Politics & Current Affairs

Fables of the Times Tables

By Brigitte E. Kortright,Dennis Nobel, illus.

Rote memorization, once a time-honoured teaching tool, has really gone out of style. Days when kids could recite “The Cremation of Sam McGee” are gone forever, so much so that many children now fail to ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Literacy Techniques for Building Successful Readers and Writers

By David Booth et al.

Literacy Techniques for Building Successful Readers and Writers is a useful compendium of teaching strategies for the elementary grades. Unlike books for parents such as Paul Kropp’s, The Reading Solution, which can be easily read ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Two by George: Consecrated Ground and Gideon’s Blues

By George Elroy Boyd

In George Elroy Boyd’s Gideon’s Blues, Momma-Lou remembers how her husband, Poppy, used to say that this was “one nigger-hatin’ town.” I hazard a guess that it might be comforting for some Canadians’ self-image if ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

High Life

By Lee Macdougall

Neither Andrew Moodie, author of Riot, nor Lee Macdougall, who wrote High Life, had plays produced before writing these. Both men were, and are, actors who decided they wanted to write. Many people involved in ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Riot

By Andrew Moodie

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Everyone’s Guide to the Law: A Handbook for Canadians

By Linda Silver Dranoff

Linda Silver Dranoff’s Everyone’s Guide to the Law is a single-volume “attempt to demystify the law for the average person.” In other words, it undertakes to summarize our tangled legal landscape in just over 400 ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Honest Politics

By Ian Greene and David P. Shugarman

The title of Ian Greene and David P. Shugarman’s book reflects their refreshingly optimistic take on political ethics, a subject that often inspires only corrosive cynicism. This book is about fixing the ethical flaws in ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Greed: Investment Fraud in Canada and Around the Globe

By Deborah Thompson

In this review of well-known fraud cases from the last two decades, Toronto business writer Deborah Thompson covers a few boiler rooms from which assets were peddled to the unwary; a Winnipeg grain brokerage scandal; ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Butterfly Customer: Capturing the Loyalty of Today’s Elusive Consumer

By Susan M. O’Dell and Joan A. Pajunen

Toronto retail consultants Joan Pajunen and Susan O’Dell believe that customers’ loyalty to retailers has vanished. The authors identify both increased consumer awareness and diminished management ability for this trend. The Butterfly Customer deals with the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Chinese Opera: Images and Stories

By Siu Wang-Ngai with Peter Lovrick

Just in time to celebrate Canada’s Year of the Asia Pacific comes the publication of a comprehensive book celebrating one of the world’s oldest theatrical treasures. Written by the award-winning Hong Kong photographer Siu Wang-Ngai ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Fables of the Times Tables

Literacy Techniques for Building Successful Readers and Writers

Two by George: Consecrated Ground and Gideon’s Blues

High Life

Riot

Everyone’s Guide to the Law: A Handbook for Canadians

Honest Politics

Greed: Investment Fraud in Canada and Around the Globe

The Butterfly Customer: Capturing the Loyalty of Today’s Elusive Consumer

Chinese Opera: Images and Stories

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