Recently Released Books
A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney and the Public Trust, 2008 edition, by William Kaplan, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 245 pp, $19.95. Book’s blurb: “I can’t imagine a more entertaining political book than A Secret Trial. Where else are you going to get juice like this?” —Paul Wells, Maclean’s. This is a new edition, foreword by Andrew […]
The 2008 Donner Prize Nominees
Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent, by Rodrigo Bascunan & Christian Pearce, Vintage Canada, 360 pp, $22. Book’s blurb: “A gripping compendium of hip-hop’s ‘fascination with the image of guns.’”—the National Post. Fueling Our Future: An Introduction to Sustainable Energy, by Robert L. Evans, Cambridge University Press, 180 […]
Recently Released Books, Of Note
The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi, by Aram Roston, Nation Books, 375 pp, $29.50. Book’s blurb: “In January 2004, as President Bush gave his State of the Union address celebrating the decision to launch America on its disastrous path to war, the special guest of […]
Recently Released Books
The Way Ahead: Meeting Canada’s Productivity Challenge, by Tom Brzustowski, University of Ottawa Press, 182 pp. Book’s blurb: “This is a practical book about economic change needed in Canada. Ours is a prosperous country, but our prosperity is under stress from demographics, many increasingly irresistible pressures on the public purse, and low productivity growth. To […]
Bonner delivers hard-hitting communications and conflict resolution advice
Tough Love at the Table: Power, Culture and Diversity in Negotiations, Mediation and Conflict Resolution, by Dr. Allan Bonner, Sextant Publishing, 220 pages. TORONTO—In the course of his 20-year practice as a communications and dispute resolution consultant, Allan Bonner has come up against his fair share of powerful and tough-talking clients. One, a senior executive […]
Recently released books
Empty Casing: A Soldier´s Memoir of Sarajevo Under Siege, by Fred Doucette, Douglas & McIntyre, 228 pp., $34.95. Book´s Blurb: "This book is of enduring value…It is an encouraging testimony of one soldier´s battle and gives invaluable hope and encouragement to other injured soldiers and their loved ones." –General Roméo Dallaire, from his foreword. Outside […]
Recently Released Books
Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy, by Jacques Poitras, Goose Lane, $35, 300 pp. Book’s blurb: “From Australia to Ireland, from the U.S. to England, the headlines have trumpeted the sometimes salacious details–some true, others debunked as myth. The heirs of Fleet Street press baron Lord Beaverbrook locked in a battle with an art gallery he’d built […]
A pictoral history of Canada’s role in Italy in the World War II
Hell and High Water: Canada and the Italian Campaign, by Lance Goddard, Dundurn, 273 pp, $29.99. Book’s blurb: “The third book in a trilogy that includes D-DAY: Juno Beach, Canada’s 24 hours of Destiny and Canada and the Liberation of the Netherlands, it outlines the importance of Canada’s role in this significant campaign from 1943-1945. […]
Recently Released Books
A Reporter’s Life: Peter Jennings, edited by Kate Darnton, Kayce Freed Jennings, and Lynn Sherr, Public Affairs, 400 pp., $33.50. Book’s blurb: “He rose to the top of his profession based on dogged determination and an incredible curiosity, a lot of talent and hard work, and you knew that all of that was going to […]
Recently Released Books
At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914-1916: Volume One, by Tim Cook, Viking Canada, 464 pp., $40. Book’s blurb: “The focus here is on the infantry at the sharp end: those men in the trenches who faced the enemy and bore the heaviest brunt of the fighting. The ‘poor bloody infantry,’ wrote […]
