Reviews

1999 Canadian Internet Handbook: Tips, Tools, and Techniques to Enhance Your Internet Activities

Remember the pioneering days of the Internet? Before long we were all going to be shopping online, downloading movies, and getting all our information from the World Wide Web.Well, the initial hype hasn’t quite materialized, ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Health & Self-help

The Friendly Dictatorship

By Jeffrey Simpson

Jeffrey Simpson, the national affairs columnist for the Globe and Mail, is an oddity amongst Canadian journalists. The author of several books on national politics, he also closely studies the latest academic literature. The Friendly ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Hamilton Sketchbook

By David Collier

A self-described Prairie artist who’s also traveled across Canada, David Collier’s Hamilton Sketchbook ($22.95 paper 1-89597-48-3, 160 pp., Drawn & Quarterly) is the latest in a series of published sketchbooks from the renowned comics publisher. ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Berbice Crossing

By Cyril Dabydeen

Nine of the 11 stories in Cyril Dabydeen’s third collection, Berbice Crossing, are set in rural Guyana, and many of the characters dream, often of escape: Devan, in “The Rastafarian,” envisions pairing up with his ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Day Trade Online

By Christopher A. Farrell

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: Politics & Current Affairs

Understanding Electronic Day Trading

By Carol Troy

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

A Beginner’s Guide to Day Trading Online

By Toni Turner

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

Electronic Day Trading 101

By Sunny J. Harris

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

The New Internet Business Book

By Jill Ellsworth and Matthew V. Ellsworth

These days, it seems as though all anyone can talk about is the Web – as in the World Wide Web, the sound-and-picture portion of that vast network of computers people call the Internet (or ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment