History

The Warrior’s Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

Michael Ignatieff’s follow-up to his award-winning Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism uses potent prose to share some of his brilliant insights. In The Warrior’s Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience, Ignatieff ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: History

Canadian Nuclear Weapons: The Untold Story of Canada’s Cold War Arsenal

By John Clearwater

John Clearwater, a military-strategic analyst with the Department of National Defence, creates “an operational-technical history” in Canadian Nuclear Weapons, reconstructing the story of those weapons in Canada between 1963 and 1984.Nuclear weapons on Canadian soil ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: History

Father and Daughter Tales

By Josephine Evetts-Secker, Helen Cann, illus.

As psychologist Bruno Bettelheim noted in The Uses of Enchantment, folk tales are important to the psychological well-being of children. Jungians have long shared similar views, so it is not surprising to find that Josephine ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

★ The Parrot

By retold and illustrated by Laszlo and Raffaella Gal

The Parrot is a retelling of an Italian folktale, adapted and gorgeously illustrated by the renowned Canadian illustrator Laszlo Gal and his daughter Raffaella. The Gals respond to the structure of the story – a ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World War, Rev. Ed.

By W.A.B. Douglas and Brereton Greenhous

If all Gaul, as the Romans had it, was divided in three parts, then all military history is divided into five. There are what we might call the serious studies, the academics’ and the theorists’ ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History