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With the World to Choose From Celebrating Seven Decades of the Beatty Lecture at Mcgill University.
The Beatty Lecture (est. 1954) is McGill University's most anticipated annual event. Offering insight to some of the most significant moments our time, this collection spotlights fifteen outstanding Beatty Lectures, spanning seven decades, and provides a historical, behind-the-scenes look at on...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- "With the World to Choose From": Seven Decades of the Beatty Lecture
- Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty: A Life of Service
- Past Beatty Lectures
- A Note on the Selection of Lectures
- The Interplay of East and West, Points of Conflict and Cooperation
- Asia Today: Revolutionary Change in the Twentieth Century
- How Long Have We Got?
- Genetic Engineering: Ambush or Opportunity?
- The Emergence of Intelligent Life in the Universe
- Interpretation in Music and in Life
- A Swing to the Right? Socio-political Changes in the Western World
- Apartheid: Dying or Resurgent?
- The New World Order
- Right of Interference: Progress and Failure in Conflict Prevention in an Age of Global Anxiety
- Lessons in Living From the Dying
- Canada in the World: The Challenges Ahead
- Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs
- The Challenge of Regressive Democracy
- Difficult Women, Bad Feminists, and Unruly Bodies
- Permissions