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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.

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.

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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

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?

Shortlisted for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection from Newfoundland’s newest literary star.Eva Crocker sees life

Balancing wisdom and innocence, joy and foreboding, Sheila Heti’s completely original stories lead you to surprising places. This edition featuring nine new stories.

Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era.

Acclaimed literary critic Hugh Kenner examines Western culture's insatiable need for stimulation encountered elsewhere - from the eighteenth century's Grand Tour, to the self-imposed exil