George Grant: 30 books
Collected Works of George Grant
Volume 1 (1933-1950)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
More than a decade after his death, George Grant continues to stimulate, challenge, and inspire. During his lifetime he influenced a broad cross-section of Canadians, urging them to think more deeply about matters of social justice and individual responsibility. He wrote on subjects as diverse as...
Lost Causes
The Romantic Attraction of Defeated Yet Unvanquished Men & Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Lost Causes: The Romantic Attraction of Defeated yet Unvanquished Men and Movements, by George and Karen Grant, is a thoughtful look at several causes that captured the hearts of people, survived defeat, and ultimately out-lived their foes.
by George Grant
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
George Grant -- philosopher, conservative, Canadian nationalist -- was one of Canada's most significant thinkers and the author of Lament for a Nation. In Technology and Empire, Grant reflects on the extent to which technology has shaped our modern culture.
by George Grant
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Originally published in 1986, the six essays that comprise Technology and Justice offer absorbing reflections on the extent to which technology has shaped the way we live now. George Grant, one of Canada’s most influential philosophers, explores the fate of traditional values in modern education,...
More Lost Massey Lectures
Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form.
This...
The American Patriot's Handbook
The Writings, History, and Spirit of a Free Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
This revised and updated edition of The American Patriot's Handbook gives an authoritative and concise introduction to the ideas, events, and personalities that have shaped American freedom, ideals, and values. Included are important and inspirational speeches, poems and song lyrics along with profiles...
by George Grant, Michael Swift
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The Civil War—like all civil wars—was divisive, costly, and savage. More Americans died in this war than in World War I and World War II combined. Brother was pitted against brother and neighbor against neighbor. There are no civilians in a civil war and both sides’ scorched earth policies meant...
Carry a Big Stick
The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
This volume in the Leaders in Action series presents the life of Teddy Roosevelt: adventurer, journalist, rancher, legislator, governor, vice president and president of the United States, and an inspiration to people of his own time and of ours.
by Mike Huckabee, George Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
As parents, we used to feel secure in our children being safely watched over in our nation's schools. We drop them off in the morning, make sure they have their lunches and homework, kiss them good-bye, and happily go about our day- never even fathoming that we may never again see their smile, hear...
A Historical Account of Useful Inventions and Scientific Discoveries
Being A Manual of Instruction and Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A Historical Account of Useful Inventions and Scientific Discoveries is an overview of many disruptive inventions such as electricity, gunpowder, chain bridges, and more.
Nights of the Living Dead
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
In 1968, the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero’s landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new . . . and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect...
Christmas After Dark - 36 Holiday Ghost Stories & Supernatural Thrillers
Between the Lights, Told After Supper, The Box with the Iron Clamps , Wolverden Tower The Ghost's Touch, The Christmas Banquet, The Dead Sexton and much more
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...
Restoration Politics, Religion and Culture
Britain and Ireland, 1660-1714
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2009
This indispensable introductory guide offers students a number of highly focused chapters on key themes in Restoration history. Each addresses a core question relating to the period 1660-1714, and uses artistic and literary sources – as well as more traditional texts of political history – to...
Restoration Politics, Religion and Culture
Britain and Ireland, 1660-1714
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2009
This indispensable introductory guide offers students a number of highly focused chapters on key themes in Restoration history. Each addresses a core question relating to the period 1660-1714, and uses artistic and literary sources – as well as more traditional texts of political history – to...