February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Anyone who wonders how Bay Street brokers can blithely zip their high-end cars past haggard figures on heating grates might ask whether Canadians have become less compassionate. It’s a question Ottawa social policy consultant Barbara ... Read More »
With the threat of death comes fear. And whether that fear is a product of religion or a fear of the unknown, or even of simple loneliness at the prospect of leaving behind all those ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
With the threat of death comes fear. And whether that fear is a product of religion or a fear of the unknown, or even of simple loneliness at the prospect of leaving behind all those ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
To refer to the new books by Anne McPherson and Margaret Visser as “religious titles” is to do them a disservice, especially to readers, like this reviewer, who shy away from overtly Christian material and ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
To refer to the new books by Anne McPherson and Margaret Visser as “religious titles” is to do them a disservice, especially to readers, like this reviewer, who shy away from overtly Christian material and ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
As a Catholic missionary in Lesotho, Sister Yvonne Maes found herself with the nickname Madiepetsan after the mythical wife of a cannibal chief, who was constantly escaping her husband’s cooking pot by using simple tricks. ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Olga Romanov’s life was largely unremarkable with one exception: her older brother was Nicholas, the last Tsar of Russia. The youngest child of a loving father and a distant mother, she was raised in incomparable ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
This is a quite unnecessary yet quite engaging little book. Father Owen Lee, a life-long operaphile and this country’s most famously perfect Wagnerite, is writing to persuade us that horrible people can create splendid works ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
Robertson Davies was a marvellous letter writer, one of a breed headed for extinction in the e-mail generation. This volume covers Davies’ late career, from age 63 to his death at age 83 in 1995, ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
“You are not mad,” poet Robin Skelton once said to Susan Musgrave: “You are a poet.” At the time – the late sixties – the wiry teenager was hospitalized because everyone else thought she was ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs