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[8 Oct 2009]

Denise Chong, the Canadian author of The Concubine’s Children and The Girl in the Picture, talks to Joseph Planta, about her new book, Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship (Random House, 2009).

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[8 Oct 2009]

The novelist and poet Thomas Trofimuk discusses his new novel, Waiting for Columbus (McClelland & Stewart, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[8 Oct 2009]

Terry Walters joins Joseph Planta to discuss her new book, Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You (Sterling Epicure, 2009).

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[6 Oct 2009]

One of Time magazine’s most influential people, the primatologist from Emory University’s Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Center and author Frans de Waal discusses his new book, The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society (McClelland & Stewart, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[6 Oct 2009]

Chef Jeff Crump, executive chef at the Ancaster Old Mill in Ontario, discusses the lavish cookbook he has co-written with Bettina Schormann, Earth to Table: Seasonal Recipes from an Organic Farm (Random House, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[6 Oct 2009]

Security and privacy awareness expert Claudiu Popa, president of Informatica talks about The Canadian Privacy and Data Security Toolkit for Small and Medium Enterprises, which he co-authored with Nicholas Cheung, with Joseph Planta; as well they discuss the impact of security breaches not only on businesses but the consumer, with tips for the shopper and more.

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[1 Oct 2009]

University of Michigan Afro-American literature and culture professor Michael Awkward discusses his new book, Burying Don Imus: Anatomy of a Scapegoat (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), with Imus in the Morning listener Joseph Planta; they discuss the 2007 firing of talk personality Don Imus over comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team which ignited a firestorm over race, free speech and language in America.

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[30 Sep 2009]

The economist and commentator Brian Lee Crowley, president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, discusses his new book Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values (Key Porter, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[30 Sep 2009]

Dr. Jeremy Friedman, Division Head of Paediatric Medicine at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children and an Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto discusses his new book Canada’s Toddler Care Book: A Complete Guide from 1 to 5 Years Old (Robert Rose, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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