The Massey Lectures are co-sponsored by Massey College, in the University of Toronto And CBC Radio (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). The series was created in honor of the Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, former governor-general of Canada, and was inaugurated in 1961 to enable distinquished authorities to communicate the results of original study or research on omportant subjects of contemporary interest. The books in this series comprise the Massey Lectures of each year. There is a difference between lectures and books in exposition style and that is relected here in these transcripts which is closer to a lecture than a standard text prose…..in the case of each of those I have read, I was rivited by the arguments of the author… whether in line with my own beliefs or preconceptions or not, all but one has proven, in its own way, to be one of the most thought provoking books I have ever read….. I am now actively seeking out the rest on the list. DHC Soul.
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Designing Freedom (Massey Lectures series)
by Stafford Beer
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Real World of Technology (Massey Lectures Series.)
by Ursula M. Franklin
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The Unconscious Civilization
by John Ralston Saul
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Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
by Richard C. Lewontin
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A Short History Of Progress: 2004 Massey Lecture (Ideas)
by Ronald Wright
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The Rights Revolution (Massey Lectures series)
by Michael Ignatieff
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Race Against Time (CBC Massey Lectures Series) (CBC Massey Lecture)
by Stephen Lewis
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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (Cbc Massey Lectures Series)
by Doris Lessing
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Beyond Fate (Massey Lectures) (Massey Lecutes)
by Margaret Visser
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The Cult of Efficiency (The Massey Lectures Series)
by Janice Gross Stein
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The Triumph of Narrative (Mossey Lecture Series)
by Robert Fulford
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Becoming Human
by Jean Vanier
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The Elsewhere Community (The Massey lectures series)
by Hugh Kenner
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On the Eve of the Millennium
by Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Democracy on Trial
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
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Twenty-first Century Capitalism
by Robert Heilbroner
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The Malaise of Modernity
by Charles Taylor (ISBN: 0997845207)
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Indefensible weapons: The political and psychological case against nuclearism
by Robert Jay Lifton
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The Politics of the Family: And Other Essays (Selected Works of R.D. Laing, 5)
by R. D. Laing
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Nostalgia for the Absolute (Massey Lectures)
by George Steiner
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Compassion and Solidarity - The Church For Others (CBC Massey Lecture Series)
by Gregory Baum
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The Real World of Democracy
by Crawford B. Macpherson
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Latin America: At War With the Past (Cbc Massey Lectures Series)
by Carlos Fuentes
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The Educated Imagination
by Northrop Frye
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The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Indigenous Americas)
by Thomas King
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Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
by Noam Chomsky
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