Politics & Current Affairs

Half Man Half Beast: Making a Life in Canadian Theatre

Books on Canadian theatre are scarce enough that any addition to our slim library is a welcome one. Maurice Podbrey’s as-told-to memoir of starting and running Montreal’s Centaur Theatre, however, outstays its welcome depressingly soon, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Lights, Camera, Action! Making Movies and TV from the Inside Out

By Lisa O’Brien, Stephen MacEachern, illus.

In spite of the complexity of film production, the information presented in Lights, Camera, Action! is laid out in a clear, organized fashion and is easy to understand. This is not surprising since author Lisa ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fireworks and Folly: How We Killed Minnie Sutherland

By John Nihmey

Minnie Sutherland was a Cree from Kashechewan, a reserve on the Ontario side of James Bay. She died in an Ottawa hospital on Jan. 11, 1989, at age 40, after being hit by a car ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Smart Women: Canadian Entrepreneurs Talk About Making Money, Leadership, Management, and Self-development

By Barbara Thrasher and Madelon Smid

Although women entrepreneurs are establishing businesses at record levels and are primarily responsible for the proliferation of small business today, they continue to be dogged by the disparity between men’s and women’s incomes. Why? According ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Trivia Pursuit: How Showbiz Values Are Corrupting the News

By Knowlton Nash

“Headless body in topless bar.” According to Knowlton Nash, that lurid headline from the New York Post symbolizes the dismal future of journalism. Newspapers, television, and radio are abandoning whatever commitment they had to educating ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fear, Greed and the End of the Rainbow: Guarding Your Assets in the Coming Bear Market

By Andrew Sarlos with Patricia Best

Andrew Sarlos, financier, friend of tycoons, and benefactor of his native Hungary, died in March this year, his final testament a book of gloomy prophecy. In it, he forecasts that the roaring stock markets of ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Masters of Change: Profiles of Canadian Businesses Thriving in Turbulent Times

By Daniel Stoffman,ed.

This book might more aptly be called “Risk-takers” or, less grandly, “How Business Copes in the 1990s,” for, while it’s certain that each of the 15 companies and executives profiled are depending on ingenuity to ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

When She Was Bad: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence

By Patricia Pearson

B-film purists will be pleased to note that a literary equivalent of Chained Heat (the women- in-prison series) is being featured in bookstores everywhere. The refrain of these filmic mayhem queens – so young, so ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Sex, Power, and the Violent Schoolgirl

By Sybille Artz

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

By Drew Hayden Taylor

In one sense, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth is about the psychological consequences of the “scoop up,” or the taking of native children for adoption in white society. But behind the generalized clash ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Half Man Half Beast: Making a Life in Canadian Theatre

★ Lights, Camera, Action! Making Movies and TV from the Inside Out

Fireworks and Folly: How We Killed Minnie Sutherland

Smart Women: Canadian Entrepreneurs Talk About Making Money, Leadership, Management, and Self-development

Trivia Pursuit: How Showbiz Values Are Corrupting the News

Fear, Greed and the End of the Rainbow: Guarding Your Assets in the Coming Bear Market

Masters of Change: Profiles of Canadian Businesses Thriving in Turbulent Times

When She Was Bad: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence

Sex, Power, and the Violent Schoolgirl

Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

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