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Photoshop 5 for Windows Bible

Sometime around 1400, Italian painters discovered linear perspective. This literally changed the way people saw, allowing the artist to blur the distinction between a surface plane and three-dimensional space. Suddenly the world could be represented ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Mastering Photoshop 5 for the Web

By Matt Straznitskas

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Using Adobe Photoshop 5

By Dan Giordan and Steve Moniz

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 5 in 24 Hours

By Carla Rose

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Tacones

By Todd Klinck

Winning the three-day novel writing contest is the party trick of the publishing scene. It’s light, it’s effervescent, and it gets you noticed. Unfortunately, to accomplish the latter, you have to actually publish the results ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America

By Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird,eds.

Cherokee writer Betty Louise Bell says she writes “because [her] mother could not.” Reclamation – of individual voice and collective experience, the personal and political – is a central theme in this anthology of poetry, ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

★ The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: The Revolutionary New Approach to Understanding and Curing Anorexia and Bulimia

By Peggy Claude-Pierre

News of Peggy Claude-Pierre’s phenomenal success rate in curing “hopeless” sufferers of eating disorders spread quickly. Her Montreux Counselling Centre, operating in Victoria since 1993, gained instant notoriety after she appeared on Oprah, and following ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

In the Wings

By Carole Corbeil

Robert Fulford noted a few months back that a lump of Toronto writers – Ondaatje, Michaels – place their narratives amid the concrete pylons and thick sumacs of the city’s ravines. Add Carole Corbeil. In ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

China Dog and Other Tales from a Chinese Laundry

By Judy Fong Bates

Canadians have long been familiar with the Chinese hand laundries and restaurants of the hinterland, owned and operated by a few isolated Chinese families, connected to urban Chinatowns only by kinship ties and supply lines. ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Leaving Earth

By Helen Humphreys

The suspect beginning of Leaving Earth gives the impression the author is going to attempt a mytho-poetic version of Toronto in the 1930s – shades of Michael Ondaatje, except noticeably lacking his magical command of ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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