Just Dummies: Cruise Missile Testing in Canada

Not one to buy into the idea that Canada is a peaceful sanctuary and honest broker in world affairs, the former military and strategic analyst John Clearwater has, with Just Dummies, completed a trilogy that ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Afloat

By Jennifer McCartney

Before I get started, a quick point addressed to Jennifer McCartney: Dear Jennifer, The title of Franz Ferdinand’s latest album, You Could Have It So Much Better, sprang to mind when I first looked at ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bindery

By Shane Rhodes

Ottawa-based poet Shane Rhodes’ third collection is a difficult book to criticize in terms of its particulars. The writing is very polished and there are few glaring false steps. But a maxim from Longinus comes ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Wiped!: Life with a Pint-Size Dictator

By Rebecca Eckler

Columnist Rebecca Eckler, seemingly the first woman in Canada to both carry and birth a child, has naturally deemed it appropriate to document every stultifying moment of her experience in book form. Readers who didn’t ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Witch Hunts: From Salem to Guantanamo Bay

By Robert Rapley

The idea of providing historical precedents for contemporary civil liberties violations is certainly not unique, but there are few titles that possess the rigorous scholarship and analysis required for such an undertaking.While retired civil servant ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: History

Vancouver Wild: A Photographer’s Journey Through the Southern Coast Mountains

By Graham Osborne, Richard Cannings

It seems almost unfair to choose the wilderness around Vancouver as the subject of a photography book. Given how off-the-chart beautiful the place is, you’d think all you’d need to do would be point and ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Fashioning Reality: A New Generation of Entrepreneurship

By Ben Barry

Ben Barry’s life story should make for good reading. Born in Ottawa, Barry spent his teens forming his own modelling agency and recruiting normal folks of all shapes and sizes (as well as more traditionally ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka

By James Bartleman

This new book by Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor James Bartleman is a boyhood memoir of a self-described “half breed” coming of age in post-war Muskoka. Bartleman’s recollections are poignant and ring with the authenticity of vivid ... Read More »

March 27, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Too Far from Home

By Chris Jones

Once you get over the unalloyed miracle that is space flight, the days of astronauts are in some ways as pedestrian as those of their earthbound compatriots, consisting largely of sleeping, eating, talking, bodily functions, ... Read More »

March 27, 2007 | Filed under: History

Diagnosing Genius: The Life and Death of Beethoven

By François Martin Mai

In Diagnosing Genius, Ottawa psychiatrist and amateur pianist François Martin Mai proposes to examine the relationship between the creative genius of Ludwig van Beethoven and the various health problems – most notably deafness and depression, ... Read More »