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The Educated Imagination
Northrop Frye's 1962 CBC Massey Lectures provide a wonderful and concise introduction to his theories of literature and literary education.
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The Cult of Efficiency
Janice Gross Stein illuminates public education and universal health care, locally and globally, as flashpoints in the debate about their efficiency.
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Payback
In her 2008 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Atwood delivers a wide ranging, entertaining, and imaginative look at the topic of debt.
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Necessary Illusions
Noam Chomsky considers how a democratized media could give us more meaningful participation in social and political life.
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{"id":6811308785723,"title":"Reset","handle":"reset","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 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 economy, the environment, and humanity.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital technologies have given rise to a new machine-based civilization that is increasingly linked to a growing number of social and political maladies. Accountability is weak and insecurity is endemic, creating disturbing opportunities for exploitation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from the cutting-edge research of the Citizen Lab, the world-renowned digital security research group which he founded and directs, Ronald J. Deibert exposes the impacts of this communications ecosystem on civil society. 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Given the controversy surrounding Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election, no doubt social media manipulation will continue to be a huge topic of discussion. The book publishes just before the 2020 U.S. election, on October 6 in the U.S. and September 29 in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED BY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA: \u003c\/strong\u003eDeibert’s work has received front-page coverage in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e International Herald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e. He is internationally renowned, as is the Citizen Lab, which published a report on October 1, 2018, exposing how Saudi espionage targeted the inner circle of \u003cem\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/em\u003ejournalist Jamal Khashoggi (including hacking the iPhone of Canadian permanent resident and close confidante of Khashoggi, Omar Abdulaziz). 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He is a leading expert in the field of technology and security.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHAPTER OUTLINE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter One: Social Media Is Surveillance Capitalism.\u003c\/strong\u003e The economic model of social media is organized around personal data surveillance.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter Two: Social Media Are Addiction Machines.\u003c\/strong\u003e The science of targeted advertising and the “engineering of consent” at the heart of social media.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter Three: Social Media Propels Authoritarian Practices.\u003c\/strong\u003e The rise and spread of authoritarian practices worldwide.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter Four: Social Media Is Environmentally Destructive.\u003c\/strong\u003e The negative environmental impacts associated with social media, from electronic mining to energy consumption to cloud computing’s contributions to CO2 emissions (which now exceeds that of the airline industry) to the growing problem of electronic waste.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter Five: What Is to Be Done?\u003c\/strong\u003e A comprehensive strategy of long-term reform is required, extending from the personal to the political, from the local to the global. We need to imagine a better world and start making it happen before it is too late.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Index_0":"\u003cp\u003eAs a society and a democracy, we are slowly becoming aware of the power, use and more importantly misuse of our digital data. The need for government to grapple with the oversight of this space is clear. Currently, in Canada, it is of pressing importance. In \u003cem\u003eReset\u003c\/em\u003e, an exceptionally well-written and accessible book, Deibert draws upon many real-life and startling examples (GlaxoSmithKlein’s investment in 23andMe). The information and issues, while complex, are effectively synthesized. Despite the promise the internet holds for the future of civilization, Deibert explains the forces that have undermined the nobler purposes and suggests policy to correct these malign forces. The book is compelling and clear and provides a solid case for action on the part of government. And \u003cem\u003eReset\u003c\/em\u003e will make many Canadians more thoughtful about how they use their cellphones.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Index_0_Src":"Donner Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Index_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReset \u003c\/em\u003eis a sweeping, authoritative journey into the threats of the internet for personal and national security in Canada. Ronald J. Deibert combines leading-edge research and gripping stories to expose the dangerous, even deadly, forces lurking online. With trailblazing originality, he explains why Canadians are at risk, and why it’s time to reset the internet to thwart cybercriminals, safeguard political activists, rein in environmental costs, and restrain the mayhem of social media. \u003cem\u003eReset \u003c\/em\u003esounds a warning siren not only for Canada, but for the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Index_1_Src":"Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Acute and provocative.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReset\u003c\/em\u003e is a shocking call to action and a persuasively argued book. It is the sort of text one hopes will be read widely … After all, a reset of the basic infrastructure of life will only come through a profound political reckoning — and like the foment of 1968, it may just be a reconceptualization of what we want and why we want it that finally drives change.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"In clear, concise language, Ronald J. Deibert sounds the alarm about social media’s most dangerous and pervasive threats to human autonomy, from the commodification of data to the ever-expanding reach of the surveillance state to the proliferation of disinformation and other tools of manipulation. Paired with urgent warnings about the perils of our online world, Deibert’s three-pronged formula for change — retreat, reform, restraint – is an urgent call we all should heed.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the economy, the environment, and humanity.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeName_0":"Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing","PrizeName_1":"Donner Prize","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-09-29","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the economy, the environment, and humanity.","Subtitle":"Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
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Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the economy, the environment, and humanity.
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{"id":6815264178235,"title":"The Return of History","handle":"the-return-of-history","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History,” which argued that the demise of confrontation between Communism and capitalism, and the expansion of Western liberal democracy, signalled the endpoint of humanity’s sociocultural and political evolution, and the path toward a more peaceful world. 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But a quarter of a century after Fukuyama’s bold prediction, history has returned: arbitrary executions, attempts to annihilate ethnic and religious minorities, the starvation of besieged populations, invasion and annexation of territory, and the mass movement of refugees and displaced persons. It has also witnessed cracks and cleavages within Western liberal democracies as a result of deepening economic inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Return of History \u003c\/i\u003eargues that our own liberal democratic society was not inevitable, but that we must all, as individual citizens, take a more active role in its preservation and growth.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887845451","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781487008116","AlsoRecommendedISBN_5":"9781770890626","BASICMainSubject":"POL000000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POLITICAL SCIENCE \/ General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJENNIFER WELSH\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) and a Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford. From 2013 until 2016, she was the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary General on the Responsibility to Protect. She co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, and has taught international relations at the University of Toronto, McGill University, and the Central European University (Prague). Welsh is the author, co-author, and editor of several books and articles on international relations, the changing character of war, and Canadian foreign policy. 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She now lives in Italy, with her husband and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Welsh, Jennifer","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History,” which argued that the demise of confrontation between Communism and capitalism, and the expansion of Western liberal democracy, signalled the endpoint of humanity’s sociocultural and political evolution, and the path toward a more peaceful world. But a quarter of a century after Fukuyama’s bold prediction, history has returned: arbitrary executions, attempts to annihilate ethnic and religious minorities, the starvation of besieged populations, invasion and annexation of territory, and the mass movement of refugees and displaced persons. 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[Welsh] skillfully answers realpolitik questions with a seamless, finely honed argument deserving of broad readership and study.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"Welsh’s unusual perspective serves her well and distinguishes this book from other return-of-history jeremiads. Not only is she exceptionally fluent in the debates and histories of political science, but she has a unique understanding of the actual workings and breaking points of the formal international order and its failings.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"Welsh offers an engaging and thought-provoking argument.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"Welsh mounts a forceful moral argument.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_Review_4":"Outright inspirational . . . Whether you are interested in history, political science, economics, or are simply concerned about the state of the world, this book will force you to think long and hard.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A timely and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics by Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General Jennifer Welsh.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"National Bestseller","PrizeYear_0":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2016-09-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"A timely and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics by Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General Jennifer Welsh.","Subtitle":"Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century","Width":"8","WidthCode":"in"}
The Return of History
A timely and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics by Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General Jennifer Welsh.
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{"id":6819087286331,"title":"Nostalgia for the Absolute","handle":"nostalgia-for-the-absolute","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriter and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate mythologies (Marxism, etc.) and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult). Steiner argues that this decay and the failure of the mythologies have created a nostalgia for the absolute that is growing and leading us to a massive clash between truth and human survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately he suggests that we can only reduce the impact of this collision course if we continue, as disinterestedly as possible, to ask questions and seek answers in the face of our increasingly complex world.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T17:46:49-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T16:27:09-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Steiner George","House of Anansi Press","Massey Lectures","pub date: 1997-03-01","The CBC Massey Lectures"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1695,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40249721847867,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887845949","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Nostalgia for the Absolute - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":91,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887845949","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249726140475,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848698","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Nostalgia for the Absolute - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848698","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249727352891,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897137","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Nostalgia for the Absolute - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897137","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c2f1dfdc-4dcb-4566-8166-40248a05a484.jpg?v=1653883311"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c2f1dfdc-4dcb-4566-8166-40248a05a484.jpg?v=1653883311","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22140967845947,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2397,"width":1498,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c2f1dfdc-4dcb-4566-8166-40248a05a484.jpg?v=1653883311"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2397,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c2f1dfdc-4dcb-4566-8166-40248a05a484.jpg?v=1653883311","width":1498}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eWriter and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate mythologies (Marxism, etc.) and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult). Steiner argues that this decay and the failure of the mythologies have created a nostalgia for the absolute that is growing and leading us to a massive clash between truth and human survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately he suggests that we can only reduce the impact of this collision course if we continue, as disinterestedly as possible, to ask questions and seek answers in the face of our increasingly complex world.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Nostalgia for the Absolute
George Steiner considers the decline of formal religious systems and the consequent moral and emotional emptiness in Western culture.
