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  • Is It Possible to Live This Way? Volume 3: Charity

    An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence

    by Luigi Giussani, John Zucchi ...
    This volume of Is It Possible to Live this Way, a translation of Luigi Giussani's Si Può Vivere Così?, addresses the virtue of charity. A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church - that is, have chosen to live their lives in the world according to the "evangelical counsels" of poverty, chastity, and obedience - it ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Mad Flight?

    The Quebec Emigration to the Coffee Plantations of Brazil

    by John Zucchi ...
    Series Book 45 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
    On 15 September 1896, nearly a thousand people prepared to board a steamer in the port of Montreal, headed for Santos, Brazil, and on to the coffee plantations of São Paulo, while a crowd of a few thousand pleaded with them to stay.Families were split as wives boarded without husbands, or husbands without wives. While many prospective migrants were convinced to get off the boat, close to five ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Spiritual Formation

    Following the Movements of the Spirit

    by Henri J. M. Nouwen ...
    “Henri Nouwen was one of the great spiritual masters of the modern age. His beloved writings have helped millions understand that no matter where we are, God can meet us there. Read this brand-new compilation of his writings and conferences, and let Henri Nouwen accompany you—with his trademark wisdom, acuity, common sense, erudition and, most of all, compassion—and help you encounter God more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

    by John H. Elliott ...
    This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Home Tonight

    Further Reflections on the Parable of the Prodigal Son

    by Henri J. M. Nouwen ...
    Home Tonight follows the path of Henri Nouwen’s spiritual homecoming. More than three years prior to writing his great classic, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Nouwen suffered a personal breakdown followed by a time of healing solitude when he encountered Rembrandt’s famous painting. Within his solitude he reflected on and identified with the parable’s characters and experienced profound and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Europe after Empire

    Decolonization, Society, and Culture

    by Elizabeth Buettner ...
    Series Book 51 - New Approaches to European History
    Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade as a result ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Out of Solitude

    Three Meditations on the Christian Life

    by Henri J. M. Nouwen ...
    With more than 400,000 copies in print, Out of Solitude by Henri J. M. Nouwen offers a timeless reflection on the sacred tension between our longing for quiet communion with God and the unrelenting pull and noise of daily life. Drawing on three pivotal moments in the life of Jesus—his retreat to a lonely place to pray, the feeding of the five thousand, and his promise that, after going away, he ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

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  • The Return of the Prodigal Son Anniversary Edition

    A Special Two-in-One Volume, including Home Tonight

    by Henri J. M. Nouwen ...
    With a preface by James Martin, SJ. A specially-priced two-in-one omnibus gift edition of Henri Nouwen's bestselling The Return of the Prodigal Son and it's companion and prequel Home Tonight.In seizing the inspiration that came to him through Rembrandt's depiction of the powerful Gospel story "The Return of the Prodigal Son," Henri Nouwen probes several movements of the parable: the younger son's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800

    by John Thornton ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative World History
    This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the Atlantic arena before 1680. Africa's economic and military ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

    by Jean-Yves Leloup ...
    Restores to the forefront of the Christian tradition the importance of the divine feminine• The first complete English-language translation of the original Coptic Gospel of Mary, with line-by-line commentary• Reveals the eminence of the divine feminine in Christian thought• Offers a new perspective on the life of one of the most controversial figures in the Western spiritual traditionPerhaps no ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Restless Heart

    Finding Our Spiritual Home in Times of Loneliness

    by Ronald Rolheiser ...
    A thoughtful exploration of loneliness, in the tradition of Henri Nouwen's classic Reaching Out. Loneliness may be more pervasive now than at any other time in human history. Cell phones and "instant messaging" not withstanding, our longing for meaningful connections seems to increase in direct proportion to our accessibility.In The Restless Heart, Ronald Rolheiser identifies different types of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Portuguese in Canada

    Diasporic Challenges and Adjustment

    by Carlos Teixeira, Victor M.P. Da Rosa ...
    Even though the Portuguese are relatively new to Canada, they have made major contributions to the cultural mosaic of the country. Containing many new essays, this second edition of The Portuguese in Canada updates the work that filled a gap in the scholarly literature of multiculturalism in Canada.The contributors come from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, geography, history, literature, ... Read more

    $33.09 USD