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Song of a Water Dragon

A photographer and ethnographer, Norman Track goes to China in search of “endangered species, both people and plants.” He returns with photographs of rare irises and the manuscript of Song of a Water Dragon, the ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Li-Ka Shing: The Biography

By Anthony B. Chan

Li-Ka Shing is the story of one man’s rise from poverty to extraordinary wealth and power, the motivation for which was a deathbed promise to his dying father. Li’s father, an immigrant teacher from mainland ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Peter Mettler: Making the Invisible Visible

By Salome Pitschen and Annette Schönholzer, eds.

On the occasion of a Peter Mettler (Picture of Light) retrospective in Lucerne, Switzerland, what started out as “a small accompaniment” to the program quickly turned into a “scrapbook of sorts” with film notables including ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Biographical Index to Artists in Canada

By Evelyn de R. McMann, ed.

It’s not sex, but the human urge to make lists is basic. One of the first uses to which writing was put, 4,000 years ago in Assyria, was the compilation of cuneiform clay-tablet lists of ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Store Wars: Storekeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890-1939

By David Monod

In the time between the turn of the century and the start of World War II, a wave of modernization swept over Canada’s retailers. Chains like Eaton’s and Simpson’s brought cutthroat competition to the marketplace, ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: History

Farewell to the Twentieth Century: A Compendium of the Absurd

By Pierre Berton

What I was going to do was make a humorous approach to Pierre Berton’s purportedly funny Farewell to the Twentieth Century: A Compendium of the Absurd. What I had in mind was a piece poking ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Witch Hunt in the B.C. Woods

By A.B. Robinson

Retired B.C. government forest administrator A.B. (Tony) Robinson asserts tree huggers are wrong to conserve forests, forest bureaucrats are right to maximize harvest, and B.C.’s NDP government is dabbling in economic witchcraft in its efforts ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Out Our Way: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country

By Michael Riordon

Queers are everywhere. That’s the chant and the dogma, but I think secretly most of us believe that, if we queers are not already living in some urban gay ghetto, we’re saving up for the ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Contested Identities: The Struggle for Canadian Sport

By Bruce Kidd

In his third book, Contested Identities: The Struggle for Canadian Sport, former distance runner Bruce Kidd, who now directs the School of Physical and Health Education at the University of Toronto, argues that sports and ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Trent Frayne’s All Stars: An Anthology of Canada’s Best Sportswriting

By Trent Frayne, ed.

It has all the makings of a champion: an anthology of Canadian sports writing selected by a master. But Trent Frayne’s All Stars reads like a marketing department idea sabotaged by weak execution. It’s far ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

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