Posts Tagged ‘Non-Fiction’
HUNTING HUMANS
McClelland and Stewart -revised-Can/95Pocket Books US/88Penguin Books UK/89Jimbun Shoin Japan/95 HUNTING HUMANSThe Rise Of TheModern MultipleMurderer In studying American multiple murderers, anthropologist Elliott Leyton writes, “I see their motives as so obvious and their gratifications as so intense that I can only marvel at how few of them walk the streets of America.” Hunting Humans, a classic…
Read MoreSOLE SURVIVOR
“His compassionate approach has both humility and integrity and makes very good reading.”The New Statesman “As in Hunting Humans the writing is vigorous and straightforward, the language in turn serviceable and subtle. Hunting Humans was an international success. Sole Survivor, being set squarely in the playing fields of reality will almost certainly enjoy a similar…
Read MoreMen of Blood
McClelland & Stewart 2002 Men of Blood “Probably the world’s most widely consulted expert on serial killing and a godhead of modern criminal psychology.â€London Sunday Telegraph A milkman shares a take-out supper with his cousin and then fatally stabs him.…A man breaks into a shelter for abused women and snuffs out the life of his…
Read MoreMystery Islands
Discovering the Ancient Pacific Mystery Islands Discovering the Ancient Pacific REVIEWS FOR TOM KOPPEL’S LOST WORLD and EBB AND FLOW“Koppel knows how to tell a story.”Globe and Mail “Koppel treats the reader to eyewitness descriptions of scientists crawling through nearly inaccessible caves high in the hills of Alaska and British Columbia, dredging for artifacts in the seabed, camping…
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Discovering the Ancient Pacific “a man of inquisitive mind and substantial beachcombing and sailing experience. He tells his stories in an engaging style, be they of gathering clams on tidal flats or harrowing escapes from tidal races. They are woven into a well-paced and thoughtful narrative…†Oceanography Universityof the South Pacific Press 2012 Mystery Islands…
Read MoreRebels, Spies And Some Good Guys
Ben Hoffman a Canadian who lives near Ottawa, came to peace negotiations though prison administration in Ontario. His formal studies in peace and conflict continued in the US at the Fletcher School and at Harvard. He was recruited to the Carter Centre in 2000. When he left he continued working in peace negotiations in Africa and…
Read MoreThe Little Book of Stress Relief
David Posen, M.D is a family physician who counsels patients on stress management and gives seminars on how we live and what we can do to improve the quality of our lives. Key Porter (CAN) Â 2003 The Little Book of Stress Relief From the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief comes the definitive…
Read MoreTHE RESCUE OF JERUSALEM:
“I feel compelled to retract my own previous beliefs that a lethal epidemic, as reported in the Bible, was what made the Assyrians withdraw… It is a fact that it often takes an outsider to challenge established views.”– Dr. William H. McNeill, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Chicago “The solution proposed in Mr. Aubin’s well-researched…
Read MoreAT HOME IN THE WORLD: Canada’s Global Vision for the 21st Century
HarperCollins Canada Fall 2004 AT HOME IN THE WORLD: Canada’s Global Vision for the 21st Century A recent cover story in the Canadian edition of Time trumpeted: “Would anyone notice if Canada disappeared?†The magazine asserted that Canada’s influence in the world is shrinking fast and that something must be done — now. Jennifer Welsh,…
Read MoreThe Return of History
Anansi 2016 “Not only is [Welsh] exceptionally fluent in the debates and histories of politicial science, but she has a unique understanding of the actual workings and breaking points of the formal international order and its failings.” The Globe and Mail The Return of History CBC Massey Lectures In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled…
Read MoreCITY UNIQUE: A Portrait Of Montreal
Robin Brass Studio Can/04 CITY UNIQUE: A Portrait Of Montreal Novelist, filmmaker, journalist, William Weintraub offers a social history of Montreal in the 1940s and 1950s, depicting the rise and fall of a great city in all its vibrancy, corruption, and diversity. Rich in detail and anecdote, and broad in sweep, it promises to recapture the vigor…
Read MoreOLD WOUNDS
Penguin CANU.N.C. US OLD WOUNDS Written by Harold Troper andMorton Weinfeld Jews, Ukranians, and the hunt for Nazi war criminals in Canada.
Read MoreWHO SPEAKS FOR CANADA?
McClelland & Stewart CAN/99 WHO SPEAKS FOR CANADA? Words That Shape A Country Here, in one handsome illustrated volume, is a treasury of memorable texts that have become part of the Canadian heritage. Who Speaks for Canada? is a compelling testament to the many ways of being Canadian, and to the power of words to…
Read MoreLIKE EVERYONE ELSE… BUT DIFFERENT
“Undoubtedly the most important study of Canadian Jewish life in a generation.”Harold Troper “There should be a book like this for any and all groups that make up Canadian society. Meanwhile, read this one. You will laugh a little, think a lot, and learn why no one will ever write the last word on the…
Read MoreOld Wounds
Penguin CANU.N.C. US Old Wounds by Harold Troper and Morton Weinfeld Jews, Ukrainians, and the hunt for Nazi war criminals in Canada.
Read MoreThe Defining Decade
“… an outstanding explanation of the transformation of Jews in Canada, from its origins, through the 60s and into the future.”New York Journal of Books “well-written…of interest to anyone looking for a better understanding of Canada’s evolution into a multicultural society and of how minority communities have asserted their places within it.”Montreal Gazette “…an antidote…
Read MoreThe Rescuer
“An important story that had to be told . . . As this book shows, sometimes the power of one is greater than the ignorance of many†The Globe and Mail “Over the course of 25 tumultuous, nail-biting, cloak-and-dagger years, this Toronto woman accomplished what entire governments and well-paid professionals could not…the rescue of the Jews…
Read MorePraise for God’s Brain
Prometheus Books US 2010 Wise Book Korea 2011Alfa Turkey 2011 Praise for God’s Brain “If God’s Brain sounds whimsically paradoxical, it is only because the authors believe that most people of faith have been looking for God in all the wrong places. The authors suggest that religious believers should look inward, rather than outward, to find God. The…
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Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant
The Age of Persuasion
“A lively, anecdotal primer…filled with smart and breezy tales told from an insider’s perspective.”Washington Post “O’Reilly and Tennant are exceptionally talented writers…In a straightforward, popular style, The Age of Persuasion is an easy-to-read and often subversive primer on marketing, advertising, and branding.”Globe & Mail “[A]n instant classic on media literacy.”Movie Entertainment “O’Reilly and Tennant offer a witty…
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Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant
This I Know
Terry O’Reilly has won hundreds of advertising awards as a copywriter and commercial director, and is the co-founder of Pirate Radio & Television. Under the Influence is broadcast on CBC Radio and WBEZ Chicago. His audience abroad includes listeners in Britain, Germany, France, Ireland, Sweden, Australia, Japan, China, Philippines and Mexico. The New York Festival awarded the show…
Read MoreDOWN & DIRTY BIRDING
“…a fascinating, funny and truly wild book… Down & Dirty Birding is…Dave Barry does birds.”Mike Capuzzo, author of Wild Things Key Porter Can/96Simon and Schuster US/96 DOWN & DIRTY BIRDING Birdwatching is not for the faint of spirit, writes Joey Slinger, an award-winning humorist and a serious birdwatcher. This unique guide will beguile and lead the beginner, instruct…
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