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

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

Ancient Land, Ancient Sky: Flying Canada’s Native Canoe Routes

By Peter McFarlane and Wayne Haimila

In 1996, Peter McFarlane, a former CBC journalist and pilot, and Wayne Haimila, an employee of a B.C. native band, flew a tiny Cessna from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, following aboriginal canoe routes that were ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Rope in the Water: A Pilgrimage to India

By Sylvia Fraser

Author Sylvia Fraser’s life story is the florid stuff of daytime TV. Previously she’s chronicled her recovered memories of incest (My Father’s House) and her quirky supernatural experiences (The Book of Strange). The Rope in ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Discover Prince Edward Island: Adventure & Lighthouse Guide

By Susan Randles and Dave Stephens

It’s hard to imagine that two islands in one region of Canada could be as dissimilar as Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. PEI is tiny, fertile, temperate, and well adapted to tourism. Newfoundland is sprawling, ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

This Is Not the Mainland: A Novel Tour of Newfoundland and Labrador

By Rannie Gillis

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ Toronto: A Literary Guide

By Greg Gatenby

This may not come out right, but a couple of times as I was ambling happily through Greg Gatenby’s Toronto: A Literary Guide I had the waking dream that this was some kind of surveillance ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Grand Centaur Station: Unruly Living with the New Nomads of Central Asia

By Larry Frolick

If you want to see the sometimes brutal collision of ancient empires and unregulated, ham-fisted capitalism, then Central Asia is the place. The many anti-destinations explored by Toronto author Larry Frolick in Grand Centaur Station ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

A Woman of Independent Means: A Woman’s Guide to Full Financial Security

By Gail Vaz-Oxlade

Gail Vaz-Oxlade’s latest foray into the crowded world of financial planning books is A Woman of Independent Means, a financial guide for the neophyte. According to Vaz-Oxlade, women have specific needs when it comes to ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Bald-Headed Hermit & the Artichoke: An Erotic Thesaurus

By A.D. Peterkin

Everybody knows the futility of trying to look up a “dirty” word in the dictionary. Even a quite ordinary word such as cunnilingus is not listed in every dictionary – a quick browse through my ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

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