Reviews

T’aal: The One Who Takes Bad Children

By Sue Pielle with Anne Cameron, Greta Guzek, illus.

This collaborative effort by writer Anne Cameron and native Sliammon storyteller Sue Pielle is the tale of a terrifying giant who preys on children who disobey their parents by staying out after dark. The One ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: History

Red Blood: One (Mostly) White Guy’s Encounters with the Native World

By Robert Hunter

Bob Hunter strikes again. The Greenpeace co-founder, newspaper columnist, television reporter, author, and self-appointed media guru has decided to share his experiences as a media consultant for aboriginal groups and as a general shit disturber ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Industrial Cathedrals of the North

By Louie Palu and Charlie Angus

If hockey is Canada’s international sport, mining is Canada’s international industry. But while scores of picture books have honoured our hockey greats, the haunting visual legacy of mining has largely been neglected. That is, until ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

By Sabrina Ward Harrison

If Nick Bantock and Ralph Steadman were teenaged girls who kept scrapbook diaries, Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself would be the result. California-based photographer Sabrina Ward Harrison pours the world of adolescent angst ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Ockham’s Razor: A Search for Wonder in an Age of Doubt

By Wade Rowland

Six hundred years old and not a trace of rust, yet sharp enough still to shave by. Ockham’s razor, that is, as deftly plied by the former CBC journalist Wade Rowland in his book of ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Dispatches from a Borderless World

By Satya Das

Six hundred years old and not a trace of rust, yet sharp enough still to shave by. Ockham’s razor, that is, as deftly plied by the former CBC journalist Wade Rowland in his book of ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Ends of Our Exploring: Ethical and Scientific Journeys to Remote Places

By Hooley McLaughlin

Hooley McLaughlin is a senior science and technology advisor at the Ontario Science Centre where he creates and develops major exhibitions. In The Ends of Our Exploring he takes the reader on journeys, both physical ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Technologies of Knowing: A Proposal for the Human Sciences

By John Willinsky

Rarely a day goes by without the media trumpeting some new scientific research that directly contradicts earlier findings – whether it’s new information about the effects of divorce on kids (It has no effect whatsoever!) ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Abundantly Simple: Everywoman’s Gratitude Journal

By Helen Kafka and Laura Hellen

Abundantly Simple: Everywoman’s Gratitude Journal, is a long-overdue satire of the “be thankful for the little things” type of inspirational book. Authors Helen Kafka and Laura Hellen (otherwise known as “The Helens”) are, respectively, a ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Flowering of the Soul: A Book of Prayers by Women

By Lucinda Vardey, ed.

Inspirational books are big business these days. The literati may sneer at them, but the general public buys them by the armload and their enormous popularity indicates a genuine spiritual hunger that should be taken ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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