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Alone in the Appalachians: A City Girl’s Trek from Maine to the Gaspé

Despite extensive outdoor experience writing for such publications as Alaska Magazine and Canoe and Kayak, writer and photographer Monique Dykstra bravely admits that she wasn’t sure what she was getting herself into when she decided ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Free as in Speech and Beer: The Internet, Gift Economies and the Intellectual Property Crisis

By Darren Wershler-Henry

In the aftermath of the dot-com bust comes Darren Wershler-Henry, an irreverent voice dancing on the dead bones of e-business hype and devalued high-tech stocks. Free as in Speech and Beer is a wonderful primer ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Power and Greed

By Philippe Gigantes

Philippe Gigantes, a Greek-born Canadian journalist, political commentator, and senior civil servant in Trudeau’s government, offers a thought-provoking and accessible survey of world history in his new book, Power and Greed. As the title suggests, ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

By Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary

Pioneering science fiction author and political activist Judith Merril was not one to mince words or follow convention, so it’s no surprise that she bluntly states in her introduction to Better to Have Loved that ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Seldom

By Dawn Rae Downton

Anybody expecting the quaint, feel-good Newfoundland of E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is bound for a surprise in Dawn Rae Downton’s memoir of early 20th-century Newfoundland. Life is a whole lot tougher in this ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Anorexia’s Fallen Angel: The Untold Story of Peggy Claude-pierre and the Controversial Montreux Clinic

By Barbara McLintock

When Peggy Claude-Pierre, owner of the Montreux eating disorders clinic in Victoria, appeared on The Maury Povich Show along with her acutely anorexic client Samantha, the consensus was that Claude-Pierre was heaven-sent. Why else would ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Diary Between Friends

By Government of Canada, ed.

The idea of creating a scrapbook of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may seem like a morbid idea at first, but with more media coverage than almost any event in world history, the urge to ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Scattered Among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Ten Portraits

By Allan Levine

Detailed accounts of Jewish pain and suffering stretch back to the biblical book of Lamentations. Reading Jewish history can often seem like an exercise in pain management, and yet such works continue to shed light ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

Imperial Legend: The Disappearance of Tsar Alexander I

By Alexis Troubetzkoy

Did Tsar Alexander the First, the absolute ruler of 44 million people, vanquisher of Napoleon, and one of the most powerful men in Europe, throw it all away to become a wandering, penniless penitent? If ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat

By Keath Fraser

Keath Fraser’s voice was a choppy, strangulated, and unintelligible mess. Told for years that his mysterious ailment was psychological, he searched in vain for some inner failing that could explain his affliction. The Vancouver novelist ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Quill and Quire

Alone in the Appalachians: A City Girl’s Trek from Maine to the Gaspé

Free as in Speech and Beer: The Internet, Gift Economies and the Intellectual Property Crisis

Power and Greed

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

Seldom

Anorexia’s Fallen Angel: The Untold Story of Peggy Claude-pierre and the Controversial Montreux Clinic

A Diary Between Friends

Scattered Among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Ten Portraits

Imperial Legend: The Disappearance of Tsar Alexander I

The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat

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