Hope and Heartbreak in Toronto: Life as a Maple Leafs Fan

Under the heading “No Such Thing as Bad Publicity,” even the chronic crappiness of the Toronto Maple Leafs – Stanley Cup–free for 45 years and counting, absent from the playoffs since 2004 – has spawned ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop

By Carol Shaben

On the night of Oct. 19, 1984, Wapiti 402, a 10-seat Piper Navajo Chieftain twin-engine aircraft bound for the town of Grande Prairie, crashed in the wilderness of Northern Alberta, killing six passengers, including Grant ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: History

Hidden Lives: Coming Out on Mental Illness

By Lenore Rowntree and Andrew Boden, eds.

Unlike many physical disabilities, mental illness can be difficult to identify and is rarely talked about. Sufferers often find it challenging to gain acceptance and understanding, and to acquire the support needed to live fulfilling, ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change

By Stephen Collis

When poet and professor Stephen Collis sat down in 2011 to write a book about how political change happens, he had no idea his plans would be broadsided by the Occupy movement. Enticed to become ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy

By Yves Engler

In September, at a conference in Boulder, Colorado, a couple dozen academics crowded into a room to listen to Canadian university professors describe the Harper government’s disastrous energy and environmental policies. The audience was told ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Power Trap: How Fear and Loathing Between New Democrats and Liberals Keep Stephen Harper in Power – and What Can Be Done About It

By Paul Adams

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images

By Terence Dickinson

Since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit in April 1990, the 12-ton behemoth has been responsible for creating an image archive that accounts for 50 tetrabytes of data: the equivalent of five times ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Devil’s Curve: A Journey into Power and Profit at the Amazon’s Edge

By Arno Kopecky

Over the past two decades, the so-called “resource curse” has become one of the central problems of development economics. Academics, politicians, and policymakers have all struggled to understand the paradox of resource-rich countries around the ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

By Chrystia Freeland

Perhaps the most frequently reported economic trend in recent years is the growth of global inequality and the rise of a super-rich overclass, indelibly dubbed “the one per cent” by the Occupy movement. That said, ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Every House Is Haunted

By Ian Rogers

Short-story collections give fantasy and horror writers an opportunity to indulge imaginative premises. In his first collection, Ian Rogers displays his original vision via characters such as a professor who discovers a forest of perpetual ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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