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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesOut of the SunOn Race and StorytellingHardcover
Esi Edugyan9781487010508
$32.99SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 28, 2021
An insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade. What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins, when we grant them centrality? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? Through the lens of visual art, literature, film, and the author’s lived experience, Out of the Sun examines Black histories in art, offering new perspectives to challenge us. In this groundbreaking, reflective,... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesResetReclaiming Social Media for Civil SocietyPaperback
Ronald J. Deibert9781487008055
$22.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 29, 2020
In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author and renowned technology and security expert Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the economy, the environment, and humanity. Digital technologies have given rise to a new machine-based civilization that is increasingly linked to a growing number of social and political maladies. Accountability is weak and insecurity is endemic, creating disturbing opportunities for exploitation.? Drawing from the cutting-edge research of the Citizen Lab, th... + Read More
Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.The facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental shift has been occurring. Yet from Toronto to Timbuktu the promise of equality still eludes half the world’s population.In her 2019 CBC Massey Lectures, award-winning author, jo... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesAll Our RelationsFinding the Path ForwardPaperback
Tanya Talaga9781487005733
$24.99SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 16, 2018
Tanya Talaga, the bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers, calls attention to an urgent global humanitarian crisis among Indigenous Peoples — youth suicide.“Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising. She brings each story to life, skillfully weaving the stories of the youths’ lives, deaths, and families together with sharp analysis… The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.” — Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*“Talaga has c... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesIn Search of A Better WorldA Human Rights OdysseyPaperback
Payam Akhavan PhD9781487002008
$22.99POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 09, 2017
A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that deceptive utopias, political cynicism, and public apathy have given rise to major human rights abuses: from the religious persecution of Iranian Bahá’ís that ... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesTherefore Choose LifeThe Found Massey LecturesPaperback
George Wald9781487003203
$16.95PHILOSOPHY
Sep 09, 2017
This recently discovered and very timely 1970 Massey Lectures by Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald, now in print for the first time ever.Where did we come from, who are we, and what is to become of us — these questions have never been more urgent. Then, as now, the world is facing major political and social upheaval, from overpopulation to nuclear warfare to environmental degradation and the uses and abuses of technology. Using scientific fact as metaphor, Nobel Prize–winning scientist George Wald meditates on our place, and role, on Ea... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Return of HistoryConflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First CenturyPaperback
Jennifer Welsh9781487002428
$19.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Aug 19, 2017
In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History,” which argued that the demise of confrontation between Communism and capitalism, and the expansion of Western liberal democracy, signalled the endpoi... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Return of HistoryConflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First CenturyHardcover
Jennifer Welsh9781487001308
$24.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 17, 2016
In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History,” which argued that the demise of confrontation between Communism and capitalism, and the expansion of Western liberal democracy, signalled the endpoi... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesHistory’s PeoplePersonalities and the PastPaperback
Margaret MacMillan9781487001377
$19.95HISTORY
Aug 06, 2016
Part of the CBC Massey Lectures SeriesIn History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. She looks at the concept of leadership through Bismarck and the unification of Germany; William Lyon MacKenzie King and the preservation of the Canad... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesBelongingThe Paradox of CitizenshipPaperback
Adrienne Clarkson9781770898370
$19.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 19, 2014
Never has the world experienced greater movement of peoples from one country to another, from one continent to another. These seismic shifts in population have brought about huge challenges for all societies. In this year’s Massey Lectures, Canada’s twenty-sixth Governor General and bestselling author Adrienne Clarkson argues that a sense of belonging is a necessary mediation between an individual and a society. She masterfully chronicles the evolution of citizenship throughout the ages: from the genesis of the idea of the citizen in ancient Gr... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesBloodThe Stuff of LifePaperback
Lawrence Hill9781770893221
$19.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 28, 2013
Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. With the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today. Blood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but its cultural and social representations have divided us perennially. Blood pulses through religion, literat... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Universe WithinPaperback
