Politics & Current Affairs

Electronic Day Trading 101

Legend has it that one day in 1929 J.P. Morgan, the wealthy U.S. financier, received a stock tip from a shoeshine boy. It’s said that Morgan promptly sold his entire portfolio, and avoided the stock ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Zero Tolerance

By Peter C. Emberley

In the world of Peter Emberley, there are cannons to the left and cannons to the right, and they are firing like mad on Canada’s universities. Speech codes, dwindling government funding, companies putting their corporate ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Hand in the Water: The Many Lies of Albert Walker

By Bill Schiller

The story of Albert Walker has all the elements of a lurid mystery: high finance, international fugitives, incest, and finally, murder. Walker fled to England from Canada in 1990, taking with him his 15-year-old daughter, ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Nothing Sacred: The Many Lives and Betrayals of Albert Walker

By Alan Cairns

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Secrets of Learning a Foreign Language

By Graham E. Fuller

Most foreigners living in Japan eventually hear the same warning: Be careful not to become too good at Japanese.Gaijin who speak like locals are viewed with mistrust – at least according to conventional wisdom – ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Learn in Your Car French

By Henry N. Raymond

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Pimsleur Language Program (French)

By Paul Pimsleur

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wildfire: British Columbia Burns

By Charles Anderson and Lori Culbert

While it is often difficult to fathom the demand for a souvenir book of a tragedy like last summer’s fires in British Columbia’s Interior, Wildfire: British Columbia Burns certainly brings those events into sharp focus. ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown

By Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

At some point, most writers encounter The Travelling Writer. “I’m also a writer of sorts,” this person will usually say, “but I only write when I’m travelling to other countries because I find so much ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Meaning of Wife

By Anne Kingston

Despite The Meaning of Wife’s provocative cover (a woman’s hand with the ring-finger extended, instead of the middle), and its publisher’s prediction that this book will be “one of the most talked about of the ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Electronic Day Trading 101

Zero Tolerance

A Hand in the Water: The Many Lies of Albert Walker

Nothing Sacred: The Many Lives and Betrayals of Albert Walker

Secrets of Learning a Foreign Language

Learn in Your Car French

Pimsleur Language Program (French)

Wildfire: British Columbia Burns

Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown

The Meaning of Wife

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