In spite of modern ideals and achievements in the area of freedom and choice, people today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught -- in a word, fatalistic...
Discursive works
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Author:Visser, MargaretSummary: - Author:Kuklin, SusanSummary:
A 2015 Stonewall Honor Book. A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens. Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral...
- Author:Moyers, BillSummary:
Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues includes the very best of Bill Moyers's conversations from the celebrated weekly PBS broadcast Bill Moyers Journal, with luminaries ranging from The Wire creator David Simon,...
- Author:Lewontin, RichardSummary:
R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist -- a geneticist who teaches at Harvard -- yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an objective body of knowledge that transcends all other ways of knowing and all...
- Author:Burford, Michelle, Roberts, RobinSummary:
With words of encouragement found in history, prayers, conversations with loved ones, literature, psalms, and speeches that reach out across the national divide, Robin offers a window into how she feeds her own mind, spirit, and soul...
- Author:Klosterman, ChuckSummary:
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what...
- Author:Yadlin, Amos, Krauthammer, Charles, Zakaria, Fareed, Nasr, Vali, Griffiths, RudyardSummary:
With tensions between Iran, Israel, and Western powers reaching new highs over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment program, the tenth edition of the Munk Debates investigates how the world should respond to Iran’s nuclear...
- Author:Magliozzi, TomSummary:
In 1987, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, also known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, made the leap from nursing the motley car population of New England to creating the nationally beloved public radio phenomenon that we all know as Car...
- Author:Magliozzi, Tom, Magliozzi, RaySummary:
It's a fact: 98 percent of what fathers say is dead wrong. Join famous syndicated radio talk show hosts and ingenious car experts Click and Clack as they bring this little-known fact to light. Car Talk: Why You Should Never Listen to...
- Author:Brookes, ChrisSummary:
Joelle Pouliot was a nurse with a comfortable life in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Then she volunteered for a 6-week stint with Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders. She arranged a temporary leave-of-absence from her...
- Author:Struthers, J.R. (Tim)Summary:
Here is a lifetime's worth of reflection, of illumination, by one of North America's finest contemporary writers of fiction, autobiography, and nonfiction, founder of the graduate program in Creative Writing at Concordia University in...
- Author:Kristjanson, Karen L., Kruk, EdwardSummary:
Karen L. Kristjanson shares the stories of a variety of divorced and separated couples who co-parent. Effective co-parenting, or sharing significant parenting time with an ex-spouse, is one of the best gifts separated parents can give...
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Presents the correspondence of various composers from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and many others write about their music, their hopes and fears, their love, their...
- Author:King, Martin LutherSummary:
In these lectures, given a few months before his death, Dr. King analyzed the significance of the outbreak of riots in major cities of the United States, and, in the light of such outbreaks, restated his concept of the uses of non-...
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Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science contains sixteen original essays by leading authors in the philosophy ofscience, each one defending the affirmative or negative answer toone of eight specific questions, including: Are there...
- Author:Rosen, JeffreySummary:
An intimate look at the life and career of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her own words, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center. Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and...
- Author:Brundage, David, Lindberg, TraceySummary:
This collection is a compelling examination and discussion of the work of Indigenous writer Daniel David Moses. Including pieces by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, storytellers, playwrights, academics and artists, participating...
- Author:Ruthig, IngridSummary:
To date, Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist David Helwig has published close to fifty books and edited numerous others. He has written for television and radio, worked at the CBC, taught at Queen's University, been Poet Laureate...
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To millions of kids, the books they read are more than entertainment - they are mirrors to hold up to their own lives. And the creators of those books are more than just writers - they are mentors, confidants, friends, sometimes the...
- Author:Havel, VáclavSummary:
An intimate history of Czechoslovakia under communism; a meditation on the social and political role of art, and a triumphant statement of the values underlying all the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe.
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