Reviews

The Defiant Imagination: Why Culture Matters

“An impassioned plea to keep culture at the heart of the Canadian experiment”: this line, written across the cover of the new book from longtime B.C. arts writer and critic Max Wyman, is both essential ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Strange Things Done: Murder in Yukon History

By Ken S. Coates and William R. Morrison

As poet Robert Service pointed out, “There are strange things done in the midnight sun.” Coates and Morrison, historians and authors of several books on the North, do a fine job of collecting a few ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Air Monopoly: How Robert Milton’s Air Canada Won – and Lost – Control of Canada’s Skies

By Keith McArthur

Talk about a bumpy ride: In Robert Milton’s first four years as CEO of Air Canada, the airline went from industry giant to virtual monopoly to national laughingstock to troubled company seeking bankruptcy protection. How could ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Chasing Clayoquot: A Wilderness Almanac

By David Pitt-Brooke

In Chasing Clayoquot, David Pitt-Brooke makes a distinctly poetic analysis of a place he clearly loves, an ecologically unique region that gained a precarious degree of government protection only after fierce environmental protests in the ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World’s Environmental Hotspots

By Alanna Mitchell

Why do we assume that evolution ends with us? As Alanna Mitchell points out in Dancing at the Dead Sea, natural selection is always at work. Today, staggering numbers of species – 25% of all ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Programming with Java! Beta 2.0

By Tim Ritchey

Back in the dark days of 1990, when the arrival of the push-button home seemed imminent, the folks at Sun Microsystems launched an ambitious project. They would develop a revolutionary computer programming language – one ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment