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  • How to breathe underwater : field reports from an age of radical change
    Author:

    Turner, Chris

    Summary:

    The essays and reportage in 'How to Breathe Underwater' offer a panoramic overview of this age of radical change from the online gambling boom in the Caribbean to Cyberjaya, the Malaysian governmen

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Social science

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  • Join the revolution, comrade : journeys and essays
    Author:

    Foran, Charles

    Summary:

    In Join the Revolution, Comrade, Charles Foran brings to the essay form the same restlessness and originality that mark his novels and non-fiction.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Travel writing, Essays

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  • Marcel Pronovost : a life in hockey
    Author:

    Pronovost, Marcel

    Summary:

    Between his time with the Detroit Red Wings in the 1950s, the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1960s, and his days as a scout with the New Jersey Devils, Marcel Pronovost has earned eight Stanley Cup rin

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Sports and recreation

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  • My town : faces of Windsor
    Author:

    Gervais, Marty

    Summary:

    My Town brings together more than 70 snapshots of the people and places that have called Windsor home. More than this, they have made Windsor, for better and for worse, the city it is today.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, History and geography, Illustrated works

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  • The pebble chance : feuilletons & other prose
    Author:

    Kociejowski, Marius

    Summary:

    In the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you study the world's surface, there is always a chance an unseen pebble will knock your ball in an unexpected direction.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Creative nonfiction, Essays

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  • The pigeon wars of Damascus
    Author:

    Kociejowski, Marius

    Summary:

    Marius Kociejowski follows up his now classic 'The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool' with 'The Pigeon Wars of Damascus'.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Creative nonfiction, Travel writing

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  • Queers were here : heroes & icons of queer Canada
    Author:

    Ganev, Robin

    Summary:

    In the twenty-first century, Canada has a reputation for being one of the most gay-friendly nations on earth, a pioneer in legalizing same-sex marriage, and home to enormously popular Pride parades

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, History and geography, Social science

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  • Report on the afterlife of culture
    Author:

    Henighan, Stephen

    Summary:

    In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smalle

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Political science, Literary arts

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  • The river : a memoir of life in the border cities
    Author:

    Vasey, Paul

    Summary:

    The River is Paul Vasey's tribute to Windsor, a place he discovered by accident and loved over a lifetime.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Film, television and performing arts

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  • The rumrunners : a prohibition scrapbook
    Author:

    Gervais, Marty

    Summary:

    An illustrated history of bootlegging along the Great Lakes, Rumrunners gives us a sense of Prohibition and the larger-than-life rumrunners and bootleggers who thrived during it in a way that no do

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, History and geography, Illustrated works

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  • Selected essays
    Author:

    Blaise, Clark

    Summary:

    Clark Blaise is a North American treasure, one of a handful of the truly important short story writers in the last 50 years.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Literary arts

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  • Shut up he explained : a literary memoir
    Author:

    Metcalf, John

    Summary:

    John Metcalf's Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Literary arts

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  • The last bonobo : a journey into the Congo
    Author:

    B'chard, Deni

    Summary:

    When Deni B'chard learned of the last living bonobos the matriarchal great apes who are, alongside chimpanzees, our closest relatives he began exploring ways to reverse their alarming decline.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Nature and the environment, Pets and animals

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  • This great escape : the case of Michael Paryla
    Author:

    Steinmetz, Andrew

    Summary:

    He had fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. He was blond. A Gestapo agent.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Film, television and performing arts, History and geography

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  • Unruly voices : essays on democracy, civility and the human imagination
    Author:

    Kingwell, Mark

    Summary:

    Meet the 'fast zombie' citizen of the current world. He is a rapid, brainless carrier of preference-driven consumption. His Facebook-style 'likes' replace complex notions of personhood.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Political science

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