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A journey in search of the pleasure and powers of silence
By author: Sara Maitland
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A serious, important and deeply engaging book, describing the risks and resources of silence.
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In his 1990 CBC Massey Lectures 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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Why We Can't Live Without Deceit
By author: Ian Leslie
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Learn the truth about lying with this engaging look at how deception gives us a survival edge and shapes humankind.
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Dear Gabriel is a profound, insightful personal letter from a father to his autistic son.
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From Granta's acclaimed "How to Read" series.
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From Granta's acclaimed "How to Read" series.
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An engaging tale about the Canadian who saved geometry and about how geometry may very well save the world -- or at least explain it better than ever before.
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In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures, Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing discusses personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief.
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Geared towards young men and other curious people, this book in the Groundwork Guides series is about love, desire, feelings, and sex. It deals with all those things that guys think about but may be too embarrassed to ask.
Ages 14 and up
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A beautifully written and deeply intimate work of literary nonfiction, Somewhere Over the Sea conveys the profound love of one father for his autistic son.
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