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2012., Boréal Call No: FR 306.097 B753c Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Collection Papiers collésSummary Note: Avec sa manière inimitable, sur le ton de la confidence, Serge Bouchard jette un regard sensible et nostalgique sur le chemin parcouru. Son enfance, son métier dœanthropologue, sa fascination pour les cultures autochtones, pour celle des truckers, son amour de lœécriture.
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-- West and the rest.2012., BBC Call No: DVD 909.0981 C58f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The West once ruled more than half the world. The religion it exported, Christianity, is still followed by a third of mankind. Above all, the way people live, or aspire to live, are unmistakably an invention of the West. All over the world, more and more humans eat a Western diet, wear Western clothes and live in Western housing. Niall Ferguson explains how by juxtaposing, we can uncover the keys, the six killer applications, of Western ascendancy.
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2011., Penguin Press Call No: 909.098 F353c Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance offers insight into the development of such concepts as competition, modern medicine, and the work ethic, arguing that Western dominance is being lost to cultures who are more productively utilizing Western techniques.
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2007., W.W. Norton & Co. Call No: 909.82 J28c Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Continuing Portuguese adventurec2010., Véhicule Press Call No: QWF 946.9 S679m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2021., Biblioasis Call No: QWF 909 P866o Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Field Notes Volume: 3Summary Note: In On Decline, Potter surveys the current problems and likely future of Western civilization (spoiler: it’s not great). Economic stagnation and the slowing of scientific innovation. Falling birth rates and environmental degradation. The devastating effects of cultural nostalgia and the havoc wreaked by social media on public discourse. Most acutely, the various failures of Western governments in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the legacy of the Enlightenment and its virtues—reason, logic, science, evidence—has run its course, how and why has it happened? And where do we go from here?
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2021., Simon & Schuster. Call No: 297.097 M924p Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Omar Mouallem grew up in a Muslim household, but always questioned the role of Islam in his life. As an adult, he used his voice to criticize what he saw as the harms of organized religion. But none of that changed the way others saw him. Now, as a father, he fears the challenges his children will no doubt face as Western nations become increasingly nativist and hostile toward their heritage. In Praying to the West, Mouallem explores the unknown history of Islam across the Americas, traveling to thirteen unique mosques in search of an answer to how this religion has survived and thrived so far from the place of its origin. From California to Quebec, and from Brazil to Canada's icy north, he meets the members of fascinating communities, all of whom provide different perspectives on what it means to be Muslim. Along this journey he comes to understand that Islam has played a fascinating role in how the Americas were shaped--from industrialization to the changing winds of politics. And he also discovers that there may be a place for Islam in his own life, particularly as a father, even if he will never be a true believer.
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2005., House of Anansi Press Call No: 909.09 S256u Edition: 2nd ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: CBC Massey lectures
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By Morris, Ian2010., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 909.09821 M876w Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Archaeologist and historian Ian Morris explains that Western dominance is largely the result of the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, however, the world over the next hundred years will subsequently change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process.
