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Practical Intuition for Success: A Step-by-Step Program to Increase Your Wealth Today

Every year the market is flooded with investment books that tell you how to make your first million on the stock market and retire in comfort. But does anyone really get rich from reading these ... Read More »

March 4, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Alberta Fact Book

By Mark Zuehlke

The Alberta Fact Book encourages browsing. While it’s primarily meant as an alphabetized reference book, the volume’s 175 entries may be read as informative, entertaining essays in their own right. Most everyone, for instance, knows ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Stand and Deliver: Inside Canadian Comedy

By Andrew Clark

Canadians are funny. There’s Jim Carrey and his $20-million mug; there’s what’s left of the SCTV gang; there’s Lorne Michaels, who invented Saturday Night Live. Before them went Wayne and Shuster, who are still famous ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Rock and Roll Toronto

By John Goddard and Richard Crouse

A stroll through the streets of Toronto offers little evidence of this city’s important place in Canadian rock ’n’ roll history. There’s a cluster of clubs along Queen Street, a quadrant of record stores at ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Canadian Sourcebook 1997

By Barbara Law,ed.

It is the policy of the editors of the annual Canadian Sourcebook, formerly known as the Corpus Almanac and Sourcebook, to include significant changes each year – changes suggested by its users. For 1997, the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Place Names of Ontario

By Alan Rayburn

One of the guilty little secrets of those who read biographies of people they know is that they invariably look in the index first to see if they are listed. Relief, exultation, or anger can ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ Storm Clouds Over Party Shoes: Etiquette Problems for the Ill-bred Woman

By Sheila Norgate

According to pre- and post-war North American etiquette, women posed such a danger to themselves and society that if they did not adhere to strict rules of conduct something truly dreadful would happen. After all, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Great Lakes Beer Guide: Eastern Region

By Jamie MacKinnon

I like to drink beer, not read about it. So, I approached Jamie MacKinnon’s The Great Lakes Beer Guide with the kind of enthusiasm your average frat boy has for prohibition. However, after reading MacKinnon’s ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Writing Romance

By Vanessa Grant

For the romance-novel addict who’s always dreamed of becoming an author, or the writer who wants to conquer the genre romance form, this guide will make the transition from reading to writing seem more inviting ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Miller’s Bolt: A Modern Business Parable

By Thomas Stirr

Miller’s Bolt, a business allegory by Toronto writer Thomas Stirr, purports to be a “creative journey” of self-improvement and personal management that will lead to success in today’s corporate world. This fictional story traces the ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

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