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Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World

Stephen Osborne is one of the original founders of Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press (known as Pulp Press in the 1970s). He is the publisher of Geist magazine, and Ice & Fire is the first title ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

The True Intrepid: Sir William Stephenson and the Unknown Agents

By Bill Macdonald

William Stephenson was one of Winnipeg’s most illustrious exports: knighted by the King, he became the first non-American to receive the presidential Medal of Merit and was later admitted to the Order of Canada. Fellow ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Toe Rubber Blues: Midlife Thoughts on the Prospects of Aging

By Tom Allen

When Tom Allen started work on his first book, he must have been about 35, which is the same age Dante was when he began writing The Divine Comedy. Like Dante, Allen is concerned about ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

The Ingenuity Gap: How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?

By Thomas Homer-Dixon

In his famous 1798 treatise, An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus posited that poverty and distress are inextricable to the human condition because population always increases faster than the means of subsistence. ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Managing for Success: The Latest in Management Thought and Practice from Canada’s Premier Business School

By Monica Fleck, ed.

This compendium of brief essays on the current concerns of corporate managers appears to have several goals. Written by faculty members and successful graduates of the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Retire Rich! Winning Strategies for Higher Retirement Income

By Stephen Gadsden

Two timely books focus on essential questions for everyone who expects to live to collect on his or her pension: What will be left after taxes and what will it buy? The issue – who ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The New Retirement: Financial Strategies for Life after Work

By Dian Cohen

Two timely books focus on essential questions for everyone who expects to live to collect on his or her pension: What will be left after taxes and what will it buy? The issue – who ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers

By Terry Gould

If the word “swinger” conjures up ugly images of the open-shirted, creepy-looking guy, you’re not alone. As Terry Gould relates in the introduction to The Lifestyle (to be released, aptly, on Valentine’s Day), he initially ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Destination Gold!

By Julie Lawson

Award-winning author Julie Lawson’s 20th book documents the emotional growth of three young people against the dramatic backdrop of the Klondike gold rush. Sixteen-year-old Ned Turner’s adventure begins in Victoria in 1897, when he boards ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Life on the Line: One Woman’s Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival

By Solange De Santis

Why would anyone give up a high-paying stimulating career in search of downward mobility? Solange De Santis, former writer for Reuters, Associated Press, and The Globe and Mail, did. In an unconventional career move, disenchanted ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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