Reviews

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

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

Power in the Blood: Land, Memory,and a Southern Family

By John Bentley Mays

John Bentley Mays was born into one of the American South’s oldest families – that is who he is. Since 1980, he has been The Globe and Mail’s art critic – that is what he ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Zero Tollerance

By Toller Cranston with Martha Lowder Kimball

Just as Wayne Gretzky and Tiger Woods are familiar names to even those who disdain hockey and golf, Toller Cranston became well-known among people who don’t know a Lutz from a Salchow. The six-time Canadian ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Life of Margaret Laurence

By James King

After years of what you might call biographical exile, James King has come home. It’s about time. That’s not meant to read like a pointedly parochial plaint; it’s not to suggest that some federal policing ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood

By Eileen Whitfield

Long before expatriate hosers Jim Carrey and William Shatner uttered their immortal lines, “Alrighty then,” and, “Beam me up, Scotty,” Toronto-born actress Mary Pickford started our national entertainment industry tradition of southward migration. Like dozens ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Best Places to Kiss in the Northwest: A Romantic Travel Guide

By Stephanie Bell, Kristin Folsom, Elizabeth Janda & Laura Kraemer

When I finally escaped Toronto almost 10 years ago, it was early September and the city was less hot, less humid, and more exuberantly natural than usual. Heading southwest, picking up the Lewis & Clark ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Reference