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Explorations reprints now available

Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, principally edited by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan, was the first postwar journal to engage directly with the new “grammars” of mid-century new media of communication. Launched in Toronto in 1953, at the very moment that television made its national debut in Canada, Explorations presented a mosaic of approaches to contemporary media culture and became the site in which McLuhan and Carpenter first formulated their most striking insights about new media in the electric age. The eight coedited issues of Explorations ran from 1953 to 1957.

Wipf and Stock have reprinted all eight of these important issues.

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Overseas distribution of MSP titles

Morning Star Publishing is pleased to announce that we are expanding our international distribution.

Effective now MSP imprints (with the exception of the Catholic Worship Book) will be available to order worldwide with the exception of North America where our titles are produced under license by Wipf & Stock. Since our titles can also be printed in the UK, we are able to offer domestic postage rates there alongside competitive rates to Africa, Asia, Europe and also South America. Imprints of Wipf & Stock (Cascade, Slant, Front Porch Republic etc) will remain available only in Australia and New Zealand. Please see our FAQ page for rates and more information.

Please contact us if you would like more information about this initiative.

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Wild West fiction with a spiritual edge

Ken Abell’s Deacon Coburn series is a ‘starkly real examination of spirituality and mysticism meeting at the crossroads of faith in the unknowable.’ For fans of Westerns and Cormac McCarthy, Abell is ‘a storyteller of rare foresight and scope.’
‘With a heart toward heaven and boots firmly grounded in the dust of the Old West, Coburn is a light of hope and redemption to troubled souls, even while haunted by his past.’

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A snippet from The Dad Book on mealtimes

The best of times, the worst of times.  With the possible exception of bedtime, nothing reveals your stress level quite like a family meal.  We have attempted to keep mealtimes a true family time.  All sitting together at the table, no TV, no phones, maybe just some music in the background.  At its best: a joyful sharing of the day’s funny moments, a rolling wave of infectious giggles, each taking turns to choose the next song to be played, a great sense of closeness and warmth.

Sometimes it works the other way – a snappy or short-tempered comment can change the mood in a moment, and when people are tired or stressed the momentum can be impossible to bring back again. Nonetheless, it is something we do as a family. It is one of the things that anchor us.

(-Ian Dowley)

Find out about The Dad Book here.