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{"id":6899077283899,"title":"Power Shift","handle":"power-shift","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental shift has been occurring. Yet from Toronto to Timbuktu the promise of equality still eludes half the world’s population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her 2019 CBC Massey Lectures, award-winning author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong illustrates how the status of the female half of humanity is crucial to our collective surviving and thriving. 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She is the author of four bestselling books: \u003cem\u003eAscent of Women: A New Age Is Dawning for Every Mother’s Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVeiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBitter Roots, Tender Shoots: The Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan’s Women\u003c\/em\u003e. Armstrong was the first journalist to bring the story of the women of Afghanistan to the world. She has also covered stories in conflict zones from Bosnia and Somalia to Rwanda, Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, Jordan, and Israel. She is a four-time winner of the Amnesty International Canada media award, the recipient of ten honorary doctorate degrees, and an Officer of the Order of Canada. 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From delicate handprints on a cave wall to goddesses in ancient Mesopotamia; from political tyranny that came in the guise of a message from God to the convoluted journey to emancipation — the story of women is the longest revolution in history. So many times change was in the wind. So many times the finish line blurred. And so many times hope soared. Still, from Toronto to Timbuktu, the promise of equality has eluded half the world’s population. Now there’s a power shift. There’s never been a better time in human history to be a woman. And despite the blowback from misguided politicians, leftover chauvinists, and hypermasculine misogynists, women are closer to gaining equality than ever before. The journey ahead is bound to be epic, and it will affect everything — our wallets, our jobs, our very future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy now? How come the power shift didn’t happen during the first wave of the women’s movement (1848–1920), when the suffragettes struggled to get the vote? Or the second wave (1963–80), when women “put all our faith in the pill” and attended consciousness-raising sessions that discussed the oppression of women and demanded change in the status of women? Or even the third wave (1992–2010), which began after the American lawyer and academic Anita Hill was called to testify at the televised confirmation hearing of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, whom she had accused of sexual harassment, thus challenging his fitness for the position? Hill was then excoriated by the all-male Judiciary Committee, who didn’t believe her, and Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court. The fallout became a watershed moment in American politics and a turning point in raising awareness of sexual harassment. But still the long-term status of women was mostly unchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow with the fourth wave, a movement that began in 2012 when social media took off, there’s a focus on intersectionality, a push for greater empowerment of traditionally marginalized groups — Indigenous people, people of colour; LGBTQ; ethnic, religious, and cultural minorities; people with physical and developmental disabilities; people of differing social classes — and for greater representation in politics and business. Fourth-wave feminists argue that society will be more equitable if policies and practices incorporate the perspectives of all people. While earlier feminists fought to shake off the ties that bound them to subservience, this new wave calls for justice against discrimination, assault, harassment, and it calls for equal pay and individual choices over our own bodies. Words like “cisgender,” “non-binary,” and “polyamorous” reflect the new vocabulary of a changing, more diverse society, and the clarion call for inclusion is being heard around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wave created hashtag feminism and put abusive powerful men on notice. And by all accounts, this one got liftoff. The symbiotic relationship between social media and individualism is likely driving the bus for change. The internet is all about “instant.” Twitter and Facebook can elevate people and create extreme celebrity and propel movements. Some of these, like #MeToo and #TimesUp, have been amplified by attention from influential entities such as the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and the Hollywood film industry, but others have been simmering over the last decade. As a journalist, I have watched human rights and the rights of women and girls become the focus of conversation, whether in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo or the savannah in Kenya, in the deserts of Afghanistan or the college campuses in North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have always depended on political will to change up the agenda — the stroke of the politician’s pen to install the stop sign or build the shelter or legislate a new law. It often took public will — marches and petitions — to push the politician to make change happen. But in the last few years, I’m seeing what I call personal will as the driving force behind both public and political will. Malala Yousafzai is a good example. She was fifteen years old, living in the Swat Valley in Pakistan; she wanted to go to school to learn to think for herself. But the Taliban, who claim they act in the name of God, forbade education for girls. She defied the cowardly thugs by speaking out publicly on girls’ rights to an education. On October 8, 2012, she climbed onto the school bus. The last words she heard were: “Which one is Malala?” The Taliban gunman shot that child in the head for going to school. But Malala recovered, and then she started a movement. Today everyone knows her. She’s become the world’s daughter, not because a politician in the Swat Valley insisted that the girls go to school; not because there were marches and petitions demanding education for girls. It was personal will that propelled Malala.