One of the world's most beloved Bible teachers offers a definitive collection of resources on biblical prophecy, the end times, and the apocalypse. "The end times." "The apocalypse." "The day of judgment." Terms such as these are both...
Literary arts
- Author:Jeremiah, DavidSummary:
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
“The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It’s always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you’re in your teens, a decade...
- Author:Atwood, Margaret, Carrière, MarieSummary:
“The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It’s always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you’re in your teens, a decade...
- Author:Irvine, DeanSummary:
The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem 'The Canadian Authors Meet' sets the theme...
- Author:Woodman, Dorothy, Wiebe, ReginaldSummary:
In The Cancer Plot, Reginald Wiebe and Dorothy Woodman examine the striking presence of cancer in Marvel comics. Engaging comics studies, medical humanities, and graphic medicine, they explore this disease in four case studies: Captain...
- Author:Vermeer, LeslieSummary:
The Complete Canadian Book Editor provides students, teachers, and working editors with the background information and specific skills they need to train for in-house or freelance work as a book editor. Its orientation is practical and...
- Author:Gibson, IanSummary:
Frederico Garcia Lorca, one of the outstanding poets and dramatists of this century, was murdered at the age of thirty-eight by Nationalist rebels in his native Granada on the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Since then the...
- Author:Williams, AngelineSummary:
These are a collection of 20 stories, dictated in 1941 to Bloomfield's linguistics class, edited from manuscripts now in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, and published for the first time. In...
- Author:Busby, BrianSummary:
Brian Busby's 'The Dusty Bookcase' explores the fascinating world of Canada's lesser-known literary history: works that suffered censorship, critical neglect, or brilliant yet fleeting notoriety. These rare and quirky totems of...
- Author:Frye, NorthropSummary:
"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?" Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this...
- Author:Tapply, William G.Summary:
The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing the Modern Whodunit has guided and inspired mystery writers, veterans as well as beginners, for nearly a decade. Here William G. Tapply, with more than 20 popular mystery and suspense novels...
- Author:Strunk, WilliamSummary:
Hailed for its directness and clever insight, this unorthodox textbook was born from a professor's love for the written word and perfected years later by one of his students--famed author E.B. White. Ever since its first publication in...
- Author:Franzen, JonathanSummary:
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections. In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen...
- Author:Levinson, Jay Conrad, Hancock, David L., Frishman, RickSummary:
A Blueprint For Success Without Stress, Now and In The Future. The face of publishing has changed drastically in recent years, and the twenty-first century promises to bring the most dramatic alterations to the publishing paradigm to...
- Author:MenciusSummary:
This book offers a selection from the translation of the full work, including the most frequently studied passages and covering the work's major themes. It also includes selected passages from the classic commentary of Zhu Xi, an...
- Author:Lendler, Ian.Summary:
"Lovely art comes with unusual perspectives on familiar tales about lions, mice and trickster foxes." - Kirkus, starred review "Many children are familiar with Aesop's fables but it is a fair bet that few know much about the storyteller...
- Author:Heale, ElizabethSummary:
The Faerie Queene is the first great epic poem in the English language. It is a long and complex allegory, which presents the first-time reader with many difficulties of allusion and interpretation. This book is the only convenient and...
- Author:Derrick, Stephanie L.Summary:
C. S. Lewis, long renowned for his children's books as well as his Christian apologetics, has been the subject of wide interest since he first stepped-up to the BBC's microphone during the Second World War. Until now, however...
- Author:Solnit, RebeccaSummary:
A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost." Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own stories--...
- Author:Zaleski, Philip, Zaleski, CarolSummary:
A stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis C.S. Lewis is the twentieth century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For...