Children and YA Non-fiction

Only in Canada: From the Colossal to the Kooky

By Vivien Bowers, Dianne Eastman, illus.

I have never been a fan of sidebars – I find them too distracting, like knowing there might be a better TV show on another channel – and Vivien Bowers’ new book, Only in Canada, ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Cruise Ship Blues: The Underside of the Cruise Industry

By Ross A. Klein

Ross Klein is a sociologist who has logged over 300 days vacationing on cruise ships from various parts of the world. In Cruise Ship Blues he uses that experience and a lot of research to ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Physics of Hockey

By Alain Haché

When it comes to our own history, Canadians are notoriously sketchy on its details, but when it comes to analyzing hockey, almost everyone is an expert. We know more about the neutral zone trap than ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Escape: In Search of the Natural Soul of Canada

By Roy MacGregor

Why, then, could I not look for the soul of the country,” Roy MacGregor asks early in his new book “in the desire to escape?” It’s an interesting thesis, rooted as it is in the ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

By Witold Rybczynski

Witold Rybczynski is perhaps the closest we have in Canada to a Renaissance man. His works, which usually begin from a tightly focused locus point – the absence of the concept of comfort in architectural ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War

By Jacques R. Pauwels

Few truisms are as inviolable as the notion that the Second World War was a battle of good versus evil. Yet a recent stream of works documenting corporate collusion between Nazi Germany and General Motors, ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver

By Karen Love, ed.

Is it possible to capture the essence of a city by photographing its inhabitants? That is the underlying goal of Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver ($29.95 paper 1-55152-127-X, 160 pp., 8 x 10, Arsenal Pulp ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Three Pagodas Pass: A Roundabout Journey to Burma

By George Fetherling

Getting to Burma on the cheap is a formidable task. And who but a weathered adventurer could, as author George Fetherling tells it, “hitch a ride” for a few thousand nautical miles aboard a rotting ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Kings of Convergence

By Gordon Pitts

Very few people can go through their daily routine without coming into contact with the media, be it radio, television, film, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, or even outdoor billboards. Moreover, media play a key role ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Memoirs of a Media Maverick

By Boyce Richardson

At a time when aspiring journalists have few choices beyond joining the characterless world of the modern mass media, the voice of a rare journalistic gadfly should serve as a welcome antidote. For over 50 ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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