Dorion: 28 books

Seizing: Places (Ravir: Les Lieux) was awarded the Prix Mallarmé in 2005, the first time that a Canadian had won this prestigious prize. It is arguably Hélène Dorion's most ambitious work to date, consisting of five sequences ('Seizing: Cities'; 'Seizing: Shadows'; 'Seizing: Mirrors; 'Seizing:...

On DEATH . . . What is shared by spawning Pacific salmon, towering trees, and suicidal bacteria? In his lucid and concise exploration of how and why things die, Tyler Volk explains the intriguing ways creatures-including ourselves-use death to actually enhance life. Death is not simply the end of...

How do new species evolve? Although Darwin identified inherited variation as the creative force in evolution, he never formally speculated where it comes from. His successors thought that new species arise from the gradual accumulation of random mutations of DNA. But despite its acceptance in every...

In the pursuit of knowledge, Dorion Sagan argues in this dazzlingly eclectic, rigorously crafted, and deliciously witty collection of essays, scientific authoritarianism and philosophical obscurantism are equally formidable obstacles to discovery. As science has become more specialized and more costly,...

Master Whittemore quit preaching the moral rightness of slavery to sailors aboard the 'Helena' - an illegal slave ship - to teach children in Charleston, S.C.but Jack rebels against him and defeats him during a trumped-up "trial" master conducts in his schoolhouse.. Later that evening, the...

The spirited heroine of Betty Dorion's juvenile novel certainly makes the best of things. She forms a close friendship with Rachel, a fellow Cree, and refuses to be bugged by Tanya, a classmate who seems determined to make her life miserable. But Melanie finds herself pulled between the familiar and...

A revolutionary examination of why we age, what it means for our health, and how we just might be able to fight it. In Cracking the Aging Code, theoretical biologist Josh Mitteldorf and award-winning writer and ecological philosopher Dorion Sagan reveal that evolution and aging are even more...

This is an unusual volume. During his periods of study with Ed­ mund Husserl - first from I924 1. 0 I926, then from I93I to I932 - Dorion Cairns had become imnlensely impressed with the stri­ king philosophical quality of Husserl's conversations with his students and co-workers. Not unlike his daily...

Book 2 is a high seas adventure that involves the main characters - Jack and Jeremy - in a romantic relationship with two young Jamaican women. Book 1 ends with Schoolmaster Jerome Whittemore - Jack's and Jeremy's abusive, racist teacher - quitting his brief education career after a devastating classroom...

"A rollicking adventure!" Book 3 opens with Jack and his companions in control of the slave ship, the Helena, renamed The Midnight Raider, having tricked the pirates and slave traders that were chasing them after they stole the ship and kidnapped the captain. Jack has ordered Helena's captain...

The present volume containing the dissertation of Dorion Cairns is the first part of a comprehensive edition of the philosophical papers of one of the foremost disseminators and interpreters of Husserlian phenomenology in North-America. Based on his intimate knowledge  of Husserl’s published...

The idealistic Anna tells her Warsaw University medical school friends during the 1939 German invasion they should meet the German soldiers with Tolstoyan passive resistance, not violence. All were drinking beer in the cafe, except Anna who had classes. “Yes, Comrade Anna. If a German fascist comes...

Une île. Un ultime retranchement à l’intérieur de la solitude avant de renaître à soi et au monde. Ainsi la narratrice amorce-t-elle ce voyage introspectif où les forces de la nature évoquent les bouleversements qui nous transforment lorsque des secousses chavirent nos vies. Un récit méditatif...

Dans cet essai percutant, Jean Dorion expose sans ambages son point de vue sur la question de la laïcité, de l’immigration et du pluralisme au Québec, livrant un ouvrage qui donne également la parole, pour une rare fois, à des femmes musulmanes pratiquantes, avec ou sans foulard. Partisan sans...