Cape Press: 71 books
by Robert A. Campbell, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Governance and Social Leadership examines the inadequacies of current theories on leadership in order to help us better understand the process of leadership and to suggest mechanisms for change. The proliferation of examples of poor political, religious, corporate and even grass roots leadership is...
Social Economy
Communities, Economies and Solidarity in Atlantic Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This book contributes to the growing literature on the social economy from the particular perspectives of Atlantic Canadians who have been part of the Social Economy and Sustainability Research Network. It illustrates the importance of the sector to the region’s social, economic and public life...
Friend or Foe? Dominant party systems in southern Africa
Insights from the developing world
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Within southern Africa, there has been a steady increase in the number of dominant party systems — systems where one party dominates over a prolonged period in an ostensibly democratic system with regular elections and multiple parties participating. This party system has replaced the one-party...
Steward Leadership
A Maturational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Steward leadership is a form of leadership that focuses on others, the community, and society at large rather than the self, and this book creates a framework for stewardship and the requisite behavior to develop steward leaders at a younger age. Many senior leaders and executives across the globe...
The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic
All the Scottish Gaelic You Need to Curse, Swear, Drink, Smoke and Fool Around
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Scottish Highlanders, and their descendants all over the world, are no better and no worse than any other people where “sinful” behaviour is concerned. Standards of morality and social conventions changed dramatically during the 19th century – and most of the people engaged in recording and...
Parting, Prophecy, Poetry
Rev. Duncan Blair (1815-1893) in Mac-Talla
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Rev. Duncan B. Blair (1815-1893) was an excellent linguist, a good poet and a devout man. “As an accurate writer of Gaelic he had no superior,” espoused A. Maclean Sinclair. Blair composed sacred and secular poems, laments and songs and prose, many of which were published in Mac-Talla, the famous...
Nadine Gordimer
Weaving Together Fiction, Women and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
A fascinating intersection of intellectual minds, this literary critique views the writing of Nobel Prize–winner Nadine Gordimer through the fresh perspective of a respected French academic. Available for the first time in English, this analysis introduces the important works of a South African...
Outposts of Progress
Joseph Conrad, Modernism and Post-Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Taking Joseph Conrad’s short story “An Outpost of Progress” as its catalyst, this volume of essays brings to light new and contradictory readings of Conrad’s approach to Africa. Key scholars consider several topics, including the relationship between Conrad’s works and Disgrace, a novel...
The Blue Room
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
To get a sense of the significance of Carlo Spinazzola’s work, it is important to see it in the context of the full breadth of the artistic undertakings he applied himself to. To see him just as a poet, or as a musician, or as a painter, is to miss the spirit that ran through all his work. He was...
by Philip Roy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
As the son of an officer, Jacques was expected to pursue a career in the military. In the spring of 1744, at the age of fifteen, Jacques and his father leave France for Louisbourg, the French capital of Île Royale, where Jacques is to learn the military arts – a far cry from his books and music...
Thomas, A Secret Life: A Novel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Writer, lover, spy: Life is nowhere near as good or as easy as Thomas Pichon imagined it would be. Set in early-18th-century France, Thomas: A Secret Life is the imagined life of Thomas Pichon. We first meet Thomas as a twelve-year old in the small town of Vire, Normandy. Precociously sensuous by...
Crossings, A Thomas Pichon Novel
A Thomas Pichon Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Thomas Pichon seems forever at a crossroads, often choosing the path of least resistance, or the most tempting. In this, the third Thomas Pichon novel, his life remains more complicated than he wishes. He encounters highwaymen on a country road, succumbs to a tempting tryst in the spa town of Bath,...
The Maze
A Thomas Pichon Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Like the streets of his 18th-century Paris home, Thomas Pichon’s life is full of twists and turns. Despite winning his wife’s forgiveness for an extramarital affair, Thomas and his lover, Hélène, are caught a second time, and decide that it’s time for new beginnings – in London. As a writer,...
by Les Harding
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
McCurdy and the Silver Dart recounts the thrilling story of J. A. McCurdy, Canada’s aviation pioneer. Born in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Douglas McCurdy had a unique childhood during which he assisted world-famous scientist and inventor, Alexander Graham Bell in fascinating and frequently dangerous experiments...