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Blood

The Stuff of Life

by Lawrence Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013

In this year’s 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...
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The Universe Within

From Quantum to Cosmos

by Neil Turok
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 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...
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by Mark Lavorato
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014

From one of Canada’s brightest emerging writers comes an unforgettable tale of love, art, and life. Set in the vividly imagined streets of 1920s Montreal, Serafim and Claire is the beautiful, moving, and compulsively readable story of two dreamers whose worlds become forever connected. Claire...
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Belonging

The Paradox of Citizenship

by Adrienne Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: September 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...
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The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers

Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers

by Bernie Lucht, John Galbraith, Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011

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...
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Does the 21st Century Belong to China?

The Munk Debate on China

by Dr. Henry Kissinger, Niall Ferguson, David Li
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

Is China's rise unstoppable? Powered by the human capital of 1.3 billion citizens, the latest technological advances, and a comparatively efficient system of state-directed capitalism, China seems poised to become the global superpower this century. But the Middle Kingdom also faces a series of challenges....
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Hitchens vs. Blair: Be It Resolved Religion Is a Force for Good in the World

Be It Resolved Religion Is a Force for Good in the World

by Christopher Hitchens, Tony Blair
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011

Intellectual juggernaut and staunch atheist Christopher Hitchens goes head-to-head with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of the Western world's most openly devout political leaders, on the highly charged topic of religion. Few world leaders have had a greater hand in shaping current events...
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by Patrick Warner
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009

How does the embrace of levity -- that warm, human voice, perceptive of its own limits -- find its way to the listener in today's shattered world? By blind burrowing? Heat fluctuations in loam and subsoil? Instinct and luck? Much like the mole of the title, Patrick Warner's poems accomplish...
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Does State Spying Make Us Safer?

The Munk Debate on Mass Surveillance

by Michael Hayden, Alan Dershowitz, Glenn Greenwald
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014

Does government surveillance make us safer? The thirteenth Munk Debate, held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pitted Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedom — the democratic issue...
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by Alberto Manguel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010

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....
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by Noah Richler, Joseph Boyden, Sarah Leavitt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Northwords is a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers Joseph Boyden, Sarah Leavitt, Rabindranth Maharaj, Noah Richler, and Alissa York to some of the world's most extreme environments, to join the conversation about the north. Introduced by award-winning journalist and radio...
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by Lynn Crosbie
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006

At once casting aside and reinventing the confessional mode, Liar is a booklength monument to love found, betrayed, renounced, and ultimately accepted as transformative. The white-hot immediacy of detail and scorching emotional honesty of Liar make for a compelling tour through one lover's accounting...
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My Life as a Dame

The Personal and Political Writings of Christina McCall

by Christina McCall
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008

In February 1956, a remarkable young woman named Christina McCall began her working life as an editorial secretary at Maclean's magazine. It was a legendary time there, when the likes of Pierre Berton, Robert Fulford, June Callwood, Peter Gzowski, and Peter C. Newman graced the magazine's pages. McCall...
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by Michael Ignatieff
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

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...
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