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Cruise Ship Blues: The Underside of the Cruise Industry

Ross Klein is a sociologist who has logged over 300 days vacationing on cruise ships from various parts of the world. In Cruise Ship Blues he uses that experience and a lot of research to ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Physics of Hockey

By Alain Haché

When it comes to our own history, Canadians are notoriously sketchy on its details, but when it comes to analyzing hockey, almost everyone is an expert. We know more about the neutral zone trap than ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Escape: In Search of the Natural Soul of Canada

By Roy MacGregor

Why, then, could I not look for the soul of the country,” Roy MacGregor asks early in his new book “in the desire to escape?” It’s an interesting thesis, rooted as it is in the ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Black Book of English Canada

By Normand Lester,Ray Conlogue, trans.

For Normand Lester, a francophone journalist with Radio-Canada, the officially promoted narratives of Canadian history are biased in favour of English Canada and whitewash its many injustices. Lester wants to set the record straight, and ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

By Witold Rybczynski

Witold Rybczynski is perhaps the closest we have in Canada to a Renaissance man. His works, which usually begin from a tightly focused locus point – the absence of the concept of comfort in architectural ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Testaments of Honour: Personal Histories of Canada’s War Veterans

By Blake Heathcote

Canadians know very little about their history and even less about their military past. Part of the blame for the latter deficiency is that Canada’s veterans have, to an extraordinary degree, remained mute about their ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: History

One Man’s Justice: A Life in the Law

By Thomas Berger

In a culture saturated with Law & Order reruns and cops-as-idols reality shows, lawyer Thomas Berger’s memoir is a refreshing, compelling read about using the legal process to make the world a better place. Like ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Grizzly Heart: Living Without Fear Among the Brown Bears of Kamchatka

By Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns

Their plan had been characterized by many (scientists and government officials included) as irresponsible, arrogant, and above all dangerous. Quite simply, Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns wanted to live with grizzly bears in the wild. ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll

By Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, and Shane Smith, eds

In the mid 1990s three motley, smart-ass Canadian guys – Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, and Shane Smith – fell to earth from, respectively, a stint in narco rehab, a make-work welfare program, and a no-future ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Stay

By Aislinn Hunter

Poet and short story writer Aislinn Hunter’s first novel is about a young Canadian who makes the pilgrimage to Europe to find herself. The plot may sound old-fashioned, but Stay’s rigorous examination of the relationship ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels