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All Things Valentine (DVD)
Sarah Rafferty, Sam Page, Jeremy Guilbaut, Heather Doerksen, Kimberley Sustad, …
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R35
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Romantic comedy directed by Gary Harvey and starring Sarah
Rafferty, Sam Page and Jeremy Guilbaut. Just as Avery (Rafferty), a
blogger whose Valentine's Day experiences have left much to be
desired, is prepared to abandon her search for love for another
year, she meets an attractive veterinarian by the name of Brendan
(Page). Things appear to be looking up for Avery until she
discovers that Brendan blames her and her blog for the abrupt end
of his last relationship. Even worse, it turns out that Brendan is
the person spouting vitriol at Avery's expense. Will they be able
to move past their differences or will this be another Valentine's
Day to forget?
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Zombie Night (DVD)
Daryl Hannah, Anthony Michael Hall, Rachel G. Fox, Meg Rutenberg, Shirley Jones, …
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R55
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John Gulager directs this made-for-TV horror movie starring Daryl
Hannah and Anthony Michael Hall. Patrick (Hall), his daughter
Tracie (Rachel G. Fox) and Tracie's friend Rachel (Meg Rutenberg)
are on their way home one night when their car hits something. When
they discover that the victim is a zombie and that other members of
the undead are approaching they are forced to flee for their lives.
The same problem is faced by Patrick's wife Birdie (Hannah), her
mother (Shirley Jones) and their neighbours, the Laddens. Will any
of them make it through the night?
Robust and effective classroom discussions are essential for
providing students with opportunities to simultaneously engage in
science practises while learning key science content. Using
numerous examples and science learning tasks, the authors show how
teachers can plan the lesson to encourage students to not only
learn science content but employ disciplinary practises as well.
This volume outlines the five practises teachers need for
facilitating effective inquiry-oriented classrooms: Anticipate what
students will do, what strategies they will use in solving a
problem, monitor their work as they approach the problem in class,
select students whose strategies are worth discussing in class,
sequence those students' presentations to maximise their potential
to increase students' learning, connect the strategies and ideas in
a way that helps students understand the science learned. The 5
Practices framework identifies a set of instructional practises
that will help teachers achieve high-demand learning objectives by
using student work as the launching point for discussions in which
important scientific ideas are brought to the surface,
contradictions are exposed and understandings are developed or
consolidated.
In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valéry
wrote of a ‘crisis of spirit’, brought about by the
instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination
of culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearly
that that the stock of mind, or spirit, continues to fall. The
economy is toxically organized around the pursuit of short-term
gain, supported by an infantilizing, dumbed-down media. Advertising
technologies make relentless demands on our attention, reducing us
to idiotic beasts, no longer capable of living. Spiralling rates of
mental illness show that the fragile life of the mind is at
breaking point. Underlying these multiple symptoms is consumer
capitalism, which systematically immiserates those whom it purports
to liberate. Returning to Marx’s theory, Stiegler argues that
consumerism marks a new stage in the history of proletarianization.
It is no longer just labour that is exploited, pushed below the
limits of subsistence, but the desire that is characteristic of
human spirit. The cure to this malaise is to be found in what
Stiegler calls a ‘pharmacology of the spirit’. Here,
pharmacology has nothing to do with the chemical supplements
developed by the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmakon, defined as
both cure and poison, refers to the technical objects through which
we open ourselves to new futures, and thereby create the spirit
that makes us human. By reference to a range of figures, from
Socrates, Simondon and Derrida to the child psychoanalyst Donald
Winnicott, Stiegler shows that technics are both the cause of our
suffering and also what makes life worth living.
In the 1700s, Kazan Tatar (Muslim scholars of Kazan) and scholarly
networks stood at the forefront of Russia's expansion into the
South Urals, western Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. It was there
that the Tatars worked with Russian agents, established
settlements, and spread their own religious and intellectual cuture
that helped shaped their identity in the 19th and early 20th
centuries. Kazan Tatars profited economically from Russia's
commercial and military expansion to Muslim lands and began to
present themselves as leaders capable of bringing Islamic modernity
to the rest of Russia's Muslim population. Danielle Ross bridges
the history of Russia's imperial project with the history of
Russia's Muslims by exploring the Kazan Tatars as participants in
the construction of the Russian empire. Ross focuses on Muslim
clerical and commercial networks to reconstruct the ongoing
interaction among Russian imperial policy, nonstate actors, and
intellectual developments within Kazan's Muslim community and also
considers the evolving relationship with Central Asia, the Kazakh
steppe, and western China. Tatar Empire offers a more
Muslim-centered narrative of Russian empire building, making clear
the links between cultural reformism and Kazan Tatar participation
in the Russian eastward expansion.
This book looks at how Islamic law was practised in Russia from the
conquest of the empire's first Muslim territories in the mid-1500s
to the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the empire's Muslim
population had exceeded 20 million. It focuses on the training of
Russian Muslim jurists, the debates over legal authority within
Muslim communities and the relationship between Islamic law and
'customary' law.Drawing on difficult-to-access sources written in a
variety of non-Russian languages (Arabic, Chaghatay, Kazakh,
Persian, Tatar), the contributors offer scholars of Russian
history, Islamic history and colonial history an account of Islamic
law in Russia of the same quality and detail as the scholarship
currently available on Islam in the British and French colonial
empires.
