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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer at The New Yorker, made a name for himself with his bestseller, The Tipping Point, which looked at how small trends can suddenly and unexpectedly morph into mass phenomena. Gladwell’s ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

An Unauthorized Biography of the World: Oral History on the Front Lines

By Michael Riordon

An Unauthorized Biography of the World is a chronicle of that long, varied front line of communities using oral history to fight against marginalization and oppression, to give themselves a voice in the face of ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Battle of the St. Lawrence: The Second World War in Canada

By Nathan M. Greenfield

The Second World War Battle of the St. Lawrence between German U-boats and a primarily Canadian air force and navy has been not so much forgotten as ignored. The 24 ships sunk in the quarter-million-square-mile ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq

By Paul William Roberts

Only a few pages into this searing narrative, Paul William Roberts recounts the sudden destruction of his friend’s family home. With the “enormous, crunchy crash” still ringing in our ears, Roberts guides us into a ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

Future Tense: The Coming World Order

By Gwynne Dyer

The growing space on bookstore shelves dedicated to events related to 9/11, Bush administration malfeasance, and the war in Iraq will benefit from Gwynne Dyer’s Future Tense, a good primer for the political novice gingerly ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

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

Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada

By Will Ferguson

Predicting readers’ reaction to Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw is a simple task. If you know a few basic facts about Canada, and if you like Will Ferguson’s writing – and, judging by the success ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Revenge: A Noir Anthology About Getting Even

By Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers, eds.

It’s tempting to think of Insomniac Press’s series of noir fiction anthologies (of which Revenge is the third, after Iced and Hard Boiled Love) as a kind of corrective to the swaths of mushy, middlebrow ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Write Across Canada: Mapping the Country in 19 Chapters

By Peter Schneider, ed.

Ever since literature started imagining the sex lives of ordinary people, readers have been flocking to stories that portray couples working out the nuts and bolts of day-to-day romance. Take the confused Bruce, half of ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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By Wayne Tefs

Wayne Tefs’ eighth novel starts out in a bar at the Winnipeg airport on the afternoon of Good Friday. Clinton Dokic is waiting for a flight home to Thompson, Manitoba, where his wife is about ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

An Unauthorized Biography of the World: Oral History on the Front Lines

The Battle of the St. Lawrence: The Second World War in Canada

A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq

Future Tense: The Coming World Order

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

Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada

Revenge: A Noir Anthology About Getting Even

Write Across Canada: Mapping the Country in 19 Chapters

4 X 4

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