Books by Daniel Coleman

As the pink-skinned, fair-haired child of Canadian missionary parents, DANIEL COLEMAN grew up with an ambivalent relationship to the country of his birth. He was clearly different from his Ethiopian playmates, but because he was born there and knew no other home, he was not completely foreign. Like the eucalyptus, a tree imported to Ethiopia from Australia in the late 19th century to solve a firewood shortage, he and his missionary family were naturalized transplants. As "ferenjie, they endlessly negotiated between the culture they brought with them and the culture in which they lived. In "The scent of Eucalyptus, Coleman reflects on his experience of "in-betweenness" amid Ethiopia's violent political upheavals. His intelligent and finely crafted memoir begins in the early 1960s, during the reign of Haile Selassie. It spans the Emperor's dramatic fall from power in 1974, the devastating famines of the mid-1970s and early 1980s, and Mengistu Haile Mariam's brutal 20-year dictatorship. Insightful chapters touch on everything from the riot drills at Coleman's boarding school to the paradoxical taste for luxury he gained as a result of international famine relief efforts.

This book will help men and women while they are in prison and when they get out of prison it will help them to stay out. The book gives important steps to staying away from drugs and helps them live productive lives.

In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies around Canadian whiteness and examines its roots as a literary project of early colonials and nation-builders.

While reading is a deeply personal activity, paradoxically, it is also fundamentally social and outward-looking. Daniel Coleman, a lifelong reader and professor of literature, combines story with meditation to reveal this paradox and illustrate why, more than ever, we need this special brand of "quiet time" in our lives. In Bed with the Word sparks with every conceivable enticement for those who worry about living in a culture of distraction and who long to reconnect with something deeper.