Reviews

Hundred Block Rock

Bud Osborn is one of those rare poets with something important to say. And we should listen. In fact, Hundred Block Rock should be required reading for every CEO in North America … not to ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Parenting with Wit and Wisdom in Times of Chaos and Loss

By Barbara Coloroso

Anthropologist Jean Liedloff, in her 1975 book The Continuum Concept, bemoans the fact that Western parents are so out of touch with their natural instincts about parenting that they have to consult books written by ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Add Kids, Stir Briskly, or How I Learned to Love My Life

By Jo Owens

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Only Secure Job: Changing from Employee to Entrepreneur

By Richard Worzel

Futurist Richard Worzel’s take on becoming an entrepreneur is that it’s as much a matter of inner preparation as an ability to seize on a market or a product. Accordingly, his book is a compendium ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Sanity Savers: The Canadian Woman’s Guide to “Almost” Having It All

By Ann Douglas

Ever since Shirley Conran wrote Superwoman in the early 1980s, the marketplace has been flooded with books targetting career women and the dilemma of balancing career, family, and private time. In our frenetic world of ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Mavericks: Lessons from the West’s Winning Entrepreneurs

By Paul Grescoe

Paul Grescoe is talented as a writer and connected as a businessman. The two qualities result in a well-crafted book of profiles of merchants and manufacturers in his part of the world. A continuation of ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Personal Pilgrimage: One Day Soul Journeys for Busy People

By Viki Hurst

As any serious seeker of self-improvement knows, being half-spiritual is like being half-pregnant. You either are spiritual – or are trying to be – or you are not. Half-way measures, such as leaving your soul ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice

By Cheryl Peppers and Alan Briskin

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Unnatural Harvest: How Corporate Science Is Secretly Altering Our Food

By Ingeborg Boyens

Given the lack of North American news coverage about food production, one could be excused for imagining that genetically engineered food is still science fiction, or that it is subject to strict controls and safeguards, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Ugly Canadian: The Rise and Fall of a Caring Society

By Barbara Murphy

Anyone who wonders how Bay Street brokers can blithely zip their high-end cars past haggard figures on heating grates might ask whether Canadians have become less compassionate. It’s a question Ottawa social policy consultant Barbara ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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