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Crime of Fashion

Crime of Fashion, Cuban-born Cuban-born José Latour’s first novel since immigrating to Canada from Spain, brings his recurring protagonist, Elliot Steil, to the author’s adopted home of Toronto. When Jenny Scheindlin, retired fashion model and ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Canada’s 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era

By Bryan D. Palmer

As Canadian baby boomers enter their senior years, we seem to have missed out on the U.S.’s apparently recession-proof cottage industry of books on the 1960s. Trent University professor and author Bryan D. Palmer attempts ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: History

Smiling Bears: A Zookeeper Explores the Behavior and Emotional Life of Bears

By Else Poulsen

Bears both frighten and intrigue us. Our complicated relationship with these wild beasts is reflected in the extensive selection of books about them, which variously consider bears as wildlife, spiritual creatures, trophies, tourist attractions, and ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Grizzlyville: Adventures in Bear Country

By Jake MacDonald

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs? My Confused, Guilt-Ridden, and Stressful Struggle to Raise a Green Family

By Robyn Harding

There are no solar panels on Robyn Harding’s roof. Her family is not bathing in collected rainwater. And yes, she enjoys the occasional distinctly un-green trip to Las Vegas. But underpinning her life is a ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet

By David Suzuki and David Robert Taylor

Science writers who focus on the environment have faced a new challenge since the appearance in 2006 of Al Gore’s über-popular book and film An Inconvenient Truth. Although it is no longer necessary to impress ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Terracide

By Hubert Reeves; Donald Winkler, trans.

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future

By Thomas Homer-Dixon, ed.

In these early years of the 21st century there are two related challenges facing human civilization. As the global economy continues to grow and consume more energy, what happens when we start running out of ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It

By Victor Malarek

In Canada, it’s nice to pretend that prostitution isn’t the dangerous social ill it used to be. For one thing, this country no longer has any prostitutes. It now boasts “sex workers” who march into ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The World and Darfur: International Responses to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan

By Amanda F. Grzyb, ed.

The ongoing crisis in Darfur confronts us with the remarkable phenomenon of scholars, anthropologists, legal minds, and activists documenting a lengthy genocide-in-progress, with all parties seemingly powerless to stop the carnage. How can such intolerable ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Crime of Fashion

Canada’s 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era

Smiling Bears: A Zookeeper Explores the Behavior and Emotional Life of Bears

Grizzlyville: Adventures in Bear Country

Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs? My Confused, Guilt-Ridden, and Stressful Struggle to Raise a Green Family

The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet

Terracide

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future

The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It

The World and Darfur: International Responses to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan

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