Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

If Nick Bantock and Ralph Steadman were teenaged girls who kept scrapbook diaries, Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself would be the result. California-based photographer Sabrina Ward Harrison pours the world of adolescent angst ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Dispatches from a Borderless World

By Satya Das

Six hundred years old and not a trace of rust, yet sharp enough still to shave by. Ockham’s razor, that is, as deftly plied by the former CBC journalist Wade Rowland in his book of ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Ockham’s Razor: A Search for Wonder in an Age of Doubt

By Wade Rowland

Six hundred years old and not a trace of rust, yet sharp enough still to shave by. Ockham’s razor, that is, as deftly plied by the former CBC journalist Wade Rowland in his book of ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Ends of Our Exploring: Ethical and Scientific Journeys to Remote Places

By Hooley McLaughlin

Hooley McLaughlin is a senior science and technology advisor at the Ontario Science Centre where he creates and develops major exhibitions. In The Ends of Our Exploring he takes the reader on journeys, both physical ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Technologies of Knowing: A Proposal for the Human Sciences

By John Willinsky

Rarely a day goes by without the media trumpeting some new scientific research that directly contradicts earlier findings – whether it’s new information about the effects of divorce on kids (It has no effect whatsoever!) ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Abundantly Simple: Everywoman’s Gratitude Journal

By Helen Kafka and Laura Hellen

Abundantly Simple: Everywoman’s Gratitude Journal, is a long-overdue satire of the “be thankful for the little things” type of inspirational book. Authors Helen Kafka and Laura Hellen (otherwise known as “The Helens”) are, respectively, a ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Flowering of the Soul: A Book of Prayers by Women

By Lucinda Vardey, ed.

Inspirational books are big business these days. The literati may sneer at them, but the general public buys them by the armload and their enormous popularity indicates a genuine spiritual hunger that should be taken ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

A Common Man’s Guide to Loving Women

By Andrew Moodie

Four black men discuss their various problems with women in a luxury warehouse apartment, revealing in the process strains on their romantic and work relationships. Chris, a corporate lawyer, is in low spirits because he ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

To the River

By Tim Lilburn

Saskatoon poet Tim Lilburn’s work has always been so focused and passionate that reviewing it seems almost like an interruption of someone at prayer. To the River, his fifth collection, and the first since his ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

49th Parallel Psalm

By Wayde Compton

The first title from Advance Editions, a new literary imprint from Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press edited by Michael Turner (Hard Core Logo, American Whiskey Bar), is the debut of Vancouver poet Wayde Compton. 49th Parallel ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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