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Death So Noble

Memory, Meaning, and the First World War

By: Jonathan F. Vance

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Death So Noble

Memory, Meaning, and the First World War

By: Jonathan F. Vance

This book examines Canada's collective memory of the First World War through the 1920s and 1930s. It is a cultural history, considering art, music, and literature. Thematically organized into such subjects as the symbolism of the soldier, the implications of war memory for Canadian nationalism, and the idea of a just war, the book draws on military records, memoirs, war memorials, newspaper reports, fiction, popular songs, and films. It takes an unorthodox view of the Canadian war experience as a cultural and philosophical force rather than as a political and military event.

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338

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UBC Press

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0774842318

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9780774842310

The Outlaw Bank

A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI

By: Jonathan Beaty,S. C. Gwynne

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The Outlaw Bank

A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI

By: Jonathan Beaty,S. C. Gwynne

From the two Time correspondents who cracked the story, the definitive book on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International: an explosive, fast-paced expose of one of the largest criminal conspiracies in history. Beaty and Gwynne's riveting first-person account not only puts all the pieces together for the first time, but brings to life the cloak-and-dagger intrigue that surrounded their investigation. 16 pages of photos.

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438

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Beard Books

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1587981467

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9781587981463

The Terrible Speed of Mercy

A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor

By: Jonathan Rogers

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The Terrible Speed of Mercy

A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor

By: Jonathan Rogers

Jonathan Rogers follows the roots of Flannery O'Connor's fervent Catholicism and traces the outlines of a life marked by illness and suffering, but ultimately defined by an irrepressible joy. In her stories, and in her life story, Flannery O'Connor extends a hand in the dark, warning and reassuring us of the terrible speed of mercy.

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209

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Thomas Nelson Inc

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1595550232

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9781595550231

The Works of Jonathan Smith. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems

Vol. XV

By: Walter Scott,Jonathan Swift

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The Works of Jonathan Smith. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems

Vol. XV

By: Walter Scott,Jonathan Swift

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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518

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338535563X

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9783385355637

Farther Away

Essays

By: Jonathan Franzen

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Farther Away

Essays

By: Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination, "through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew." In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing. On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, he doesn't omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China's economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.

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243

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374708762

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9780374708764

Sea Kayaking

By: Jonathan Hanson

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Sea Kayaking

By: Jonathan Hanson

Sea kayaking in British Columbia, Florida, the Bahamas, Belize, Greece, Madagascar, Malawi, Fiji, Palau, Maine, Newfoundland, Mexico, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, the Arctic, Greenland, Chile, and Scotland.

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220

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393320707

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9780393320701

Truth, etc.

Six Lectures on Ancient Logic

By: Jonathan Barnes

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Truth, etc.

Six Lectures on Ancient Logic

By: Jonathan Barnes

Truth, etc. is a wide-ranging study of ancient logic based upon the John Locke lectures given by the eminent philosopher Jonathan Barnes in Oxford. Its six chapters discuss, first, certain ancient ideas about truth; secondly, the Aristotelian conception of predication; thirdly, various ideas about connectors which were developed by the ancient logicians and grammarians; fourthly, the notion of logical form, insofar as it may be discovered in the ancient texts; fifthly, the question of the 'justification of deduction'; and sixthly, the attitude which has been called logical utilitarianism and which restricts the scope of logic to those forms of inference which are or might be useful for scientific proofs. In principle, the book presupposes no knowledge of logic and no skill in ancient languages: all ancient texts are cited in English translation; and logical symbols and logical jargon are avoided so far as possible. There is no scholarly apparatus of footnotes, and no bibliography. It can be read in an armchair. Anyone interested in ancient philosophy, or in logic and its history, will find it interesting.

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Clarendon Press

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0191515744

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9780191515743

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Death So Noble

Death So Noble

The Outlaw Bank

The Outlaw Bank

The Terrible Speed of Mercy

The Terrible Speed of Mercy

The Works of Jonathan Smith. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems

The Works of Jonathan Smith. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems

Farther Away

Farther Away

Sea Kayaking

Sea Kayaking

Truth, etc.

Truth, etc.

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