A Killing Art: The Untold Story of Tae Kwon Do

In the world of martial arts, tae kwon do is often derided for having more bark than bite – due to its clubs’ high membership fees, the sport has earned the unfortunate epithet “take my ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message

By Rex Weyler

It’s a sign of the worldview of educated Westerners that even those curious about the spiritual life usually value the expertise of scholars and secular commentators – some of them overt atheists – over the ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Fatal Tide: When the Race of a Lifetime Goes Wrong

By David Leach

The title of this quick read by journalist David Leach implies that Mother Nature simply behaved impetuously in the 2002 kayaking death of New Brunswicker René Arsenault. However, many people in the book believe that ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The New Game: How Hockey Saved Itself

By Steve Paikin

Although author and TVOntario personality Steve Paikin clearly loves and understands the game of hockey and its history, there is little in this compact and quick read to suggest that the game – at the ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Between Interruptions: Thirty Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood

By Cori Howard, ed.

A strange thing happens when a woman has a child: she immediately becomes part of “the club.” And it doesn’t matter if the woman is straight, gay, partnered, or alone, or if the child arrived ... Read More »

August 20, 2007 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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

Tales of a Curling Hack

By Doug Maxwell

Humility is a big part of curling’s successful formula. At a time when many professional athletes aggravate fans with their arrogant attitudes, curlers come across as the kind of folks you might run into at ... Read More »

March 21, 2007 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Canadian Hockey Atlas

By Stephen Cole

Don’t take The Canadian Hockey Atlas on your team’s next road trip – not if you want to find the rink, anyway. Each of the 11 chapters here – one per province, plus one for ... Read More »

March 21, 2007 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Midnight Hockey: All About Beer, the Boys and the Real Canadian Game

By Bill Gaston

Midnight Hockey reveals a new side of Giller Prize-shortlisted author Bill Gaston. Meet “Gaston Beel,” a Canadian junior hockey player who spent a year in his vagabond youth as a player-coach – Reg Dunlop-style – ... Read More »

December 15, 2006 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Hockey: A People’s History

By Michael McKinley

Year in and year out, the overwhelming majority of sports books published in Canada are hockey books. But how do writers and those who produce their books for the mass market avoid the “just another ... Read More »