In his #1 bestselling 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, Ronald Wright considers the most urgent questions of the twenty-first century, and of our survival on this earth.

A set of 5 Audio CDs of CBC's Ideas broadcast lectures of Ronald Wright's #1 bestseller, A Short History of Progress. Read by the author and produced by CBC Audio.

Bluebird is a funny, vivid and immensely readable memoir of escape from the Bosnian war to England, and an eventual return to Bosnia years later.

Told through the eyes of a fictional child, this is the otherwise true story of the brave Braal family who, in Nazi-occupied Holland, harbored people who faced certain death.

Moments of grace and tenderness undercut the terror and pain of this powerful story of the genocidal war in Rwanda.

". . . an engrossing yarn . . . DarkMarket offers an emminently readable, witty narrative that sustains suspense until the very last pages." — Wall Street Journal

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and CNN's Fareed Zakaria go head to head with leading international historian Niall Ferguson and renowned economist David Daokui Li on the key geopolitical issue of the century: the rise of China.

This thoughtful book in the Groundwork Guides series compares the American Empire to those of the past, finding much can be learned from the fates of the British, Roman, Chinese, Incan, and Aztec empires.

In this intrepid and brilliant memoir, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent travelling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell.

These provocative essays from leading thinkers offer valuable strategies to fuel and feed our global future.