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Financial Serenity: Successful Financial Planning and Investment for Women

I was at lunch recently with single female friends, mostly professionals, when someone joked about being afraid of ending up as a “bag lady.”My friend’s fear, though not entirely justified, reflects an insecurity I think ... Read More »

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Take Charge Now: A Woman’s Guide to Personal and Family Finance

By Patricia Lovett-Reid

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

She Laughed All the Way to the Bank: Financial Empowerment for Canadian Women

By Cindy Skrukwa

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

By Eva-Marie Kroller, ed.

The idea that anything approaching an authoritative analysis of Canadian fiction, or nature-writing, or aboriginal writing, can be undertaken in essays of 20 pages or so is almost laughable. But that’s the challenge faced by ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage

By Katherine Govier, ed.

I have always wanted to open a review with a quote from the prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; now I finally have my chance. Ahem: spring is the season “whan longen folk to goon on ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Dreams of Millennium: Report from a Culture on the Brink

By Mark Kingwell

As we edge closer to the year 2000, there is one clear sign that the apocalypse is upon us: everyone’s writing about it.And I do mean everyone. It’s getting difficult to open a magazine or ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

The End of the World

By John Leslie

Doomsday has a long history, almost as long as that of the human race whose extinction it continually foretells. In the early days of the species, when war, disease, and starvation crowded the horizon, the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Take One’s Essential Guide to Canadian Cinema

By Wyndham Wise, ed.

Take One’s Essential Guide to Canadian Film attempts to cover the entire history of Canadian film, from Edison’s 1896 The Kiss through to the year 2000, focusing on such successful films as Maelström and the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Literary Trips Volume 2: Following in the Footsteps of Fame

By Victoria Brooks, ed.

Literary Trips is a book for dreaming and travelling. As its subtitle suggests, the book guides readers to the haunts of 22 famous writers on four continents and several islands. Each entry includes an essay ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

McLuhan, Or Modernism in Reverse

By Glenn Willmott

As computer technology insinuates itself more deeply into the social fabric, the first critic of the electronic age is receiving new scholarly attention. The latest addition to the literature is Glenn Willmott’s McLuhan, Or Modernism ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

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Financial Serenity: Successful Financial Planning and Investment for Women

Take Charge Now: A Woman’s Guide to Personal and Family Finance

She Laughed All the Way to the Bank: Financial Empowerment for Canadian Women

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage

Dreams of Millennium: Report from a Culture on the Brink

The End of the World

Take One’s Essential Guide to Canadian Cinema

Literary Trips Volume 2: Following in the Footsteps of Fame

McLuhan, Or Modernism in Reverse

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