 | On Common Ground Managing Human-Planet Relationships
by Ranjit Kumar, Barbara Murck,
216 pages $27.95 PT
ISBN: 0471640409
|  | Balancing Act Environmental Issues in Forestry
by Hamish Kimmins,
252 pages $29.95 TP
ISBN: 0774804262
| | Lore Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge
by Martha Johnson,
DIANE Publishing Company
190 pages $40 TP
ISBN: 0788170465
| |  | North, South, & the Environmental Crisis
by Rodney White,
184 pages $50 TC
ISBN: 080205952X
|  | Alberta's Petroleum Industry & the Conservation Board
by David H. Breen,
864 pages $39.95 TC
ISBN: 0888642458
| | Variations on a Planet
by Peter Brock,
96 pages $9.95 TP
ISBN: 0919001777
| | | The Kluane National Park Hiking Guide
by Vivien Lougheed,
256 pages $20 TP
ISBN: 0921586604
| | Abuses and Improprieties of the Niagara Escarpment Commission A Regulatory Agency Experience and Review
220 pages $19.95
ISBN: 096947461X
| | Food, Sex, & Salmonella The Risks of Environmental Intimacy
by David Waltner-Toews,
152 pages $14.95 UN
ISBN: 1550210742
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Book Review Wills and Ways
by Brian Fawcett
The environmental mess won't be cleared up until the powerful pay attention to the problem solvers.
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| Book Review Nifty, Bulish, and Short
by John Oughton
Five new fiction collections cover the literary spectrum.
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| Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood,
pages $28.99 TC
ISBN: 077100821X
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Book Review Taking No Prisoners
by Joan Thomas
Margaret Atwood does here what she has always done brilliantly: she looks at the world and names things, putting them in their places with terrifying accuracy.
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| Book Review Social Climbing
by Jack Batten
Sexton concentrates on two aspects of her society ladies: on their organizational skills in putting together the charity balls and on their talents for gossip and backbiting.
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| Book Review A Singular Life
by Anne Denoon
The book inevitably addresses, but mercifully does not belabour, the hoary question of whether, and how much, art (or memory, always artful) can intersect with objective reality.
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| Book Review Some Bark, No Bite
by Allan Casey
An impossible act to follow, perhaps, but the sequel is bound to be a bigger disappointment to Ricci fans than overinflated expectations can explain.
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| Book Review Poetic Presence
by Erin Moure
It is a major work, and its excellence makes me return to what's not there. Impossible to do justice to this book in a short review! What's so compelling?
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| Book Review Comical and Economical
by Kenneth Radu
Thomas King possesses an acute ear for dialogue and the speech rhythms of his characters. In a collection that includes several narratives built upon oral storytelling techniques, the convincing use of dialect and specific vernacular is an achievement.
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| Book Review Culture of Crankiness
by Clive Cocking
Surprisingly for a journalist, Simpson writes with a kind of meandering verbosity and repetitiveness that frequently leaves the reader asking: "What's the point?"
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| Book Review The Choice One Makes
by Rita Donovan
Mavis Gallant's stories receive international attention when published separately in major magazines, so it is always an event when they are gathered to form a new collection.
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| Book Review Vocals by Women
by Jinnean Barnard
Speaking women and silenced women: the three books under review here present new articulations of Canadian women's voices. The three texts can be distinguished respectively as the paid soprano, the harmonizing alto and the "one-noter."
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| Book Review Apart at the Seams
by Brian Fawcett
So long as Kinsella continues to butter up the marketplace with silly baseball stories fuelled by the exaggeration and sentimentality that characterize 'The Dixon Cornbelt League', he's betraying his real talent.
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| Book Review Colonial Connections
by Eileen Manion
The novel illuminates the connections between distant parts of the British Empire in the 17th century and adds a whole new dimension to our perception of American colonial history.
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 | Away
by Jane Urquhart,
368 pages $21.95 TP
ISBN: 0670855049
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Book Review Magically Real
by Janet McNaughton
JANE URQUHART's 'Away' is a complex layering of ideas about emotions and emotions about ideas. If that sounds too intellectual, 'Away' is also one of those novels that moves in and takes over your life.
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| Book Review Erotic Out-Takes
by Diane Schoemperlen
Until recently the vast majority of literature dealing with sex was written by men, and women's sexual experiences, feelings, and fantasies were filtered through the male perspective.
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| Interviews The Plot of Your Life
by Stephen Stamp
For Joan Barfoot, you don't have to have blood on the snow to be a great writer.
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| Prose/Poetry A Watery Part of the World
by Linda Svendsen
In July I visit my mother and we drive directly from the bus station to a car wash, even though her Dodge shines. She likes the slow tracks engaging the wheels, the car in neutral, the thought of hot carnauba wax.
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| Prose/Poetry How Do You Write a Life?
by Mike Dormuth
For best results: Fold ingredients on a soft, shallow mattress with silk sheets. Add: sweet words, pants of desire, sighs of expectation. Do this with a soft touch until batter is heated.
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| Prose/Poetry Laundry and Movies
by Chantel Lavoie
Tangled women hang laundry on lines that join their houses.
