Fuelling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy Is Changing Everything

By Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon, eds.

The idea for this book emerged from a late-night booze-up between its editors – Evan Solomon and Andrew Heintzman, the once-young Turks who brought us Shift magazine – and their pointy-headed friends. Unlike many alcohol-abetted ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Mortal Arguments

By Sue Sinclair

In Mortal Arguments, transplanted Newfoundland poet Sue Sinclair widens her poetic vision to embrace the whole span of human existence – from birth to death. These poems dwell more on questions and images of mortality, ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Flux

By Joe Denham

Flux, the debut collection from Vancouver poet Joe Denham, is written in the roughly hewn cadences of work and pain, an all-pervading awareness of mortality, and a quiet sense of the sacred. The opening sequence of ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Memoirs of a Media Maverick

By Boyce Richardson

At a time when aspiring journalists have few choices beyond joining the characterless world of the modern mass media, the voice of a rare journalistic gadfly should serve as a welcome antidote. For over 50 ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination

By Penny Cousineau-Levine

Finally, a theoretical examination of contemporary Canadian photography that is not only insightful and impressively researched but is beautifully designed and makes for a darn good read. In Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude

By Ann Vanderhoof

An Embarrassment of Mangoes is an odd mixture of a book – part travel journal, part culinary tour, part Cruising for Dummies (“cruising” is a term habitués use to describe life aboard a pleasure boat). ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs Are Conquering Canada

By Julian Sher and William Marsden

Midway through The Road to Hell, one can’t help but think that nothing unites Canada quite like the pervasive influence of biker organizations – unless it’s the nation’s widespread inability to do anything about them. ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Heart of Conflict: A Spirituality of Transformation

By Dr. Elinor D.U. Powell

There are few writers who can match the clarity, knowledge, and good intentions of Dr. Elinor Powell, a mediator and trainer at the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Management in Victoria. Dr. Powell offers more ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Health & Self-help

D-Day: The Greatest Invasion, A People’s History

By Dan van der Vat

Spearheading the army of books soon to be released for the 60th anniversary of D-Day in 2004 is Dan van der Vat’s D-Day: The Greatest Invasion, A People’s History ($60 cloth 1-55192-586-9, 176 pp., Raincoast ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney’s Café and Other Non-Globalized Places, People and Ideas

By Brian Fawcett

Registering your online vote for the latest round of Canadian Idol or being able to confidently choose among 48 different kinds of extra virgin olive oil should not be mistaken for exercising one’s democratic duty. ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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