John Macfarlane: 8 books
Assessment Sensitivity
Relative Truth and its Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
John MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis. Although there is a substantial philosophical literature on relativism...
Triquet's Cross
A Study of Military Heroism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
One of only thirteen members of the Canadian Armed Forces to be awarded the highest military honour during the war, Triquet was later pressured to resign from the force due to the overwhelming public and political expectations that the award entailed. The role of hero did not suit Triquet and weighed...
by John MacFarlane
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Twelve-year-old Sam is convinced that his parents plan to have Pogo, their elderly and infirm Labrador retriever, put down. To save Pogo, Sam sets sail with the dog on a fourteen-foot catboat, heading for an island off the coast of Maine. The elements conspire against them as they move from one danger...
The Seabound Coast
The Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1867–1939, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
From its creation in 1910, the Royal Canadian Navy was marked by political debate over the countrys need for a naval service. The Seabound Coast, Volume I of a three-volume official history of the RCN, traces the story of the navys first three decades, from its beginnings as Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid...
Du littoral à la mer
Histoire officielle de la Marine royale du Canada, 1867–1939, Volume I
Language: French
Release Date: January 14, 2011
La création de la Marine royale du Canada (MRC) en 1910 et ses premières années d’existence ont été marquées par un débat politique quant à la nécessité d’un service naval au Canada. Du littoral à la mer, le premier d’une série de trois volumes relatant l’histoire officielle de...
La croix de Triquet
Une étude de l'héroïsme militaire
Language: French
Release Date: August 15, 2012
En 1945, le romancier F. Scott Fitzgerald écrivait : « Montrez-moi un héros, je vous écrirai une tragédie. » Cette phrase aurait pu être écrite à propos de Paul Triquet. Seul Canadien français à avoir obtenu la croix de Victoria pour un fait d'armes accompli en Italie durant la Deuxième...
Mythic Delirium: Volume Two
Mythic Delirium, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Assembled from the second year of the digital journal Mythic Delirium and recast in an artfully arranged anthology, this latest offering from editors Mike and Anita Allen will introduce you to harrowing deserts and vengeful waters, to quantum mythology and edible religion, to slipstream explorations...
by Colleen Beard, Stephen Bocking, Jennifer Bonnell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in...