Book Cover Just Say Yes
Book Cover Just Say Yes
Joseph Chirayil
, Jude Castillo
, Brad MULLER
, Lynn Mullen
, Marilyn Stanley
, Susan Toy
, Katie Kah
, Ryan Woods
, Hilary Squires
, Agnes Marshall
, Sandra Furlotte
, Natasha Andres
, Dot Mann
, Anita Jones
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Tami Osato
, toni velthuis
, Sharon Forzley
, Dorothy Wong
, Sandra Lackie
, Cheryl Johnson
, Noelle Walsh
, Barry Kazimer
, Wayne Harrigan
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joshua Lewis
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Emily Steiner
, Yutong Wu
, Holly Elisabeth
, Lesley Sturge
, Brittney Warren
, Andrea Pole
, joy mills
, Sara Conway
, Robert Hykawy
, Anita Thompson
, Keltey Buchko
, Jeff Eaves
, Cindy Bodini
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Fiona Kelly
, Robert Lion
, Kathryn Galan
, Christine Lion
, Lynn Bechtel
, Edward Dalton
, Diane McPherson
, Chuk Goodin
, E. Ainslie
, Karen LeBlanc
, Lindsey Andronak
, Sandra Storey
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Benita Hartwell
, Mary Lester
, Kartik Gupta
, Leslie Vermeer
, Susan Jang
, Ken Gilmour
, Alison Yntema
, Rodney Cross
, Janice Cournoyer
, Kym Marsh
, Ruhee Dewji
, Sande Minke
, Ashley Poblocki
, Shonna Froebel
, Mary Danieli
, Jane McRobb
, Chris Lantz
, Michelle Arsenault
, Vikki Spencer
, jane luce
, Roland Schigas
, Wendy Houlden
, Michelle Canfield
, Remi Gunn
, Rosa Cross
, Melissa Poremba
, Alice Meems
, Catherine Westerberg
, Cherryl Koylass
, Lynn Davidson
, Debra Fisher
, kristine hibbs
, Jennifer Beyak
, Shelley Butcher
, Jay Rawding
, Kevin Smith
, Nora Gould
, Janet Hosokawa
, Tracy Campbell
, Stephanie Trotter
, Janet Miller
, Melissa Dingwall
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Sarah Dalton
, Pamela Bruce
, Cathy L Brown
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Tanis Anne
, Sahar Sa
, Paula Adam
, M M English
, zelda dwyer
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Crystal Inwood
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Terri Portelli
, Kim Cappellina
, Claire Gear
, ilona storie
, Deanna Radford
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Lynn Andrews
, Nancy Reid
, Virginia Reddin
, Allison Dube
, Dana Derks
, Dian Anderson
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Bob McDonald, host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, offers a personal and inspiring memoir of life-changing events in his early years through five decades in science journalism.
Revered science reporter and radio host Bob McDonald has devoted his career to turning our attention away from everyday perspectives and outward to the vast, intricate wonders of our planet and universe. Now, in this revealing and captivating memoir, he looks within, offering an intimate view of the path that brought him from a blue-collar background to his long-standing role as Canada’s foremost explainer of all things scientific.
It’s an engrossing and often jubilant story that allows McDonald to share powerful insights on overcoming fear of failure and tackling life-transforming challenges. Early on, he describes a childhood and youth plagued by difficulties in school that eventually convinced him to drop out of university. Yet, despite the academic obstacles, his love of science burned bright. Soon, through an innate stage sense and sheer enthusiasm, he landed a gig doing high-spirited demonstrations for the public at the Ontario Science Centre, which in turn led to self-produced TV spots.
And as each hard-won, never-certain success built on the last, he arrived at the role that would make him a national figure: the witty, engaging, passionately curious host of the perennially popular CBC Radio show Quirks and Quarks, reporting from the frontiers of scientific exploration and rubbing elbows with such luminaries as Chris Hadfield, Buzz Aldrin and Stephen Hawking. Told with all of McDonald’s trademark pace and humour, Just Say Yes is bound to please, surprise and inspire his numerous fans in entirely new ways.
