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“Lelani Farha's Masi lectures are called Housing ink. A global takeover and our fight for home”
“Special thanks to historian Michael Petru of the Canadian War Museum, author of Renegades The Canadians in the Spanish Civil War”
“I suspect I am one of the few who have recently read both translations of the Jewish and Islamic scriptures intact. And on successive weeks. And written about them”
“I read I am a reader. For the first time the protocols of the elders of Zion”
“Mein Kampf is another book. that I had to read and review once in the New Yorker”
“surprisingly, the real and easily overlooked significance of that classic of Holocaust literature, The Diary of Anne Frank”
“whose perhaps best known book was None Is Too Many. Canada and the Jews of Europe”
“Evan Gershkovich has written a book about his prison experience and his seven years in Russia. Called This Cursed Beautiful Land”
“His many books include thirty eight Londres Street on Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia”
“His many books include thirty eight Londres Street on Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia”
“His many books include thirty eight Londres Street on Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia”
“Most recently of a book about Canadian sovereignty today called True Patriot Love”
“read a book An extraordinary book by Sebastian Hafner. The historian. who was you know there in nineteen thirty three and describes it. Take over. Of the legal order”
“in the early nineties This was when uh Mr Fukiyama pronounced the end of history”
“My name is Angelica Shirley Carpenter. I'm the author of Born Criminal. Matilda Jocelyn Gage Radical Suffragist”
“working on a documentary about Baum's classic American fairy tale”
“Michael Patrick Hearn is the author of the annotated Wizard of Oz”
“You find in her controversial book Woman Church and State”
“the Roman philosopher Lucretius described in his poem On the Nature of Things how Venus using semen Fashioned a variety of ancestral traits”
“This is not a new fear. It's expressed quite vividly by Rousseau in his discourse on the origin of inequality”
“So this Small philosophical passage comes from the Zhuangshi, a classic of Chinese philosophy from about 2300 years ago”
“I want to begin here by introducing you to the basic original story of the gaslighter. Bea the play. Gaslight, uh sometimes also known as Angel Street. By Patrick Hamilton”
“But the play is to my mind richer than I film. So I want to use it as the basis for the discussion here. A discussion in which I draw on my twenty twenty book entitled How male privilege hurts women”
“That's Kevin Gannon, author of the book Radical Hope, a Teaching Manifesto”
“So we'll start with Haldeer the Woodland Elf from J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings series”
“if you've uh see the Lord of the Rigs movies, it follows this part follows the fellowship of the Rig novel”
“Kate Denis, the author of the book A Pedagogy of Kindness, observes in the introduction of that book”
“Frere also wrote a book uh later in his career called A Pedagogy of Hope, which is, you know, that's convenient. And in the introduction to that book. What was interesting about Pedagogy of Hope is It's actually twenty years after he wrote his sort of initial Work pedagogy of the oppressed”
“Frere also wrote a book uh later in his career called A Pedagogy of Hope”
“It's called The witch of Lime Street. We'll get to Marjorie and Walter, but first Houdini's campaign”
“He wrote a book about it called Raymond about his scientific quest. To develop a technological means to communicate with his dead son”
“And they say this book Raymond was more popular in the trenches than the Bible in those days”
“Those are the final words in a magician among the spirits. A book by Harry Houdini”
“But she's also reversed the angle. with a book for non magicians called The art. Of being fooled”
“Both No Mires and Eric Conway called the Merchants of Doubts. It's a very famous book they wrote”
“Xavier Aldonares teaches English literature and film at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK, and is the author of the twenty twenty five book Contemporary Body Horror”
“He is the author of Terrors of the Flesh The Philosophy of Body Horror”
“we won't call them quarks because someone wouldn't have read James Joyce's Finnegan's wake”
“I'm Caroline Potter, I'm a specialist in French music and I've written a book on Eric Sati. Eric Sati, a Parisian composer and his world”
“David's book is called Ocean of Sound”
“Michael Grunwald is the author of We Are Eating the Earth. The race to fix our food system and save our climate”
“That experience led to Nessel writing one of the most influential nutrition books of all time. Food politics”
“editing something called the Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health. This was in nineteen eighty six”
“Chris Van Tulkin is an infectious diseases doctor. And the author of Ultra Process People. Why we can't stop eating food that isn't food”
“Phaedrus by Plato portrays a discussion between Socrates and the younger aristocrat Phaedrus”
“Amusing Ourselves to Death is a book by Neil Postman. It's published in 1987 and was subtitled Public discourse in the age of show business”
“Loretta Ross addresses this in her twenty twenty six book. Calling in. How to start making change with those you'd rather cancel”
“The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius encapsulates this in his private journal turned Post Gutenberg bestseller The Meditations”
“It's drawn from Robert McKee's cast design theory from his multi-best selling book, Story”
“Right communication scholar John Durham Peters in his book The Marvelous Clouds”
“My name is Carisa Velis and I'm an associate professor at the Institute for Ethics and AI and the author of Prophecy. The full title of Carisa's book is Prophecy. Prediction power and the fight for the future”
“Julia Keint is a history professor and the author of Revisiting Delphi, Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece”
“Her latest book centers on the seven wonders of the ancient world”
“And Herodotus goes, Amazing. You know, that's fascinating. And writes it down in his histories”
“the same time that the book of Genesis is being written down when we hear that man is given dominion over plants and animals”
“And her writing is still in print. So if you go on Amazon tonight, you can get yourself a Geria's accounts of the of the Holy Lands and of the Great Pyramids”
“And he writes The world's first sci fi novel. Uh uh in and ancient times. And he Writes about an ancient astronaut. who flies up to the moon”
“I'm Rebecca Boyle, author of Our Moon, How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are”
“Beginning with Johannes Kepler, a contemporary of Galileo, whose work about the moon Somnium is widely credited as the first ever work of science fiction”
“The book. En time's fascism and the fight for a living world to use its full title. Makes a big And terrifying claim”
“the author of several books, including No Logo and The Shock Doctrine and Doppler Ganger”
“the author of several books, including No Logo and The Shock Doctrine and Doppler Ganger”
“Astra delivered our twenty twenty three CBC Massey lectures. If you haven't read it yet, her series was called The Age of Insecurity, Coming Together as Things Fall Apart”
“Among her other books are The People's Platform and the wonderfully titled Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll miss it when it's gone”
“Among her other books are The People's Platform and the wonderfully titled Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll miss it when it's gone”
“From the book of Revelation, which the religious right. Takes very literally”
“Umberto Echo, who grew up under Mussolini. He wrote this. famous essay called Ur Fascism”
“The book is called On Treason. Alberta separatism, foreign interference, and Canada's survival in a revolutionary age”
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