Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Reading Environment: How Adults Help Children Enjoy Books

Are public libraries saving money, or are they killing their futures when they eliminate children’s librarians? Are school boards saving money or squandering priceless opportunities when they eliminate budgets for books?British reading specialist Aidan Chambers ... Read More »

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

Tell Me: Children, Reading and Talk

By Aidan Chambers

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

Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality

By Donna Laframboise

If you watch TV or read the popular press, you probably know more about the rebellion against feminism than you do about feminism itself. Nay-sayers to the women’s movement have been popular since Camille Paglia, ... Read More »

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

★ Rewind and Search: Conversations with the Makers and Decision-Makers of CBC Television Drama

By Mary Jane Miller

Mary Jane Miller’s Rewind and Search is too epic an accomplishment to categorize merely as a sequel to her Turn Up the Contrast (1987). The new book was begun in 1988, three years into the ... Read More »

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

Diversity at Work: The Business Case for Equity

By Trevor Wilson and Mary Ann Sayers

1995 was a tremendous year for corporate earnings. Now in 1996, company management can finally afford to shift focus and they’re ready to tackle intangibles like the effects of employee loyalty, morale, and perceptions of ... Read More »

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

Heat Wave

By Michel Marc Bouchard, Bill Glassco, trans.

Michel Marc Bouchard is one of the most innovative, daring, and imaginative of Quebec playwrights, having written such complexly psychological – and complexly theatrical – works as Lilies and The Tale of Teeka. So you’ll ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Witch Hunt in the B.C. Woods

By A.B. Robinson

Retired B.C. government forest administrator A.B. (Tony) Robinson asserts tree huggers are wrong to conserve forests, forest bureaucrats are right to maximize harvest, and B.C.’s NDP government is dabbling in economic witchcraft in its efforts ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The League of Nathans

By Jason Sherman

Jason Sherman’s seriocomic The League of Nathans is an immensely entertaining play which, time and again, masterfully executes one of the great theatrical tricks: Sherman is an expert at allowing the prevailing comic tone of ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance

By Paul Grescoe

To call romantic fiction pap is to miss the point business historian and journalist Paul Grescoe makes – that turning mush into millions is a great story on its own. From the birth of Harlequin ... Read More »

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

In Search of a New Left: Canadian Politics After the Neoconservative Assault

By James Laxer

This book is grotesquely mistitled. It is not – except for its last chapter – about the search for a new Left, or even about Canadian politics in the neoconservative era. Instead, In Search of ... Read More »

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

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★ The Reading Environment: How Adults Help Children Enjoy Books

Tell Me: Children, Reading and Talk

Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality

★ Rewind and Search: Conversations with the Makers and Decision-Makers of CBC Television Drama

Diversity at Work: The Business Case for Equity

Heat Wave

Witch Hunt in the B.C. Woods

★ The League of Nathans

★ The Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance

In Search of a New Left: Canadian Politics After the Neoconservative Assault

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