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{"id":6819089449019,"title":"The Essential McLuhan","handle":"the-essential-mcluhan","description":"Marshall McLuhan's insights are more applicable today than when he first announced them to a startled world in the 1960s. Here, in one concise volume, are McLuhan's key ideas, drawn from his books, articles, correspondence, and published speeches. This book is the essential archive of his constantly surprising vision.","published_at":"2022-03-30T17:46:52-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T16:27:43-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 1995-08-01","Volume editor McLuhan Eric","Volume editor Zingrone Frank"],"price":2695,"price_min":2695,"price_max":2695,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40249725943867,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887845659","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Essential McLuhan - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2695,"weight":635,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887845659","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a61c3955-a2f4-465d-a97c-5194c89fc794.jpg?v=1653801562"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a61c3955-a2f4-465d-a97c-5194c89fc794.jpg?v=1653801562","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22137913770043,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.675,"height":636,"width":429,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a61c3955-a2f4-465d-a97c-5194c89fc794.jpg?v=1653801562"},"aspect_ratio":0.675,"height":636,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a61c3955-a2f4-465d-a97c-5194c89fc794.jpg?v=1653801562","width":429}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"Marshall McLuhan's insights are more applicable today than when he first announced them to a startled world in the 1960s. Here, in one concise volume, are McLuhan's key ideas, drawn from his books, articles, correspondence, and published speeches. This book is the essential archive of his constantly surprising vision."}
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The Essential McLuhan
This is the essential archive of Marshall McLuhan's key ideas and far-reaching vision.
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{"id":6818925412411,"title":"The Ethical Imagination","handle":"the-ethical-imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eScience and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we relate to others and our world, and how we find meaning in life. How we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her 2006 CBC Massey Lectures, ethicist and McGill University professor Margaret Somerville tackles some of the most contentious issues of our times, and proposes a brilliant new kind of ethical language and thought to help us navigate them.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T13:29:09-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T12:11:28-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Somerville Margaret","House of Anansi Press","Massey Lectures","pub date: 2006-10-01","Technology \u0026 Politics","The CBC Massey Lectures"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40249071501371,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887847479","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Ethical Imagination - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":318,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887847479","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249073139771,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848834","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Ethical Imagination - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848834","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249073434683,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896215","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Ethical Imagination - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896215","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_50a434e6-d2dc-439f-b88d-b0a320bbec80.jpg?v=1678596671"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_50a434e6-d2dc-439f-b88d-b0a320bbec80.jpg?v=1678596671","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324495085627,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_50a434e6-d2dc-439f-b88d-b0a320bbec80.jpg?v=1678596671"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_50a434e6-d2dc-439f-b88d-b0a320bbec80.jpg?v=1678596671","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eScience and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we relate to others and our world, and how we find meaning in life. How we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her 2006 CBC Massey Lectures, ethicist and McGill University professor Margaret Somerville tackles some of the most contentious issues of our times, and proposes a brilliant new kind of ethical language and thought to help us navigate them.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Ethical Imagination
Ethicist and McGill University professor Margaret Somerville discusses how we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world.
