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Ernest Buckler, Robert Gibbs

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New Canadian Library

The Mountain and the Valley is an affectionate portrait of David Canaan, a sensitive boy who becomes increasingly aware of the difference that sets him apart from his family and his neighbours. David’s desire to write is the secret that gives this haunting story its detailed focus and its poignant theme.Set in the years leading up to World War II and against the backdrop of the Annapolis Valley’s natural beauty, The Mountain and the Valley captures a young man’s s...

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Robert B. Gibbs

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On Campus

Students are not clients, job seekers, or consumers. Their purpose is the pursuit of knowledge. So why do universities largely restrict inquiry to professors and graduate students? In What Could a University Be? Robert Gibbs imagines a university focused on engaging students in research at all levels and across all faculties, including professional schools.Gibbs proposes a widely applicable model that reverses the traditional top-down flow by teaching students how to condu...

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Robert Gibbs

Robert Gibbs radically revises standard interpretations of the two key figures of modern Jewish philosophy--Franz Rosenzweig, author of the monumental Star of Redemption, and Emmanuel Levinas, a major voice in contemporary intellectual life, who has inspired such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray, and Blanchot. Rosenzweig and Levinas thought in relation to different philosophical schools and wrote in disparate styles. Their personal relations to Judaism and Christianity were ...

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Robert Gibb

In Robert Gibb’s second Autumn House Poetry collection, he finds sublime music in everyday city life. He offers a roadmap to hear the music of life and nature within the context of an industrial setting.

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Robert Gibb

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Wheelbarrow Books

Pittsburghese, Robert Gibb’s latest book of poems, is a work of poignant remembrance, filled with revelations found in the everyday “debris of paradise.” The collection is anchored by personal and public histories, the city’s “consensus things” and “standard archaeologies,” as well as by music—jazz, blues, R&B and gospel—“sweet rebuttal” to the world’s “cold hymns.” Throughout, motifs function like the thorns on the jaggers—Pittsburghese for brambles—whose points engage the reader...

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Robert Gibb

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Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry

Among Ruins is the final volume of Homestead Works, a collection of four books of poetry that explore the industrial past and legacy of the old steel town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, and, by extension, Pittsburgh.

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Robert J. Gibbs

"...Extraordinary: Gibbs has popped the hood and taken apart the engine of commercial design and development, showing us each individual part and explaining fit, form and function."—Yaromir Steiner, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Steiner + Associates"...the most comprehensive and expansive book ever written on the subject of Retail Real Estate Development. Gibbs is by far the most prominent advocate for reforming retail planning and development in order t...

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Robert G Gibbs, Jeffrey J Reynolds

In the late 1930s two young boys, whose missionary parents had died among the Zulus in Africa, lived with their aunt and uncle in the curious world of St. John, New Brunswick. Their adventures take them among the odd characters at a camp meeting; to a fantasy of two tough brothers who burn their furniture to make a bathtub full of fudge; to a funeral where they touch the dead man; to their eccentric great-uncle’s with the bearskins on the floor; to their grandmother’s, who raised her axe h...

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Robert Sean Lewis

Time slows to a halt in a vast, overbuilt city, entrapping its people on the day the city’s last child is born. Whisked to safety far away, Yeats is seven when he discovers a strange message tied to his past that hints he alone may be able to set the city right.After the enigmatic bookkeeper Riddle appears, Yeats is swept into an extraordinary journey. Travelling through distant lands, he uncovers the hidden patterns that shape life itself. To fulfil the prophecy, Yeats must learn seven tr...

A decade ago, oestrogen-containing hormone therapy was viewed as a promising strategy for the prevention and treatment of dementia and age-related cognitive decline. However, treatment trials in women with Alzheimer's disease showed that oestrogens did not reverse cognitive impairment, and clinical trials in healthy older women indicated that oestrogens did not prevent cognitive decline. The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study trial even suggested an increased risk of dementia with trea...

In a diverse and innovative selection of new essays by cutting-edge theologians and philosophers, Suffering Religion examines one of the most primitive but challenging questions to define human experience - why do we suffer? As a theme uniting very different religious and cultural traditions, the problem of suffering addresses issues of passivity, the vulnerability of embodiment, the generosity of love and the complexity of gendered desire. Interdisciplinary studies bring differen...

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Steven Kepnes, Peter Ochs, Robert Gibbs

In Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, three preeminent Jewish scholars debate the form and meaning of Postmodern Jewish Philosophy after the failures of the great secular ideologies of modern western civilization. Emulating the methods as well as the premises of Talmudic argumentation, the authors present their responses as dialogues joined by a common love of the rabbinic tradition of commentary and interpretation of the Bible. The composers, Peter Ochs...