Memoir & Biography

And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life

Jane Christmas has always felt drawn to religious life. The quiet, simple existence of cloistered nuns holds great appeal, and after two failed marriages, she decides to enter a convent to find out if she ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla

By Andrew Steinmetz

With the most sprawling POW film ever produced as its backdrop, This Great Escape details the short but eventful life of Michael Paryla, a part-Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who moved to Canada with his ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother

By Priscila Uppal

Priscila Uppal, author of nine books of poetry, brings her unique lyrical approach to one of literature’s trickiest forms – the family memoir. Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother mines the intimate depths of the ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ A House in the Sky

By Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett

As a child growing up in small-town Alberta, living in a dank basement apartment where her mother often suffered beatings at the hands of her boyfriend, Amanda Lindhout found escape in copies of National Geographic ... Read More »

October 7, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hal’s Legacy: 2001’s Computer as Dream and Reality

By David Stork, ed.

In the weeks following Garry Kasparov’s loss to IBM’s Deep Blue this May, editorial pages were full of breathless soul-searching about What It All Meant. Had machines crossed the intelligence barrier? Could Deep Blue really ... Read More »

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Age of Androids

By William E. Datig

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Are We Unique? A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind

By James Trefil

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence

By James Bailey

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Kasparov Versus Deep Blue

By Monty Newborn

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Pope’s Bookbinder

By David Mason

Here’s how David Mason, Toronto’s leading antiquarian book dealer, explains the title of this memoir: in the late 1950s, aged 19, he left Canada, eventually landing in Spain, where he found work as a bookbinder. ... Read More »

July 2, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life

This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla

Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother

★ A House in the Sky

Hal’s Legacy: 2001’s Computer as Dream and Reality

The Age of Androids

★ Are We Unique? A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind

After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence

Kasparov Versus Deep Blue

The Pope’s Bookbinder

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