All of Baba's Children

A sub­ti­tle in search of a title: Racism in Canada (Fifth House). Where are the mar­ket­ing peo­ple with nerves of steel, when we need them? However dreary the title, though, this is a big and immensely use­ful book, a Canadian counter-history that should have a place on the shelves...

Until I read The Mummy Congress by Heather Pringle (Penguin Viking), I thought mum­mies were just dead peo­ple with good PR. But this book traces the role mum­mies have played in anthro­po­log­i­cal, his­tor­i­cal and med­ical research, as well as help­ing to real­ize great prof­its for a...