Reviews

Sunshine & Salt Air

By Karen Southern, Bryan Carson, et al., Peter A. Robson, ed.

It’s difficult to talk about beauty without simplifying or over-romanticizing. There can be beauty in ugliness, a certain sad, ironic beauty of human endeavour represented, say, by a wheelless splay-forked bicycle propped up in a ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Paddling the Sunshine Coast

By Dorothy & Bodhi Drope

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Kayak Routes of the Pacific Northwest

By Peter McGee, ed.

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

A Winnipeg Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were

By John David Hamilton and Bonnie Dickie

Winnipeg was once thought to be Canada’s version of Chicago, a nexus of train lines where freight and people would be transferred for passage between east and west. Victim today of some of the highest ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

1999 Canadian Internet New User’s Handbook

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

Remember the pioneering days of the Internet? Before long we were all going to be shopping online, downloading movies, and getting all our information from the World Wide Web.Well, the initial hype hasn’t quite materialized, ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

1999 Canadian Internet Handbook: Tips, Tools, and Techniques to Enhance Your Internet Activities

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Health & Self-help

The Friendly Dictatorship

By Jeffrey Simpson

Jeffrey Simpson, the national affairs columnist for the Globe and Mail, is an oddity amongst Canadian journalists. The author of several books on national politics, he also closely studies the latest academic literature. The Friendly ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Hamilton Sketchbook

By David Collier

A self-described Prairie artist who’s also traveled across Canada, David Collier’s Hamilton Sketchbook ($22.95 paper 1-89597-48-3, 160 pp., Drawn & Quarterly) is the latest in a series of published sketchbooks from the renowned comics publisher. ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Berbice Crossing

By Cyril Dabydeen

Nine of the 11 stories in Cyril Dabydeen’s third collection, Berbice Crossing, are set in rural Guyana, and many of the characters dream, often of escape: Devan, in “The Rastafarian,” envisions pairing up with his ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Understanding Electronic Day Trading

By Carol Troy

Legend has it that one day in 1929 J.P. Morgan, the wealthy U.S. financier, received a stock tip from a shoeshine boy. It’s said that Morgan promptly sold his entire portfolio, and avoided the stock ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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