Reviews

Made for Happiness: Discovering the Meaning of Life with Aristotle

What is the meaning of happiness? Is the quest for happiness the true purpose of our lives? In Made for Happiness, Jean Vanier considers these questions by examining Aristotle’s best-known works in order to map ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism

By Linda McQuaig

In All You Can Eat, Linda McQuaig assembles an impressive indictment of the prevailing economic system. By defining and demystifying the terms, naming the suspects (individuals, institutions, and ideologies), and providing a credible historical and ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

I’d Say ‘Yes’ God, If I Knew What You Wanted

By Nancy Reeves

Determining the role of spirituality in one’s life is a challenge for most people. Some argue that they don’t need spirituality; others identify as atheist or agnostic; still others believe in a higher being, but ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Faith @ Science: Why Science Needs Faith in the Twenty-First Century

By Denyse O’Leary

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem

By Wayne W. Dyer

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Recreating Eden: A Natural History of Botanical Gardens

By Mary Soderstrom

Do plants have sex? Did the New World, full of plants never seen by the Christian-European eye, escape the Flood? Such provocative questions sprung from the soil of early botanical gardens in Europe and have ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Art of Adultery

By Consuelo Jackman

The provocative title of this debut collection belies the measured calmness of the 22 poems contained within. The Art of Adultery attempts to articulate the passion and pain of impossible relationships through language that, considering ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Heave

By Christy Ann Conlin

There have been many successful novels that never venture far beyond the confines of a single character’s mind. But if an author is going to set such narrow parameters, then there had better be something ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Journeymind

By Brad Thomas Batten

A car skids on black ice on Avenue Road in Toronto. As the unnamed narrator lies badly injured by the roadside, the souls of his fellow victims, lover Elle and his father, slip “like eels, ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Romancing the Bard: Stratford at Fifty

By Martin Hunter

Martin Hunter’s look at the first 50 years of the popular Stratford Festival is well illustrated with production shots drawn from a gallery of renowned theatre photographers. Each chapter is adorned by pleasing anecdotes and ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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