Reviews

When the Pig Goes to Market: How to Achieve Long-Term Investing Success

If Adam Smith had written the Wealth of Nations as a dialogue between yuppies about what stocks to buy, When the Pig Goes to Market would have been the result. Smith was an immensely learned ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Good News About Careers: How You’ll Be Working in the Next Decade

By Barbara Moses

It’s no secret that the nature of work is changing. During the past decade in Canada there has been a major shift in the way we view work and career planning. With corporate downsizing, the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album

By Kevin McCabe, Alexandra Heilbron, eds.

In the 1930s, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote in her journal that her work would be forgotten in 60 years time. But the promise she extracted from her youngest son to never destroy her voluminous journals ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Without Vodka: Wartime Adventures in Russia

By Aleksander Topolski

Like an extremely long letter from a dear old uncle, this Second World War memoir contains some genuinely interesting anecdotes, but readers have to slog through an overwhelming number of incidental and forgettable details to ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Lion in the Room Next Door

By Merilyn Simonds

At what point, if ever, do events recalled from memory become history? And how accurate is that history and whose story does it tell? Once that story is told, perhaps with artful intervention to improve ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Resurrection: The Kidnapping of Abby Drover

By John Griffiths

Reaching back across 23 years into a windowless concrete cell, John Griffiths’ Resurrection recreates the kidnapping, sexual abuse, starvation, and six-month confinement of 12-year-old Abby Drover in Port Moody, B.C.While the police and Drover’s family ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Death Dealers: A Witness to the Drug Wars That Are Bleeding America

By Yves Lavigne

When you’ve spent your life in the middle of a war, it must be easy to think the rest of the world is in it too. This certainly seems true for the narcotics agents and ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Spinwars.ca: The Politics of Media in the Digital Age

By William J. Fox

As a subscriber to an e-mail listserv for journalists, I receive numerous postings of interest to people in the business of disseminating information. Topics such as the buying and selling of newspaper chains, and the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan

By Jamie Zeppa

Arriving in a place like Bhutan, the tiny Buddhist kingdom in the eastern Himalayas, requires a series of physical actions that happen all at once, writes Jamie Zeppa. A plane touches down, a passenger disembarks. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ Water

By Marq de Villiers

Water is necessary for all life. Wars have been fought over it and leaders assassinated, yet it is something that we usually take for granted.Marq de Villiers, former editor and publisher of Toronto Life, is ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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