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  • Morality by Design

    Technology's Challenge to Human Values

    by Wade Rowland ...
    The eleven short, linked essays in Morality by Design represent a culmination of two decades of research and writing on the topic of moral realism. Wade Rowland first introduces readers to the basic ideas of leading moral thinkers from Plato to Leibniz to Putnam, and then explores the subject through today’s political, economic and environmental conundrums. The collection presents a strong ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Storm of Progress

    Climate Change, AI, and the Roots of Our Dangerous Ethical Myopia

    by Wade Rowland ...
    In a time of existential threats from climate change, computer-based superintelligences, AI-accelerated nuclear and biological warfare and more, we can no longer avoid some profound questions about what’s going on. We need to ask: what kind of 'progress' leads to the destruction of humanity’s basic habitat, even its basic identity? ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Canada Lives Here

    The Case for Public Broadcasting

    by Wade Rowland ...
    Canada Lives Here tells the tumultuous story of public broadcasting in Canada, from its inception in 1933 to the CBC’s current, controversial attempts to adapt to collapsing revenues and new technologies. It explores in detail the struggle to preserve public space and foster community in an environment devoted to profit-making, arguing that the ideals of public service broadcasting are more ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Saving the CBC

    Balancing Profit and Public Service

    by Wade Rowland ...
    Asked to name the institutions that best define this country, most Canadians place our pubic broadcaster somewhere high on the list. But there is a very real danger that the CBC will not survive beyond the next two years in any recognizable form. Decades of budget cuts have left it dangerously weakened, and now a massive loss of television advertising revenue is predicted with the loss of NHL ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Outrage Machine

    How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It

    **An invaluable guide to understanding how the internet has broken our brains—and what we can do to fix it."Vivid and unforgettable.” ―Jonathan Haidt, New York Times bestselling author of The Righteous Mind**The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features ... Read more

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  • Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO

    the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance

    by Peter Apps ...
    'EXCELLENT' - THE TLS'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's... ... Read more

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  • Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence

    “This global affairs veteran has carved out a solid, mature path, including for ‘flawed democracies’ like the U.S. We’d all be wise to follow.” — Vancouver SunFrom the author of the Claws of the Panda, a Globe and Mail bestseller, Restoring Democracy is quite literally a book for our times.Jonathan Manthorpe argues that democracy is more resilient than it appears, and is capable of overcoming the ... Read more

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  • Boiling Point

    Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis

    by Maude Barlow ...
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    A Different Take on Taxes in Canada

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  • The Carbon Bubble

    What Happens to Us When It Bursts

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  • Living on Earth

    Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

    One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years ... Read more

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