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2005
2005x1
Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety
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Alain de Botton discusses his book Status Anxiety which examines our fears over what others think about us and about how we are judged to be either a success or failure.
2005x2
Leonie Frieda on Catherine de Medici
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Leonie Frieda on Catherine de Medici
2005x3
Jeffery Paine on Tibetan Buddhism
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Jeffery Paine on Re-enchantement: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West
2005x4
Linda McQuaig - Author of
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Linda McQuaig - Author of "It's the Crude Dude"
2005x5
Thomas Homer-Dixon on The Ingenuity Gap
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Thomas Homer-Dixon on The Ingenuity Gap
2005x6
Lloyd Axworthy on Navigating a New World: Canada's Globa
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Lloyd Axworthy - Author of "Navigating a New World: Canada's Global Future"
2005x7
Romeo Dallaire - Author of
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Romeo Dallaire - Author of "Shake Hands with the Devil"
2005x8
Irshad Manji on her book The Trouble with Islam
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Irshad Manji on her book The Trouble with Islam
2005x9
Naomi Klein of her book Fences and Windows
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Naomi Klein of her book Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
2005x10
Noam Chomsky on The Imperial Presidency
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Noam Chomsky delivers a lecture entitled "The Imperial Presidency" at a benefit for Canadian Dimension Magazine.
2005x11
Allan Antliff on his book Only a Beginning
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Allan Antliff on his book Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology
2005x12
Susan Sontag on The Crisis in Literary Studies
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As part of the Living Literacies conference Susan Sontag addresses the subject, The Crisis in Literary Studies.
2005x13
Bjorn Lomborg on the Copenhagen Consensus
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Bjorn Lomborg of Aarhaus University (Denmark) and author of "The Skeptical Enviromentalist" talks about the Copenhagen Consensus.
2005x14
Elaine Dewar on her book The Second Tree
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Elaine Dewar on her book The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras and Quests for Immortality
2005x15
Michael Ignatieff, American Exceptionalism and Human Rights
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Michael Ignatieff on American Exceptionalism and Human Rights
2005x16
Ronald Wright on A Short History of Progress
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Ronald Wright on A Short History of Progress
2005x17
Soli Ozel on Turkey and the Global Context
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Soli Ozel of Istanbul Bilgi University on Turkey and the Global Context
2005x18
Ahmet Evin on Turkey and EU Accession
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Ahmet Evin on Turkey and EU Accession
2005x19
Longin Pastursiak on A New World Order
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Longin Pastursiak (President of the Senate of the Republic of Poland) on A New World Order
2005x20
Mel Hurtig on his book Rushing to Armageddon
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Mel Hurtig on his book Rushing to Armageddon.
2005x21
Charles Taylor on Religion and Violence
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Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University, Charles Taylor, on Religion and Violence.
2005x22
Ruth Wisse on Serious Thoughts on Jewish Humor
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Ruth Wisse on Serious Thoughts on Jewish Humour.
2005x23
Arthur Herman on his book To Rule the Waves
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Arthur Herman on his book To Rule the Waves - How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World.
2005x24
Istvan Deak on Bucharest, Budapest, Vienna
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Istvan Deak of Columbia University on Bucharest, Budapest, Vienna: Three Capitals on the Itinerary of the Soviet Red Army
2005x25
Architect Daniel Libeskind on Breaking Ground
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Architect Daniel Libeskind on Breaking Ground
2005x26
Philip Ball on Chemistry and Colour in Art
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Philip Ball on Chemistry and Colour in Art.
2005x27
Liam Kennedy on Cry Holocaust
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Liam Kennedy of School of History at Queen's University (Belfast) on Cry Holocaust: The Great Irish Famine and the Jewish Holocaust.
2005x28
Charlotte Gray, Author of "The Museum Called Canada"
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Charlotte Gray, Author of "The Museum Called Canada"
2005x29
Authors Geoff Heinricks and Gina Mallet
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Geoff Heinricks, author of A Fool and Forty Acres, and Gina Mallet, author of Last Chance to Eat
2005x30
Tariq Ramadan on The Ethics of Citizenship
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Tariq Ramadan on The Ethics of Citizenship, Democracy and the Future of Islam
2005x31
Alan Dershowitz on Two Peoples, Two States, One Reality
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Alan Dershowitz on Two Peoples, Two States, One Reality
2005x32
Malcolm Gladwell on his book Blink
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Malcolm Gladwell on his book Blink: Thin-slicing, Snap Judgments, and the Power of Thinking Without Thinking.
2005x33
Longxi Zhang on The Fallacy of Cultural Incommensurability
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Longxi Zhang of City University of Hong Kong: The Fallacy of Cultural Incommensurability
2005x34
Christopher Hitchens on The Axis of Evil
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Journalist Christopher Hitchens lectures about Iran, North Korea and Iraq, otherwise known as the Axis of Evil.
2005x35
Jeffrey Simpson on Canada's Global Agenda At Home and Abroad
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Jeffrey Simpson on Canada's Global Agenda At Home and Abroad
2005x36
John Kenneth Galbraith on Legacy for the 21st Century
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John Kenneth Galbraith on Legacy for the 21st Century
2005x37
High Style: Cultural Politics and the History of High Heel
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Elizabeth Semmelhack, the curator of the Bata Shoe Museum on High Style: Cultural Politics and the History of High Heel
2005x38
Michael Adams on Fire and Ice
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Michael Adams, author of Fire and Ice: The US, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values.
2005x39
Taiaiake Alfred on Native Self Government
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Taiaiake Alfred on Native Self Government
2005x40
L'Oreille Fine Performance and Culture of New Music
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L'Oreille Fine Performance and Culture of New Music - Linda Catlin Smith, Gary Michael Dault, John Bentley Mays, Mark Kingwell, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jordan Peterson, Russel Smith, Jan Zwicky
2005x41
David Bornstein on The Emergence of Social Entrepreneurship
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David Bornstein on The Emergence of Social Entrepreneurship and the Rise of the Citizen Sector
2005x42
Wade Rowland on Greed Inc.
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Wade Rowland on Greed Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and How We let It Happen
2005x43
Tariq Ali on his book Street-fighting Years
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Tariq Ali on his book Street-fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
2005x44
Steve Coll on Ghost Wars
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Steve Coll on Ghost Wars: The secret History of the CIA, Afghnistan and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Union to Sept 10/01
2005x45
Todd Lawson on Islam and the Life of the Mind
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University of Toronto professor Todd Lawson on Islam and the Life of the Mind.
2005x46
Daniel Pipes on Radical Islam and the War on Terror
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Daniel Pipes on Radical Islam and the War on Terror
2005x47
Bishop John Shelby Spong on The Sins of Scripture
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Bishop John Shelby Spong on The Sins of Scripture: Beyond Texts of Hate to the God of Love.
2005x48
Menachem Brinker on The Miracle of the Revival of Hebrew
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Menachem Brinker on The Miracle of the Revival of Hebrew
2005x49
David Lindberg on The Floretine Heretic
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David Lindberg on The Floretine Heretic
2005x50
Simon Blackburn on Is Truth Worth the Fuss?
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Simon Blackburn on Is Truth Worth the Fuss? A Guide for the Perplexed.
2005x51
Warren Thorngate on The Economics of Attention
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Warren Thorngate lectures on "The Economics of Attention"
2005x52
Michael Collins on In Search of Elegance
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Michael Collins lectures on "In Search of Elegance"
2005x53
Michael W. Higgins on Saintliness.
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Michael W. Higgins gives a lecture on saintliness.
2005x54
Dan McIntyre on Language and Consciousness
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Dan McIntyre gives a lecture on language and consciousness.
2005x55
Rob Bowman on Try a Little Tenderness
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Rob Bowman gives a lecture on the cultural history of the song "Try a Little Tenderness"
2005x56
Mark Kingwell on his book Nothing for Granted
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Mark Kingwell on his book Nothing for Granted
2005x57
Arne Kislenko on World War II and Russia
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Arne Kislenko on World War II and Russia
2005x58
Barry Callaghan on his book of essays, Raise You Five
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Barry Callaghan on his book of essays, Raise You Five
2005x59
Robert Adams on the novel The Island Walkers
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Robert Adams on the novel The Island Walkers
2005x60
Robert Adams on Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane
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Robert Adams on Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane

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