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  • Information Management

    Strategies for Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data

    by William McKnight ...
    Series series The Savvy Manager's Guides
    Information Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data is about making smart decisions to make the most of company information. Expert author William McKnight develops the value proposition for information in the enterprise and succinctly outlines the numerous forms of data storage. Information Management will enlighten you, challenge your preconceived notions, and help activate ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds

    Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds

    by Bernie Lucht, Eugen Weber, George Woodcock, Paul Goodman, Northrop Frye, George Steiner, Ronald Wintrobe, John McKnight, Michael Bliss, William Kristol, Bob Rae, Abraham Rotstein, John Crispo, Charles Taylor, Bernie Farber, Bob Davis, James Orbinski, Gerald Caplan, Hannah Arendt, Robert Lowell, Noam Chomsky, Helen Caldicott, Tariq Ali, Ursula Franklin, Robert Fulford, Janice Stein, Richard Holbrooke, Bernard Lewis, Tony Judt, Margaret MacMillan, George Monbiot, Sylvia Ostry, Roméo Dallaire, Conor Cruise O’Brien ...
    For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures for Ideas: Brilliant Thinker Speak Their Minds. Featuring some the best thinkers from North America ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Inequality for All

    The Challenge of Unequal Opportunity in American Schools

    by William Schmidt, Curtis McKnight ...
    Inequality for All makes an important contribution to current debates about economic inequalities and the growing achievement gap, particularly in mathematics and science education. The authors argue that the greatest source of variation in opportunity to learn is not between local communities, or even schools, but between classrooms. They zero in on one of the core elements of schooling—coverage ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

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    Five Things Biblical Scholars Wish Theologians Knew

    by Scot McKnight ...
    Narrated by William Sarris ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 15 min

    The disciplines of biblical studies and theology should serve each other, and they should serve both the church and the academy together. But the relationship between them is often marked by misunderstandings, methodological differences, and cross-discipline tension.New Testament scholar Scot McKnight here highlights five things he wishes theologians knew about biblical studies. In a companion ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew

    by Hans Boersma ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 24 min

    The disciplines of theology and biblical studies should serve each other, and they should serve both the church and the academy together. But the relationship between them is often marked by misunderstandings, methodological differences, and cross-discipline tension.Theologian Hans Boersma here highlights five things he wishes biblical scholars knew about theology. In a companion volume, biblical ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Educated Imagination

    by Northrop Frye ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    "What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?" Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this remains, of Northrop Frye's many books, perhaps the easiest introduction to his theories of literature and literary education. ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shadow Government

    Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

    by Tom Engelhardt ...
    Series series TomDispatch Books
    "A book about secrets and surveillance . . . [from] one of the great forces on the side of clarity, democracy, openness, and really good writing" (Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark).In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century

    The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind: A History

    by Peter Watson ...
    'Breathtakingly entertaining, endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable' THE TIMES'A tour de force ... breathtaking' SPECTATOR'A magnificent achievement' LITERARY REVIEWTERRIBLE BEAUTY presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Limits of Power

    The End of American Exceptionalism

    by Andrew Bacevich ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    "Andrew Bacevich speaks truth to power, no matter who's in power, which may be why those of both the left and right listen to him."—Bill MoyersAn immediate New York Times bestseller, The Limits of Power offers an unparalleled examination of the profound triple crisis facing America: an economy in disarray that can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion abroad; a government transformed by an ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Rhyme of History

    Lessons of the Great War

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    As the 100th anniversary of World War I approaches, historian Margaret MacMillan compares current global tensions-rising nationalism, globalization’s economic pressures, sectarian strife, and the United States’ fading role as the world’s pre-eminent superpower-to the period preceding the Great War. In illuminating the years before 1914, MacMillan shows the many parallels between then and now, ... Read more

    $4.13 CAD

  • Tolstoy or Dostoevsky

    An Essay in the Old Criticism

    by George Steiner ...
    The first book of criticism from the acclaimed author of After Babel—a "provocative and probing" look at Russian literature's most influential writers ( The New York Times)."Literary criticism," writes Steiner, "should arise out of a debt of love." Abiding by his own rule, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky is an impassioned work, inspired by Steiner's conviction that the legacies of these two Russian masters ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Media Control

    The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook