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Freedom Climbers

In Freedom Climbers, Bernadette McDonald, the founding vice-president of mountain culture at the Banff Centre and author of seven books on international mountaineering, tells the story of a group of 20th-century Poles who overcame social ... Read More »

October 31, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen

By Robert J. Wiersema

In Thomas Zimny’s 2010 documentary film, The Promise, Bruce Springsteen said that his 1978 album, Darkness on the Edge of Town, was an attempt to answer the question: how is it possible to live a ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Teens Gone Wired: Are You Ready?

By Lyndsay Green

This easygoing advice book sets out to reassure parents who are intimidated, mystified, or just plain clueless about how the digital revolution may be affecting their teenage children. Lyndsay Green, a sociologist and researcher, takes ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Moral Lives of Israelis: Reinventing the Dream State

By David Berlin

The new book by David Berlin, founding editor of The Walrus, is difficult to classify. Its subtitle suggests a treatise on the best path forward for Israel, and indeed you will find some of that ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: History

Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Callously Targets Children

By Joel Bakan

University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan scored a surprise bestseller with The Corporation, the 2003 book developed alongside the feature-film documentary of the same name. Bakan resumes his anti-corporate attack with this account ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Girl in the Box

By Sheila Dalton

Is it possible to go on loving someone who has ruined your life? As emotionally wrenching questions go, that one is particularly fraught. But Caitlin Shaugnessy, a journalist with the Toronto Star, has a valid ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain, and Two World Wars

By Jonathan F. Vance

Historian Jonathan Vance would like to examine a little-known part of Canada’s past: our British roots. This may seem a bit strange at first, but our ties to the “Mother Country” can be considered uninteresting ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: History

This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge

By Tzeporah Berman with Mark Leiran-Young

As Tzeporah Berman, co-director of Greenpeace International’s climate and energy program, explains in her memoir, the history of social movements is filled with familiar patterns. A movement may begin as a fringe protest, but once ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Rock & Roll Literacy

By Sigmund Brouwer

Sigmund Brouwer has written some 19 novels for both the adult and YA markets, as well as numerous fiction series for early readers. Rock & Roll Literacy, a companion to his popular school presentation of ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid

By Samantha Nutt

Angry, impassioned essays are not the general currency of Canadian non-fiction, so it’s refreshing that physician Samantha Nutt breaks the mould with her forthright attack on militarism and misguided aid efforts that exacerbate the poverty ... Read More »