Tossed onto an Italian beach by a hostile sea, Enzo Rossi discovers that he not only has a concussion but also the ability to see developments and even God more clearly than ever. An architect by training, Enzo is recruited to save the deteriorating Bell Tower in Tuscany's city of San Gimignano. His new insights provide him with new solutions for fixing a centuries-old problem. Double Helix of God is about the mystical journey within and without the life of a gifted young man trying to bet...

A single-volume resource featuring state-of-the art reviews of key elements of the roll-to-roll manufacturing processing methodologyRoll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing is an important manufacturing technology platform used extensively for mass-producing a host of film-type products in several traditional industries such as printing, silver-halide photography, and paper. Over the last two decades, some of the methodologies and know-how of R2R manufacturing have been ex...

The Unravelling is the story of how Canada made a covenant with its people — and how, over four decades of deliberate political choices dressed as economic necessities, that covenant was broken. Glen Pearson, who grew up in post-war Canada and watched the entire arc unfold in real time, tells this story with the moral seriousness it deserves: tracing the extraordinary post-war achievement of the Canadian middle class, the political forces that built it, and the ideological revolu...

Every night in Canada, tens of thousands of people sleep outside in one of the coldest climates on earth. They sleep in doorways and ravines, in encampments along riverbeds, in shelters built for emergencies that have become permanent addresses. They are not there because of who they are. They are there because of what we decided.Citizens of Nowhere is a reckoning with one of the most consequential and least honestly examined failures in modern Canadian history — the thirt...

On a Greek island built from the ashes of one catastrophe, a young Canadian anthropologist arrives to study how communities remember disaster — and finds, instead, a woman still trying to outrun one of her own.Isabella Conti has come to Santorini with nothing but a biscuit tin of her late grandmother's letters and a photograph of a man no one will name. What she uncovers — with the reluctant, then devoted, help of a scholar more used to studying grief than living inside it — is a l...

Dan Costain has built a company worth billions by connecting the world. Synapse reaches two billion people across 190 countries. He has sat in the Oval Office. He has never been unreachable. Then his mother disappears. Donna Costain, 75, has spent twenty-two years working in one of the most remote regions of South Sudan — a place her son has never visited, a life he has never fully understood. When she is captured, Dan does what he has always done: he deploys every resource at his disposal...

Something is emptying out of Canadian life, and no one is quite naming it.The volunteers who used to come don't come anymore. The Legion halls and service clubs and community leagues are folding one by one. A country is retreating, house by house and heart by heart, into a comfortable and well-appointed solitude — even as it pours billions into building its future.In The Second Nation, Glen Pearson argues that Canada is making the same mistake twic...

At 81 years of age, Alberta Alexander discovers she had Alzheimer's. A Life Among the Stones tells of how this remarkable women bring the power of her personality to bear on the challenge. And to the delight of those around her, hidden treasures of personality and insight are revealed. And Alberta has one precious secret hidden in her garden - a secret that tells of a remarkable life.

Abraham Lincoln, America's greatest president, was a remarkably complex yet simple man, caught in the blood and conflict of America's greatest years of violence. His personality, rich and textured with years of poverty and affluence, rural realities and urban richness, ambition and humility. His lessons for today's faith communities are more necessary than ever.

In the spring of 1945, the survivors of the Depression and two world wars sat down and built a world. The welfare state. The United Nations. The Marshall Plan. NATO. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the space of five extraordinary years, a generation educated by catastrophe produced the most ambitious and durable institutional architecture in human history. They built it because they had paid, in full, the price of knowing what happened when it did not exist.We are the...

Catherine O'Hara, Minister of the Environment in the Government of Canada, explores uncharted regions in the Amazonian rainforest and comes out a change and more determined woman. Her life turns upside down after an official visit to China, leaving her with choice but to oppose her own Prime Minister. The results are electric.

Across the essays that follow, there will be proposals foreconomic reform, institutional redesign, democratic innova‐tion, and civic repair. But more than that, there’s an ethic - asense that we cannot build a better Canada without firstbelieving we are still capable of shared purpose.The time is right for this conversation. The global contextdemands it. Democracies around the world are being tested -not just by authoritarianism abroad but b...