Clifford Porter's mother and sister are killed in a car crash on a rainy day in Vancouver. After the accident, Cliff's father struggles trying to cope with the tragedy and overwhelmingly grief. Unfortunately, his dad breaks down and is hospitalized. Clifford is sent to spend the summer on Mayne Island with his estranged grandfather. The absolute last thing Cliff wants to do is leave his neighborhood, familiar home surroundings, and move to a small island in the middle of the Salish Sea.

The Western Humanism originating in classical Greek philosophy--where the capacity of human reason became the dominant means for perceiving a worldview based in reality--reigned in Western philosophy until the onset of Postmodern Existentialism in the mid-twentieth century. Plato's Theory of Forms prepared the Western gentile mind to accept the rationality of a transcendent ultimate reality, and in so doing steered the gentile mind from its bent to pantheistic deities. The apostle Paul bol...

Dr. John Carter's fourth novel is about four boys who travel by ferry to go on a boy scout camping trip to British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, chaperoned by Ned's uncle, Dr. Reilly, a psychotherapist.Shortly after arriving at camp, the boys go exploring and stumble on a tragic event that forever alters their lives.Through trauma and regret, friendships and love, the young men grow into adulthood, wrestling with dark echoes of that fateful day.Unchecked and unexamined...

Cape Lazo, British Columbia: A NovelForced to move across Canada because of his father's illness, teenaged Peter initially resents his new home: Cape Lazo on Vancouver Island. It's a dull replacement for the bustle and excitement of Montreal.Slowly, Peter is seduced by the natural spendor and easier pace of Cape Lazo and British Columbia. Soon he has new friends, a new perspective, and even a new Newfoundland dog.Years later, Peter, now a globe trotting lawyer and l...

Dr. Randal Reilly is an aging psychotherapist from Vancouver. Kayaking off the British Columbia coast off the Southern Gulf Islands he finds a naked lady in a lifeboat. She is in an amnesic fugue. Harjit Singh is an Appeals Court Judge. Jeff Kroberts is an applied artificial intelligence engineer from Seattle who developed language nanobots and delivers a keynote speech at the Shanghai Symposium. Winston Xing is a gifted musician and executive chauffeur who teaches Jeff how to pace his lif...

Two Saskatchewan prison guards smash Shane Billhill's head onto a concrete floor placing him in a coma. Dr. Randal Reilly, an aging psychotherapist, decides he must travel from British Columbia to India to tell his niece about Shane. Traveling to India is never easy. Navigating language issues and customs has never been Randal's strong suit. Meanwhile, COVID-19 descends rapidly while Dr. Reilly is in India. Complications and conundrums occur. Foreigners need to leave India, but commercial ...

Crazy Cousins is a novel about young Vancouver accountants. Stories about success, grief, loss, love and community reactions when tragedy strikes up on Grouse Mountain. It explores how when we are young and invincible, we believe the world is at our feet, and our friendships will last the challenges and upheavals of adulthood. This is the case for Jimmy Swanson and his friends.Crazy Cousins is John Carter's third novel.

The Rosemead Psychology Series is a continuing series of studies written for professionals and students in the fields of psychology and theology and in related areas such as pastoral counseling. It seeks to present current thinking on the subject of the integration of psychology that grow out of the interface of psychology and theology. The data and theories of both theoretical and applied psychology are treated in this series, as well as fundamental theological concepts and issues that be...

通貨膨脹、經濟下行、貧富懸殊、威權民粹、戰爭迫近當今的世界，與百年前凱因斯面臨的景況似曾相識。這位亞當．斯密之後最知名的經濟學家，為他心中美好人生提出的理論，徹底扭轉了二十世紀經濟學與國家政策的方向。凱因斯少年時代就以過人的才智闖進英國貴族圈主導的伊頓公學及劍橋大學，剛進大學就被拉進一個自視甚高的祕密社團，成員包括羅素和懷海德等人。社團裡一些年輕成員形成離經叛道的文藝小圈子布倫斯伯里幫，以實際行為對抗封閉保守的英國社會道德框架。凱因斯前半生的情愛糾葛與人際拉扯就在這群人當中上演。凱因斯從中學以來一直都是跟男人發展性關係及情感關係，卻在三十八歲那年戲劇性地愛上一個俄羅斯芭蕾女伶並結為終身伴侶，讓他的好友維吉尼亞．吳爾芙也驚愕不已。一次大戰爆發之際，凱因斯與眾不同的建議讓大英帝國免於被金融危機擊潰，此後他為英國政府出謀劃策，設法爭取美國金援，讓協約國能夠熬到獲得勝利。巴黎和會期間，他用盡全力阻止戰勝...

The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Winner – Theological StudiesModern theology claimed that it ignited a renaissance in trinitarian theology. Really, it has been a renaissance in social trinitarianism. Classical commitments like divine simplicity have been jettisoned, the three persons have been redefined as three centers of consciousness and will, and modern agendas in politics, gender, and ecclesiology determine the terms of the discussion. Contemp...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas“A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes.”—The Wall Street Journal**WINNER: The Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal...

Curl up by the fire this Christmas with the masters of cosy and seasonal crime fiction – the perfect stocking-filler for fans of Agatha Christie and the British Library Crime Classics!A collection of Christmas-themed mysteries, written by some of the greatest Golden Age authors, including Ellery Queen, Mary Roberts Rinehart, John D. MacDonald, and John Dickson Carr, as well as such undiscovered writers as Norvell Page, Meredith Nicholson, and Pat F...