Reviews

What Are We Going to Do Now? Helping Your Parents in Their Senior Years

Canada is getting old. By the end of the decade, the proportion of the population over 65 will be 12%, and that number will continue to rise well into the next century. For the growing ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

By David Remnick

There’s nothing like a good sports biography to get a fan’s blood pumping. A well-written account of the sporting life can prompt fond reminiscences of one’s own athletic past, call up daydreams where you’re the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

First Crossing: Alexander Mackenzie, His Expedition Across North America, and the Opening of the Continent

By Derek Hayes

Derek Hayes is a geographer with a profound love of maps, as demonstrated in his last book, the gorgeously illustrated Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. In First Crossing, a history of ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Girl Without Anyone

By Kelli Deeth

In this fresh, unflinching look at some familiar themes – cleft and reconstituted families, the daughter-as-mother figure, suburban angst – Kelli Deeth introduces readers to Leah, “the girl without anyone.” Leah is alternately bound by ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kurelek Country: The Art of William Kurelek

By Ramsay Cook

When William Kurelek died in 1977 at the relatively young age of 50, the Canadian artist left behind a vast legacy of paintings, many hanging in major galleries around the world. Born in rural Alberta ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Writing Freelance

By Christine Adamec

Kids today: when it comes to career planning, they can easily acquire accessible, thorough, and inexpensive self-help guides that make the whole prospect of life as a writer halfway enticing. Compare and contrast to the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Falling Hard: A Rookie’s Year in Boxing

By Chris Jones

One thing about the Sweet Science upon which all initiates are in agreement is that it used to be better.” When the great A.J. Liebling wrote that in1955 it was as a rebuke to all ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Take Care: A Practical Guide for Helping Elders

By Ann Rhodes

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

By David Halberstam

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Canada: A People’s History Volume Two

By Don Gillmor,Achille Michaud, and Pierre Turgeon

Some historians have complained bitterly that the grand sweep, the great events, of Canadian history are being forgotten or deliberately ignored. What a surprise it was then that millions of 21st-century Canadians sat in front ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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