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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 diabetes diet: Dr. Bernstein's low-carbohydrate solution
By Richard K Bernstein, Marcia Miele. 2005
For diabetics, diet is more than a lifestyle choice - it's the key to controlling the course of their disease.…
Many struggle to maintain a healthy weight because the guidelines of the American Diabetes Association are unhelpful in regulating blood sugar - the critical component in keeping diabetes in check. Dr. Bernstein provides a low-carbohydrate approach that has enabled his patients, and himself, to take control of their disease. 2005.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 baby's table: over 100 easy, healthy and homemade recipes for the pickiest, most deserving eaters on the planet
By Brenda Bradshaw, Lauren Donaldson Bramley. 2004
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: PeacemakersNever say diet!: Discover Your Body's Inner Wisdom And Learn How To Use It
By Judy Toews, Nicole Parton. 2001
More than a decade ago, Registered Dietician-Nutritionist Judy Toews developed a science-based, non-diet approach to healthy living and weight management…
that hospitals and fitness centres began to use with impressive results. In this book, the authors show you how to listen to your body and ease your mind. 2001.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.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.Gulag: a history of the Soviet camps
By Anne Applebaum. 2003
Washington Post columnist documents the evolution of the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system - from its origins during the…
Bolshevik Revolution, expansion under Stalin, and its dissolution after the dictator's death. The chronicle also examines the lives of prisoners and the unique society they formed. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.Bury me standing: the Gypsies and their journey
By Isabel Fonseca. 1996
After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and travelled with the gypsies of Eastern Europe, sharing their daily lives,…
and recording their stories and their attempts to become something more than despised outsiders. She traces the gypsies from their exodus out of India, to their enslavement by the princes of medieval Romania, from their massacre by the Nazis, to their new violently contested presence in the political arena.The G.I. Diet: the easy, healthy way to permanent weight loss
By Rick Gallop. 2005
G.I. measures the speed at which your body breaks down food and converts it to glucose, which is used for…
energy or stored as fat. When losing weight, it is critical to avoid foods that have a high G.I., because they are digested too quickly by your body. Gallop lists foods in one of three categories: foods to avoid, foods to eat occasionally, and foods that you can eat as much of as you want. Includes recipes, snack ideas, a pull-out shopping list, tips on dining out and strategies for maintaining your new weight. 2005.Fifty years of Europe: an album
By Jan Morris. 1997
This extraordinary assembly of reflections and observations on Europe in the second half of the 20th century is defined by…
its author as an album - a blank tablet on which anything can be recorded - and it is certainly a highly personal book. It takes the reader from evocations of megalithic religion to the sensations of barge travel on the Rhine; from the gloom of Warsaw during the Cold War to the weird euphoria of Albania in the 1990s.In bed with an elephant
By Ludovic Kennedy. 1995
Kennedy discusses the long history of relations between Scotland and its neighbour to the south, England. He tells the tales…
of Scotland's heroes and the battles they fought that have become part of Scotland's proud and sometimes painful past.The Russian question: at the end of the twentieth century
By Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit͡ìsyn, Yermolai Solzhenitsyn. 1995
Victorian girls: Lord Lyttelton's daughters
By Sheila Fletcher. 1997
The four daughters of George, fourth Lord Lyttelton, were the nieces of the Prime Minister William Gladstone. Their letters and…
diaries enable us to know them and share their feelings in extraordinary detail; at home in Hagley Hall in Worcestershire; in fashionable London society; at country houses and on continental tours; in the schoolroom and embarking on courtship and marriage, and in happiness and adversity. The girls emerge in their own right as strong characters. 1997.Eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating and others (Your personal health series)
By J. Paul Caldwell, Jim Kirkpatrick. 2001
Near the end of the fourteenth century, the countryside around Rodez, in South-Central France, was ravaged by marauding English bands…
during the Hundred Years War. Peyre Marques is a merchant who forgets where he has buried his gold. When, in 1370, two workmen discover a hoard of coins while unblocking a drain, Marques's pathetic situation highlights the history of the town against a background of compassion and brutality.