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9781771960465 | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, November 17, 2015, cover price $17.95
9780534522186, titled "Communication Between Cultures" | Wadsworth Pub Co, July 1, 1997, cover price $52.95 | also contains Communication Between Cultures

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By Mark Kingwell (introduced by)

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9781935869658 | Pgw, November 19, 2013, cover price $13.95

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By George Baird (contributor), Thomas Fisher (contributor), Mark Kingwell (contributor), Ria Stein (editor) and Mirko Zardini (contributor)

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9783034608282 | Birkhauser Architecture, April 30, 2013, cover price $70.00

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9781926845845, titled "Unruly Voices: Essays on Democracy, Civility, and the Human Imagination" | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, October 16, 2012, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: AS FEATURED IN THE OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTEST LIBRARYEverybody knows a brown-noser when they see one. But how about a freeter? A workbrickle? A jack? Can they tell downsizing from greybearding or brightsizing?With The Idler’s Glossary (2008), Mark Kingwell and Joshua Glenn offered a spirited defense of leisure...read more
By Joshua Glenn, Mark Kingwell and Seth (illustrator)

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9781926845173, titled "Wage Slave's Glossary" | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, September 20, 2011, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: AS FEATURED IN THE OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTEST LIBRARYEverybody knows a brown-noser when they see one.

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Product Description: There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics...read more
By Mark Kingwell (editor)

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9781554581535 | Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $36.99 | About this edition: There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics.

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Product Description: In Concrete Reveries, acclaimed philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell offers a thoughtful answer to Socrates’ injunction about the life worth living, using the urban experience to illustrate the dynamic between concreteness and abstraction that operates within us...read more

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9780670037803 | Viking Pr, August 14, 2008, cover price $24.95
9780670043262 | Penguin Group Canada, March 30, 2008, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: In Concrete Reveries, acclaimed philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell offers a thoughtful answer to Socrates' injunction about the life worth living, using the urban experience to illustrate the dynamic between concreteness and abstraction that operates within us.

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9780143013235 | Penguin Group Canada, June 2, 2009, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In Concrete Reveries, acclaimed philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell offers a thoughtful answer to Socrates’ injunction about the life worth living, using the urban experience to illustrate the dynamic between concreteness and abstraction that operates within us.

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Product Description: What is the role of art in modern society? And what of philosophy? In Opening Gambits, Mark Kingwell argues that art and philosophy are forms of play, working at the margins of meaning and sense. Written in Kingwell’s typical witty and eloquent style, the book begins with general assessments of the art world and the relationship between art and architecture...read more

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9781554700738 | Key Porter Books, March 1, 2009, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: What is the role of art in modern society?

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9781554702053 | Key Porter Books, August 1, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: What is the role of art in modern society?

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Product Description: Blue Republic, a collaborative entity composed of artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski, produces installations that combine humour, wit and metaphor to stimulate discourse on political ideas and economic issues. This publication documents new artworks assembled from discarded industrial materials and re-fashioned into ready-mades...read more

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9780920863800 | Koffler Gallery, June 15, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Blue Republic, a collaborative entity composed of artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski, produces installations that combine humour, wit and metaphor to stimulate discourse on political ideas and economic issues.

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9780300106220 | Yale Univ Pr, May 28, 2006, cover price $32.00

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9780300126129 | Yale Univ Pr, December 30, 2007, cover price $17.00

A literary primer on classic mixed drinks combines recipes with a tribute to the role of cocktails in art, film, and literature, in an illustrated reference that traces the mixed drink's historical and cultural significance. 15,000 first printing.

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9780312375232 | Thomas Dunne Books, November 13, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A literary primer on classic mixed drinks combines recipes with a tribute to the role of cocktails in art, film, and literature, in an illustrated reference that traces the mixed drink's historical and cultural significance.
9780771095580 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, October 3, 2006, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A literary guide to classic mixed drinks, riffing on their place in culture, art, film, and literature.

