How to increase your reading speed
SELF-IMPROVEMENT: Speed reading is really just a collection of good habits, intention and concentration. Anyone can dramatically improve the rate at which they read (PREMIUM)
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Category: Books
Is Canada on a well-worn path to destruction?
LEE HARDING: There are surprising commonalities in the rise and fall of 11 historic empires. Canada is on the same path (FREE)
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If you like medieval drama, The Last Kingdom fits the bill
TV REVIEW: The Last Kingdom isn’t a scrupulously accurate historical documentary. Still, it’s quite engrossing as a viewing spectacle ($29)
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Time for a rational approach to environmental issues
MICHAEL TAUBE: Fortunately, some writers and thinkers still believe in healthy debate and intellectual discourse on the environment. One of them is Peter Foster (PREMIUM)
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A user’s guide to coping in an age of anxiety
SCIENCE: Health law and policy professor Timothy Caulfield takes readers through an average day to show how evidence can allay our fears and inform our decisions (FREE)
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Cary Grant was a complicated, brilliant creation
PAT MURPHY: Grant may have lacked formal education and been a troubled soul, but he was nobody’s fool when it came to practising his trade and taking care of business [Use Coupon Code CC25 at checkout and SAVE 25%!]
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A revisionist history of who won the U.S. Civil War
MICHAEL TAUBE: New book maintains that the North may have won the war, but the South won the battle of ideas Use Coupon Code 11608 at checkout and save $5!
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A guide to looking beyond the COVID-19 crisis
GERRY CHIDIAC: A small shift in mindset can get us to realize that what we’re going through really will one day simply be a memory
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What did Germans really think of Hitler?
PAT MURPHY: The Nazi approach was a blend of carrots and sticks, resting on three pillars: popularity, tradition and coercion
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Margaret Thatcher and the end of apartheid
PAT MURPHY: The Thatcher-Nelson Mandela relationship is a reflection of how very different people can evolve a respectful, albeit wary, understanding
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A KGB guide to subverting the press to your agenda
LEE HARDING: The methods of a former KGB operative remain applicable in the modern era, leading to disinformation and outright lies
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Adolf Hitler’s fateful mistake
PAT MURPHY: If Hitler had declared war on Japan in support of the U.S., he might have kept the U.S. out of the European war. And that would have changed history
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