★ Returning to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice

In his new book, Rupert Ross, who spent 14 years working as a member of the Canadian mainstream legal system in northwestern Ontario, describes the ongoing struggle in native communities to develop a system of ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ The Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance

By Paul Grescoe

To call romantic fiction pap is to miss the point business historian and journalist Paul Grescoe makes – that turning mush into millions is a great story on its own. From the birth of Harlequin ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

By Howard Engel

In Lord High Executioner, Toronto mystery-writer Howard Engel makes his first foray into non-fiction by providing an historical overview of judicially endorsed agents of death. Though candidly admitting he believes capital punishment ought to be ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Chinese Brushstrokes: Stories of China

By Sandra Hutchison

Sandra Hutchison is a Canadian English professor who spent time in eastern central China teaching English language and literature at a university in Hefei, the capital of Anhui province. She was evacuated in June, 1989 ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

In Search of a New Left: Canadian Politics After the Neoconservative Assault

By James Laxer

This book is grotesquely mistitled. It is not – except for its last chapter – about the search for a new Left, or even about Canadian politics in the neoconservative era. Instead, In Search of ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

McLuhan’s Children: The Greenpeace Message and the Media

By Stephen Dale

These days, exhuming the intellectual corpse of media theorist Marshall McLuhan has become a cottage industry in publishing. As the patron saint of Wired magazine and the self-described mentor of numerous media pundits, McLuhan has ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

David and Jonathan: A Story of Love and Power in Ancient Israel

By Stephen Schecter

This, Stephen Schecter’s fourth book, and his first book of poetry, is daunting indeed. At 188 pages, this long poem was a labour of love for the author, and is a challenge for the reader.David ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Science Lessons

By W.H. New

Past midnight he stands outside, breathing awaythe day, scanning the broad wash of starshorizon to horizon...This quotation from “Astronomy,” one of a sequence of 80 sonnets in W.H. New’s first collection of poetry, entitled Science ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Sam and Angie

By Margaret Sweatman

Sam and Angie is all about alienation – about living on the surface of events. It’s also about the inner world of a marriage that is unravelling. The mood of the book is disturbing and ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gelignite Jack

By Paul Davies

Paul Davies seems a sort of Renaissance man. Born in 1954, he has already had several careers, including that of antiquarian bookseller, research analyst in frontier oil and gas, and book designer. He began publishing ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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★ Returning to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice

★ The Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance

Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

Chinese Brushstrokes: Stories of China

In Search of a New Left: Canadian Politics After the Neoconservative Assault

McLuhan’s Children: The Greenpeace Message and the Media

David and Jonathan: A Story of Love and Power in Ancient Israel

★ Science Lessons

Sam and Angie

Gelignite Jack

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