Forever Young: The “teen-aging” of Modern Culture

In Forever Young, University of Toronto professor Marcel Danesi aims to expose our society’s view of adolescence and its associated “problems” as an artificial construct perpetuated by a media-driven culture. This is worsened, Danesi argues, ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin’s Lieutenant

By Peter Steele

Whitehorse author Peter Steele is a biographer who has done his share of northern travelling. In The Man Who Mapped the Arctic, Steele turns his attention to one of the hardiest 19th-century Arctic explorers, George ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

By Kim Vicente

Notwithstanding the soporific title, this book on technology is a lot of fun. Professor of human factors engineering – what we lay people often call ergonomics – Kim Vicente gives readers plenty of real-life examples ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Dreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest

By David Spaner

There’s a telling moment in David Spaner’s book on the history of Vancouver filmmaking when West Coast writer and director Bruce Sweeney arrives at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival’s opening-night gala with his award-winning ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Aids Activist: Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community

By Ann Silversides

At a time when one of the largest annual gatherings in Toronto is the Gay Pride parade, it’s significant to recall that such an outpouring of support for the lesbian and gay community would not ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Amazing International Space Station

By YES Mag editors, Rose Cowles, illus.

News stories and TV documentaries about the International Space Station have often focused on two main aspects of the $100-billion project: the complicated technology that has kept it in orbit around Earth since 1998 and ... Read More »

November 19, 2003

Old Scores: A Barry Gilbert Mystery

By Scott Mackay

Old Scores is the third episode of the contemporary Toronto-based police procedural series featuring Detective Barry Gilbert. When the body of sleazy drug-addicted music agent and fixer Glen Boyd is found by a collection agent ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The True North Strange and Free

By Philomena Hurley Rutherford

Who knew that the Fathers of Confederation considered calling the new nation Hochelaga before settling on Canada, or that Canada Post keeps a mailbox deep in Sudbury Mines? Such are among the Canadian facts that ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Salmon Forest

By David Suzuki and Sarah Ellis, Sheena Lott, illus.

There’s a lot going on between this book’s attractive covers: the story of a father and daughter’s riverbank walk in autumn, a lesson in biology and ecology, an encounter with a native family who provide ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

River of the Brokenhearted

By David Adams Richards

And you thought the Kennedys had it bad with a couple of assassinations and a plane crash. The latest saga by Giller Prize-winner David Adams Richards centres on a family so cursed and shoved about ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Prev 1053 105410551056 1057....1082 1083 Next