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The unconscious civilization (CBC Massey lectures)
Par John Ralston Saul. 1995
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Prix littéraires (romans)Essais et documents primés, Essais et documents généraux, Politique et gouvernement
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Saul, a Canadian essayist and novelist, claims that 20th century ideologies have promoted truisms that undermine the acquisition of knowledge…
and reason and the quest for the public good. Instead, managers and technocrats are seen as gods, passive and conformist politics abound, and only salesmanship, style and fashion are seen as meaningful. Saul argues that the average citizen must rise above a smothering bureaucracy and today's mindless devotion to "corporatism" to pursue knowledge and active, publicly interested civic engagement. Winner of the 1996 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.The armies of the night: history as a novel, the novel as history
Par Norman Mailer. 1968
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Prix littéraires (romans)Essais et documents primés, Journaux personnels et mémoires, Etats-Unis (histoire), Politique et gouvernement, Guerre
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The story of the 1967 march on the Pentagon, skirmishes between armed guards and anti-war demonstrators, and the subsequent arrest…
of hundreds of people. The author describes his own experience as a demonstrator and also gives a historical account of the action. Winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. 1968.Robert, Earl of Essex
Par Robert Lacey. 1971
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Prix littéraires (romans)Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Histoire (biographies), Politique et gouvernement (biographies), Histoire, Europe (histoire), Politique et gouvernement
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Biography of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Follows his triumphs and disasters in the wars…
against Spain, an unsuccessful campaign in Ireland, his imprisonment and subsequent execution. 1971.An anthropologist on Mars: seven paradoxical tales
Par Oliver W Sacks. 1995
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Prix littéraires (romans)Succès de librairie (documentaires), Santé et médecine, Médecine
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Case histories of people with neurological disorders who reconstruct the world according to their needs. Comfortable with his forty-five years…
of blindness, one man is confused by the sudden restoration of his sight. An autistic zoology professor is at ease with animals but cannot bear human contact. Each tale portrays a patient with a condition such as Tourette's Syndrome, deafness, or amnesia. Bestseller. Winner of the 1997 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1995.