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More Lost Massey Lectures

Author : Barbara Ward
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887848664
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book More Lost Massey Lectures written by Barbara Ward and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2008-09-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 World Survival; George Grant on the worsening predicament of the West through an examination of the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche in Time as History; Claude Levi-Strauss on the nature and role of myth in human history in Myth and Meaning; Frank Underhill on the deficiencies of the Canadian constitution in The Image of Confederation; and Barbara Ward, in the very first Massey Lecture, on the origin and predicament of underdeveloped countries in The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations. More Lost Massey Lectures includes an introduction by Bernie Lucht, who has been the executive producer of CBC Radio's Ideas and the Massey Lectures since 1984.

More Lost Massey Lectures

Author : George Grant
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 088784801X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book More Lost Massey Lectures written by George Grant and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broadcasting fixture for more than 45 years and Canada’s preeminent public lecture series, the CBC's Massey Lectures feature provocative talks on pressing topics by major contemporary thinkers. Some of the series’ finest lectures have been lost for many years, unavailable to the public in any form — until now. More Lost Massey Lectures presents recently rediscovered talks: Nobel Prize-winner Willy Brandt discusses the dangerous inequities between developing and industrialized nations while Barbara Ward explains the origin and predicament of underdeveloped countries and Frank Underhill speaks on the deficiencies of the Canadian constitution. George Grant's talk on the worsening predicament of the West through an examination of Friedrich Nietzsche is joined by Claude Levi-Strauss on the nature of myth and its role in human history. Not only of considerable historical significance, these lectures remain hugely relevant in the 21st century. Also included is an introduction by veteran CBC producer Bernie Lucht.

The Lost Massey Lectures

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Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887842178
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Massey Lectures written by and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of five Massey lectures are reprinted in their entirety. The authors include: John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Goodman, Jane Jacobs, Eric W. Kierans, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Time as History

Author : George Parkin Grant
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802075932
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Time as History written by George Parkin Grant and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Time as History, a collection of his 1969 Massey lectures, George Grant reviews the thought of Nietzsche and concludes that the conception of time as history is not one in which it is possible to live a fully human life. Grant was the first Canadian philosopher to pay serious attention to the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, and his analysis of the German philosopher forms the central focus of the lectures. William Christian has restored material from the broadcast version of the lectures. His introduction places Grant's interest in Nietzsche in the perspective of Grant's developing analysis of technology and draws extensively on Grant's unpublished notebooks and lectures.

Therefore Choose Life

Author : George Wald
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487003218
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Therefore Choose Life written by George Wald and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Earth and in the universe. He urges us to therefore choose life — to invest in our capabilities as human beings, to heed the warnings of our own self-destruction, and above all to honour our humanity.

All Our Relations US Edition

Author : Tanya Talaga
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 148700575X
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book All Our Relations US Edition written by Tanya Talaga and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding Finalist, 2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction 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 crafted an urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario... Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.” — Booklist *Starred Review* In this urgent and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experience in colonized nations is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing. It is an experience marked by the violent separation of Peoples from the land, the separation of families, and the separation of individuals from traditional ways of life — all of which has culminated in a spiritual separation that has had an enduring impact on generations of Indigenous children. As a result of this colonial legacy, too many communities today lack access to the basic determinants of health — income, employment, education, a safe environment, health services — leading to a mental health and youth suicide crisis on a global scale. But, Talaga reminds us, First Peoples also share a history of resistance, resilience, and civil rights activism. Based on her Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy series, All Our Relations is a powerful call for action, justice, and a better, more equitable world for all Indigenous Peoples.

Power Shift

Author : Sally Armstrong
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487006802
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Power Shift written by Sally Armstrong and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong illustrates how the status of the female half of humanity is crucial to our collective surviving and thriving. Drawing on anthropology, social science, literature, politics, and economics, she examines the many beginnings of the role of women in society, and the evolutionary revisions over millennia in the realms of sex, religion, custom, culture, politics, and economics. What ultimately comes to light is that gender inequality comes at too high a cost to us all.

In Search of A Better World

Author : Payam Akhavan
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487002017
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book In Search of A Better World written by Payam Akhavan and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 shaped his personal life, to the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda, and the rise of contemporary phenomena such as the Islamic State. But he also reflects on the inspiring resilience of the human spirit and the reality of our inextricable interdependence to liberate us, whether from hateful ideologies that deny the humanity of others or an empty consumerist culture that worships greed and self-indulgence. A timely, essential, and passionate work of memoir and history, In Search of a Better World is a tour de force by an internationally renowned human rights lawyer.

Player One

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887842801
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Player One written by Douglas Coupland and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. The book asks as many questions as it answers, and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species -- and that there is no turning back.

Democracy on Trial

Author : Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887845452
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Democracy on Trial written by Jean Bethke Elshtain and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Necessary Illusions

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780896083660
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Necessary Illusions written by Noam Chomsky and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the media serves the needs of those in power rather than performing a watchdog role, and looks at specific cases and issues

The Massey Lectures Series

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (517 download)

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Massey lectures

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Massey lectures written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Massey Lectures Inaugural Series

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Massey Lectures Inaugural Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quill & Quire

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quill & Quire written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Massey Lectures Inaugural Series

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Massey Lectures Inaugural Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nostalgia for the Absolute

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : CBC Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9780887940767
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Nostalgia for the Absolute written by George Steiner and published by CBC Enterprises. This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decline of formal religious systems has left a moral and emotional emptiness in Western culture. George Steiner, internationally renowned thinker and scholar, pursues this and examines the alternative "mythologies" of Marxism, Freudian psychology, Lévi-Straussian anthropology, and fads of irrationality.