Neil Turok9781770890152
$19.95SCIENCE
Sep 29, 2012
The most anticipated nonfiction book of the season, this year’s Massey Lectures is a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future by world-renowned physicist Neil Turok.Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the universe around us. Scientific knowledge is our most precious possession, and our future will be shaped by the breakthroughs to come.In this personal, visionary, and fascinating work, Neil Turok, Director of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, explores tr... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesWinterFive Windows on the SeasonPaperback
Adam Gopnik9780887849749
$22.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 24, 2011
The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the season, the space, the cycle.Gopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists, and thinkers, who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. Here we learn how a poem by William Cowper heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential questions of God and our place in the world; how t... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesPlayer OnePaperback
Douglas Coupland9780887849725
$19.95FICTION
Sep 25, 2010
In his 2010 CBC Massey Lectures acclaimed novelist and visual artist Douglas Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and macroeconomics and the afterlife in the form of a novel, a 5-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a myst... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe WayfindersPaperback
Wade Davis PhD9780887848421
$19.99SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 01, 2009
Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures. In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the descendants of a true lost civilization, the Peoples of the Anaconda. In th... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesMore Lost Massey LecturesPaperback
Barbara Ward9780887848018
$24.95HISTORY
Sep 19, 2008
The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form. This is the second volume of recovered lectures, a follow-on to The Lost Massey Lectures, and features: Nobel Peace Prize recipient Willy Brandt on the dangerous inequities between developing and industrialized nations in Dangers and Options: The Matter of Worl... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesPaybackPaperback
Margaret Atwood9780887848100
$18.95LITERARY CRITICISM
Sep 15, 2008
Now a major motion picture Official selection: 2012 Sundance Film Festival Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt -- a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the collapse of a system of interlocking debts. Atwood proposes that debt is like air -- something we take for granted until things go wrong. Payback is not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects. Rather, it is an investigation into... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesBecoming Human2nd editionPaperback
Jean Vanier9780887848094
$19.95RELIGION
Jul 01, 2008
Acclaimed as a man "who inspires the world" (Maclean's) and a "nation builder" (Globe and Mail), Jean Vanier has made a difference in the lives of countless people -- including those with disabilities and the many young people who have been moved by his life's work. Becoming Human is a modern classic that continues to resonate among the generations. In a world of competition, where the strong dominate the weak, Vanier calls on each one of us to open ourselves to those we perceive as different or inferior. This, he says, is the key to true pers... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Lost Massey LecturesPaperback
John Galbraith9780887842177
$19.95HISTORY
Oct 01, 2007
The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form. Important thinkers whose Massey Lectures are lamentably out of print include the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr., John Kenneth Galbraith, Jane Jacobs, Paul Goodman, and Eric Kierans. Each of these lecturers spoke on a subject at the heart of their intellectual... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe City of WordsPaperback
Alberto Manguel9780887847639
$18.95LITERARY CRITICISM
Oct 01, 2007
In the 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel leads us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time: the rise of ethnic nationalism. The end of ethnic nationalism -- building societies around sets of common values -- seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. Manguel suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society. With wit and erudition, Manguel looks at what visionaries, poets, novelists, essayists, and filmmakers have to say about building societi... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Rights Revolution2nd editionPaperback
Michael Ignatieff9780887847622
$18.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Feb 01, 2007
With an updated preface by the author. Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. Indeed, rights have become the trump card in every argument. Long-standing fights for aboriginal rights, the issue of preserving the linguistic heritage of minorities, and same-sex marriage have steered our society into a full-blown rights revolution. This revolution is not only deeply controversial in North America, but is being watched around the worl... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Ethical ImaginationPaperback
Margaret Somerville9780887847479
$19.95PHILOSOPHY
Oct 01, 2006
Science and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we relate to others and our world, and how we find meaning in life. How we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world? In her 2006 CBC Massey Lectures, ethicist and McGill University professor Margaret Somerville tackles some of the most contentious issues of our times, and proposes a brilliant new kind of ethical language and thought to help us navigate them.
