Reviews

Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century

Andrew Nikiforuk, the Calgary-based journalist and winner of the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Saboteurs, about Alberta oil maverick Wiebo Ludwig, calls widespread pandemics “biological invaders” in his new book.This approach makes for interesting reading, ... Read More »

December 14, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization

By Thomas Homer-Dixon

Thomas Homer-Dixon proclaims the end is nigh. That’s not an altogether bad thing, though. In The Upside of Down, the University of Toronto professor, best known for his book The Ingenuity Gap, sees hope in ... Read More »

December 11, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Green City: People, Nature and Urban Places

By Mary Soderstrom

We hear so much about “green” these days that the adjective has gotten a little tired. But readers with a taste for books on urban architecture and public planning – and more broadly, the sociology ... Read More »

November 27, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Geist Atlas of Canada: Meat Maps and Other Strange Cartographies

By Melissa Edwards

From the clever minds who brought you “Haiku Night in Canada” comes The Geist Atlas of Canada, a collection of 50 of Geist magazine’s comprehensive maps of nutty Canadian place names, each one tied together ... Read More »

November 20, 2006 | Filed under: Reference

Lullabies for Little Criminals

By Heather O'Neill

The problem with the designation “coming of age” is that it often assumes there is a particular, identifiable moment when we finally discover we have “grown up.” Like the best coming-of-age chroniclers, Heather O’Neill understands ... Read More »

November 13, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Law of Dreams

By Peter Behrens

Almost everyone in Canada has ancestors who immigrated to this country from afar; that past journey is part of the universal Canadian memory. Peter Behrens’ first novel reflects his own family’s experience, forced out of ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bay of Spirits: A Love Story

By Farley Mowat

As I read this memoir and refamiliarized myself with many of Farley Mowat’s settings, passions, and adventures, it occurred to me that a couple of generations of younger Canadian readers probably don’t view him the ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

When Earth Leaps Up

By Anne Szumigalski; Mark Abley, ed.

Publishing a posthumous collection is a tricky proposition for reasons both commercial and artistic. It’s hard enough to sell copies of books by living poets – how much harder, then, when the poet has been ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

So We Sold Our House and Ran Away to the South Pacific

By Gordon Cope

A note to Gordon Cope: don’t quit your day job. Oops! As the twee title of his book suggests, this advice comes a little too late. In 1993, Cope, a Calgary-based journalist, and his wife ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Horse: How the Horse Shaped Civilizations

By J. Edward Chamberlain

Nearly 100 pages into Horse, author J. Edward Chamberlain finally gets around to making a thesis-like statement – that horses have fascinated mankind because they straddle a line between barbarism and civilization.Though it is buried ... Read More »

November 6, 2006 | Filed under: History

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