The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media

Published in association with the New Internationalist magazine, The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media is the 15th in a series of pocketbooks designed for students studying socio-political issues. Concept-wise, these slim titles work like “Current ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Canada and the New American Empire: War and Anti War

By George Melnyk

The rapid-fire pace of events unfolding under the American occupation of Iraq, coupled with the CNN-headline approach to the war, make it difficult to understand daily events, much less appreciate the historical roots of the ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

After Iraq: War, Imperialism and Democracy

By Jim Harding

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Defiant Imagination: Why Culture Matters

By Max Wyman

“An impassioned plea to keep culture at the heart of the Canadian experiment”: this line, written across the cover of the new book from longtime B.C. arts writer and critic Max Wyman, is both essential ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Strange Things Done: Murder in Yukon History

By Ken S. Coates and William R. Morrison

As poet Robert Service pointed out, “There are strange things done in the midnight sun.” Coates and Morrison, historians and authors of several books on the North, do a fine job of collecting a few ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Air Monopoly: How Robert Milton’s Air Canada Won – and Lost – Control of Canada’s Skies

By Keith McArthur

Talk about a bumpy ride: In Robert Milton’s first four years as CEO of Air Canada, the airline went from industry giant to virtual monopoly to national laughingstock to troubled company seeking bankruptcy protection. How could ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Chasing Clayoquot: A Wilderness Almanac

By David Pitt-Brooke

In Chasing Clayoquot, David Pitt-Brooke makes a distinctly poetic analysis of a place he clearly loves, an ecologically unique region that gained a precarious degree of government protection only after fierce environmental protests in the ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World’s Environmental Hotspots

By Alanna Mitchell

Why do we assume that evolution ends with us? As Alanna Mitchell points out in Dancing at the Dead Sea, natural selection is always at work. Today, staggering numbers of species – 25% of all ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

B for Buster

By Iain Lawrence

With minimal personal fanfare, B.C. writer Iain Lawrence has established himself over the past five years as one of Canada’s most intriguing writers for young adults. Like Australian writer Ivan Southall, Lawrence launched his career ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Jennifer Jones Won’t Leave Me Alone

By Frieda Wishinsky, Neal Layton, illus.

This new edition of Frieda Wishinsky’s 1995 title brings back into print a charming story with entirely new illustrations. The story, told in rhyming verse very much like Dr. Seuss’s, tells of a young boy’s ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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