Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

After spending an hour or so perusing the bookshelves at my local big-box, books-by-the-barrel bazaar (where, by the way, I am certain that the health categories into which the books are divided were selected by ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Stop Depression Now: Sam-e, the Breakthrough Supplement That Works as Well as Prescription Drugs in Half the Time … with No Side Effects

By Richard Brown, Carol Colman, Teodoro Bottiglieri

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self

By Peter D. Kramer

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Caring for the Mind: The Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health

By Robert E. Hales, Allen Frances, Dianne Hales

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Bone Talker

By Shelley A. Leedahl, Bill Slavin, illus.

In celebration of the International Year of the Older Person (1999), award-winning Saskatchewan poet and novelist Shelley Leedahl has written a touching story of an old woman, once active and adventurous, “whose life had wound ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Nibbling on Einstein’s Brain: The Good, the Bad & the Bogus in Science

By Diane Swanson, Warren Clark, illus.

Veteran Victoria writer Diane Swanson, author of more than 35 books for children, begins her latest with the claim that all kinds of “bad science” is foisted on us by advertisers, the media, and people ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

Studio Rally: Art and Craft of Nova Scotia

By Robin Metcalfe

When Nova Scotia’s annual Studio Rally takes place each autumn, hundreds of craftspeople open their doors to the public. The event’s success over the years has led to a glossy book profiling some of the ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Question

By Austin Clarke

Set in Toronto, this slightly surreal novel of sexual politics by veteran fiction writer Austin Clarke, winner of the 1999 W. O. Mitchell Literary Prize, tells the tale of a 40-something black man who meets ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

First Son: Portraits by C.D. Hoy

By Faith Moosang

Chow Dong Hoy, a Chinese-Canadian photographer who took over 1,500 evocative portraits of First Nations, Chinese, and Caucasian subjects in the B.C. Interior during the early 1900s, was very nearly relegated to the ranks of ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

From Your Father’s House: Reflections for Modern Jewish Men

By Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky

There’s an old Jewish saying, at once self-disparaging and yet slightly smug: “Ten Jews, 50 opinions.” Jews are obstreperous and argumentative, it seems to imply, but also individualistic and highly independent. While Jewish communities often ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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