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other telling side to this episode is that atrocities like this happen every day. But this time the world grabbed on to the story and didn’t let it go. I believe it was more evidence of liftoff, of the changing status of women; proof that people realize that dismissing half the world’s population is dangerous and expensive and wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe holy grail for the social innovators of the twenty-first century is knowing how campaigns such as #MeToo and the rise in personal power can be sustained. Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms, authors of \u003cem\u003eNew Power\u003c\/em\u003e, think they know the formula. They call it the difference between old power and new power. “Old power works \u003cem\u003elike a currency\u003c\/em\u003e,” they say. “It is held by few. Once gained it is jealously guarded, and the powerful have a substantial store of it to spend. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads, and it captures.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs for new power, as exemplified by the #MeToo movement, it operates “\u003cem\u003elike a current\u003c\/em\u003e. It is made by many. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It uploads, and it distributes. Like water or electricity, it’s most forceful when it surges. The goal with new power is not to hoard it but to channel it.” Their conclusion is that #MeToo gave a sense of power to the participants, and that each individual story was strengthened by the surge of the much larger current.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday that empowerment is taking on everything from date rape to old lingering mores that cling to the lives of women the way barnacles attach to ships, slowing them down, denying their fair passage. It is also fuelling change — enormous, life-altering change.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"This is a far-reaching account of the plight of women and girls throughout history and across continents, often told via the moving personal stories of survivors who have endured sexism’s many atrocities . . . With her thorough research and undeniable gift for personal storytelling, Armstrong dispels faulty beliefs and damaging myths; lays bare horrific injustices; and illuminates a variety of economic, political, and cultural truths . . . An ambitious and thoroughly convincing undertaking.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-09-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.","Subtitle":"The Longest Revolution","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
Power Shift
Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.
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Biology As Ideology
Renowned geneticist R. C. Lewontin argues that science is a social institution and only by admitting its limitations we can appreciate its real value.
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The Triumph of Narrative
In his 1999 CBC Massey Lectures, Robert Fulford reveals to us the mystery, power, and importance of story in all our lives.
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Beyond Fate
In her 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Visser examines why, in spite of modern ideals and freedoms, people often feel fatalistic.
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{"id":6814248239163,"title":"Therefore Choose Life","handle":"therefore-choose-life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis recently discovered and very timely 1970 Massey Lectures by Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald, now in print for the first time ever.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere did we come from, who are we, and what is to become of us — these questions have never been more urgent. Then, as now, the world is facing major political and social upheaval, from overpopulation to nuclear warfare to environmental degradation and the uses and abuses of technology. Using scientific fact as metaphor, Nobel Prize–winning scientist George Wald meditates on our place, and role, on Earth and in the universe. He urges us to therefore choose life — to invest in our capabilities as human beings, to heed the warnings of our own self-destruction, and above all to honour our humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:39:44-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:23:12-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Environmentalism","Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Wald George","Foreword by Wald Elijah","House of Anansi Press","Introduction by Auerbach Lewis","Massey Lectures","pub date: 2017-09-09","Technology \u0026 Politics","The CBC Massey Lectures"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1895,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40206675902523,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003203","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Therefore Choose Life - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":180,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487003203","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206677606459,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003210","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Therefore Choose Life - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487003210","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40206678327355,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003227","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Therefore Choose Life - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487003227","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e3915da3-8f9f-44dd-a1f2-523ad2d6820a.jpg?v=1654445865"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e3915da3-8f9f-44dd-a1f2-523ad2d6820a.jpg?v=1654445865","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22171010695227,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e3915da3-8f9f-44dd-a1f2-523ad2d6820a.jpg?v=1654445865"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e3915da3-8f9f-44dd-a1f2-523ad2d6820a.jpg?v=1654445865","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis recently discovered and very timely 1970 Massey Lectures by Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald, now in print for the first time ever.