Lists of Bests: The CBC Massey Lecture Series http://www.listsofbests.com/list/1779 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. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:26:39 GMT en-us 0 50 26 0 0 Designing Freedom (Massey Lectures series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/317477 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/317477"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0887845479.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stafford Beer</div> Real World of Technology (Massey Lectures Series.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664422 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ursula M. Franklin</div> The Unconscious Civilization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19631 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19631"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684871084.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43371531_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Ralston Saul</div> Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1518 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1518"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060975199.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard C. Lewontin</div> A Short History Of Progress: 2004 Massey Lecture (Ideas) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45702 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ronald Wright</div> The Rights Revolution (Massey Lectures series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664084 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664084"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0887846564.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1103099952_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ignatieff</div> Race Against Time (CBC Massey Lectures Series) (CBC Massey Lecture) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79746 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79746"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0887847331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124391551_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Lewis</div> Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (Cbc Massey Lectures Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664324 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664324"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0887845215.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1090877824_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> Beyond Fate (Massey Lectures) (Massey Lecutes) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664060 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664060"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0887846793.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Visser</div> The Cult of Efficiency (The Massey Lectures Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664072 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664072"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0887846785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janice Gross Stein</div> The Triumph of Narrative (Mossey Lecture Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664106 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664106"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/066017961X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192588_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Fulford</div> Becoming Human http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89582 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89582"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0809139006.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Vanier</div> The Elsewhere Community (The Massey lectures series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/599213 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/599213"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0887846076.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hugh Kenner</div> On the Eve of the Millennium http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664201 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664201"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0887845592.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Conor Cruise O'Brien</div> Democracy on Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664212 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664212"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0465016170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60335552_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Bethke Elshtain</div> Twenty-first Century Capitalism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664236 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Heilbroner</div> The Malaise of Modernity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664269 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Taylor (ISBN: 0997845207)</div> Indefensible weapons: The political and psychological case against nuclearism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664327 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Jay Lifton</div> The Politics of the Family: And Other Essays (Selected Works of R.D. Laing, 5) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664330 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664330"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415198224.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V34002454_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. D. Laing</div> Nostalgia for the Absolute (Massey Lectures) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664339 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Steiner</div> Compassion and Solidarity - The Church For Others (CBC Massey Lecture Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664345 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gregory Baum</div> The Real World of Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664377 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664377"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195015347.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Crawford B. Macpherson</div> Latin America: At War With the Past (Cbc Massey Lectures Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/442065 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/442065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0887846653.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carlos Fuentes</div> The Educated Imagination http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664415 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Northrop Frye</div> The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Indigenous Americas) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114941 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114941"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0816646260.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas King</div> Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27678 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27678"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0896083667.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056506084_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Noam Chomsky</div>