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  • In Search of Canadian Liberalism

    by Frank H. Underhill ...
    Historian Frank Underhill's collection of essays on Canadian history and politics, written over the course of his career, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction in 1960. These informed, often contentious essays shine a probing light into the political tradition in Canada, from the nineteenth-century Family Compact to the government of Louis St. Laurent. Underhill's collection ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • More Lost Massey Lectures

    by Barbara Ward, Frank Underhill, Claude Levi-Strauss, Willy Brandt, George Grant ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers

    by Bernie Lucht, John Galbraith, Jane Jacobs, Eric Kierans, Martin King, Paul Goodman ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    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 ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture

    by Robert Fulford ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    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. ... Read more

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  • The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

    by Thomas King ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Educated Imagination

    by Northrop Frye ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    "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. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of Progress

    by Ronald Wright ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Great Transformation

    The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

    by Karl Polanyi ...
    In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory material reveals the renewed ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

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  • The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished—Not Cancelled

    by Mark Milke ...
    From assaults on historical figures such as John A. Macdonald to cancel culture and charges that Canada is a genocidal nation-state, the country that every generation and every immigrant built is now facing routine and corrosive attacks.How did this happen?In this new book, twenty critical thinkers provide answers: we are awash in relentless grievance narratives and utopians who expect Canada’s ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extraordinary Canadians Wilfrid Laurier

    by Andre Pratte ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Everyone knows that Wilfrid Laurier was a great prime minister, an astonishing speaker, and a survivor. But nobody has looked at him as more than a mythological figure for a very long time. André Pratte, chief editorial writer of La Presse, uncovers Laurier's full complexity amid the charged political circumstances of the early 20th century. Laurier tried to unite a country deeply divided in the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Strangers at Our Gates

    Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-2006 Revised Edition

    by Valerie Knowles ...
    Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians' perception of themselves as a country and as a society. In this crisply written history, Valerie Knowles describes the different kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada, and the immigration policies that have helped to define the character of Canadian immigrants over the centuries. Key policymakers and moulders of public ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1867

    How the Fathers Made a Deal

    by Christopher Moore ...
    “In the 1860s, western alienation began at Yonge Street, and George Brown was the Preston Manning of the day.” So begins Christopher Moore’s fascinating 1990s look at the messy, dramatic, crisis-ridden process that brought Canada into being – and at the politicians, no more lovable or united than our own, who, against all odds, managed to forge a deal that worked.From the first chapter, he turns a ... Read more

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