Sports, Health & Self-help

Sea of Faith: Christianity and Islam in the Medieval Mediterranean World

Having introduced the general reader to the Albigensian Crusade in The Perfect Heresy, journalist and historian Stephen O’Shea now expands his vision to encompass the history of the first thousand years of two of the ... Read More »

July 11, 2006 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Stalking the Holy: The Pursuit of Saint Making

By Michael W. Higgins

Theologian Michael Higgins’ treatise on the making of saints is a self-described personal inquiry into the process, players, and politics inherent in the canonization of Christianity’s heroes. These “action figures of Christendom” have long fascinated ... Read More »

May 1, 2006 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Best Game You Can Name

By Dave Bidini

Hockey nomad/writer and Rheostatics guitarist Dave Bidini’s latest effort is an entertaining collection of candid outtakes from interviews with mostly 1970s and ’80s NHL players, overlaid with way too much detail about the fun yet ... Read More »

October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich

By David Cayley

As anyone who has noted the enormous popularity of The Da Vinci Code can attest, the topic of Catholic Church corruption is both riveting and unsettling. This subject formed the life work of one Ivan ... Read More »

February 14, 2005 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Barilko: Without a Trace

By Kevin Shea

Does a hockey player who scored just 26 goals in five NHL seasons really deserve a full-length biography? If that player is Bill Barilko, the answer is a resounding yes. That’s because, as most NHL ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Red Line, Blue Line, Bottom Line: How Push Came to Shove Between the National Hockey League and Its Players

By Marc Edge

With the cancellation of the 2004-2005 NHL season looking like a done deal, hockey fans are beginning to realize that this may turn out to be the ugliest and longest labour dispute in the history ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Spirituality of Wine

By Tom Harpur

Admirers of Toronto Star religion editor and columnist Tom Harpur, particularly those drawn by the massively popular The Pagan Christ, are apt to be somewhat disappointed by his new book. Oenophiles with a spiritual bent ... Read More »

December 14, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Jacob’s Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness

By Trevor Herriot

At the risk of mixing Biblical metaphors, Jacob’s Wound, the new book from prize-winning Saskatchewan writer Trevor Herriot (author of River in a Dry Land), is something of a coat of many colours. Composed of ... Read More »

December 14, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

’67: The Maple Leafs, Their Sensational Victory and the End of an Empire

By Damien Cox and Gord Stellick

With all the grumbling going on among hockey fans these days about greedy players and even greedier owners, ’67 is just what the doctor ordered: a nostalgic look back at one of the legendary squads ... Read More »

October 12, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Footprints: Canadian Sports Stories: Summer

By Dave Toms

Footprints, by filmmaker and first-time writer Dave Toms of Peterborough, Ontario, focuses on summer sports and award-winners, presenting short four-page profiles of 50 Canadian athletes, one-third of them female.Arranged chronologically, the achievements of athletes span ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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