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 […]
What’s so wrong with first past the post? Lots
OTTAWA–Anyone who has tried to write a book can attest that it is no easy task. With so many other worldly distractions, it takes considerable willpower to keep the mind sufficiently focused and the seat firmly planted in a chair, day after day. As my learned friend Donald Savoie once described it, in order to […]
Recently released book
On Assignment in Afghanistan: Maritimers at War, photography by Christian Laforce, text by Chris Lambie, Nimbus, 96 pp., $18.95. Book’s blurb: “Canadian troops–among them a disproportionate number of Maritime men and women–have been on assignment in Afghanistan since 2002. To bring the day-to-day lives of the troops back home, and to document in particular the […]
NEW POLITICAL BOOKS
Brian Mulroney, Memoirs, 1939-19993, by Brian Mulroney, Douglas Gibson, 1,121 pp., $52. Book’s blurb: “This is a unique book about a unique Canadian life–about a boy, born and raised in a working-class family in remote Baie-Comeau, who rose to the highest office in the land. How he got there, an outsider fighting his way to […]
