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...

Scarlett Carlyle came from Nova Scotia to the southern coast of England to direct St. Anne's Hospice, arriving just in time for the onslaught of the COVID 19 virus. What she was about to endure, and to lead, would alter the direction of the hospice and her life. Through her seemingly remote neighbour, Bert Wynman, she discovers new ways of taking the hospice story and the sheer force of the dignity of death to a national audience and to her own personal renewal.

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...

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...

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...

What does it mean to be a Canadian? What binds communities together, sustains institutions, and preserves the moral integrity of a nation? Decency: The Quiet Heart of Canadian Citizens offers a profound answer: it is decency - the disciplined practice of fairness, care, honesty, and courage.Drawing on centuries of Canadian history, from Indigenous governance and early settlement to modern civic life, this book explores how ordinary citizens have shaped the country through ...

In an age of performance, division, and carefully curated selves, the Beatitudes arrive as a quiet interruption. They do not flatter us. They do not offer easy comfort or quick solutions. They describe, with a precision that has not aged in two thousand years, a way of being in the world that runs directly against the grain of almost everything our culture rewards. Glen Pearson brings these ancient words into conversation with contemporary Canadian life — its loneliness and its outrage, it...

When Nora Calloway pays eleven euros for a small oil painting at a Paris flea market — a woman in a yellow dress, her back to the viewer, standing on a Montmartre balcony — she has no idea she is standing at the edge of a sixty-year mystery.The painting, it turns out, may be the work of Yasmine Bouchard: an Algerian-French painter who exhibited twice in Paris in the 1960s to near-total silence, disappeared in 1962, and was declared legally dead in 1965 — while quietly painting mast...

We live in an age of uncertainty. Reinhold Niebuhr saw it all coming, and in the process became America's greatest public theologian. He spent 50 years building a framework for understanding the human situation that is more urgently relevant than anything written since his death in 1971. We might simply call it the truth about ourselves - the truth that our political culture has been most systenatically avoiding. In a world that can't seem to address its anxieties, Niebuhr provides a roadm...

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...

Virginia Hadley returns to her home in MackinacIsland, suffering from a serious case of PTSD after herhelicopter crashes in Afghanistan. With her parentsin a senior's facility and her life in shambles, she turnsto the painter's canvas once more in search ofhealing.In a remarkable journey involving Sam, an Iraq Warveteran, the island's famous art gallery, the healing ofnature, and the unexpected benevolence of a mysteriouspatron...