The Canadian Children’s Book Centre's Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, June 12, 2008, featuring special guest speaker, Barbara Reid, illustrator of this year’s TD Canadian Children’s Book Week poster. Details: Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:30 p.m. Room...
By Robert BarnettThe Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lamaby Pico IyerEvery so often, between the time a book leaves its publisher and the time it reaches its readers, events occur that change the ways it can
By Ingrid D. RowlandBathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eyeby Linda NochlinWACK! Art and the Feminist Revolutionan exhibition at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, February 17â€"May 12, 2008In 1971, Linda Nochlin, an assistant professor of art history at
By Malise RuthvenLeaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Centuryby Marc SagemanJihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11by Matthias Küntzel, translated from the German by Colin MeadeThe Fall and Rise of the Islamic Stateby Noah FeldmanHow We
By Thomas PowersThe Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflictby Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. BilmesThe Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan Warby Ali Ahmad Jalali and Lester W. GrauGhost Wars:
By Francine ProseTwenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogyby Patrick Hamilton, with an introduction by Susanna MooreHangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Courtby Patrick HamiltonThe Slaves of Solitudeby Patrick Hamilton, with an introduction by David LodgeBob, a
By Geoffrey WheatcroftBlood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warningby John LukacsTroublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save Englandby Lynne OlsonHuman Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilizationby Nicholson BakerChurchill,
By Frank RichWhen, in the summer of 1968, Norman Mailer covered the Republican and Democratic conventions on assignment for Harper's magazine, he was forty-five, an aging rebel looking for a new cause. He had started to drift restlessly from his
Episode six of series four, The Doctor's Daughter, achieved an Appreciation Index of 88. Once more one of the highest scores for the weekend on any of the five main channels. With overnights now available for the whole week, Doctor
Bill Moyers raises the alarm over what he sees as inroads into free speech and ethics in government. He has spent the last several years speaking forcefully against the Bush adminstration and censorship of public broadcasting. A selection of those
Celebrations in honor of Minnesota's 150th anniversary as the 32nd state in the union kicked off this weekend. As part of the Sesquicentennial, a wagon train drove 100 miles from Cannon Falls to St. Paul, where it arrived for the