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesRace Against Time2nd editionPaperback
Stephen Lewis9780887847530
$19.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jun 01, 2006
"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider's perspective on our ongoing failure to help. Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York introduced eight Millennium Development Goals, which focused on fundamental issues such as education, hea... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Unconscious Civilization2nd editionPaperback
John Ralston Saul9780887847318
$19.95PHILOSOPHY
Aug 01, 2005
Governor General's Award Winner Tenth Anniverary Edition, with a new preface Our society, John Ralston Saul argues in his 1995 CBC Massey Lectures, is only superficially based on the individual and democracy. Increasingly it is conformist and corporatist, a society in which legitimacy lies with specialist or interest groups and decisions are made through constant negotiations between these groups. The paradox of our situation is that knowledge has not made us conscious. Instead, we have sought refuge in a world of illusion where language is ... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesA Short History of ProgressPaperback
Ronald Wright9780887847066
$19.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 23, 2004
Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water -- the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future? In his #1 bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our m... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Truth About StoriesPaperback
Thomas King9780887846960
$19.99SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 01, 2003
Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stor... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesBeyond FatePaperback
Margaret Visser9780887846793
$19.95PHILOSOPHY
Oct 23, 2002
In spite of modern ideals and achievements in the area of freedom and choice, people today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught -- in a word, fatalistic. Beyond Fate, Margaret Visser's 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, examines why. This timely and important book investigates what fate means, and where the propensity to believe in it and accept it comes from. Visser takes an ancient metaphor -- ubiquitous, influential, perhaps unavoidable -- where time is "seen" and spo... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Cult of Efficiency2nd editionPaperback
Janice Gross Stein9780887846786
$19.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Aug 01, 2002
We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities. Even when the language of efficiency is used carefully, that language alone is not enough. Unilingualism will not do. We need to go beyond the cult of efficiency to talk about... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesLatin AmericaPaperback
Carlos Fuentes9780887846656
$14.95HISTORY
Apr 01, 2001
A passionate argument for the geopolitical autonomy of Latin America, Carlos Fuentes's 1984 CBC Massey lectures trace the region's unique historical and cultural tensions and call upon foreign powers to cease interference in a sphere of influence they rarely fully understand. Fuentes sees the turbulence in Latin America ending not with political solutions, but economic ones. Foreshadowing the end of the Cold War, the signing and expansion of NAFTA, and the Mexican peso crisis of 1994, Fuentes urges further co-development in a progressively int... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Triumph of NarrativePaperback
Robert Fulford9780887846458
$19.95LITERARY CRITICISM
Nov 01, 1999
Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing stories, real and imaginary, than any of our ancestors. Whether or not this has been to our benefit is one of the questions raised by journalist and 1999 CBC Massey lecturer Robert Fulford. Narrative, Fulford points out, is how we explain, how we teach, how we entertain ourselves - often all at once. It is the bundle in which we wrap truth, ho... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Real World of TechnologyPaperback
Ursula Franklin9780887846366
$19.95TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Jun 01, 1999
In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraordinary changes since The Real World of Technology was first published. In four new chapters, Franklin tackles contentious issues, such as the dilution of privacy and intellectual property rights, the impact of the current technology on government and governance, the shift from consumer capitalism to investment capitalism, and the influence of the I... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Elsewhere CommunityPaperback
Hugh Kenner9780887846076
$19.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 01, 1998
Acclaimed literary critic Hugh Kenner examines Western culture's insatiable need for stimulation encountered elsewhere - from the eighteenth century's Grand Tour, to the self-imposed exile of modernist writers, to the disembodied global journeys the Internet avails us today. Kenner brings to this fascinating study knowledge of a wide array of disciplines. Hugh Kenner has written on topics ranging from geodesic domes to Bugs Bunny, but is perhaps best known for The Pound Era, his definitive study of Ezra Pound's life and work.
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Politics of the FamilyPaperback
R.D. Laing9780887845468
$14.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 27, 1997
Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family. A psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Laing worked at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. His books include The Self and Others and The Politics of Experience.
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Educated ImaginationPaperback
Northrop Frye9780887845987
$15.95LITERARY CRITICISM
Mar 01, 1997
"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?" Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this remains, of Northrop Frye's many books, perhaps the easiest introduction to his theories of literature and literary education.
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesNostalgia for the AbsolutePaperback
George Steiner9780887845949
$16.99SOCIAL SCIENCE
Mar 01, 1997
Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate mythologies (Marxism, etc.) and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult). Steiner argues that this decay and the failure of the mythologies have created a nostalgia for the absolute that is growing and leading us to a massive clash between truth and human survival. Ultimately h... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesBiology As IdeologyPaperback
Richard Lewontin9780887845185
$16.95SCIENCE
Oct 23, 1996
R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist -- a geneticist who teaches at Harvard -- yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an objective body of knowledge that transcends all other ways of knowing and all other endeavours. Lewontin writes in this collection of essays, which began their life as CBC Radio's Massey Lectures Series for 1990: "Scientists do not begin life as scientists, after all, but as social beings immersed in a family, a state, a productive structure, and they view nature through a lens that has b... + Read More
In his national bestselling 1988 CBC Massey Lectures, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Specific cases are illustrated in detail, using the U.S. media primarily but also media in other societies. Chomsky considers how the media might be democratized (as part of the general problem of developing more democratic institutions) in order to offer citizens broader and more meaningful part... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesOn the Eve of the MillenniumPaperback
Conor Cruise O'Brien9780887845598
$19.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 16, 1994
Conor Cruise O'Brien, respected journalist, diplomat and statesman, considers threats to the Enlightenment tradition from which modern society derives threats he considers serious enough that the tradition and its institutions might not survive even a third of the next millennium.
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesDesigning FreedomPaperback
Stafford Beer9780887845475
$17.99SCIENCE
Nov 18, 1993
Distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics. His essays examine such issues as The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear, The Discarded Tools of Modern Man, A Liberty Machine in Prototype, Science in the Service of Man, The Future That Can Be Demanded Now, The Free Man in a Cybernetic World. Designing Freedom ponders the possibilities of liberty in a cybernetic world.
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesDemocracy on TrialPaperback
Jean Bethke Elshtain9780887845451
$19.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Nov 08, 1993
Is democracy as we know it in danger? More and more we confront one another as aggrieved groups rather than as free citizens. Deepening cynicism, the growth of corrosive individualism, statism, and the loss of civil society are warning signs that democracy may be incapable of satisfying the yearnings it itself unleashes -- yearnings for freedom, fairness, and equality. In her 1993 CBC Massey Lectures, political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain delves into these complex issues to evaluate democracy's chances for survival.
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesTwenty-First Century CapitalismPaperback
Robert Heilbroner9780887845345
$19.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jan 01, 1993
A New York Times Notable Book What forms will capitalism take in the twenty-first century? To answer this question, noted economist and social philosopher Robert Heilbroner looks beyond economic theory to the social and political problems of modern economic society. In this sweeping examination of the past, present, and possible future, Heilbroner considers capitalism both as an economic system and a political order. He argues persuasively that, even in an increasingly globalized economy, government remains crucial to a healthy private sector... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesCompassion and SolidarityPaperback
Gregory Baum9780887845321
$16.95RELIGION
Sep 29, 1992
In the forthright style that has earned him a reputation for controversy, theologian Gregory Baum presents the Faith and Justice movement in the churches -- especially the Roman Catholic Church -- together with the considerable opposition to it. He discusses why many Christians are becoming activists, turning their faith into deeds by working for the liberation of the poor, not only in South America and the Third World but in Canada, as well. Baum argues for a new ecumenism, permitting a more representative opinion within the Church and, in a ... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesPrisons We Choose to Live InsidePaperback
Doris Lessing9780887845215
$16.99SOCIAL SCIENCE
Aug 01, 1992
In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief. The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Real World of DemocracyPaperback
C.B. Macpherson9780887845307
$16.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 29, 1992
In his 1964 CBC Massey Lectures C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impact on one another. He suggests that the West need not fear any challenge to liberal democracy if it is prepared to re-examine and alter its own values.
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Malaise of ModernityPaperback
Charles Taylor9780887845208
$19.95PHILOSOPHY
Nov 01, 1991
In Malaise of Modernity, Charles Taylor focuses on the key modern concept of self-fulfillment, often attacked as the central support of what Christopher Lasch has called the culture of narcissism. To Taylor, self-fulfillment, although often expressed in self-centered ways, isn't necessarily a rejection of traditional values and social commitment; it also reflects something authentic and valuable in modern culture. Only by distinguishing what is good in this modern striving from what is socially and politically dangerous, Taylor says, can our ag... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey Lectures Reset Reclaiming Social Media for Civil Society Paperback 9781487008055 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 29, 2020
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures Power Shift The Longest Revolution Paperback 9781487006792 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 17, 2019
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures All Our Relations Finding the Path Forward Paperback 9781487005733 $24.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 16, 2018
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures Therefore Choose Life The Found Massey Lectures Paperback 9781487003203 $16.95 PHILOSOPHY Sep 09, 2017
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures The Return of History Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century Hardcover 9781487001308 $24.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 17, 2016