October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Chatelaine’s herstoryTo celebrate Chatelaine’s 70th anniversary, Sylvia Fraser has compiled excerpts from past issues of the magazine as a time capsule of how Canadian women have and haven’t changed. A Woman’s Place: Seventy Years in ... Read More »
The process of deconstructing popular myths is a thankless task often met with wide public resistance. Luckily Michael Woodiwiss has risen to the task with an accessible analysis of the ways in which concepts like ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Jeffrey Robinson’s The Sink is a follow-up to his 1996 bestseller The Laundrymen, which looked at the bankers, accountants, and other seemingly upstanding functionaries who aid and abet a multi-trillion-dollar dirty economy that ranks second ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Strong personalities evoke strong reactions. Alberta farmer Wiebo Ludwig has been portrayed as a tireless campaigner against the depredations of big oil and a homicidal terrorist, as a religious patriarch who only wants to protect ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Canadians pondering the idea of Paul Martin as prime minister would do well to read Murray Dobbin’s incisive analysis of the man who, through his post as finance minister, has essentially been de facto prime ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Journalist and television host Steve Paikin’s authorial debut, The Life, promises to shed light on the seductive call of Canadian politics, but underdelivers on this ambitious goal. Paikin uses the political lives of such Canadian ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
BOOK DESIGN TODAY is driven by magazine design. Magazines, with their quick cycles and relatively low production costs, are highly responsive to design trends and consumer caprice. And they’re ephemeral – you can correct your ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Writing a book about a political scandal comes with its own challenges, including the aggressive research involved and the process of rearranging those facts into a compelling narrative. Writing a book about a Canadian political ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
BOOK DESIGN TODAY is driven by magazine design. Magazines, with their quick cycles and relatively low production costs, are highly responsive to design trends and consumer caprice. And they’re ephemeral – you can correct your ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
While it can be argued that the half-dozen years of Ontario’s Harris government have produced little of lasting value, the same might be said for critical works on a government whose premier is commonly referred ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs