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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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An exhilarating and blackly funny exploration of migration and borders from an Albanian who grew up in Hoxha's madhouse, longing to cross to Greece, only to find another seam of absurdities and disappointments on his eventual arrival.
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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.
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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.
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A richly illustrated edition of Ronald Wright's #1 bestselling 2004 CBC Massey Lectures.
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The New Granta Book of the Family
Edited by: Liz Jobey
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A collection of some of the best writing about family relationships in the English language, drawn from the pages of Granta Magazine.
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Being Muslim is a primer on Islam past and present, meant to be read by people of all ages, regions, and religions.
Ages 14 and up
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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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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.
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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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