Do young people today find meaning in the Holocaust? That’s the question that prompted a writing project across North America, Italy, and Australia asking young people to share their ideas about this time in history. Some students wrote...
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Taking us on walks through Paris, New York, Toronto, North Vancouver and Singapore, Mary Soderstrom examines how cites have changed the lives of ordinary citizens—in positive and negative ways. Making the city walkable again is crucial...
- Author:Laron, GuySummary:
A big-picture history that examines the Six Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context
- Author:Stavans, IlanSummary:
Distinguished man of letters Ilan Stavans believes Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha "invented modern consciousness." In these lectures, Stavans explores the work's impact within Renaissance Spain and...
- Author:Paré, ArleenSummary:
Winner of the Goldie Award for poetry
A long poem memorializing the art and lives
of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence WyleArleen Paré, in her first book-length poem after her Governor General Literary Award–...
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Author:Roitman, GinaSummary:In Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth, author Gina Roitman has captured her own experience as the daughter of Holocaust survivors in the character of Leah Smilovitz. An outsider, she belongs neither to her parents’ painful generation...
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Author:Sullivan, RosemarySummary:The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef...
- Author:Green, JonathanSummary:
The best art has the uncanny ability not only to give pleasure to those who view it but also to inspire a desire to respond. The best artists are a force for all art, and renowned Gullah artist Jonathan Green's work has inspired a wide...
- Author:Ackroyd, PeterSummary:
This fourth volume of Revolution takes listeners from William of Orange's accession to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, a time of the founding of the Bank of England and the stock exchange.
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Author:Coffman, MichaelSummary:There has been a deliberate effort over the past 100 years to change the worldview of Americans from a liberty and constitutionally focused world view, based on the writings of Englishman John Locke, to that of government control of the...
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The Odyssey of the West series addresses in chronological sequence the works that have shaped the ongoing development of Western thought both in its own right and in cultural dialogue with other traditions. Part four provides a close...
- Author:Barr, DamianSummary:
Long-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and The Sunday Times' selection for Memoir of the Year. "This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by self-pity. It grips from beginning to end...
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Author:Block, ThomasSummary:In this disturbing, erudite and highly readable book by author, playwright and artist Tom Block, America is shown to be a surprising example of Machiavellian politics, utilizing all of the post-modern methods of information distribution...
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The radio show celebrating Jack Layton is up on Gathering Voices. It features songs by Nancy White, James Gordon and Laura Bird as well as Penn Kemp’s sound poem, “J’Activiste," performed with Anne Anglin. Jack Layton: Art in Action is...
- Author:Stephens, Bret, Zakaria, Fareed, Kagan, Robert, Slaughter, Anne-MarieSummary:
The fourteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, which will be held in Toronto on November 5, 2014, pits Bret Stephens and Robert Kagan against Fareed Zakaria and Anne-Marie Slaughter to debate the legacy of President Obama.From Ukraine to the...
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Author:Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:Gus Van Sant's film and the '90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant's 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho, perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. ...
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Author:Wright, James EdwardSummary:This book recounts the experiences of the young Americans who fought in Vietnam and of families who grieved those who did not return. By 1969 nearly half of the junior enlisted men who died in Vietnam were draftees. Their median age was...
- Author:Murray, Joseph A.Summary:
Alexander Hamilton: America's Forgotten Founder describes the character and achievements of a man who was instrumental in casting the form of our government and especially its strong financial structure. His financial innovations...
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Author:D'Antonio, MichaelSummary:Had he only saved the economy, Obama would be called a truly successful president. But he achieved so much more against great opposition that he can be counted as one of history's most consequential presidents. D'Antonio details...
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