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Product Description: Book by Mark Kingwell

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9781846271144 | Gardners Books, October 8, 2007, cover price $17.80 | About this edition: Book by Mark Kingwell

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Product Description: Bliss Express Illustrating Happiness Althea Chia
By Althea Chia, Mark Kingwell (contributor), Eric Nakamura (contributor) and Martin Wong (contributor)

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9780973586718 | Guu Pr, December 30, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Bliss Express Illustrating Happiness Althea Chia

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By Geoffrey James and Mark Kingwell (introduced by)

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9781553652069 | Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, December 7, 2006, cover price $70.00

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A philosopher and critic blends elements of memoir, travelogue, reflection, and discussion of the finer points of the sport as he describes an annual fishing trip to British Columbia that he, his father, and two brothers take each year, covering such topics as male bonding, the benefits of wet versus dry flies, the cast, the ethics of fishing, and more. Reprint.

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9780670033348 | Viking Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A philosopher and critic blends elements of memoir, travelogue, reflection, and discussion of the finer points of the sport as he describes an annual fishing trip to British Columbia that he, his father, and two brothers take each year, covering such topics as male bonding, the benefits of wet versus dry flies, the cast, the ethics of fishing, and more.

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9780143035145 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 26, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A philosopher and critic blends elements of memoir, travelogue, reflection, and discussion of the finer points of the sport as he describes an annual fishing trip to British Columbia that he, his father, and two brothers take each year, covering such topics as male bonding, the benefits of wet versus dry flies, the cast, the ethics of fishing, and more.

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Product Description: What does it mean to be both a professor of philosophy and a public intellectual in an age when every CEO is hailed as an intellectual, every adman a visionary? When the opinions of TV pundits and 'fast thinkers' seem to carry the day? When academics bemoan the loss of critical engagement and dialogue?The essays and book reviews collected in Practical Judgments represent popular Toronto philosopher and cultural theorist Mark Kingwell's negotiation of the space where academe collides with the world outside the ivory tower...read more

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9780802036759 | Univ of Toronto Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $43.95

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9780802038012 | Univ of Toronto Pr, May 31, 2004, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: What does it mean to be both a professor of philosophy and a public intellectual in an age when every CEO is hailed as an intellectual, every adman a visionary?

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Product Description: What does it mean to be a citizen in a world of fractured identities and crumbling nationalism―when people are withdrawing into consumerism, cultural separatism, and self-regarding isolation? Citizenship meets one of our deepest needs, the need to belong; it also makes concrete the ethical commitments of care and respect...read more

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9780742512665 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 1, 2002, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: What does it mean to be a citizen in a world of fractured identities and crumbling nationalism―when people are withdrawing into consumerism, cultural separatism, and self-regarding isolation?
9780742512580 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, October 1, 2001, cover price $55.01

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Addresses the philosophical question about the nature of happiness, why it is so elusive, and how to make it a definitive part of our lives, in a lively collection of essays and observations that ranges from the ancient works of Plato to the modern consumer and high-tech society. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780609605356 | 1 amer ed edition (Crown Pub, July 1, 2000), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Explores the personal, historical, and economic aspects of happiness, using anecodotes and personal stories to illustrate the pursuit for better living beyond technology and material goods.

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Product Description: The year 2000 is fast approaching and a lot of people are worried about what the future holds. Mark Kingwell, uninterested in prognostication, looks instead to the present and backward to link millennial anxiety to other apocalyptic periods in history...read more

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9780571199020 | Faber & Faber, March 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The year 2000 is fast approaching and a lot of people are worried about what the future holds.

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Product Description: This book is about a widely shared desire: the desire among citizens for a vibrant and effective social discourse of legitimation. It therefore begins with the conviction that what political philosophy can provide citizens is not further theories of the good life but instead directions for talking about how to justify the choices they make—or, in brief, "just talking...read more

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9780028971889, titled "Junior Judaica: Encyclopaedia Judaica for Youth" | Macmillan Library Reference, January 1, 1995, cover price $34.00 | also contains Junior Judaica: Encyclopaedia Judaica for Youth
9780271013343 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $72.95
9780028971650, titled "Encyclopedia of the Holocaust" | Gale Group, January 1, 1990, cover price $90.00 | also contains Encyclopedia of the Holocaust

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9780271027739 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, June 18, 2008, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: This book is about a widely shared desire: the desire among citizens for a vibrant and effective social discourse of legitimation.
9780271013350 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $34.95

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