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  • Nein A Manifesto
    Author:

    Jarosinski, Eric

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    Nein.

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  • Beyond Fate
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    Visser, Margaret

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    In spite of modern ideals and achievements in the area of freedom and choice, people today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better.

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  • The Return of History Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century
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    Welsh, Jennifer

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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

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  • 19 Knives
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    Jarman, Mark

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    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

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  • DarkerMarket The Hunt for Lord Cyric
    Author:

    Glenny, Misha

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    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.

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  • The Ethical Imagination Journeys of the Human Spirit
    Author:

    Somerville, Margaret

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

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  • The Immaculate Conception
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    Soucy, Gaetan

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    Lederhendler, Lazer

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    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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  • Biology As Ideology The Doctrine of DNA
    Author:

    Lewontin, Richard

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    R. C.

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  • Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
    Author:

    Lessing, Doris

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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

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  • If Venice Dies
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    Settis, Salvatore

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    Naffis-Sahely, André

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

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  • The Myth of Ability Nurturing Mathematical Talent in Every Child
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    Mighton, John

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    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.

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  • The Old World and Other Stories
    Author:

    Fagan, Cary

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

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  • Drift
    Author:

    Connolly, Kevin

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    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?

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  • Barrelling Forward Stories
    Author:

    Crocker, Eva

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    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

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  • The Middle Stories
    Author:

    Heti, Sheila

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

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