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The Share Club
Eight people form a neighbourhood share club hoping to make instant money. Meetings are held turn about in their homes, and tempers flare and patience wears thin as the market fluctuates.
The Prodigal Son
Warren Wilcox, as a child, develops antipathy toward everything Nigerian when he learns about the rejection of his Canadian family by his Nigerian grandfather. As a physician, he works tirelessly in his pursuit of bettering the world. While volunteering in Sierra Leone, Warren visits Nigeria, an experience that only solidifies his feelings of alienation from his Nigerian heritage. He meets and falls in love with Kairi, a lawyer of mixed Japanese and Canadian descent, a women’s rights activist who shares his goal of advocating for the disadvantaged. They settle in Vancouver and, in their own ways, continue to work for the rights of the less privileged, Warren as a deputy registrar of the Co...
Nineteenth-Century Photographs and Architecture
Eschewing the limiting idea that nineteenth-century architecture photography merely reflects functionality, the objective of this collection is to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time. The essays hold appeal for social and cultural historians, as well as those with an interest in the fields of art history, urban geography, history of travel and tourism. Nineteenth-century photographers captured what could be seen and what they wanted to be seen. Their images informed of exploration, progress, heritage, and destruction. Architecture was a staple subject for the first generation of photographers as it patiently tolerated the long exposures of the early process...
Singing the News of Death
Author Una McIlvenna brings the execution ballad to life in Singing the News of Death, uncovering the relationship between punishment and music throughout Europe from 1500-1900 with an unprecedented breadth of study and ambition.
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Art and Dis-illusion in the Long Sixteenth Century
Dramatic changes during the Reformation era in Northern Europe, such as witchcraft and new global discoveries, are examined through visual culture, both prints and paintings.
The Most Reluctant Convert
In his teens, a young man wrote, “I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them.” After serving in the trenches of WW1, the same young man said, “I never sank so low as to pray.” To a religious friend, he wrote impatiently, “You can’t start with God. I don’t accept God!” This young man was C. S. Lewis, the “foul-mouthed atheist” who would become one of the most eloquent Christian writers of the twentieth century. David C. Downing offers a unique look at Lewis’s personal journey to faith and the profound influence it had on his life as a writer and eventual follower of Christ. This is the first book to focus on the period from Lewis’s childhood to his early thirties, a tumultuous journey of spiritual and intellectual exploration. It was not despite this journey but precisely because of it that Lewis understood the search for life’s meaning so well.