In the 1700s, Kazan Tatar (Muslim scholars of Kazan) and scholarly
networks stood at the forefront of Russia's expansion into the
South Urals, western Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. It was there
that the Tatars worked with Russian agents, established
settlements, and spread their own religious and intellectual cuture
that helped shaped their identity in the 19th and early 20th
centuries. Kazan Tatars profited economically from Russia's
commercial and military expansion to Muslim lands and began to
present themselves as leaders capable of bringing Islamic modernity
to the rest of Russia's Muslim population. Danielle Ross bridges
the history of Russia's imperial project with the history of
Russia's Muslims by exploring the Kazan Tatars as participants in
the construction of the Russian empire. Ross focuses on Muslim
clerical and commercial networks to reconstruct the ongoing
interaction among Russian imperial policy, nonstate actors, and
intellectual developments within Kazan's Muslim community and also
considers the evolving relationship with Central Asia, the Kazakh
steppe, and western China. Tatar Empire offers a more
Muslim-centered narrative of Russian empire building, making clear
the links between cultural reformism and Kazan Tatar participation
in the Russian eastward expansion.
This book looks at how Islamic law was practiced in Russia from the
conquest of the empire's first Muslim territories in the mid-1500s
to the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the empire's Muslim
population had exceeded 20 million. It focuses on the training of
Russian Muslim jurists, the debates over legal authority within
Muslim communities and the relationship between Islamic law and
'customary' law. Based upon difficult to access sources written in
a variety of languages (Arabic, Chaghatay, Kazakh, Persian, Tatar),
it offers scholars of Russian history, Islamic history and colonial
history an account of Islamic law in Russia of the same quality and
detail as the scholarship currently available on Islam in the
British and French colonial empires.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, downtown North America was
reconfigured for the suburban age. The Heart of Toronto follows one
example of efforts to address the problems and possibilities of
city centres: downtown Yonge Street. Attempts to keep pace with, or
even lead, urban change included the street’s conversion into a
car-free public space, a clean-up campaign targeting the sex
industry, and the construction of North America’s largest urban
shopping mall. Linking these projects to postwar decentralization,
economic restructuring, and cultural transformation, Daniel Ross
reveals the politics and power dynamics involved in reinventing the
heart of Toronto.
Why do we watch movies? If we read in search of more life, as
Harold Bloom is fond of saying, then we watch movies, this book
proposes, in search of wonder. We watch movies in search of
awe-inspiring visions, transformative experiences, and moments of
emotional transcendence and spiritual sublimity. We watch movies
for many of the same reasons that we engage in religion: to fill
our ordinary evenings and weekends with something of the
extraordinary; to connect our isolated, individual selves to
something that is greater than ourselves; and because we yearn for
something that is ineffable but absolutely indispensable. This
book, through an exploration of some of the most intriguing films
of the past two decades, illustrates how movies are partners with
religion in inspiring, conveying, and helping us experience what
Abraham Joshua Heschel refers to as "radical amazement": the sense
that our material universe and our ordinary lives are filled with
more wonders than we can ever imagine, and that it takes
spiritually-as well as cinematically-trained eyes to uncover these
ever-present ocular gems. In addition to illustrating how films
utilize religious themes and theological motifs to convey a sense
of wonder, this book offers new interpretations of key films from
canonical American directors such as Martin Scorsese, Terrence
Malick, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, and the Coen brothers.
Orthodox Judaism is one of the fastest-growing religious
communities in contemporary American life. Anyone who wishes to
understand more about Judaism in America will need to consider the
tenets and practices of Orthodox Judaism: who its adherents are,
what they believe in, what motivates them, and to whom they turn
for moral, intellectual, and spiritual guidance.Among those
spiritual leaders none looms larger than Rabbi Joseph B.
Soloveitchik, heir to the legendary Talmudic dynasty of Brisk and a
teacher and ordainer of thousands of rabbis during his time as a
Talmud teacher at Yeshiva University from the Second World War
until the 1980s. Soloveitchik was not only a Talmudic authority but
a scholar of Western philosophy. While many books and articles have
been written about Soloveitchik’s legacy and his influence on
American Orthodoxy, few have looked carefully at his disciples in
Torah and Talmud study, and even fewer at his disciples in Jewish
thought and philosophy. Soloveitchik’s Children: Irving
Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish
Theology in America is the first book to study closely three of
Soloveitchik’s major disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy:
Rabbis Irving (“Yitz”) Greenberg, David Hartman, and Jonathan
Sacks. Daniel Ross Goodman narrates how each of these three major
modern Jewish thinkers learned from and adapted Soloveitchik’s
teachings in their own ways, even while advancing his philosophical
and theological legacy. The story of religious life and Judaism in
contemporary America is incomplete without an understanding of how
three of the most consequential Jewish thinkers of this generation
adapted the teachings of one of the most consequential Jewish
thinkers of the previous generation. Soloveitchik’s Children
tells this gripping intellectual and religious story in a learned
and engaging manner, shining a light on where Jewish religious
thought in the United States currently stands—and where it may be
heading in future generations.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, downtown North America was
reconfigured for the suburban age. The Heart of Toronto follows one
example of efforts to address the problems and possibilities of
city centres: downtown Yonge Street. Attempts to keep pace with, or
even lead, urban change included the street’s conversion into a
car-free public space, a clean-up campaign targeting the sex
industry, and the construction of North America’s largest urban
shopping mall. Linking these projects to postwar decentralization,
economic restructuring, and cultural transformation, Daniel Ross
reveals the politics and power dynamics involved in reinventing the
heart of Toronto.
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