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{"id":6815266537531,"title":"The Exclusives","handle":"the-exclusives","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1996, Josephine Grey and Freya Seymour are best friends and on the brink of great success. Both are students at the elite private school Greenwood Hall and Josephine, the daughter of the advisor to the Prime Minister, is heading for everything she has ever worked for: Head Girl, Oxford, the demons of her mother finally abated once and for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in 2014, Josephine is hiding in Jordan — and has been for eighteen years since those catastrophic events in her last year at school. And then one day she is found. Freya, whom she has not seen since those fateful four months, insists on meeting to revisit their difficult past once and for all and finally lay to rest the events that have haunted their adult lives ever since. But Josephine can’t bear to — it only took one night for their whole lives, friendship, and even selves to unravel beyond comprehension. They have done truly terrible things to one another in the name of survival. 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She most of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll she has ever wanted was to forget, but Freya is no longer willing to let her and now at last, Josephine is to meet her reckoning…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Exclusives\u003c\/em\u003e is a gripping and emotional thriller that explores the power the past can have on our present and confronts how far we are willing to go when everything we prize is threatened.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487004866","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487006075","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781487008451","BASICMainSubject":"FIC030000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Thrillers \/ Suspense","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREBECCA THORNTON\u003c\/strong\u003e is a journalist and runs an online advertising business. Her work has been published in \u003cem\u003eProspect\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, the \u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eJewish News\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eSunday People\u003c\/em\u003e. She was acting editor of an arts and culture magazine based in Jordan, and she’s reported from Kosovo, London, and elsewhere in the Middle East. Rebecca is a graduate of the Faber Academy and \u003cem\u003eThe Exclusives\u003c\/em\u003e is her first novel. 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Set against the tantalizing background of an exclusive boarding school, The Exclusives explores the labyrinth of friendship and the price of success with vivid accuracy, and also the consequences the most seemingly minute of choices can have. This is an author with a gift for storytelling. You’ll want to devour every word she has written, until you reach the novel’s satisfying conclusion.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Marissa Stapley, author of Mating for Life","OtherText_Review_0":"…clever, devilish and readable throughout.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The Exclusives is a thriller that examines a schoolgirl friendship gone awry at an elite private school.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-05-14","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The Exclusives is a thriller that examines a schoolgirl friendship gone awry at an elite private school.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Exclusives
The Exclusives is a thriller that examines a schoolgirl friendship gone awry at an elite private school.
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{"id":6815470977083,"title":"The Exiles' Gallery","handle":"the-exiles-gallery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, \u003cem\u003eFielder’s Choice\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, praised as “first-rate” (James Pollock) for their “authenticity” (Stephanie Bolster) and “brilliant precisions that reflect life’s plenitude” (Rosanna Warren).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely praised for her engagement and her attention to craft, Elise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e confirms her standing as one of the most thoughtful, authentic voices in contemporary poetry. The poems in her third collection continue to explore what she has called “implicit questions about fullness of life or lives somehow thwarted, diminished, ended too early.” Through formal technique, painterly detail or her signature compressed directness, Partridge’s poems explore the past, present and future with compassion and grief, bearing witness to our not-so-still, all-too-brief lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of celebration. In these restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension — whether by a candid glance backward at childhood or through tributes to friends — Partridge’s arresting images and diction give shape to the complexity and abundance of experience, made more luminous and gilt-edged by the corridor of encroaching shadows. 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The Exiles' Gallery
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection The Exiles' Gallery is limited to 50 copies.
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The Exiles’ Gallery is a book of celebration, filled with restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension.
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{"id":6811320909883,"title":"The Family Clause","handle":"the-family-clause","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA grandfather who lives abroad returns home to Sweden to visit his adult children. His son is a failure. His daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather himself is perfect — in his own eyes, at least.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of ten intense days, relationships unfold and painful memories resurface. The grandfather confronts his past. The daughter faces an impossible choice. The son tries to write himself free. Something has to give. According to a long-standing family agreement, the grandfather has maintained his Swedish citizenship by coming to stay with his son in Stockholm every six months. 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From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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{"id":6811231911995,"title":"The Field","handle":"the-field","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Robert Seethaler, the International Booker Prize finalist for \u003cem\u003eA Whole Life\u003c\/em\u003e and bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Tobacconist\u003c\/em\u003e, comes a tale of life and death and human connection, told through the voices of those who have passed on.