Reviews

When Girls Feel Fat: Helping Girls Through Adolescence

When Sandy Friedman created the “Girls in the ’90s” discussion group to help young women deal with eating disorders, she anticipated a positive response. And she got one – from parents, educators, and psychologists. But ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Studiolo: The Collaborative Work of Martha Fleming & Lyne Lapointe

By Martha Fleming with Lyne Lapointe and Lesley Johnstone

Studiolo is both the title of an installation recently held at the Art Gallery of Windsor and the book form of site projects by two of Canada’s top artists, Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe. The ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Degrees of Freedom: Canada and the United States in a Changing World

By Keith Banting,George Hoberg, Richard Simeon, eds.

Canadians have always argued about how vigorously to resist the economic and cultural pull of the United States – and never more so than in the era of free trade. For the left, the possibility ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Great Dames

By Elspeth Cameron,Janice Dickin, eds.

Great Dames is a great title, and a fitting one, for this collection of short biographies of 20th-century Canadian women. The editors and contributors are all feminist scholars, but you don’t have to be a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Canadian Sourcebook 1997

By Barbara Law,ed.

It is the policy of the editors of the annual Canadian Sourcebook, formerly known as the Corpus Almanac and Sourcebook, to include significant changes each year – changes suggested by its users. For 1997, the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Place Names of Ontario

By Alan Rayburn

One of the guilty little secrets of those who read biographies of people they know is that they invariably look in the index first to see if they are listed. Relief, exultation, or anger can ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

MAI: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty

By Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) is an international investment agreement and global trade regime being negotiated by 29 industrial states including Canada. Authors Maude Barlow, national volunteer chairperson of the Council of Canadians, and ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Scribes & Scoundrels

By George Galt

Journalist George Galt’s debut novel satirizes the self-important world of Toronto magazines, but most readers – even those who can’t relate to the setting, the editorial offices of a fictional monthly called Berger’s – won’t ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Reality Machine

By Cliff Burns

With the crime rate falling but angst about crime continuing to rise, writer Cliff Burns skillfully captures the anxieties of modern life. In The Reality Machine, he offers 15 stories that startle without showing a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Field of Thunder

By Rose Flem-Ath

Field of Thunder is a timely thriller, the threat of biological warfare in the Middle East serving as its central theme. Author Rose Flem-Ath has taken on a complex story that opens with secret British ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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