Sports, Health & Self-help

Thrill of the Paddle: An Illustrated Guide to Extreme Canoeing

Portaging is the bane of the canoeist’s existence. There may be rugged satisfaction in scrabbling up the rocky shore, feeling like a coureur de bois, but most can do without the dull pain that comes ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Flowering of the Soul: A Book of Prayers by Women

By Lucinda Vardey, ed.

Inspirational books are big business these days. The literati may sneer at them, but the general public buys them by the armload and their enormous popularity indicates a genuine spiritual hunger that should be taken ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit

By Margaret Somerville

To read Margaret Somerville is to be exposed to terms, ideas, and questions that, at the dawn of the new millennium, seem initially archaic. Words like “ethics,” “morality,” and “evil” seem, in our modern world, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

What Happens When I Die?

By Brian Stiller

Potential bookbuyers testing the heft of Stiller’s slender volume may respond to its titular question with a snarky, “Not much, apparently.” Yet Stiller, the president of Tyndale College and Seminary, packs a lot into What ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Is the Pope Catholic? A Woman Confronts Her Church

By Joanna Manning

“Hope has two daughters,” quotes Catholic theologian, feminist, and social activist Joanna Manning. “Courage and anger.” The source of this wisdom? Saint Augustine himself, one of Catholicism’s leading misogynists. This fragment from Manning’s book, Is ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Taking Your Kids Online: How and When to Introduce Your Children to the Internet

By Arlette Lefebvre and Brian Hillis

Internet hype sends out the message that any child who isn’t Yahooing is doomed to servitude or social assistance. Taking Your Kids Online doesn’t go that far, but it does argue that “what your daughter ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Bark, Skin and Cedar: Exploring the Canoe in Canadian Experience

By James Raffan

Too often, self-effacing Canadians are content to define ourselves only by what we are not: namely, American. Our country is so large and sparsely populated that we tend to focus on our differences – such ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Holy Writ

By K.D. Miller

Canada hasn’t produced many homegrown Annie Dillards or Anne Lamotts – “literary” authors whose spiritual writing enjoys both popular and critical acclaim. So Holy Writ is a daring book of sorts. K.D. Miller, author of ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Parenting with Wit and Wisdom in Times of Chaos and Loss

By Barbara Coloroso

Anthropologist Jean Liedloff, in her 1975 book The Continuum Concept, bemoans the fact that Western parents are so out of touch with their natural instincts about parenting that they have to consult books written by ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help