Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. “With the World to Choose From”: Seven Decades of the Beatty Lecture 3
6. Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty: A Life of Service 27
7. Past Beatty Lectures 41
8. A Note on the Selection of Lectures 45
9. The Interplay of East and West, Points of Conflict and Cooperation 47
10. Asia Today: Revolutionary Change in the Twentieth Century 59
11. How Long Have We Got? 79
12. Genetic Engineering: Ambush or Opportunity? 91
13. The Emergence of Intelligent Life in the Universe 103
14. Interpretation in Music and in Life 113
15. A Swing to the Right? Socio-political Changes in the Western World 125
16. Apartheid: Dying or Resurgent? 141
17. The New World Order 157
18. Right of Interference: Progress and Failure in Conflict Prevention in an Age of Global Anxiety 175
19. Lessons in Living From the Dying 187
20. Canada in the World: The Challenges Ahead 201
21. Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs 213
22. The Challenge of Regressive Democracy 229
23. Difficult Women, Bad Feminists, and Unruly Bodies 239
24. Permissions 247