Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City

There is a new urban game in town called parkour. An invention of French youth, parkour is the art of jumping, tumbling, and diving in public spaces, up and down steps, across roofs, through plazas ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Reference

Rick Mercer Report: The Book

By Rick Mercer

Comedian Rick Mercer has won more than 30 Gemini awards and received numerous government honours for lampooning Canadian politics and its uninspiring players. Rick Mercer Report: The Book collects dozens of his hugely popular “rants,” ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Cake or Death: The Excruciating Choices of Everyday Life

By Heather Mallick

In her latest book, former Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick offers her characteristically outspoken and unapologetic opinions on this mess we call modern life.Her perspective, in these previously unpublished essays, is that the world ... Read More »

June 14, 2007 | Filed under: Reference

Wanderlust: A Social History of Travel

By Laura Byrne Paquet

“Why Leave Home?” is the title of the first chapter of Wanderlust by Ottawa-based writer Laura Byrne Paquet. Good question.This is Paquet’s second foray into the social history genre, following 2003’s The Urge to Splurge: ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Reference

The Man Who Scared a Shark to Death and Other True Tales of Drunken Debauchery

By Neil Boivin, Christopher Lombardo

Drinking stories can be fun. For many of us, they’re as close to an oral storytelling tradition as we’re ever likely to come. The problem is, they’re a bit like bubblegum: enjoyable for about two ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Reference

The Ethical Imagination

By Margaret Somerville

In The Ethical Imagination, Margaret Somerville, who holds positions in the faculties of Law and Medicine at McGill University, speaks in a public voice as opposed to an academic one. This is the case not ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Reference

The Geist Atlas of Canada: Meat Maps and Other Strange Cartographies

By Melissa Edwards

From the clever minds who brought you “Haiku Night in Canada” comes The Geist Atlas of Canada, a collection of 50 of Geist magazine’s comprehensive maps of nutty Canadian place names, each one tied together ... Read More »

November 20, 2006 | Filed under: Reference

Way Out There: The Best of explore

By James Little, ed.

The outdoor adventure community in Canada (if those who enjoy traipsing through our country’s solitudes can really be called a community) is small; the community of those who write about such adventures is even smaller. ... Read More »

July 5, 2006 | Filed under: Reference

Every Highway

By Dave Feschuk

Dave Feschuk was very intrigued by the plight of the “highway cowboy,” those drivers who pilot mammoth 18-wheelers down the highway, so much so that the Toronto Star sports reporter spent time riding shotgun in ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Reference

The Devil’s Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit

By Taras Grescoe

“As soon as I encountered the words absinthe, hashish and opium as a teenager, I was dreaming up ways to get my hands on them,” confesses Taras Grescoe in the preface to The Devil’s Picnic. ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Reference

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