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Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?

The new book by University of British Columbia sociology professor Neil Gross sets itself quite the challenge in its title. The answers to this double-barrelled question, after all, appear complicated enough to justify devoting more ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Secret of the Blue Trunk

By Lise Dion; Liedewij Hawke, trans.

Known in her native Quebec mainly as a humorist, Lise Dion is being introduced to English-speaking Canadians on a far more sombre note. The Secret of the Blue Trunk (in a fluid translation by Liedewij ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Woman Upstairs

By Claire Messud

Don’t be fooled by the opening chapters of Claire Messud’s new novel, in which Nora Eldridge blazes forth with furious intensity, her words spitting and sparking off the page as she describes who she is, ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Is Work Killing You? A Doctor’s Prescription for Treating Workplace Stress

By David Posen

David Posen’s fourth self-help book outlines changes to the modern office that have led to a workforce drowning under what he calls the Big Three stressors: volume, velocity, and abuse. Corporate downsizing in the 1990s, ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why

By Donald J. Savoie

For the last 30 years, politicians throughout the Anglo-American world have inveighed against big government in the name of greater efficiency, while governments have simultaneously become bloated and less efficient. In an attempt to shed ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Juggler’s Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us

By Carolyn Abraham

With recent advances in genetics, science has hinted that DNA might be able to answer questions about human identity and origins that have previously been restricted to the realms of history and philosophy. Armed with ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Unlikely Radicals: The Story of the Adams Mine Dump War

By Charlie Angus

The Adams Mine controversy is a David and Goliath story that has popped in and out of the media for the past 20 years. It began in 1989, when metropolitan Toronto, bursting at the seams ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: History

The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed

By Carl Honore

As a sequel of sorts to the international bestseller In Praise of Slow, journalist Carl Honoré’s new book is part advocacy for social reform, part psychological guidebook for anyone who has ever needed to solve ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

By Edward Keenan

Invoking Toronto’s recent history alongside its more distant past, political observer Edward Keenan, an editor at the city’s alt-weekly newspaper The Grid, has written a succinct, accessible book that brings some much needed context to ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Drunk Mom

By Jowita Bydlowska

Addiction memoirs have proliferated in recent decades, crowding a genre once limited to a handful of classics such as the gentlemanly Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and the hilariously hedonistic Fear and Loathing in Las ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?

The Secret of the Blue Trunk

The Woman Upstairs

Is Work Killing You? A Doctor’s Prescription for Treating Workplace Stress

Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why

The Juggler’s Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us

★ Unlikely Radicals: The Story of the Adams Mine Dump War

The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed

Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

Drunk Mom

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