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A National Bestseller! Why be house poor when you can rent rich? “Why rent when you can buy?” More than any other, this phrase captures the overwhelmingly unanimous promotion of home ownership to Canadians. Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, family, friends, and even the government promote ownership as a safe, attractive, and sure-fire path to personal wealth. This one-size-fits-all advice ignores...

The Holographic World is a somber vision of humanity toward the end of its subsistence. A place where love does not exist. The creatures that inhabit it are genetically modified, they are not capable of feeling empathy as well as they have lost the ability of distinguishing between right and wrong. They are genderless, they neither procreate nor build closer relationships. They live alone, striving...

In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included - her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that...

Autorami książki Wyjątkowa planeta. Dlaczego nasze położenie w Kosmosie umożliwia odkrycia naukowe są amerykański astronom Guillermo Gonzalez i amerykański filozof Jay W. Richards . Pierwsze, anglojęzyczne wydanie ukazało się w 2004 roku nakładem wydawnictwa Regnery Publishing. Amerykański astronom Carl Sagan pisał, że Ziemia jest niczym niewyróżniającą się „małą błękitną kropką”. Pogląd Sagana jest...