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{"id":6816106676283,"title":"Does State Spying Make Us Safer?","handle":"does-state-spying-make-us-safer","description":"\u003cp\u003eDoes 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 a legitimate defence of our freedom — the democratic issue of the moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a risk-filled world, democracies are increasingly turning to large-scale state surveillance, at home and abroad, to fight complex and unconventional threats — but is it justified? For some, the threats more than justify the current surveillance system, and the laws and institutions of democracies are more than capable of balancing the needs of individual privacy with collective security. 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Does State Spying Make Us Safer?
The thirteenth Munk Debate tackles whether state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedom — the democratic issue of the moment.
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Does the 21st Century Belong to China?
A Munk Debate on the key geopolitical issue of the century: the rise of China.
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{"id":6811231879227,"title":"Dog Park","handle":"dog-park","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Sofi Oksanen, the internationally bestselling author of \u003cem\u003ePurge\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ecomes a captivating story about a woman unable to escape the memory of her lost child, the ruthless powers that still haunt her, and the lies that could well end up saving her.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHelsinki, 2016\u003c\/em\u003e. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger sits down beside her. Olenka startles; she would recognize this other woman anywhere. After all, Olenka was the one who ruined her life. And this woman may be about to do the same to Olenka. Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are, together — looking at their own children being raised by other people. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukraine in the early days of its post-Soviet independence, \u003cem\u003eDog Park \u003c\/em\u003eis a keenly observed, dark, and propulsive novel set at the intersection of East and West, centered on a web of exploitation and the commodification of the female body. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T12:08:10-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T09:46:31-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","By (author) Oksanen Sofi","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2021-10-05","Translated by Witesman Owen F."],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"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":40190664048699,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487008918","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dog Park - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":494,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487008918","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40190664212539,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487008925","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dog Park - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487008925","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8f53501a-014d-43d5-aa43-38f09b14cb03.jpg?v=1659246697"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8f53501a-014d-43d5-aa43-38f09b14cb03.jpg?v=1659246697","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22453097889851,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.671,"height":1425,"width":956,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8f53501a-014d-43d5-aa43-38f09b14cb03.jpg?v=1659246697"},"aspect_ratio":0.671,"height":1425,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8f53501a-014d-43d5-aa43-38f09b14cb03.jpg?v=1659246697","width":956}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Sofi Oksanen, the internationally bestselling author of \u003cem\u003ePurge\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ecomes a captivating story about a woman unable to escape the memory of her lost child, the ruthless powers that still haunt her, and the lies that could well end up saving her.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHelsinki, 2016\u003c\/em\u003e. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger sits down beside her. Olenka startles; she would recognize this other woman anywhere. After all, Olenka was the one who ruined her life. And this woman may be about to do the same to Olenka. Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are, together — looking at their own children being raised by other people. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukraine in the early days of its post-Soviet independence, \u003cem\u003eDog Park \u003c\/em\u003eis a keenly observed, dark, and propulsive novel set at the intersection of East and West, centered on a web of exploitation and the commodification of the female body. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Dog Park
A ferociously plotted novel of intrigue, betrayal, and murder in the global fertility market.
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ages 2
to 5
/ grades P
to K
Doggy Slippers
A collection of poems about pets that is perfect combination of words and pictures from a multi-award-winning author and illustrator.
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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
Dogs and Us
A celebration of one of the most enduring love stories throughout the ages: the one between dogs and humans!
Dominic Bean and the Mammoth Melt
"An imaginative adventure … perfect for curious kids." — Tui T. Sutherland, author of #1 New York Times best-selling series Wings of Fire
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This cleverly conceived board book appeals to a young child's sense of fun while providing facts about different animals.
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Don’t Look At Me Like That
Editor Diana Athill’s only novel is an unflinching look at love and betrayal through the story of a young woman finding herself in 1950s London.
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Dos conejos blancos
In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border.
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Double Dutch
Stories in Double Dutch deftly alternate between fantasy and reality, transporting readers into worlds that are at once both familiar and uncanny.
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Dr. Brinkley's Tower
Dr. Brinkley’s Tower is a sensational, passionate story of jealousy and greed set against the backdrop of Mexico in the 1930s.
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What happens to a thought as that moment, on its way to oblivion, collides with its successor?\n\nRambunctious, witty, joyous, and bittersweet, drift is an investigation conducted by a truly unfettered imagination. In fluid, sparkling cadences, Kevin Connolly's poems let the mind's downtime have the stage for a change -- the desert sky transformed; Spring Break as viewed by passing skipjacks; narratives of danger and dream narrative; a meditation on the business end of a sea cucumber; figures of history disfigured and left to wander the consumer grid -- such are the entirely odd, entirely current events in Connolly's world, a realm that stands at an acute angle from the place we normally live in but which we all seem to drift into. As one of Connolly's own high-voltage sonnets states, \"what stops the heart starts the world.\"\n\nIn drift's constant juxtaposition of abundance and loneliness, we hear what it is to confront a new century, having quite likely failed during the last. We're reminded, by a voice unlike any other on the Canadian landscape, that our solitude is painful yet precious."}
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Drift
A Trillium Book Award for Poetry winner, this collection reminds us that our solitude is painful, yet precious.