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| Profiles A Flair for Fiction
by Malcolm Page
Linda Svendsen's intense, understated stories are making a lot of waves.
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| First Novels First Novels - The Right Stuff
by Gary Draper
Despite some longueurs, this is a gentle novel with vivid settings, a charming central character, and just the right ending.
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 | Official Kids' Book of Baseball
by G. P. Jordan,
pages $12.95 TP
ISBN: 0394223950
|  | The Ferryboat Ride
by Robert Perry, Greta Guzek,
32 pages $15.95 CT
ISBN: 0889711550
|  | The Snoring Log Mystery Wilderness Adventures of a Young Naturalist
by Todd Lee, Jim Brennan,
96 pages $10.95 TP
ISBN: 0919591760
| | | The Fabulous Chocolate Chip Cookie Machine
by Michelle Illiatovitch, Jackie Garlick,
24 pages $7.95 CT
ISBN: 0920259464
| | The Bead Pot
by Thelma Poirier, Nona Foster,
40 pages $9.95 TC
ISBN: 092182730X
|  | Come to Your Senses
by Milan Tytla, Chum McLeod,
96 pages $9.95 TP
ISBN: 1550372920
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First Novels Children's Books - All at Once
by Robert Priest
I remember with awe the day my partner brought home two great piles of oddly shaped hardcovers from the local library. Quickly I learned picture-books are great connectors.
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| First Novels Books for Young Adults - Roads to Maturity
by Pat Barclay
For each protagonist in this group of novels for young adults, facing up to a challenge is as necessary as breathing. Coming to grips with a challenge means passing another milestone along the road to maturity. It's a matter of life and death.
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| Field Notes Field Notes - A Woodcock Legacy
by George Galt
You don't have to read far into George Woodcock's voluminous writings - more than 100 titles to date - to discover that wherever his powerful intellect roams it is accompanied by a highly developed sense of moral purpose.
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| Field Notes Field Notes - My Day with Maud
by Gloria Hildebrant
Like pilgrims of another age, they come on foot seeking proximity, but on this summer's day in Norval, there is neither cafe nor tavern nor church to offer rest to the weary followers of Maud.
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| George Fetherling Last Words - Words for Women
by Alec McEwen
Although a woman may suffer no stigma nowadays if she lives unmarried with a man, the choice of a word to describe that relationship may indicate some degree of disapproval.
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| Pierre
by Marie-Claire Blais,
208 pages $12.95 TC
ISBN: 2890523624
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Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Keith Nickson
Blais's compelling first-person narrative puts the reader deep inside Pierre's twisted personality. He's a garrulous 16-year-old American, full of venom for the middle-class ways of his parents and sisters.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Laura Paquet
Fowler has a great deal of fun comparing the excesses of the American new rich with the dignified, stodgy lifestyles of their old-money compatriots. She skilfully portrays a small, tightly knit society where all the players knew each other.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Donna Dunlop
The title of this book was one of his father's phrases, and through that loophole of whimsy the author seems to have escaped more than once.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Desmond Morton
MacKenzie writes with pride of the international team of peacekeepers who shared his ordeal and accepted his risk-taking style. The light in this dark book is the courage of men and women in soldiers' uniforms, doing their humanitarian best.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Maggie Helwig
Anyone interested in the political implications of documentary will find useful material here; those looking for more examination of documentary aesthetic - or even the politics of documentary aesthetic -may be a hit disappointed.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Daniel Jones
Davey's argument is compelling, but frustrating. He refuses to make clear his own politics. He uses the rhetoric of Marxism and nationalism (the book is dedicated to Robin Mathews), but clearly embraces neither.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Allan Levine
Olive's dictionary is a lot of fun. It should provide the press gallery and political junkies everywhere with hours of entertainment.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Poetry
by Maurice Mierau
Why is it that the apparently "lowbrow" writers get to use hackneyed forms, cliche-ridden language, and shop-worn subjects, and still produce good work sometimes?
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Kathleen Byrne
Graham is unquestionably sincere, but sincerity alone does not produce art; and where, as here, the combative element jostles with the imaginative, it is regrettably the imaginative that loses out.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Virginia Beaton
Few of the authors work within the confines of exposition and plot, and unless the reader is drawn in by the sweep of language and the occasional outbursts of violence, eroticism, or lyricism, such work can mystify.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by John Doyle
Anyone with any knowledge of the Toronto arts and media community will probably find resemblances between some characters and real people, but the resemblances are as vague and superficial as the book's meaning.
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| At Large At Large - Incorrect Again
by Michael Coren
Damn it, I want to be a contemporary novelist. I want to be one of those clever young people who write a first novel and present it to a grateful and artistically esurient world.
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| Douglas Fetherling Douglas Fetherling
by Douglas Fetherling
When colleagues gather together a book (or sometimes, a special issue of a journal) to honour a writer or scholar on retirement or on a particularly important birthday, the object that results is called a Festschrift.
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| First Novel Award Student Writing Awards
You kept those stories and poems coming, from every corner of the country and most of its universities and community colleges, and year three of the contest was just as successful as the first two.
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