In the Hands of Anubis

The people we meet while travelling often have an enormous effect on our lives. Ann Eriksson’s second novel, In the Hands of Anubis, testifies to this fact. Travelling to Africa, Calgarian Trevor Wallace encounters Constance ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Absent

By Sherri Vanderveen

Otto Sinclair has tried to do the right thing all his life. But under the weight of his mother’s strict rules and, later, his stultifying marriage, he can’t figure out how to lead a “normal” ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crime of Fashion

By José Latour

Crime of Fashion, Cuban-born Cuban-born José Latour’s first novel since immigrating to Canada from Spain, brings his recurring protagonist, Elliot Steil, to the author’s adopted home of Toronto. When Jenny Scheindlin, retired fashion model and ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Canada’s 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era

By Bryan D. Palmer

As Canadian baby boomers enter their senior years, we seem to have missed out on the U.S.’s apparently recession-proof cottage industry of books on the 1960s. Trent University professor and author Bryan D. Palmer attempts ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: History

Grizzlyville: Adventures in Bear Country

By Jake MacDonald

Bears both frighten and intrigue us. Our complicated relationship with these wild beasts is reflected in the extensive selection of books about them, which variously consider bears as wildlife, spiritual creatures, trophies, tourist attractions, and ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Smiling Bears: A Zookeeper Explores the Behavior and Emotional Life of Bears

By Else Poulsen

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs? My Confused, Guilt-Ridden, and Stressful Struggle to Raise a Green Family

By Robyn Harding

There are no solar panels on Robyn Harding’s roof. Her family is not bathing in collected rainwater. And yes, she enjoys the occasional distinctly un-green trip to Las Vegas. But underpinning her life is a ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Terracide

By Hubert Reeves; Donald Winkler, trans.

Science writers who focus on the environment have faced a new challenge since the appearance in 2006 of Al Gore’s über-popular book and film An Inconvenient Truth. Although it is no longer necessary to impress ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet

By David Suzuki and David Robert Taylor

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future

By Thomas Homer-Dixon, ed.

In these early years of the 21st century there are two related challenges facing human civilization. As the global economy continues to grow and consume more energy, what happens when we start running out of ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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