Reviews

Microsoft Office 2000 Step by Step

Given the eruption of hype that usually accompanies Microsoft launches, the arrival of Office 2000 in June was a decidedly low-key event. There were no Rolling Stones tie-ins, no TV commercials, no magazine ad blitzes, ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2000 Visually

By MaranGraphics staff

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Staging the North

By Sherrill Grace, Eve D’Aeth, and Lisa Chalykoff, eds.

The 12 plays in this collection present Canada’s North as a place of unresolvable tensions. The landscape is certainly harsh, but no less brutal is the “complex, crushed geography” of those who venture into this ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Frame of the Book

By Erin Mouré

In recent years, Erin Mouré’s poetry has had the reputation of being a kind of playground for grad-school students. As the title suggests, her eighth book of poetry, A Frame of the Book, is heavily ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Raucous

By W.H. New

W.H. New, who holds the Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies at the University of British Columbia, has written more than 30 books including Science Lessons, his first book of poems, which was ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Anthem

By Helen Humphreys

Novelist and poet Helen Humphreys’ fourth collection of poetry is an eloquently written, passionate book about language, desire, love, and indecision.In “For Jackie, Who Will Never Read This,” Humphreys details the importance of speech outside ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Carrying the Shadow

By Patrick Friesen

What’s poetry good for? Neither preferred nor common, it has no abbreviation on the NASDAQ exchange. But Patrick Friesen’s Carrying the Shadow shows how poetry still holds an uncontested patent in speaking of death. It’s ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Bald-Headed Hermit & the Artichoke: An Erotic Thesaurus

By A.D. Peterkin

Everybody knows the futility of trying to look up a “dirty” word in the dictionary. Even a quite ordinary word such as cunnilingus is not listed in every dictionary – a quick browse through my ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the 20th Century

By Gary G. Hamilton, ed.

Chinese diaspora? Yes, indeed there is one, and it has ramifications for many countries, including Canada. With an introduction by Gary Hamilton, who teaches sociology at the University of Washington, this collection of nine academic ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Shadow Running: Ray Lewis, Canadian Railway Porter and Olympic Athlete

By John Cooper with Ray Lewis

Ray Lewis has quite a story to tell. The great-grandson of escaped slaves, Lewis was born in Hamilton in 1910. He went on to win a bronze track-and-field medal at the Los Angeles Olympics in ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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