Living Things (starting with Science Series)

By Adrienne Mason, Ray Boudreau, photog.

Kids Can has released three new titles in the nature/science field, which seems to be one of the hot areas of children’s publishing. Even a quick glance at the library shelves reveals a large number ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Whales: Killer Whales, Blue Whales and More

By Deborah Hodge, Pat Stephens, illus.

March 5, 2004

Wild Dogs: Wolves, Coyotes and Foxes (wildlife Series)

By Deborah Hodge, Pat Stephens, illus.

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Offside: The Battle for Control of Maple Leaf Gardens

By Theresa Tedesco

When Harold Ballard seized control of Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens in 1972 he quickly transformed one of the proudest franchises in sport into a laughingstock. And when Ballard died in April, 1990, his will left ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ An Acre of Time

By Phil Jenkins

May this book spawn others like it, for what a little gem it is. Five years ago Phil Jenkins penned Fields of Vision, a bittersweet chronicle of life on Canada’s family farms and a book that ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Great Lakes

By Pierre Berton,Andre Gallant, photog.

Approximately 35 million Canadians and Americans inhabit the cities, towns, and villages ringing the Great Lakes, and most of those souls take the lakes for granted. This is a pity, because lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Slow Dance: A Story of Stroke, Love, and Discovery

By Bonnie Sherr Klein and Persimmon Blackbridge

As with her documentary films – Not A Love Story, for instance – Bonnie Sherr Klein’s memoir, Slow Dance, is a collaborative effort that speaks to the transforming power of community. Written with novelist Persimmon ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Riding the Tiger: How to Outsmart the Computer That Is After Your Job, How Not to Bankrupt Your Organization with Information Management and How Good Clients Get Exceptional Results

By Alistair Davidson,Harvey Gellman, Mary Chung

Alistair Davidson, Harvey Gellman, and Mary Chung are Toronto computer mavens; what they ask in Riding the Tiger is how a manager thrown into a data project can do the job well.Their answer is hard ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Elephant Winter

By Kim Echlin

Sophie’s mother – an artist, only 49 – calls to say she is dying of cancer and who will look after her birds? Sophie returns to southern Ontario from Africa and takes on much greater ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Coming Attractions 96

By Diane Schoemperlen, ed.

The short story is not, despite reports, Canadian by birth or naturalization. Still, every so often you’ll hear us claiming custody, ready to point to some quasi-demographic mirage showing that Canadians produce more extraordinary writers ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

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