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Stop Depression Now: Sam-e, the Breakthrough Supplement That Works as Well as Prescription Drugs in Half the Time … with No Side Effects

By Richard Brown, Carol Colman, Teodoro Bottiglieri

After spending an hour or so perusing the bookshelves at my local big-box, books-by-the-barrel bazaar (where, by the way, I am certain that the health categories into which the books are divided were selected by ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Question

By Austin Clarke

Set in Toronto, this slightly surreal novel of sexual politics by veteran fiction writer Austin Clarke, winner of the 1999 W. O. Mitchell Literary Prize, tells the tale of a 40-something black man who meets ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Generation J

By Lisa Schiffman

There’s an old Jewish saying, at once self-disparaging and yet slightly smug: “Ten Jews, 50 opinions.” Jews are obstreperous and argumentative, it seems to imply, but also individualistic and highly independent. While Jewish communities often ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help