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#1 National BestsellerPart of the CBC Massey Lectures SeriesIn 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essa

With characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sen

DarkerMarket, the special e-book extra that is the perfect companion to Misha Glenny's DarkMarket, follows the trail of Lord Cyric, the elusive cyber criminal suspected to be living in Canada.

A collection of dog stories by James Herriot.

Science and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today.

East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno.

A collection of speeches from world leaders on the topic of war and peace.

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In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inheri

On an island off Costa Rica there exists a hush-hush colony of giant animals which attracts the attention of two expeditions.

What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong?

A student in a remedial class who couldn't count by twos is now in an academic program a year ahead of her grade level.

These thirty-five brief stories — and the found photographs that inspired them — are by turns realistic and surreal, bloody and tender, delightful and appalling.

What are we thinking at any given moment? What happens to a thought as that moment, on its way to oblivion, collides with its successor?