CBC Massey Lectures
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What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time
$19.99 Add to cartEnough small talk. Let’s get right to it: Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation?
In contemporary society, much of o
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Williams, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1487013426
- Language: English
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Educated Imagination
$15.95 Add to cart“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 sty
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0887845983
- Language: English
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The Real World of Technology
$19.95 Read moreIn 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 extraord… [more below]
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Franklin, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 088784636X
- Language: English
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Nostalgia for the Absolute
$16.99 Add to cartWriter 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 s… [more below]
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Steiner, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0887845940
- Language: English
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A Short History of Progress: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
$16.99 Read moreNow more relevant than ever, Ronald Wright’s #1 national bestseller, A Short History of Progress. The fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new introduction warning of the accelerating patterns of
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Wright, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1487006985
- Language: English
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The Real World of Democracy
$16.95 Add to cartIn 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 th… [more below]
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: MacPherson, C. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 29 1992
- ISBN10: 0887845304
- Language: English
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Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions
$17.99 Read moreBrilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators.
Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Her
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Highway, Tomson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1487011237
- Language: English
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All Our Relations Us Edition: Finding the Path Forward
$19.99 Add to cartWinner, 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- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Talaga, Tanya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1487005733
- Language: English
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Designing Freedom
$17.99 Add to cartDistinguished 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
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Beer, Stafford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 18 1993
- ISBN10: 0887845479
- Language: English
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The Wayfinders
$17.99 Read moreEvery 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 Nat
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0887848427
- Language: English
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The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart
$19.99 Add to cartFinalist, 2024 Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working f
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Taylor, Astra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1487011938
- Language: English
