Postcards Talk is like a beautifully wrapped gift – the attractive covering is an indication of the pleasing contents. The colourful cover of this book has a border of words that motivate the reader to ... Read More »
March 3, 2004
The Neanderthal Book and Skeleton is a sequel to the successful Bones Book and Skeleton. Where the original taught anatomy, this one teaches prehistory and paleoanthropology.The authors bring an impressive array of qualifications to the ... Read More »
March 3, 2004
Over the last few years, the big trend in both kid and adult publishing has been the burgeoning growth of non-fiction – what the librarians used to call “information books” and keep on shelves for ... Read More »
March 3, 2004
Over the last few years, the big trend in both kid and adult publishing has been the burgeoning growth of non-fiction – what the librarians used to call “information books” and keep on shelves for ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Not all children are born with the prodigious talent of a young Bobbie Fischer. Since there is no “chess junior,” children have to learn the same rules and strategies that have preoccupied adults for centuries. ... Read More »
March 3, 2004
Chris Jackson’s second animal fable about China Plate Farm is quite as delightful as his first one, Edmund and Hillary. Once again, Jackson uses farmyard animals to tell a story that says more about human ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Reading Going Deep is akin to plunging into the dark pool of water featured on the cover. At first, there’s a shock of alien cold as the reader gets acclimatized to Ian Percy’s terminology and ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help
Corporations have replaced citizens as the foremost subjects of government and as Canada’s fundamental raison d’état, says Murray Dobbin. Democracy, he argues, has become little more than an illusion maintained by our governments on behalf ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The hardship of a winter when fishing is impossible (I don’t count ice-fishing; dropping a hook and line through a hole in the ice doesn’t cut it) can be relieved by good books about the ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Elizabeth May, an environmental writer, has written At the Cutting Edge: The Crisis in Canada’s Forest primarily as a wake-up call to alert people to the devastation of Canada’s forests – a crisis that May ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
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