, political satire,...

Private Thomas Leadbeater Turvey is nobody's idea of a capable recruit. Shifted from regimental pillar to post, Turvey tries and fails at every odd job in the army with a remarkable genius for mishap. A casualty before he has a chance to see action,...

Canadians greeted the disruptions in Native-newcomer relations that occasionally erupted during the 1990s with incomprehension. Politicians, journalists, and ordinary citizens understood neither how nor why the crisis of the moment had arisen, much less how its deep historical roots made it resistant to solutions....

The superbly crafted stories in this internationally acclaimed collection trace four generations of the Lafrenière family in the fictional small town of Agassiz, Manitoba, from the time of the great flood of 1950 to the present. There is Mika, the matriarch of the family,...

A book that will fascinate and inform readers who love Canadian writing Part cultural history, part personal memoir, this accomplished, sweeping, yet intimate book demonstrates that the story of Canadian publishing is one of the cornerstones of our literary history. In The Perilous Trade,...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

America is a representative democracy. This means that voters choose people to represent them in government. Some are chosen to lead government. Others are chosen to make laws. Some states even allow for judges to be elected. This allows the people to choose who...

Ratios and proportions are good ways to break down and understand really big numbers, and the numbers don't get any bigger than they do in outer space. This book brings young mathematicians on a space odyssey that will ultimately end with them gaining a...

The fully revised new edition of this textbook presents a well-balanced set of economic development financing tools and techniques focused on our current times of economic austerity. While traditional public sector techniques are evaluated and refocused, this volume emphasizes the role of the private...

Did your readers know that Johnny Depp once worked as a telemarketer trying to sell ballpoint pens? This lively biography summarizes Depp's life from his childhood, to his love of music, and his acting career. This fun-to-read book offers quotes, personal stories, and accessible...

Presented in nontechnical terms, this book offers a unique and powerful conceptual framework for analysis of energy technologies (standard and alternative) in terms of their respective dollar costs, environmental costs, and national security costs. Energy technologies examined include coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas, solar,...

After making a big splash by winning the Super Bowl in his first year as a starting quarterback, Tom Brady proved himself to be one of the all-time greats when he led the New England Patriots to victory in the big game again in...

Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region - the geographical area that eventually became known as China - from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the...

Providing a novel approach to business policy and strategic management, this book focuses on the implementation of a firm's competitive strategy throughout all levels of the organization.Author: William G. ForgangISBN-10: 0765612887ISBN-13: 9780765612885Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2004Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.58h x 7.22w x 0.76dReview Citation(s):...

Expanding on the editors' award-winning article "Evolving to a New Dominant Logic for Marketing," this book presents a challenging new paradigm for the marketing discipline. This new paradigm is service-oriented, customer-oriented, relationship-focused, and knowledge-based, and places marketing, once viewed as a support function, central...

Drawing on the most prominent research in the field, this timely book offers bold new fiscal policies that can complement current automatic stabilizers and counter-cyclical monetary policy to help combat recessions. Dr. Seidman argues for an independent fiscal policy board or the Federal Reserve...

Our public health system is primarily concerned with the promotion of health and the prevention of disease. But while everyone may agree with these goals in principle, in practice public health is a highly contentious policy arena. that is inevitably entangled with sensitive issues...

This is the latest addition to the popular seasonal series and combines meditations based on popular homilies, speeches, and encyclicals of Pope Francis, in a year where he will be very visitble in the US. The book allows the readers to deepen their spirituality...

Finding meaning in life, especially as you grow older, is vital to your well-being, explains Leo Missinne at the start of his book, In This Life: Spiritual Growth and Aging; and meaning can only be found by reflecting on your life.Throughout In This Life,...

An in-depth analysis of the nursing home industry in America -- its past, present, and future. It focuses on the business aspects of the industry, and provides a detailed examination of the main issues concerning all nursing homes -- trends in health care expenditures;...

Marital satisfaction has a U-shaped curve. When the honeymoon is over, marriage tends to reach its low point during the child-bearing years. Divorce is common, as most people think the problem is with their spouse, and Catholic couples are no exception. Stay Mr. &...

Does the hassle and inconvenienceof air travel make you wonderwhy people ever wanted to fly?This charming, inspirational book of 30 prayers--penned by a globe-trotting sister who has flown hundreds of thousands of miles since 1960--is sure to bring calm to your in-flight experience.From the...

Grateful Meditations for Every Day in Ordinary Time extends Liguori's popular Savage and McSweeny meditations series and gives you a daily reflection from early autumn to the start of Advent. This Lectionary-based volume of beautifully crafted reflections, prayers, thoughtful questions to ponder--plus ways to...

Faithful Meditations for Every Day in Ordinary Time will help you continue the daily ritual of reading and reflection on sacred Scripture. This collection of daily meditations, prayers, and questions encourages the custom of daily prayer and suggests concrete practices for becoming a messenger...

Peaceful Meditations for Every Day in Ordinary Time provides the opportunity to begin a daily ritual of reading and reflecting on sacred Scripture. The collection of daily reflections, prayers, and questions to ponder encourages the custom of daily prayer, and suggests concrete practices to...

Christians, especially Catholics, have always shown interest in finding information about the Gospels based in biblical investigation and written in a simple language. Father Juan Alfaro provides the answers, setting his focus on the questions that are commonly brought up by the four Gospels:...

Poetry cushions the blows of life-changing events. During the "in-between time" of emotional and spiritual instability that follows unexpected loss, poetry is a balm that soothes bruised souls. The 30 United States and British poets featured in this book teach us that it is...

When facing the the always painful prospect of divorce, each situation is unique. This book provides a brief yet helpful guide to questions Catholics commonly have when going through the divorce process.Author: Sean WalesISBN-10: 0764815083ISBN-13: 9780764815089Publisher: Liguori PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2006Pages: 47Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 8.22h...

At first glance, this book seems to be about a canoe trip the author took with his four sons. But it is really about the questions The God Questions. The questions that we need to help our children and ourselves see in the life...

We do not have video or photographic records of Jesus' life, nor do we have a definitive biography--only glimpses offered in the gospels. Even though Christ remains one of the most frequently written about figures in all of history, it is impossible for us...

Peter Donders was a priest from Holland who volunteered in the 19th century for missionary work in Dutch Guiana (Surinam). There he worked among lepers and African slaves with great compassion for their plight. After nearly twenty years he met some Redemptorists and joined...

This revised and updated edition recalls the important events of Blessed Teresa's life: her call to join the Sisters of Loreto, her assignment to teach in Calcutta, her subsequent call to consecrate herself to the poor, her founding of the Missionaries of Charity, her...

Saint Alphonsus was a prolific writer. Revered for his moral teaching and contributions on such matters as Church law, Alphonsus was honored with the title of Doctor of the Church. But in addition to his scholarly works, Saint Alphonsus wrote devotional pieces in which...

In May 2003, more than five hundred people--an abbot, several bishops, many monks, priests, religious men and women, lay persons, and parish ministers--gathered in Kansas City, Missouri, to hear six outstanding contemporary theologians explore the history of the Church and the challenges and hope...

A new interpretation of the Imitation of Christ written as if Thomas a Kempis were writing in the 21st century. Today's Christians will appreciate Finley's uncomplicated approach.Author: Mitch FinleyISBN-10: 0764813420ISBN-13: 9780764813429Publisher: Liguori PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2005Pages: 125Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 8.26h x 6.30w x 0.41d