Published in autumn 2001, Have Not Been the Same became the first book to comprehensively document the rise of Canadian underground rock between the years 1985 and 1995. It was a tumultuous decade that saw the arrival of Blue...
Discursive works
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Author:Barclay, Michael, Jack, Ian A. D., Schneider, JasonSummary: - Author:Bartoletti, Susan CampbellSummary:
Through interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members as well as those who resisted the movement, explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people that by the time he became Chancellor of...
- Author:Keillor, GarrisonSummary:
The latest in a line of bestselling collections that began with News from Lake Wobegon, this set selects monologues from four years (1999-2002) of live radio programs. Some were broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theatre, the show's St. Paul...
- Author:Whittaker, Alice IreneSummary:
A memoir about abandoning an exhausting commuter lifestyle to move to a cabin in the woods, embracing imperfection while cultivating a life of care for self and nature. Alice Irene Whittaker interviews dozens of people who are finding...
- Author:Tate, AlbertSummary:
Albert Tate shares nine letters that educate, enlighten, and reimagine discipleship in a way that flips the Christian church on its head.
- Author:Lucht, BernieSummary:
For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer...
- Author:Lucht, BernieSummary:
An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radio’s Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues— most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy — some of the great intellectuals of our time...
- Author:Cayley, DavidSummary:
If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where everything was subject to science, but...
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Identities in Talk gathers together, in a collection of chapters drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, arguments which show that identities are constructed 'live' in the exchange of talk. By closely examining tapes and...
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Through interviews with current elders from three regions of Nunavut, Ilagiinniq: Interviews on Inuit Family Values provides a wealth of information on traditional family life. Covering relationships between siblings, elders and...
- Author:D'Agostino, SaroSummary:
Immigrant Songs is a posthumous collection of the works of Saro (Rosario) D’Agostino. It includes poems, fiction works that may be chapters of an unfinished novel, and letters. These fragments from a seminal Italo-Canadian writer whose...
- Author:Whitehead, JoshuaSummary:
Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his...
- Author:Laurence, MargaretSummary:
The books of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy are among the most beloved in Canadian literature. In 1976, when both were at the height of their careers, they began a seven-year written correspondence. Laurence had just published her...
- Author:Dionne, E.J., Jr., Sullivan, Andrew, Gingrich, Newt, Strassel, KimberleySummary:
"Our country is now as close to crossing the line from democracy to autocracy as it has been in our lifetimes." - E. J. Dionne, Jr. It is the public debate of the moment: is Donald Trump precipitating a crisis of American...
- Author:Cayley, DavidSummary:
For more than fifteen years, iconoclastic thinker Ivan Illich refused to be interviewed. Finally, in 1988, CBC's David Cayley persuaded Illich to record a conversation. This first interview led to additional sessoins that continued...
- Author:Lennon, JohnSummary:
A unique audio portrait of musical legend John Lennon.
John Lennon was a world-famous and influential singer/songwriter and former member of the Beatles, whose death in 1980 shocked the world.
Here he discusses his life...
- Author:Rae, John, McGoogan, KenSummary:
Although Arctic explorer and Hudson Bay Company surveyor John Rae (1813–1893) travelled and recorded the final uncharted sections of the Northwest Passage, he is best known for his controversial discovery of the fate of the lost...
- Author:Mitchell, JoniSummary:
When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse....
- Author:Williamson, MarieSummary:
The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them for the duration of the conflict. Marie and John, who lived with their own two children in a small house in...
- Author:Huskins, Bonnie, Boudreau, MichaelSummary:
Born in 1907, Ida Martin spent most of her life in Saint John, New Brunswick. She married a longshoreman named Allan Robert Martin in 1932 and they had one daughter. In the years that followed, Ida had a busy and varied life, full of...
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