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Power: Journeys Across an Energy Nation

As hopes for environmental improvements take a distant back seat to the “war on terrorism,” Gordon Laird’s timely new look at Canadian energy exploration and exploitation provides a strong rallying call for the planet’s fragile ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair

By Allan Peterkin

One Thousand Beards, Allan Peterkin’s “cultural history of facial hair,” aspires to be a quirky yet authoritative overview of the historical and social roles of facial hair. Peterkin, a Toronto psychotherapist and author, has amassed ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

By Margaret Atwood

Like the set of lectures that Margaret Atwood gave at Oxford University and reformatted into Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature, the six chapters that comprise Negotiating with the Dead started life as ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Guilty of Everything

By John Armstrong

Art Bergmann and the band DOA are more familiar to Canadian rock fans now, but 20 years ago their contemporary John Armstrong was just as central to Vancouver’s punk scene. Under the alias Buck Cherry ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Horizontal Everest: Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island

By Jerry Kobalenko

The Horizontal Everest is the culmination of journalist/photographer Jerry Kobalenko’s obsession with Ellesmere Island’s dramatic environment and complicated history. A 16,651-square-mile island in the Canadian Arctic, it is one of the harshest places on earth, ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vancouver’s Newspaper Monopoly

By Marc Edge

In 1957, to prevent a fight to the death between the Southam-owned Vancouver Province and the privately owned Vancouver Sun, Southam proposed an unusual corporate partnership called Pacific Press. The two operations would share production ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

On Equilibrium

By John Ralston Saul

With On Equilibrium, John Ralston Saul convincingly stakes his claim for a place in the great philosophical continuum by contributing his own perspective to the key questions: What is a good life? What constitutes a ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Can’t Buy Me Love: How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers

By Rod McQueen

After Chrysler boss Lee Iacocca published his autobiography in 1984, it seemed every CEO had a story to tell. While most of these aggrandizing treatments offered readers little more than a recipe for success or ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Bombardier Story: Planes, Trains, and Snowmobiles

By Larry MacDonald

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

How to Achieve Joyful & Confident Parenting

By Penny Shore

This book, by Toronto adult educator Penny Shore, is one of a series of six parenting titles to be launched over the first three months of 2002.The books reflect the philosophies of internationally known child ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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Power: Journeys Across an Energy Nation

One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair

Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Guilty of Everything

The Horizontal Everest: Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island

Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vancouver’s Newspaper Monopoly

On Equilibrium

Can’t Buy Me Love: How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers

The Bombardier Story: Planes, Trains, and Snowmobiles

How to Achieve Joyful & Confident Parenting

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