Reviews

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter

In Hold On to Your Kids, Vancouver doctor and writer Gabor Maté and developmental psychologist Gordon Neufeld detail Neufeld’s theory of peer orientation. Using examples from his own life and from the children and families ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Small Arguments

By Souvankham Thammavongsa

The short poems in Small Arguments are tender snapshots of nature’s often overlooked bounty. No verbal flab invades the images as the poetry magically explores the essence and personality of objects we rarely equate with ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Baseballissimo: My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues

By Dave Bidini

Author and musician Dave Bidini is single-handedly creating his own genre of sports book: the North-American-sport-in-a-strange-land category. In his last book, Tropic of Hockey, Bidini looked at how Canada’s national pastime is played in unusual ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Exact Fare Only 2

By Ian Cockfield

In a rare instance of form following function in the book world, Exact Fare Only 2 seems designed for the express purpose of being read on the subway, streetcar, or bus. Editor Ian Cockfield has ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

On Six Continents: A Life in Canada’s Foreign Service 1966-2002

By James K. Bartleman

If there are any kinds of hazards, mishaps, prickly encounters, or bizarre turns of event that James Bartleman did not encounter during his 35-year career in Canada’s foreign service, it’s difficult to imagine what they ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia

By David Nunuk

In his foreword to David Nunuk’s Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia ($49.95 cloth 1-55017-273-5, 122 pp., Harbour Publishing), editor Dave Jones describes the two traditional methods of photographing the province’s bountiful scenery. The first ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Skinny on Fat

By M. Sara Rosenthal

Prominent bioethicist and prolific author M. Sara Rosenthal promises to distill the overwhelming abundance of diet information in The Skinny on Fat. Rosenthal wants to get to the bottom of “low-fat culture” and put readers ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

A Richer Dust: Family, Memory and the Second World War

By Robert Calder

Given the vagaries of memory and historical record, there are bound to be gaps in any family history. For those with the resources and faculty, many of these gaps can be filled. Robert Calder, an ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

By Joel Bakan

The post-9/11 chill that muted some critics of corporate business practices did nothing to stop professor Joel Bakan from pursuing his own thesis: that corporations are, by structure, nature, and law, pathological creatures with zero ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Devil is Clever: A Memoir of My Romanian Mother

By Kenneth Radu

Kenneth Radu’s poetic manipulation of fact starts with the title of his disturbing memoir. Though she spoke more Romanian than English throughout her life, Annie Corches was born near Fort Qu’Appelle, in Canada’s oldest Romanian ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Prev 638 639640641 642....691 692 Next

Quill and Quire

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter

Small Arguments

Baseballissimo: My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues

Exact Fare Only 2

On Six Continents: A Life in Canada’s Foreign Service 1966-2002

Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia

The Skinny on Fat

A Richer Dust: Family, Memory and the Second World War

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

The Devil is Clever: A Memoir of My Romanian Mother

Job Board