Reviews

Fortune’s Warriors: Private Armies and the New World Order

Three years ago, a recently retired Canadian army sergeant named James Davis wrote an interesting and timely exposé of life in the lower ranks of the Canadian armed forces. The Sharp End: A Canadian Soldier’s ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The History of the Future

By David A. Wilson

With millennial angst and optimism the two prevailing inclinations of our day, David Wilson’s The History of the Future could not be more timely. A professor of Celtic Studies and History at the University of ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean

By Terry Glavin

There is a lovely shorter book in The Last Great Sea – or several different shorter books. As it is, too much of the material here strays from Glavin’s theme, passages and ideas are repeated, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Golden Thread: A Reader’s Journey Through the Great Books

By Bruce Meyer

By now, Canadians devoted to CBC Radio will know Toronto poet and academic Bruce Meyer from his regular book talks with This Morning host Michael Enright, even if they have never read any of the ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

A Place Like Any Other: Sabbath Blessings

By Molly Wolf

Molly Wolf offers spirituality from Kemptville, a town just south of Ottawa. Kemptville is a “place like any other,” but Wolf is not a typical thinker and these are no routine thoughts. Here are luminous ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The World We Want: Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen

By Mark Kingwell

Mark Kingwell – political and cultural theorist, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto – has authored four previous learned books, including Better Living: In Pursuit of Happiness from Plato to Prozac. In The ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ In the Sweet Kitchen: The Definitive Guide to the Baker’s Pantry

By Regan Daley

Never mind that the second 340 pages of Regan Daley’s In the Sweet Kitchen hold enough recipes to encompass most (though not all) baking techniques. A comprehensive treatment of baking and dessert-cookery technique was not, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Putting a Roof on Winter: Hockey’s Rise from Sport to Spectacle

By Michael McKinley

It’s in Richard Ford’s luminescent novel The Sportswriter that his unhero, Frank Bascombe, dismisses hockey as “an uninteresting game played by Canadians.” I’ve grown somehow fond of the easy superiority of those six words, the ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Wolves Among Sheep: The True Story of Murder in a Jehovah’s Witness Community

By James Kostelniuk

At a recent event in Toronto, author Russell Banks spoke about the deep connection between victims and offenders, particularly in his own fiction. He quoted James Baldwin’s claim that the story of race in America ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hearts & Minds: A Public School Miracle

By Sandra Dean

Sandra Dean is an extraordinary person. Appointed principal in 1991 of South Simcoe Public School in Oshawa, Ontario, a troubled, inner-city school plagued by vandalism, absenteeism, and underachievement, she set out to improve conditions any ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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