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World Without Us
Alan Weisman
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Jul 5 2007
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Starred Review. If a virulent virusor even the Rapturedepopulated Earth overnight, how long before all trace of humankind vanished? That's the provocative, and occasionally puckish, question posed by Weisman (An Echo in My Blood) in this imaginative hybrid of solid science reporting and morbid speculation. Days after our ...
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Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah
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Douglas & McIntyre
Feb 13 2007
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Starred Review. This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone's civil war goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare. Beah's harrowing journey ...
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Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling
Bret Hart
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Random House Canada
Oct 16 2007
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“Bret Hart is the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be.” —Ric Flair“Bret Hart still makes me believe that wrestling is good.” —Hulk Hogan “A legend!” —The Rock...
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande
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Metropolitan
April 3 2007
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Starred Review. Surgeon and MacArthur fellow Gawande applies his gift for dulcet prose to medical and ethical dilemmas in this collection of 12 original and previously published essays adapted from the New England Journal of Medicine and the New Yorker. If his 2002 collection, Complications, addressed the unfathomable ...
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I Am America and So Can You
Stephen Colbert
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Warner Books
Oct 9 2007
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Starred Review. Realizing that it takes more than thirty minutes a night to fix everything that's destroying America, Colbert bravely takes on the forces aligned to destroy our countrywhether they be terrorists, environmentalists, or Kashi brand breakfast cereals. His various targets include nature (I've never trusted the sea. ...
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Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
David Michaelis
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Oct 16 2007
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Starred Review. For all the joy Charlie Brown and the gang gave readers over half a century, their creator, Charles Schulz, was a profoundly unhappy man. It's widely known that he hated the name Peanuts, which was foisted on the strip by his syndicate. But Michaelis (N.C. Wyeth: ...
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens
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McClelland & Stewart
May 1 2007
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Age Of Turbulence
Alan Greenspan
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Sep 17 2007
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About the Author
Alan Greenspan was born in 1926 in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. After studying the clarinet at Juilliard and working as a professional musician, he earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. In 1954, he...
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Memoirs: 1939-1993
Brian Mulroney
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Sep 10 2007
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“Brian Mulroney’s Memoirs might be the finest and most comprehensive memoir of any Prime Minister in Canadian history.” - Ottawa Citizen“A must-read for anyone interested in Canadian history…” - The National Post“The material (in Memoirs) remains precious… for passionate [devotees] of politics and history these memoirs will remain a ...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
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Simon & Schuster
April 10 2007
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Acclaimed biographer Isaacson examines the remarkable life of "science's preeminent poster boy" in this lucid account (after 2003's ...
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My Years As Prime Minister
Jean Chretien
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Knopf Canada
Oct 16 2007
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My Years as Prime Minister is Jean Chrétien’s own story, told with insight and humour, of his ten years at 24 Sussex Drive as Canada’s twentieth prime minister.By the time he left office, Jean Chrétien had been in politics for forty years – and his experience is evident on ...
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Alex Ross
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Oct 18 2007
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Starred Review. Ross, the classical music critic for the New Yorker, leads a whirlwind tour from the Viennese premiere of Richard Strauss's Salome in 1906 to minimalist Steve Reich's downtown Manhattan apartment. The wide-ranging historical material is organized in thematic essays grounded in personalities and places, in a ...
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
Rick Atkinson
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Henry Holt
Oct 2 2007
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Starred Review. Atkinson surpasses his Pulitzer-winning An Army at Dawn in this empathetic, perceptive analysis of the second stage in the U.S. Army's grassroots development from well-intentioned amateurs to the most formidable fighting force of World War II. The battles in Sicily and Italy developed the combat effectiveness ...
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Emperor of the North
James Raffan
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Sep 27 2007
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The adventure-filled story of the legendary Hudson's Bay Company is inextricably linked to the formation of a Canadian nation stretching from sea to sea to sea. In an absorbing and lively new book on The Bay, James Raffan explores the forces that moulde...
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Jeffrey Toobin
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Sep 18 2007
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It's not laws or constitutional theory that rule the High Court, argues this absorbing group profile, but quirky men and women guided by political intuition. ...
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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April 17 2007
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In business and government, major money is spent on prediction. Uselessly, according to Taleb, who administers a severe thrashing to MBA- and Nobel Prize-credentialed experts who make their living from economic forecasting. A financial trader and current r...
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At The Sharp End
Tim Cook
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Oct 9 2007
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At the Sharp End covers the harrowing early battles of World War One, when tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, died, before the generals and soldiers found ways to break the terrible stalemate of the front. It provides both an intimate look a...
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Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before
David Attenborough
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Mar 1 2007
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In this gorgeous coffee-table book, an offshoot of the Discovery Channel/ BBC series of the same name, zoologist and BBC producer Fothergill takes readers on a kaleidoscopic tour of the flora, fauna and natural history of the Earth's poles, forests, plains...
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John A: The Man Who Made Us
Richard J. Gwyn
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Sep 25 2007
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“Judging by the first half, his two-volume biography will no doubt be ranked with Donald Creighton’s two-book landmark from the 1950s…Gwyn provides a more dispassionate analysis of this complicated man and his times…A welcome addition to the national library.” -The National Post“Gwyn has performed a service to 21st-century Canadians ...
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Jeremy Scahill
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Nation Books
Feb 23 2007
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Scahill, a regular contributor to the Nation, offers a hard-left perspective on Blackwater USA, the self-described private military contractor and security firm. It owes its existence, he shows, to the postCold War drawdown of U.S. armed forces, its prosperity to the post-9/11 overextension of those forces and its notoriety ...
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Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
Christie Blatchford
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Doubleday Canada
Oct 30 2007
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“Christie Blatchford brings to the theatre of hostilities her keen eye and curiosity. She writes superb prose that conveys the experience of the Canadians’ war in Afghanistan. She understands the soldiers and has grasped the comradeship that binds them together. She not only informs Canadians of today’s military realities, ...
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The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need
Chris Turner
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Oct 5 2007
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Praise for Chris Turner and Planet Simpson:“One of this country’s smartest and most original pop-culture commentators.” —Hour (Montreal)“[An] absolutely must-have tome for the many Simpsons freaks, not just an over-sized fan’s guide but an absorbing take on why it matters.” —Toronto Star“Turner has written the definitive Simpsons study. He ...
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Richard Preston
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April 10 2007
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[Signature]Reviewed by John VaillantIn this radical departure from Preston's bestsellers on catastrophic diseases (The Demon in the Freezer, etc.), he journeys into the perpendicular universe of the world's tallest trees. Mostly California redwoods, they are the colossal remnants of a lost world, some predating the fall of Rome. Suspended ...
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The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
Alisa Smith
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Mar 12 2007
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It's not surprising that authors/partners Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon's attempt to eat locally for one year--that is, consume only foodstuffs cultivated and harvested within 100 miles of their Vancouver pad--became a sensation first on the web and then...
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Beijing Confidential: A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found
Jan Wong
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Doubleday Canada
Oct 30 2007
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Praise for Red China Blues:“A marvellous book by one of Canada’s best foreign correspondents at the top of her form.” —The Gazette (Montreal)“Totally captivating. A wonderful memoir.” —The Globe and Mail“With her unique perspective, Wong has given us front row seats at Mao’s theater of the absurd. ...
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