Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving....
Discursive works
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Author:Pinker, Steven, Ridley, Matt, de Botton, Alain, Gladwell, MalcolmSummary: - Author:Dershowitz, Alan, Greenwald, Glenn, Hayden, Michael, Ohanian, Alexis, Snowden, EdwardSummary:
Does government surveillance make us safer? The thirteenth Munk Debate, held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pitted Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is...
- Author:Kissinger, Henry, Dr., Ferguson, Niall, Zakaria, Fareed, Li, David DaokuiSummary:
Is China's rise unstoppable? Powered by the human capital of 1.3 billion citizens, the latest technological advances, and a comparatively efficient system of state-directed capitalism, China seems poised to become the global superpower...
- Author:Gibson, GraemeSummary:
Originally published in 1970, Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson is a collection of candid and wide-ranging interviews with Canadian writers, including Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, and more. With...
- Author:Gill, Chris, Tolinski, BradSummary:
Music journalists Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill share a candid, definitive oral history of the most influential rock guitarist since Jimi Hendrix. In addition to discussing his greatest triumphs as a groundbreaking musician, the book...
- Author:Vonnegut, KurtSummary:
Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of...
- Author:Hustak, AlanSummary:
If Frederick Scott is remembered at all today, it is as minor Victorian poet or as the father of his illustrious son F.R. Scott. However, Frederick Scott was almost 55 years old and the pastor of St. Matthews Anglican Church in Quebec...
- Author:Cancian, SoniaSummary:
In a micro-analysis of 400 private letters, including three collections that incorporate letters from both sides of the Atlantic, Sonia Cancian provides new evidence on the bidirectional flow of communication during migration. She...
- Author:Hayden, TylerSummary:
Father’s Message in a Bottle is an inspirational collection of over 60 letters from fathers around the world to the people they love.
- Author:Jordan, TessaSummary:
The history of Branching Out, Canada's first national magazine of second-wave feminism, is the surprising story of an upstart magazine published on the prairies that was read from coast to coast. It is an Edmonton-based story of...
- Author:Omidvar, Ratna, Wagner, DanaSummary:
The global number of people currently displaced from their home country--more than 50 million--is higher than at any time since World War II. Yet in recent years Canada has deported, denied, and diverted countless refugees. Is Canada a...
- Author:Boyer, J. PatrickSummary:
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017 Unique views from John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Indira Gandhi, and dozens of other world leaders reveal Canada and Canadians through their eyes. During the First World War, foreign leaders began...
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Historian Royden Loewen has brought together selections from diaries kept by 21 Mennonites in Canada between 1863 and 1929, some translated from German for the first time. By skillfully comparing and contrasting a wide cross-section of...
- Author:Sullivan, J. M.Summary:
The early 1970s marked the beginning of Newfoundland's cultural renaissance. And in 1974, amidst the music, literature, and burgeoning patriotic pride, a young, upstart Reach for the Top team from Canada's newest province had...
- Author:Cayley, DavidSummary:
Historian Ramsay Cook called George Grant one of Canada's two most important political thinkers in the twentieth century. In these lively conversations, recorded not long before Grant's death, David Cayley explores with Grant the deep...
- Author:Francis, PopeSummary:
"[A] beautiful book of hope and inspiration...'ope Francis speaks frankly about problems facing the young and the elderly, Catholic and non-Catholic."'Publishers Weekly (starred review) Pope Francis examines the role of millennials in...
- Author:Gibson, Graeme, Munro, AliceSummary:
In honour of Alice Munro's Nobel Prize for Literature, Anansi Digital is re-releasing a candid interview with Munro by Canadian novelist Graeme Gibson. Taken from Eleven Canadian Novelists, which was originally published in 1973 by...
- Author:Williams Harmon, DanielSummary:
The first real look at the Canadian West Harmon's Journal-the first published English-language journal written in B.C.-is a lively, engaging story that, unlike other early journals, captures the rough-and-tumble life of a fur trader and...
- Author:Kagan, Robert, Slaughter, Anne-Marie, Stephens, Bret, Zakaria, FareedSummary:
The fourteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, which will be held in Toronto on November 5, 2014, pits Bret Stephens and Robert Kagan against Fareed Zakaria and Anne-Marie Slaughter to debate the legacy of President Obama. From Ukraine to the...
- Author:Ferguson, Niall, Cohn-Bendit, Daniel, Joffe, Josef, Mandelson, Peter, LordSummary:
In the sweep of human history, the European Union stands out as one of humankind's most ambitious endeavours. It encompasses half a billion people, twenty-seven member states, twenty-three languages, and an economy valued at over $15...
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