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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
A Short History of Progress Fifteenth Anniversary Edition	Now more relevant than ever, Ronald Wright’s #1 national bestseller, A Short History of Progress. The fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new introduction warning of the accelerating …	Ronald Wright	226	2019	View
All Our Relations Finding the Path Forward	In this urgent and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern …	Tanya Talaga	290	2018	View
NEW! China Unbound A New World Disorder	While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become a dominant power. As the world’s second-largest economy, China is …	Joanna Chiu	385	2021	View
NEW! Cobalt Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower	The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this “demon metal” has a horrific present and a troubled history. The modern …	Charlie Angus	336	2022	View
In Search of a Better World A Human Rights Odyssey	A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human …	Payam Akhavan	401	2017	View
Is This the End of the Liberal International Order? The Munk Debate on Geopolitics	Be it resolved, the liberal international order is over… Since the end of World War II, global affairs have been shaped by three broad trends: the increasing free movement of people and …	Fareed Zakaria; Niall Ferguson; Rudyard Griffiths	106	2017	View
No More Nice Girls Gender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing by the Rules	A groundbreaking, insightful book about women and power from award-winning journalist Lauren McKeon, which shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power, ditching …	Lauren McKeon	384	2020	View
On Love and Tyranny The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt	In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose political philosophy and understandings of …	Ann Heberlein	272	2021	View
Payback Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth	Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt — a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the …	Margaret Atwood	242	2007	View
Political Correctness The Munk Debates	The twenty-second Munk Debate pits acclaimed journalist, professor, and ordained minister Michael Eric Dyson and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg against renowned actor and writer …	Jordan Peterson; Michael Eric Dyson; Michelle Goldberg; Rudyard Griffiths; Stephen Fry	147	2018	View
Power Shift The Longest Revolution	Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls. The facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit …	Sally Armstrong	330	2019	View
Reset Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society	In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author and renowned technology and security expert Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the …	Ronald J. Deibert	339	2020	View
Seven Fallen Feathers Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City	The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga. …	Tanya Talaga	387	2017	View
The Future of Capitalism Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Yanis Varoufakis vs. Arthur Brooks and David Brooks	The twenty-fifth semi-annual Munk Debate, held on December 4, 2019, pits editorial director and publisher of the Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel and former finance minister of Greece Yanis …	Arthur Brooks; David Brooks; Katrina Vanden Heuvel; Yanis Varoufakis	142	2020	View
The Global Refugee Crisis: How Should We Respond? The Munk Debates	The world is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Over 300,000 are dead in Syria, and one and half million are either injured or disabled. Four and a half million …	Louise Arbour; Mark Steyn; Nigel Farage; Rudyard Griffiths; Simon Schama	114	2016	View
The Rise of Populism The Munk Debates	The twenty-third semi-annual Munk Debate, held on November 2, 2018, pits Stephen Bannon, the CEO of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, against columnist and author David Frum to debate the …	David Frum; Rudyard Griffiths; Stephen K. Bannon	120	2019	View