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With the world to choose from : Celebrating seven decades of the Beatty Lecture at McGill University
By Hooton, Brett Koning, Robin Thurston, Meaghan Ward, Barbara Suyin, Han Ritchie-Calder, Peter Sinsheimer, Robert Hoyle, Fred Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999. Dahrendorf, Ralf, 1929-2009. Carter, Gwendolen Margaret, 1906-1991. Gorbachev, Mikhail Kouchner, Bernard Saunders, Cicely Ignatieff, Michael Yunus, Muhammad Taylor, Charles Gay, Roxane2021., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: 808.85 H789w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Beatty Lecture, established in 1952 in honour of former Canadian Pacific Railway president and McGill chancellor Sir Edward Beatty, is McGill University’s most anticipated annual event. Some of the series’ greatest lectures, delivered by Nobel Prize laureates, world leaders, and cultural icons, have been forgotten, carefully stowed away in the McGill Archives. To help us understand some of the most significant moments and discoveries of our time, this book spotlights fifteen outstanding Beatty Lectures, spanning seven decades. Readers can discover – or rediscover – these important and inspiring lectures, all in print for the first time. One of the twentieth century’s most influential visionaries, the economist Barbara Ward, opens this anthology with her future-looking 1955 lecture. Lectures from acclaimed biologist Robert Sinsheimer, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, philosopher Charles Taylor, and author and social commentator Roxane Gay carry readers through the decades that followed and up to the present, treating subjects from the tensions of Cold War politics and the implications of genetic engineering to the origins of life in the universe and the watershed #MeToo movement. Some of today’s leading academics add contextual and biographical information to each chapter, and an introduction sheds light on the history of the Beatty Lecture and the life of its notable namesake. Illustrated with a selection of photographs and ephemera, this book provides a historical and behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada’s longest-running lecture series.
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2017., General, PublicAffairs Call No: 330 Y94w Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken - that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force just as powerful as self-interest. Is this a pipe dream? Not at all. In the last decade, thousands of people and organizations have already embraced Yunus's vision of a new form of capitalism, launching innovative social businesses designed to serve human needs rather than accumulate wealth. They are bringing solar energy to millions of homes in Bangladesh; turning thousands of unemployed young people into entrepreneurs through equity investments; financing female-owned businesses in cities across the United States; bringing mobility, shelter, and other services to the rural poor in France; and creating a global support network to help young entrepreneurs launch their start-ups. Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations"--Provided by publisher.
