Reviews

Dogs with Jobs: Working Dogs Around the World

The history of mankind’s relationship with dogs has largely been that of master and domesticated servant, with working dogs performing tasks that capitalize on their natural strengths and instincts. Recently, this relationship has shifted to ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Holocaust’s Ghost: Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education

By F.C. DeCoste and Bernard Schwartz,eds.

The Holocaust’s Ghost grew out of a conference held at the University of Alberta in 1997. DeCoste and Schwartz have brought together scholars from the fields of history, art, English, Judaic studies, law, music, political ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: History

Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame

By Victoria Brooks, ed.

From Paul Bowles’ Morocco to the San Francisco of the Beats, Literary Trips collects short literary memoirs with a travel bug twist and travelogues with a literary bent. Like many collections of essays, it is ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Mad Notions: A True Tale of Murder and Mayhem

By John Lawrence Reynolds

It’s hard not to be appalled and disgusted at the bad guys – actually a gal and a guy – in Reynolds’ tale of sex, drugs, and murder in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

First Nations? Second Thoughts

By Tom Flanagan

Tom Flanagan, a professor of history at the University of Calgary, says First Nations? Second Thoughts “is bound to provoke some hostile reactions.” Declaring one’s martyrdom early – in this case, in the book’s acknowledgements ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Native Peoples

We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Re-invention of Mass Culture

By Hal Niedzviecki

With contemporary culture in the hands of a dwindling number of media oligopolies, who’s to speak on the quixotic, overlooked, and largely misunderstood battle to create alternative voices? That would be underground culture maven Hal ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Critical Care: Canadian Nurses Speak for Change

By André Picard

Critical Care is a fascinating look at what nurses do today. In it André Picard interviews 45 nurses working in different specialties all across Canada, allowing them to report from the front lines of the ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

In the Blood: Battles to Succeed in Canada’s Family Businesses

By Gordon Pitts

Tolstoy’s chestnut about families – that all happy ones resemble each other, while each unhappy one is unique – is arguably even more accurate when applied to the bloody fights that can afflict family businesses. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Straw Man

By Daniel Poliquin

Beautifully translated by Wayne Grady, The Straw Man is a dazzling novel, mixing historical narrative (it begins in 1759) and magic realism. Poliquin, author of Black Squirrel and Obomsawin of Sioux Junction, weaves a tale ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Midnight Robber

By Nalo Hopkinson

Midnight Robber, the second book by Toronto speculative fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson, begins on Toussaint, a planet peopled by the descendants of Caribbean immigrants from Earth. The Midnight Robber is young Tan-tan’s favourite Carnival character, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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