The History of the Future

With millennial angst and optimism the two prevailing inclinations of our day, David Wilson’s The History of the Future could not be more timely. A professor of Celtic Studies and History at the University of ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The World We Want: Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen

By Mark Kingwell

Mark Kingwell – political and cultural theorist, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto – has authored four previous learned books, including Better Living: In Pursuit of Happiness from Plato to Prozac. In The ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The New Retirement: Financial Strategies for Life after Work

By Dian Cohen

Two timely books focus on essential questions for everyone who expects to live to collect on his or her pension: What will be left after taxes and what will it buy? The issue – who ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Retire Rich! Winning Strategies for Higher Retirement Income

By Stephen Gadsden

Two timely books focus on essential questions for everyone who expects to live to collect on his or her pension: What will be left after taxes and what will it buy? The issue – who ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Better Happy than Rich? Canadians, Money, and the Meaning of Life

By Michael Adams

Hot on the heels of the best-selling Sex in the Snow, Michael Adams continues his examination of changing Canadian attitudes toward money and society in the equally engaging Better Happy Than Rich? Adams uses extensive ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

City of Glass: Douglas Coupland’s Vancouver

By Douglas Coupland

Reviewing (and reading, for that matter) Douglas Coupland is made difficult by Coupland’s approach to writing. One can never be sure if the perceived weaknesses or shortcomings are inadvertent or the result of some postmodern ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Ockham’s Razor: A Search for Wonder in an Age of Doubt

By Wade Rowland

Six hundred years old and not a trace of rust, yet sharp enough still to shave by. Ockham’s razor, that is, as deftly plied by the former CBC journalist Wade Rowland in his book of ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Dispatches from a Borderless World

By Satya Das

Six hundred years old and not a trace of rust, yet sharp enough still to shave by. Ockham’s razor, that is, as deftly plied by the former CBC journalist Wade Rowland in his book of ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Ends of Our Exploring: Ethical and Scientific Journeys to Remote Places

By Hooley McLaughlin

Hooley McLaughlin is a senior science and technology advisor at the Ontario Science Centre where he creates and develops major exhibitions. In The Ends of Our Exploring he takes the reader on journeys, both physical ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Tropic of Hockey

By Dave Bidini

Dave Bidini – of the rock band the Rheostatics – has a level of enthusiasm for “our game” that goes beyond fanaticism. Words with religous associations spring to mind: reverence, veneration, adoration, worship. In his ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Prev 17 181920 21....25 26 Next