The Great Bear Rainforest sounds like the stuff of fantasy – a vast wilderness inhabited by creatures such as the Moksgm’ol, the Tsimshian name for the rare white spirit bear. But, as Ian McAllister and ... Read More »
August 30, 2010
The term “patternicity,” as writer Michael Shermer explains in a 2008 Scientific American article, refers to the human predisposition “to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise.” It is an attempt to impose order on what ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
When the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, he promised freedom from the tyranny of the Shah of Iran. For many Iranians, such as Yadi Sharifirad, Khomeini merely replaced one gang of infamous torturers ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
A universal concern – the importance of self-determination – takes a highly specific form in Kathleen Winter’s first novel, the story of an intersex child born in a remote coastal Labrador village in 1968. Intersex ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In Animal Snoops, Peter Christie offers a colourfully illustrated account of sneaky animal behaviour, with loads of examples of wild animals eavesdropping, deceiving, and, yes, snooping their way to the best meals and mates. For ... Read More »
August 30, 2010
A long time ago, the mystical and powerful Black Dragon presented the Chinese emperor with the gift of an ancient ball of jade. Two thousand years later, when a promise is broken and lives are ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
In the introduction to her new book, Canadian botanist, researcher, and lecturer Diana Beresford-Kroeger recalls the way Irish storytellers, the “living memory bank of [their] race,” treated their subjects. The rhythm and style of Beresford-Kroeger’s ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Work. That’s the inescapable focus of Country Roads, a collection of 34 memoirs by Canadians with a farm past – and a few who still live on farms. However, this kind of labour is seen ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: History
Earlier this year, New York University’s journalism school released a list of the top 10 works of journalism produced in the U.S. since 2000, as voted on by a panel of journalists and educators. If ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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