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Reformers and Babylon
English Apocalyptic Visions from the Reformation to the Eve of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Starting in the 1530s with John Bale, English reformers found in the apocalyptic mysteries of the Book of Revelation a framework for reinterpreting the history of Christianity and explaining the break from the Roman Catholic Church. Identifying the papacy with antichrist and the Roman Catholic Church...
The Givenness of Desire
Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s "concrete subjectivity." Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural...
Romanesque Architecture and its Sculptural in Christian Spain, 1000-1120
Exploring Frontiers and Defining Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
The decades following the year 1000 marked a watershed in the history of the Iberian Peninsula when the balance of power shifted from Muslims to Christians. During this crucial period of religious and political change, Romanesque churches were constructed for the first time in Spain. Romanesque Architecture...
by Douglas H. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2008
Robert Barnes (1495-1540) was perhaps the most important sixteenth-century English Protestant reformer after William Tyndale. The shifting religious and political views of Henry VIII positioned Barnes at the opposite end of the popular ideology of the day, culminating in his execution in 1540 soon...
by Jason Blake
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake takes readers on a thematic journey through Canadian hockey literature, examining five common themes -...
by Robert Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1960
For three hundred years the Society of Friends, or Quakers, has been forwarding to governments recommendations on foreign policy, and it has often been in the vanguard of thought in its social and political views. In this study, Dr. Byrd brings together and states carefully and accurately those beliefs,...
by Emily O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Written in the mid-fifteenth century, Pope Pius II’s Commentaries are the only known autobiography of a reigning pontiff and a fundamental text in the history of Renaissance humanism.
In this book, Emily O’Brien positions Pius’ expansive autobiographical text within that century’s contentious...
Merry Hell
The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Merry Hell is the only complete history of the 25th Canadian infantry battalion, which was recruited in the autumn and winter of 1914–15 and served overseas from spring 1915 until spring 1919. Author Robert N Clements, who served in the battalion throughout that period and rose from private to captain,...
Other Diplomacies, Other Ties
Cuba and Canada in the Shadow of the US
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Other Diplomacies, Other Ties explores Cuba-Canada relations following the revolution of 1959 and the major geopolitical and economic transformations that have occurred in recent years.
Through the conceptual lens of "other diplomacies," which emphasizes interactions among non-state...
Manufacturing Mennonites
Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Manufacturing Mennonites examines the efforts of Mennonite intellectuals and business leaders to redefine the group's ethno-religious identity in response to changing economic and social conditions after 1945. As the industrial workplace was one of the most significant venues in which competing identity...
Fairness in Taxation
Exploring the Principles
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
The papers in this volume explore the idea of distributive justice and fairness in taxation. The collection begins with Head’s excellent presentation and analysis of equity in the public finance literature. The other authors, starting from this point, critique and amplify the concept from various philosophical perspectives and academic disciplines.
Understanding the Social Economy
A Canadian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
In Understanding the Social Economy, Jack Quarter, Laurie Mook, and Ann Armstrong integrate a wide array of organizations founded upon a social mission - social enterprises, nonprofits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development associations - under the rubric of the 'social economy.'...
Businesses with a Difference
Balancing the Social and the Economic
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Market-based social economy firms such as social enterprises, social purpose businesses, co-operatives, credit unions, and community economic development corporations aim to meet distinct social needs while making money. Do these types of businesses have the potential for growth in the modern economy?...
Understanding the Social Economy
A Canadian Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors’ ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission –...