Here, in one volume, is noted literary critic George Woodcock’s condensed guide to Canada’s major fiction writers. From Susanna Moodie and John Richardson to Margaret Laurence and Robertson Davies, Canada’s…

A literary exploration of Mordecai Richler’s the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

Like Orwell[Woodcock] is fair-minded, warm-hearted, sensible and sensitive; his book is the best criticism of the fifteen-odd volumes of the corpus that I have read, a labour of love. -Cyril…

This book discusses the six great proponents of anarchism and the movement that sprang from them. Beginning with the libertarian ideas of William Godwin and the German egotist Max Stirner…

This is a collection of extracts from Thomas Merton’s Asian Journal , and other short works on Eastern religions written in the last few years of his life. It provides…

Kropotkin traces the development of moral teachings from Ancient Greece, Christianity and the Middle Ages, through to the 19th century philosophers. In this way, Ethics gives answers to two fundamental…

This book presents thoroughly revised tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the International Training School on Domain Modeling and the Duration Calculus, held in Shanghai, China…