Religion

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From A Consumer Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	The consumer myth is not about materialism,- it is about spiritual reality. It represents the most sustained attempt in the history of humanity to accord total spiritual significance to material …	Colin Grant	16	1998	$2.08 Add
From A Good Dose of Materialism Helps a Bad Case of Affluenza From: Curing Affluenza View Between The Lines	Chapter 2 examines our current culture of convenience, discussing topics including consuming and producing, credit cards and credit card debt, consumerism (the love of buying things) verses …	Richard Denniss	27	2018	$2.70 Add
From A Religion Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	What we have seen is that not only do we live by myth, but these mythic commitments become most evident when they take on religious proportions. Every living myth we have considered ends up …	Colin Grant	13	1998	$1.69 Add
From A Science Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	Science itself may now be somewhat facing this problematic fate because of the ecologically destructive side effects of technological processes.	Colin Grant	28	1998	$3.64 Add
From A Sex Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	When the topic of sex is raised in terms of the question of basic visions that are at stake in myth, a specific dimension of the sexual revolution appears even more prominent than issues of …	Colin Grant	17	1998	$2.21 Add
From A Society Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	The basic comprehensive reality we refer to in our discussions, the horizon of meaning that we take for granted, as our ancestors took the reality of God for granted, is society.	Colin Grant	15	1998	$1.95 Add
From A Sports Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	Insofar as sport operates with these mythic perspectives, providing a way of orienting ourselves in time and even offering hints of eternity, it clearly functions with mythic overtones of …	Colin Grant	20	1998	$2.60 Add
From A Values Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	Talk of values may be a way of fooling ourselves into thinking we are dealing with something substantial when there is really no substance at all except whatever we choose to inject.	Colin Grant	13	1998	$1.69 Add
From An Ecology Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	In posing issues of life and death in a particularly dramatic way, the ecology crisis may be posing the issue of our fundamental mythic allegiance today more forcefully than does any other area.	Colin Grant	17	1998	$2.21 Add
BlackBerry Town How high tech success has played out for Canada's Kitchener-Waterloo James Lorimer and Company	The smartphone was an incredibly successful Canadian invention created by a team of engineers and marketers led by Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. But there was a third key player involved — …	Chuck Howitt	264	2019	View
From Boomtown From: BlackBerry Town View James Lorimer and Company	Howitt describes Research in Motion’s continued success, specifically from the point of view of several of the company’s key employees.	Chuck Howitt	17	2019	$1.70 Add
From Change Your Shape, Not Your Size From: Curing Affluenza View Between The Lines	Chapter 5 examines how we choose aspects of society to change, discussing topics including the driving sectors of the economy, neoliberalism, individuality and individualism, collective …	Richard Denniss	30	2018	$3.00 Add
From Co-ops as Food Desert Remediation From: Grocery Story View New Society Publishers	This chapter describes the way chain stores are reluctant to establish or to continue serving low-income neighbourhoods, forcing residents to live in "food deserts", a mile for more …	John Steinman	14	2019	$1.40 Add
Coming Back to Life The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects New Society Publishers	Authors Joanna Macy and Molly Brown address the anguish experienced by those who would confront the harsh realities of our time. In this fully updated edition of Coming Back to Life, they show …	Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown	379	2014	View
From Coming from Gratitude From: Coming Back to Life View New Society Publishers	We have received an inestimable gift. To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs …	Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown	14	2014	$1.40 Add
From Conclusion From: BlackBerry Town View James Lorimer and Company	Howitt concludes his analysis of the Kitchener-Waterloo tech sector and how, despite its collapse, Research in Motion led the way to continued success.	Chuck Howitt	5	2019	$0.50 Add