The Sacred Balance: A Vision for Life on Earth

Only a few decades ago, human beings had their first look at Earth from space. Cities, skyscrapers, and other Guinness-Book-of-World-Records manmade wonders disappeared into a swirl of greens and blues shrouded in a white cape ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors of the Transition to Womanhood

By K. Wind Hughes and Linda Wolf, photos by Linda Wolf

Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun is the latest addition to the recent deluge of books that explore the perilous emotional passage of girls into womanhood. The book is a compilation of bittersweet ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Growing up Naked: My Years in Bump and Grind

By Lindalee Tracey

When a stripper associate and I ran into Lindalee Tracey (aka “Fonda Peters”) in Montreal in the early 1980s, I was dutifully impressed. To be a famous stripper in a city that is so girl ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Where the Hell Are the Guns? a Soldier’s Eye View of the Anxious Years, 1939-44

By George G. Blackburn

Where the Hell Are the Guns? rounds out George Blackburn’s trilogy of Second World War memoirs, which began with the bestselling The Guns of Normandy in 1995 and moved on through The Guns of Victory ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Boy on the Back of the Turtle

By Paul Quarrington

Paul Quarrington’s The Boy on the Back of the Turtle is an ambitious mix of subjects and styles. On one level, it’s a simple travel story – an account of a week-long cruise through the ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ Small Mercies: A Boy After War

By Ernest Hillen

Yes, all subsequent mercies must indeed have seemed small, blow-away small, compared to the monumental mercy that allowed a Dutch boy called Ernest Hillen to survive three and a half years behind the plaited-bamboo walls ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Sharp End: A Canadian Soldier’s Story

By James R. Davis

The Sharp End is the story of James R. Davis’s 11 years as a Canadian soldier. Those years spanned involvement in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and saw the dissolution of the Canadian Airborne Regiment. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Antagonist: Lucien Bouchard and the Politics of Delusion

By Lawrence Martin

After the storm, the book itself. After leaks about psychiatric profiles, magazine covers portraying a lunatic, a book jacket doctored to do to Lucien Bouchard what Time magazine did to O.J. Simpson (making him look ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Reflections of a Siamese Twin

By John Ralston Saul

John Ralston Saul is a rare bird, a public intellectual, a popularizing philosopher. In this longish book, he uses his substantial skills to analyze the Canadian conundrum. His stage is that of mythological delusions. He ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Spirit of the Web: The Evolution of Communications from Signal Fire to the World Wide Web

By Wade Rowland

On August 27, 1858, the first words sent by transatlantic cable were received on the shores of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The message destined to herald in the “noblest symbol of our generation,” a technology of ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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