A few nice items from the Canadian book industry magazine, Quill & Quire:
- Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization by Jeff Rubin
- Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds by Trevor Herriot
- Slow Death by Robber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie, with Sarah Dopp
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