Set in an airport cocktail lounge during five hours of a global disaster, Coupland's latest work asks readers: At what point do humans stop being human and become something else? Where, if anywhere,
A taste for winter, a love of winter ? ?a mind for winter” ? is for many a part of the modern human condition. International bestselling author Adam Gopnik does for this storied season what he did for
A visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future by world-renowned physicist Neil Turok. Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the unive
#1 National BestsellerIn 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.” Fukuyam
The past is a great canvas and across it sweep the currents that move human affairs. Economic changes such as industrialization or capitalism, scientific and technological discoveries such as steam po
In his 1988 CBC Massey Lecture, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle f
Payam Akhavan is a highly sought after expert on human rights law. He is a go-to expert for commentary and is perfectly poised to write about and comment on ongoing human rights struggles.The author h
The CBC Massey Lectures, an annual broadcasting fixture for more than 45 years and Canada’s preeminent public lecture series, featured some of the finest talks by some of the greatest minds of
Never has the world experienced greater movement of peoples from one country to another, from one continent to another. These seismic shifts in population have brought huge challenges for all societie
