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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Screen of Hal From: The City of Words View	In this chapter, Manguel examines how societies have built exclusionary structures to manage perceived external threats, from Aristotle’s barbarians to modern economic machinery.	Alberto Manguel	30	2007	$3.00 Add
From The Shadow Side From: Payback View	Payback is not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects. Rather, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central …	Margaret Atwood	41	2007	$4.92 Add
From NEW! The shape of my body From: On Wholeness View	In this chapter, Christie-Peters examines how settler colonialism has impacted Anishinaabe bodies across generations.	Quill Christie-Peters	26	2025	$2.60 Add
From The Solidarity Movement in the Church From: Compassion and Solidarity View	In this chapter, Baum discusses the broader liberation theology movement of the 1970s and 1980s, and the push for the Church to move beyond institutional self-interest toward active solidarity …	Gregory Baum	20	1999	$2.00 Add
From The Spirit of Human Rights From: In Search of a Better World View Collection: Online Conflict & Debate: Bridging the Divide	In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan discusses the bonds that unite humans and the ways in which we can use those bonds to protect human rights. Please Note: A collection can …	Payam Akhavan	70	2017	$8.40 Add
From The Tablets of Gilgamesh From: The City of Words View	In this chapter, Manguel examines The Epic of Gilgamesh as a lens for understanding human identity and otherness.	Alberto Manguel	25	2007	$2.50 Add
The Time Has Come Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution	In the vein of Tim Wise’s White Like Me and Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, The Time Has Come —by co-founder of the White Ribbon campaign Michael Kaufman — offers a …	Michael Kaufman	274	2019	View
From The Time Has Come From: The Time Has Come View	In the first chapter, Kaufman opens with his own reflection on his own experiences and what brought him into the Gender Equality Movement. He then provides a brief history of the larger feminist …	Michael Kaufman	23	2019	$2.76 Add
The Triumph of Narrative	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 …	Robert Fulford	173	1999	View
The Truth About Stories A Native Narrative	"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 …	Thomas King	184	2003	View
From The Un-Sustainable From: The Great Greenwashing View	From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You	John Pabon	21	2024	$2.10 Add
From The Underdeveloped County From: The Lost Massey Lectures View	In this lecture, delivered around 1965 and published in 2007, Galbraith examines the economics and politics of the developing world.	John Galbraith	61	2007	$6.10 Add
From NEW! The United States: “Virus” of Disinformation Part III: A New Cold War? From: China Unbound View	Chapter 9 features reporting from the United States that gathers evidence and points towards potential areas of global conflict with Chinese interests in the region and looks for what can be done …	Joanna Chiu	36	2021	$3.60 Add
The Universe Within From Quantum to Cosmos	The most anticipated nonfiction book of the season, this year’s Massey Lectures is a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future by world-renowned physicist Neil Turok. …	Neil Turkok	314	2012	View
The Wayfinders Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World	Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, …	Wade Davis	274	2009	View
From The Wayfinders From: The Wayfinders View	In this chapter, Davis traces the Polynesian settlement of the Pacific, from the Lapita diaspora beginning around 1500 BC to the peopling of Aotearoa by AD 1000.	Wade Davis	44	2009	$4.40 Add