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Private detective Vickie Nelson teams up with her old partner on the police force and a vampire who happens to be the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII to find the source of several vicious attacks plaguing Toronto.
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To Carl Schmitt
A philosopher, rabbi, religious historian, and Gnostic, Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspondent and interlocutor of Carl Schmitt (1888--1985), a German jurist, philosopher, political theorist, law professor -- and self-professed Nazi. Despite their unlikely association, Taubes and Schmitt shared an abiding interest in the fundamental problems of political theology, believing the great challenges of modern political theory were ancient in pedigree and, in many cases, anticipated the works of Judeo-Christian eschatologists.
In this collection of Taubes's writings on Schmitt, which includes decades of letters exchanged between them, the two intellectuals explore ideas of the apocalypse and other central concepts of political theology. Taubes acknowledges Schmitt's reservations about the weakness of liberal democracy yet distances himself from his prescription to rectify it, arguing the apocalyptic worldview requires less of a rigid hierarchical social ordering than a community committed to the importance of decision making. In these writings, a sharper and more nuanced portrait of Schmitt's thought emerges, as well as a more complicated understanding of Taubes, who has shaped the work of Giorgio Agamben, Peter Sloterdijk, and other major twentieth-century theorists.
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How it ends : a novel
Jessica is a good student who hates school because she is bullied by the \"cool\" girls and she is startled and grateful when Annie, the new girl in her southern Ontario high school, seeks her out on the first day of tenth grade and defends her from the bullying--it is a friendship that both girls need, but one based on assumptions and misunderstandings that ultimately threaten to drive them apart.
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The Tramp Room
A young girl falls asleep in the Joseph Schneider Haus and wakes up in the 1850s. At the same time, a tramp boy seeks sanctuary from a cruel master. Caught in the past, the young girl, Elizabeth Salisbury, is thrust into the drama of the tramp boy's struggle to remain free.
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Awaiting the millennium : the Children of Peace and the Village of Hope, 1812-1889
Schrauwers discusses the social, political, economic, and theological context in which the Children of Peace were established and, for a time, flourished.
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Awaiting the Millennium
In a small town north of Toronto there stands a beautiful and unusual church, well known locally as the Sharon Temple. It is the last remaining evidence of a nineteenth-century Quaker sect, the Children of Peace, one of the few exmaples of a millennarian movement in Canada. Albert Schrauwers explores the history of this intriguing group, which rebuilt Solomon's Temple and prophesied the coming of a Jewish Messiah who would abolish British colonial rule.
Schrauwers discusses the social, political, economic, and theological context in which the Children of Peace were established and, for a time, flourished. He identifies three main periods in the development of the sect: their initial break with the Quakers during the War of 1812; their reorganization following completion of the temple in 1832; and their final reorganization following the Rebellion of 1837.
Using assessment rolls and a careful analysis of relations of production, he shows how material factors influences the political process by which the sect decided what was sacred and what was not. Ultimately he provides a detailed portrait of a remarkable group of people and the times in which they lived.
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Searching for Petronius Totem
\"Searching for Petronius Totem is a satirical novel about Hamilton artist Jack Vesoovian, who -- after his wife Elaine kicks him out, for good reason -- goes on the road to search for his friend, the disgraced memoirist Petronius Totem. Along the way he discovers a sinister plot to take over the world involving evil multinational corporations and flying edible robot chickens. An utterly original love story for the age.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Religiosity, Socioeconomic Status, and the Sense of Mastery
Using data from a representative sample of adults in Toronto, we ask, \"Is religiosity related to the sense of mastery?\" Cross-sectional analyses document a negative association between religiosity and mastery. We also test alternative predictions about the potential moderating effects of education and income (\"resource amplification\" versus \"compensation\"): results support the amplification hypothesis. Cross-sectional findings indicate that the negative association between religiosity and mastery is stronger among the poorly educated. As the level of education increases, this association reverses and becomes positive. In addition, the decrease in mastery associated with baseline religiosity is largest among people with the lowest income. Yet the effect of baseline religiosity on change in mastery does not vary by level of education. We discuss our findings in the context of recent literature on religiosity, socioeconomic statuses, and the self-concept, as well as their implications for sociological study of the effects of religious beliefs and actions on mental health outcomes.
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