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The ghosts of Medak Pocket: the story of Canada's secret war
By Carol Off. 2004
In 1993, Canadian peacekeepers in Croatia were plunged into the most significant fighting Canada had seen since the Korean War.…
In September 1993, in a tiny corner of Croatia known as Medak Pocket, a unit of Canadian peacekeepers planted themselves between besieged Serbs and the advancing Croat army, driving them from the area under United Nations protection. The soldiers should have returned home as heroes, but instead, they arrived under a cloud of suspicion and silence. Descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.The geometry of love: space, time, mystery, and meaning in an ordinary church
By Margaret Visser. 2000
This book features the church of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura in Rome as its subject. The author takes readers on…
a journey through time and space, beginning with the modern church and the community that uses it. She discusses the history, theology, art history and technology, hagiography, folklore and iconography expressed in this 7th century building. 2000.The book of revenge: a blues for Yugoslavia
By Dragan Todorović. 2006
Serb Dragan Todorovic goes to Belgrade as the editor of a cultural magazine, but his constant clashes with the system…
end in his being drafted into the army. Dragan survives his tour of duty, but his return to Belgrade is unsettling - everything is changing, friendships are collapsing, conversations are guarded, and bit by bit, the country he knows and loves is being torn apart. Some strong language. 2006.The bloody red hand: a journey through truth, myth and terror in Northern Ireland
By Derek Lundy. 2006
Author Derek Lundy, bearing in mind that the name "Lundy" is synonymous with traitor in Ulster, delves into the lives…
of ancestors Robert Lundy, Protestant governor of Derry in 1688, William Steel Dickson, a Protestant preacher of the early 19th century who advocated resisting the English, and Billy Lundy, born in 1890 and the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants became - a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the prospect of an independent Ireland. 2006.The $12 million stuffed shark: the curious economics of contemporary art
By Donald N Thompson. 2008
Delves into the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world - artists, dealers, auction houses, and wealthy collectors. If…
it's true that 85 percent of new contemporary art is bad, why were record prices achieved at auction in 2006 and 2007? Explores money, lust, and the self-aggrandizement of possession in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work of art valuable while others are ignored. 2008.Secret ingredients: the brave new world of industrial farming
By Stuart Laidlaw. 2003
A vivid portrait of what modern industrial farming is, what it is doing to the environment, to farmers, to the…
plants and livestock we eat, and to us as consumers and as citizens. The author takes us from the dairy farms of Pennsylvania to Canada's prairie wheatfields, from the tomato greenhouses of southern Ontario to the potato fields of P.E.I. All along the way, he shows us food's secret ingredient - its hidden costs. 2003.Red cloud at dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly
By Michael D Gordin. 2009
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed "First Lightning", exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. This surprising…
international event marked the beginning of an arms race that would ultimately lead to nuclear proliferation beyond the Soviet Union and the United States. Using newly opened archives, Gordin follows a trail of espionage, secrecy, deception, political brinksmanship, and technical innovation to provide a fresh understanding of the nuclear arms race. 2009.Portrait du Gulf Stream: éloge des courants : promenade
By Erik Orsenna. 2005
Paris 1919: six months that changed the world
By Margaret MacMillan. 2001
Analyzes the failure of the Versailles Peace Conference after World War I. Focuses on the nationalistic goals of American president…
Woodrow Wilson, French premier Georges Clemenceau, and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George - the author's great-grandfather - as they reorganized the defeated empires and created the League of Nations. Foreword by Richard Holbrooke. Bestseller. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2001. Uniform title: PeacemakersNo logo: taking aim at the brand bullies
By Naomi Klein. 2000
As big companies such as McDonald's, Nike and Wal-mart keep getting bigger, consumers are becoming more wary of their attempts…
to force ready-to-wear lifestyles upon us. Klein discusses the growth of the corporate logo, and the resistance to the attempts of the big companies to move into every aspect of our lives. 2000.Bienvenue au pays de la vie ordinaire: essai (Phares)
By Mathieu Bélisle. 2017
Lecture attentive de la grande et de la petite histoire de ce pays ainsi que de sa littérature, cet essai…
