Knights of the Air: Canadian Fighter Pilots in the First World War

The fighter pilots of 1914-1918 were the heroes of a war that was unusually lacking in obvious heroes. They fought in single combat above the anonymous muddy slaughter of the Western Front, and a disproportionate ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: History

Spirit Dance at Mezidian: Joseph Gosnell and the Nisga’a Treaty

By Alex Rose

Alex Rose’s Spirit Dance at Mezidian is a short, sharp, and considered explication of the land settlement treaty drafted between the Nisga’a and the B.C. and Canadian governments. It could, in fact, be nicknamed the ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Toscana Mia

By Umberto Menghi

In a perfect world, all cookbooks would be as enjoyable on the coffee table as they are on the kitchen counter. As it is, too many cookbooks are either weak on recipes but pretty to ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Avventura: Journeys in Italian Cooking

By David Rocco

In a perfect world, all cookbooks would be as enjoyable on the coffee table as they are on the kitchen counter. As it is, too many cookbooks are either weak on recipes but pretty to ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Power of the Wheel: The Falun Gong Revolution

By Ian Adams,Riley Adams and Rocco Galati

Newspaper photos of Chinese police arresting practitioners of tai-chi-like exercises called Falun Gong have appeared frequently in the past year, yet little is known in the West about this decade-old phenomenon. In a refreshing attempt ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Dropped Threads: What We Aren’t Told

By Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, eds.

This will be the last time I consider a “women’s” anthology. This review – of a book of essays edited by women and written by women about things women apparently don’t talk about – will ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Bones: Discovering the First Americans

By Elaine Dewar

Bones: Discovering the First Americans is about beginnings – specifically, the beginning of human habitation in the Americas. The official story says that aboriginal people crossed a land bridge – called “Beringia” – from Siberia ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

In the Shadow of a Saint

By Ken Wiwa

Although a personal element weaves in and out of the narrative, Ken Wiwa’s memoir is really a testament to a Nigerian political martyr. Rich in detail of the politics and economy of Nigeria, In the ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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

Sailing Home: A Journey Through Time, Place and Memory

By Gary Geddes

Sailing Home is British Columbia poet Gary Geddes’s voyage into the past, his “male menopause” (as his daughter calls it), and his exploration of history both personal and far-reaching. Accompanied by the ghosts of Charles ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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