Great Software for Kids and Parents

IDG Books has discreetly minimized the Dummies logo on its new kids-and-parents computing series, packaging this set as “a cool reference for the whole family.” The three guides, covering software for kids aged 2-12, web ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Between the Stillness and the Grove

By Erika de Vasconcelos

Erika de Vasconcelos’s second novel is more ambitious in scope than her acclaimed debut. Where My Darling Dead Ones concerned itself with the personal histories of a family of women, Between the Stillness and the ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

UN

By Dennis Lee

Dennis Lee’s new poetry collection, UN, is no book for children. Unless, that is, you think children should be prepared for 21st-century adulthood with frank discussions of cultural brain-death and planetary extinction. These are staggering ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

It Pays to Play

By Peter White

In the postmodern tradition of taking the most irreverent “cultural bottom feeders” and elevating them to the lofty heights of intellectual discourse, curator and writer Peter White, scores with It Pays to Play, an exhibition ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Laughs: Funny Stories Selected by Claire Mackay

By Claire Mackay

Is there a distinctively Canadian sense of humour? From reading Laughs, Claire Mackay’s anthology of funny stories, poems, and riddles by Canadian authors, one has to conclude there isn’t. The range of humour is broad ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Learn in Your Car French

By Henry N. Raymond

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

Pimsleur Language Program (French)

By Paul Pimsleur

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

Secrets of Learning a Foreign Language

By Graham E. Fuller

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

A Complicated Kindness

By Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews’ second novel starts with a funny-sad zinger: “Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing,” and right away we’re hooked on our narrator’s mournful smarts. Laconic, restless, sixteen-year-old Naomi “Nomi” Nickel doesn’t ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Pimsleur Language Program (French)

Secrets of Learning a Foreign Language

Wildfire: British Columbia Burns

A Complicated Kindness

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