brosse le portrait de l'homme québécois moyen dont le défi, qui est aussi celui de l'Occident, consiste à supporter la tension entre Sancho Pança et son maître, entre l'horizon prosaïque et le goût du vertige et de la verticalité. L'honnêteté intellectuelle et la bienveillante ironie de l'essayiste - qui se définit comme un généraliste formé par la littérature et qui avoue se reconnaître dans cet homme moyen -, la sobriété de sa prose et de sa pensée en font un guide sûr pour voyager dans un pays où la vie ordinaire est pour les uns un point d'arrivée et pour les autres un point de départ. 2017.L'homme révolté: Essai (Folio Essais Ser. #Vol. 15)
By Albert Camus. 1951
L'homme est la seule créature qui refuse d'être ce qu'elle est. La révolte est le mouvement de la vie. Inhérente…
à l'homme, elle manifeste sa grandeur devant l'absurdité du monde. L'auteur distingue révolte et révolution. La révolution se retourne contre ses origines et détruit l'humanité. 1985, c1951.Les odeurs (L'exception ; #7)
By Alain Leygonie. 2016
Le langage est le seul outil que nous possédions pour décrire les odeurs. Impossible de les sculpter, de les mettre…
en musique, de les dessiner, de les peindre ou de les photographier. Patrick Süskind, qui sait de quoi il parle pour avoir consacré tout un roman au parfum (Le Parfum), prétend que notre langage ne vaut rien pour les décrire. C'est précisément en raison de cette difficulté qu'Alain Leygonie s'est lancé dans cette aventure. 37 odeurs abordées, les bonnes et les mauvaises. De l'odeur du fumier au parfum de la rose, en passant par l'odeur du tilleul, l'odeur de l'eau de javel, l'odeur d'Afrique, l'odeur du brouillard, l'odeur du feu de bois, l'odeur de la soupe, l'odeur de la poudre, l'odeur de l'argent, l'odeur de l'encens, l'odeur de la punaise et celle de l'eau de Cologne. Odeurs familières pour la plupart, choisies par la mémoire. Rien de tel que l'odeur pour restituer le passé. C'est à la recherche du temps passé de l'enfance en particulier que nous invite cet ouvrage. 2016.Histoires de croisades ((Champs. Histoire ; 960).)
By Alessandro Barbero, Jean-Marc Mandosio. 2010
" C'est donc ainsi que commencent les croisades, c'est-à-dire l'aventure de ces chrétiens qui ont entendu l'appel du pape, en…
sont restés fascinés et se sont engagés dans une entreprise qu'avec nos valeurs d'aujourd'hui nous jugeons assez discutable, mais qui pour eux était sacro-sainte : ils partent pour Jérusalem, à pied, en se taillant un chemin par la force, et prennent la ville. C'est la première croisade ; mais il y en aura ensuite beaucoup d'autres. Car les musulmans, de leur côté, ne restent pas inertes à la vue d'une horde de barbares sanguinaires venus on ne sait d'où - mécréants, qui plus est -, entrant en terre d'Islam, semant la destruction et venant conquérir une de leurs villes saintes. Ils ont évidemment ressenti comme une grande offense le fait que ces mécréants d'Occident se soient emparés de Jérusalem et du tombeau du Christ. Le monde islamique se mobilise donc aussitôt pour reconquérir la Ville sainte et chasser les envahisseurs. Voilà pourquoi la chute de Jérusalem en 1099 est suivie par deux siècles de croisades. " Titre uniforme: Benedette guerre : Crociate e Jihad.Imperial reckoning: the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
By Caroline Elkins. 2005
Recovers the lost history of the last days of British colonialism in Kenya. In the aftermath of World War II…
and the triumph of liberal democracy over fascism, the British detained and brutalised hundreds of thousands of Kikuyu - the colony's largest ethnic group - who had demanded their independence. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2005.Exploded view: observations on reading, writing and life
By Jean McKay. 2001
The exploded view is a diagram which shows how each component of an object relates to the whole, and is…
usually applied to machinery. McKay uses it to explode everything from macaroons to metaphors. In her alphabetical essays she explodes language and her world view, taking a variety of things apart, from babies and crabapples to funerals and acorns, and putting them back together in unexpected ways. Some strong language.Fences and windows: dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate
By Naomi Klein, Debra Ann Levy. 2002
A time to die: the untold story of the Kursk tragedy
By Robert Moore. 2003
At 11:28 am on Saturday, August 12, 2000, Captain Gennady Lyachin was taking the Kursk, the pride of Russia's Northern…
fleet, through the last steps of firing a practice torpedo when it exploded, incinerating all seven men in the forward compartment. In order for the surviving 27 crew members to get out, it was a race against the clock. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.A people's tragedy: the Russian Revolution, 1891-1924
By Orlando Figes. 1997
Explores the early-twentieth-century revolution in Russia that led to the removal of Czar Nicholas II and the rise to power…
of Lenin's Bolsheviks. The author places the blame for the failure of the coup d'etat to achieve its social aims at the feet of both the government and the people. 1997.