Sports, Health & Self-help

The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light

Author, columnist, and ex-Anglican priest Tom Harpur has long positioned himself as the champion of a personal and deeply psychological brand of spirituality that stands in direct opposition to the narrow, literalist teachings of mainstream ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Thunder and Lightning: A No-B.S. Hockey Memoir

By Phil Esposito with Peter Golenbock

Phil Esposito’s got stories – he’s got a million of ’em. You don’t play 18 years in the National Hockey League, score 717 goals, win two Stanley Cups, play in the 1972 Summit Series between ... Read More »

April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Skate: 100 Years of Figure Skating

By Steve Milton

Even before Harding hit Kerrigan, thousands of Canadians were glued to sets and frozen to bleachers, watching Stojko, Chouinard, and Philippe Candeloro, above, spinning around the ice all over the world. And given the relatively ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

★ What God Allows: The Crisis of Faith and Conscience in One Catholic Church

By Ivor Shapiro

When Pope John Paul II released his encyclical Vertitatis Splendor (The Splendour of Truth) in the fall of 1993, it gave members of the Roman Catholic Church much to ponder. It states that certain acts, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

The Stick: A History, a Celebration, an Elegy

By Bruce Dowbiggin

Calgary Herald sportswriter Bruce Dowbiggin’s last foray into hockey books was Of Ice and Men, a look at how a handful of hockey greats have mastered their craft. But they say that craftspeople are only ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Contested Identities: The Struggle for Canadian Sport

By Bruce Kidd

In his third book, Contested Identities: The Struggle for Canadian Sport, former distance runner Bruce Kidd, who now directs the School of Physical and Health Education at the University of Toronto, argues that sports and ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Diamond Dreams: 20 Years of Blue Jays Baseball

By Stephen Brunt

For those of us who have followed the Toronto Blue Jays from their cellar-dwelling expansion years through their back-to-back World Series wins and beyond, it’s sometimes hard to believe they have been with us for ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Original Six: True Stories from Hockey’s Classic Era

By Paul Quarrington, ed.

As the National Hockey League expands to cities that once seemed no less exotic than Timbuktu, many Canadians have adopted a weepy nostalgia for what the Hanson brothers (in the 1977 movie Slap Shot) described ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

From the Tower of Babel to Parliament Hill: How to Be a Christian in Canada Today

By Brian C. Stiller

Central to the theme of Ontario-based theologian Brian C. Stiller’s fifth book are two well-known biblical events: Babel and Pentecost. In From the Tower of Babel to Parliament Hill: How to Be a Christian in ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ The Tomato Handbook: Tips and Tricks for Growing the Best Tomatoes

By Jennifer Bennett

The tomato is, by all accounts, Canadian gardeners’ favourite vegetable. In this readable and useful new addition to the Firefly Gardener’s Guide series, veteran garden writer Jennifer Bennett ably proves her point that it’s also ... Read More »