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Field is the oldest part of the cemetery in Paulstadt, where some of the small town’s most outspoken residents can be found. From their graves, they tell stories. Some recall just a moment — perhaps the one in which they left this world, perhaps the one they now realize changed the course of their life forever. Some remember all the people they’ve been with, or the only person they ever loved. This chorus of voices — young, old, rich, poor — builds a picture of a community, seen from below ground. The streets of the sleepy provincial town are given shape and meaning by those who lived, loved, worked, mourned, and died there.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Field\u003c\/em\u003e is a constellation of human lives — each one different yet connected to countless others — that shows how existence, for all its fleetingness, still has profound meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T12:08:11-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T09:46:42-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","By (author) Seethaler Robert","Edited by Collins Charlotte","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2021-10-05"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40190664081467,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010270","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Field - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":299,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487010270","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40190664245307,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010287","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Field - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010287","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6dd1953f-673b-406c-8f85-b210d7c117a4.jpg?v=1659833266"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6dd1953f-673b-406c-8f85-b210d7c117a4.jpg?v=1659833266","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22481917804603,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2473,"width":1600,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6dd1953f-673b-406c-8f85-b210d7c117a4.jpg?v=1659833266"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2473,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6dd1953f-673b-406c-8f85-b210d7c117a4.jpg?v=1659833266","width":1600}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Robert Seethaler, the International Booker Prize finalist for \u003cem\u003eA Whole Life\u003c\/em\u003e and bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Tobacconist\u003c\/em\u003e, comes a tale of life and death and human connection, told through the voices of those who have passed on.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Field is the oldest part of the cemetery in Paulstadt, where some of the small town’s most outspoken residents can be found. From their graves, they tell stories. Some recall just a moment — perhaps the one in which they left this world, perhaps the one they now realize changed the course of their life forever. Some remember all the people they’ve been with, or the only person they ever loved. This chorus of voices — young, old, rich, poor — builds a picture of a community, seen from below ground. The streets of the sleepy provincial town are given shape and meaning by those who lived, loved, worked, mourned, and died there.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Field\u003c\/em\u003e is a constellation of human lives — each one different yet connected to countless others — that shows how existence, for all its fleetingness, still has profound meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Field
From Robert Seethaler comes a tale of life and death and human connection, told through the voices of those who have passed on.
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The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps
A “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.
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And of course I am also very grateful personally to you for your very kind words. It has been a wonderful pleasure for me to meet you and to learn about and be inspired by your ideas on this subject. Your particular insights and engagements make the general commitment we try to advance so much easier to understand, appreciate, and use as guidance.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Amartya Sen","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI am deeply moved by this book. \u003c\/strong\u003eIt is about being human, finding wisdom and learning to live in the face of pain. 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Elegant, honest and inspirational...Caring makes the world go round - it is critical to our individual, family and societal well being.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Vicki Cammack and Al Etmanski, co-founders of PLAN","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA clear-eyed look at the value of a life...\u003c\/strong\u003eWhat if a life was judged not by its monetary worth or possible economic benefit to society, but as a series of complex and rewarding relationships?\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eDonna Thomson's world changed utterly when she gave birth to a severely disabled son - with a wicked sense of humour...\u003cstrong\u003eshe makes a powerful case for caring to be accorded respect, and demands that we all think about what really matters\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The Times (UK)","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eA LIFELONG JOURNEY - What does it mean to be a good mother? How do you know if you are providing your child iwth the best possible quality of life? The Four Walls of My Freedom by Donna Thomson is an honest, intelligent account of raising a son born with cerebral palsy, describing a journey through motherhood where regular road maps don't apply. Loaded with info and insight, this book will resonate with those in a similar situation.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Erin Poetschke, Canadian Living Magazine","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Four Walls of My Freedom, Donna Thomson traces her family's experience with her son Nicholas' cerebral palsy from diagnosis to his recent 21st birthday. This is the story of the fine balance between caring for Nicholas's physical requirements while nurturing his spirit and tending the needs of the whole family. \u003cstrong\u003eThe personal is political in this book, which is clearly aimed at provoking thought about the rights of persons with disabilities to be valued in society and to live a meaningful life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Abilities Magazine, Issue 84, Winter 2010\/2011","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Donna Thomson’s account of raising a son with cerebral palsy and a passionate appeal to change the way we think about “the good life.”","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2014-01-13","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Donna Thomson’s account of raising a son with cerebral palsy and a passionate appeal to change the way we think about “the good life.”","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Four Walls of My Freedom
Donna Thomson’s account of raising a son with cerebral palsy and a passionate appeal to change the way we think about “the good life.”
