Forward Through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall Mcluhan

By Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart, eds.

BOOK DESIGN TODAY is driven by magazine design. Magazines, with their quick cycles and relatively low production costs, are highly responsive to design trends and consumer caprice. And they’re ephemeral – you can correct your ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Canada: A People’s History Volume Two

By Don Gillmor,Achille Michaud, and Pierre Turgeon

Some historians have complained bitterly that the grand sweep, the great events, of Canadian history are being forgotten or deliberately ignored. What a surprise it was then that millions of 21st-century Canadians sat in front ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Cyberspace Lexicon: An Illustrated Dictionary of Terms from Multimedia to Virtual Reality

By Bob Cotton and Richard Oliver

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ Mud City

By Deborah Ellis

Mud City, the final volume in Deborah Ellis’s Afghan trilogy, follows 14-year-old Shauzia, Parvana’s best friend, into a refugee camp in Pakistan. Having fled an arranged marriage in Kabul, Shauzia becomes little more than a ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Ann and Seamus

By Kevin Major, David Blackwood, illus.

Outstanding Newfoundland writer Kevin Major has moved into new terrain with Ann and Seamus, a long, powerful narrative poem based on an event in early Newfoundland history. The story-telling skills that have made Major such ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Flames of the Tiger

By John Wilson

Flames of the Tiger, by Vancouver Island writer John Wilson, is the Second World War story of a German teen who was initially a Nazi sympathizer. Dieter is a 17-year-old who, in the last days ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Human Right to Peace

By Douglas Roche

Senator Douglas Roche, a former journalist, diplomat, and educator who has also served at the UN, has been actively involved in issues related to disarmament and development for 30 years. His passion for the subject ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West

By D’Arcy Jenish

Popular biographers often work hard to find a new and exciting perspective on their subject, an activity that sometimes moves the focus of the book from the subject to the author. Fortunately, in Epic Wanderer, ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Open House: Canada and the Magic of Curling

By Scott Russell

If it seems as if there’s less of a sense of community among Canadians because of technology, regionalism, or urban/rural divisions, author and CBC broadcaster Scott Russell argues in Open House that the curling club ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

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Forward Through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall Mcluhan

Canada: A People’s History Volume Two

The Cyberspace Lexicon: An Illustrated Dictionary of Terms from Multimedia to Virtual Reality

★ Mud City

★ Ann and Seamus

Flames of the Tiger

The Human Right to Peace

Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West

Open House: Canada and the Magic of Curling

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