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Blood and Belonging - Journeys into the New Nationalism by Michael Ignatieff
Category: Non-Fiction
With The Warrior's Honorand Virtual War, Blood & Belongingforms part of the acclaimed trilogy by Michael Ignatieff on the face of modern conflict. In 1993 Michael Ignatieff set out on a journey to the former Yugoslavia, the Ukraine, Germany, Quebec, Kurdistan and Northern Ireland in order to explor ...Show more
Blood and Belonging - Journeys into the New Nationalism by Michael Ignatieff
Category: History
Reissue of an incisive exploration of the many faces of modern nationalism by the esteemed author of On Consolation
Charlie Johnson in the Flames by Michael Ignatieff
Category: Fiction
An intense, visceral and moving novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Scar Tissue, about what war does to us all - like a modern-day Graham Greene, but with contemporary secular guilt. Charlie Johnson is a veteran war correspondent who thinks he has seen it all - until he makes one rash expedi ...Show more
Charlie Johnson in the Flames by Michael Ignatieff
Category: Fiction
Intense, visceral and moving novel from Booker- shortlisted author of Scar Tissue, about what war does to us all. Charlie Johnson is a veteran war correspondent who thinks he has seen it all - until he makes one rash expedition into a war zone in the Balkans. Horrified, he watches as a woman who shelter ...Show more
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics by Michael Ignatieff
Category: Biography | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised--should the governing Conservatives falter--to become Canada's next Prime Minister. It ne ...Show more
Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Ignatieff, Michael
Category: Biography
Isaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse. The son of a Riga timber merchant and the first Jew elected to a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford, he was a historian of Russian intelligentsia, biographer of Marx, s ...Show more
Isaiah Berlin - A Life by Michael Ignatieff
Category: Biography Memoir
Revised and updated reissue of an enthralling, intimate biography of Isaiah Berlin, major intellectual figure and remarkable witness to the crises of the twentieth century "Reading Ignatieff's Isaiah Berlin, you feel you are understanding not only Isaiah Berlin, but the history... I do not see how ther ...Show more
Magnum Degrees by Michael Ignatieff
Category: Fiction
Here the photographers of Magnum, 50 years after the legendary group began its documentary mission, address the world following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; a period which has seen the triumph of US capitalism at one extreme and the resurgence of ancient blood feuds at the other. The book is bui ...Show more
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times by Michael Ignatieff
Category: Personal Development
Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize-finalist Michael Ignatieff.When someone we love dies, when we suffer loss ...Show more
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times by Michael Ignatieff
Category: Health and Wellbeing
When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes - war, famine, pandemic - we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, ...Show more