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere did we come from, who are we, and what is to become of us — these questions have never been more urgent. Then, as now, the world is facing major political and social upheaval, from overpopulation to nuclear warfare to environmental degradation and the uses and abuses of technology. Using scientific fact as metaphor, Nobel Prize–winning scientist George Wald meditates on our place, and role, on Earth and in the universe. He urges us to therefore choose life — to invest in our capabilities as human beings, to heed the warnings of our own self-destruction, and above all to honour our humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Using scientific fact as metaphor, Nobel Prize–winning scientist George Wald meditates on our place, and role, on Earth and in the universe. 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The Massey Lectures airs on three select U.S. stations: KUOW Seattle, WBEZ Chicago, MPBN Maine.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eTherefore Choose Life will be available on NetGalley and Edelweiss.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne with the Universe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll men, everywhere, have asked the same questions: Whence we come, what kind of thing we are, and at least some intimation of what may become of us. Seeking answers to these questions, men have followed many paths. I hope I may be forgiven for believing that science offers perhaps the surest of those paths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have special need now for answers to those questions. Our society is adrift. We are in a crisis of conviction, of mission, of commitment — a kind of worldwide identity crisis. Indeed, technology having obliterated distance, man needs more than ever before to become a community. Unless we can achieve some commonly accepted sense of human needs and goals, we’re lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, that is the kind of thing I shall be talking about. I shall be asking the question: From what base can a scientist, dealing as a scientist, make moral and political judgements? I would like to examine that base — my base. Perhaps it can become yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I am looking for is some sort of context that can serve as a guide to decision and action. In a sense, this is my religion — the entirely secular religion of one scientist. It contains no supernatural elements. Nature is enough for me — enough of awe, enough of beauty, enough of reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would like to begin by sorting out some basic ideas. We need to know what we are talking about. Man has been engaged, ever since we have known him, in an unending struggle to know. I think that is epitomized in science — science is an attempt to understand all reality. Reality covers a very broad province — not only such relatively simple things as stones falling and the structures of atomic nuclei, but much more complicated things such as poets writing sonnets, people weeping, people praying. I think that some of those more complicated things science will never understand; but we’ll keep on trying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe point of the whole enterprise is to achieve understanding. Facts are only the raw material of science. Some time ago I read for the first time (though not the last) Herman Hesse’s book Siddhartha, and I came out of that first reading with a wonderful sentence: “One can gain knowledge from words, but wisdom only from things.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think that’s what science is about: it’s a deep-seated attempt to extract the wisdom from things. As such, as that deep and consistent attempt to understand reality, science is altogether good (as our culture interprets “the good”) — there can be no such thing as bad science. Any other view would be a plea for ignorance, and there can be no possible quarrel with science that ignorance can improve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is another entirely different enterprise: the application of science to useful ends — technology. I have just finished saying that science is altogether good, but I would never dream of saying that about technology!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTechnology is for use, and in any properly conducted society, every enterprise in technology, new and old, should be under constant review and judgement in terms of the needs and goals and aspirations of that society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the troubles with our present society is that we tend to regard all technology, without question, as progress — sometimes the more unpleasant aspects of technology as aspects of fate. But that’s altogether wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One needs to ask: Should one do everything one can? All too often the answer one is given is, Why, yes! Of course, one does everything one can — one travels as far and as rapidly, and makes as big a bomb as one can, and all those other things, as soon as one becomes able to. But the proper answer is: Of course not! Among all those things that can be done, a decision needs to be made as to which to do and which not to do, and that in terms of our essential human social needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho is to make those decisions? Well, another trouble with our present society is that those decisions are being made almost entirely by the producers of technology — by those who see in that technology opportunities for wealth, or power, or status. One should listen to all that such interest parties have to say. But then that final decision should be made quite otherwise. That final decision should be made not by the producers of technology, but by those who will have to live with the products.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, I think the position is this: Know all you can, but do only what seems socially useful and beneficial to do.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The 1970 CBC Massey Lecture by Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald examines where we came from, who we are, and what is to become of us.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-09-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"The 1970 CBC Massey Lecture by Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald examines where we came from, who we are, and what is to become of us.","Subtitle":"The Found Massey Lectures","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
Therefore Choose Life
The 1970 CBC Massey Lecture by Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald examines where we came from, who we are, and what is to become of us.
