There is not much to say about this book, expect, breathetaking. This book, I feel, was a very good investment. It was one of the best I've read about Ottawa, and I'm a librarian! I read a lot!

Beautifully printed proceedings of one of the largest canon law conventions ever held, with over 50 addresses in five languages covering more than 1,000 pages. A real who's-who of international canon law experts. The strength and weakness of this work is its time of presentation, ie., concurrent with the revised Code of Canon Law. That was a time of marked uncertainty in Catholic Church law, and several of the papers reflect this. For all that, a highly regarded work of lasting value.

Easy to care everywhere, full of useful information, pocket edition.A lot of helpful tips and directions are crammed in such a small book.Maps are very detailed,but should read better if in color.

It was hard to believe that this novel I was reading was published in 1901! It kept thinking that the fiction writers of the turn of the century were very similar to the young adult writers of today.

Connor wrote a book which was an accurate recount of life in the Canadian wilderness, and did it in a way that was not offensive in vernacular or boring in content.

Truly a timeless novel that your children should read. It very refreshing compared to some of the acidic laced young adult "literature" of today. (but they do need some of that to get a perspective on the real world, as it is now)

I studied this book in Canadian Lit at St. Francis Xavier University, and the whole class loved it. Our professor tied it in with our Scottish heritage and culture, which is very strong in Nova Scotia and in rural Ontario. It may be hard to believe but the values in the book were the same I was taught growing up 25 years ago, even the Gaelic phrases were familiar. Our class came to the conclusion that the book could explain a great deal about the roots of the so-called Canadian Identity. If you want to read about the real Canadian pioneers, this is it.

Tommy, aka the Shadow, is the main character of this book. A middle class kid growing up in post world war two, tommy and his friend Gerald try to find out who beat up their friend's father. I found this book to br fairly interesting, writen in the style of any young boy who thinks of himself as a great detective or whatnot. The characters are very human, all with their own habits, ect. The plot could have had some more dillema in it , though.

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The author of "The Right to Know Who You Are", Keith C. Griffith, was instrumental in opening adoption records in his home country of New Zealand in 1990.

This book contains details of how the laws were opened in New Zealand, and helpful information for activists who want to try to open the records elsewhere.

The book also addresses issues that adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents commonly have; it tries to break the myths that birth parents and adoptees were promised or wanted secrecy and confidentiality from each other; and it goes into detail on how adoptees are harmed by sealed records, and tries to explain the myriad of reasons that adoptees search and want to know who we are.

Also included is a list of geographical locations, and what level of access to informations adoptees are allowed. Shockingly, parts of Canada and the United States are far behind the rest of the world in restoring identity rights to adoptees.

As a long-time activist for the restoration of human rights for adoptees and birth parents, I have gotten a great deal of help from this book, and from Keith as well. This has been an excellent starting point for me in understanding some of the very many reasons there are why birth and adoption records should be open to the adoptee, and how to bring about real change in the laws.

The right to know who you are is a basic human right. It is something which is covered in sections 7 through 10 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that children have the right to know and be cared for their birth families, and that where separated through an act of the government (such as legal adoption) children and birth families have the right to reconnect with each other, and the government has a responsibility to help.

Peter Bowen has taken stories about Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly and made them his. Follow Yellowstone Kelly as he hunts bears and Indians, takes a hapless band of English nobles on a buffalo hunting trip and fights with the British in the Zulu war. How Yellowstone Kelly came out of all his travails without more than scratches is beyond me, but I guess that is why they are called "tall tales".

This is a good book with some interesting stories but it is a very slow read.

I was expecting a fine read when I began this book, since the writer is such a good one, a master of both short stories and novels. This book was, to put it briefly, a major letdown. The pagan characters are of course one hundred percent virtuous and always manage to save the day, an example of perfect propoganda. If an author had attempted similar characters, only making them Christian or Jewish, they would be condemned for preaching, but I guess it's okay if they're Wiccan. While De Lint condemns New Age theology in this book, he presents quite a bit of it. The attempt to mix together several plots is also a failure - the first story is extremely dry, the second moderately interesting and the third average at best. Overall the attempt to mix them into one coherent book does not work and the whole comes across as very convoluted (sp?). I'd recommend Trader for anyone who wants a real taste of De Lint's writing - even fans of his should skip over this.

Spiritwalk is a sequel to Moonheart. I accidently read this book before Moonheart, but I have since corrected that error. It makes much more sense when you know who the characters are ;)

I think that de Lint's writing is decent, and his stories are good. They are a different kind of fantasy, pulling the otherworld into our world, an occurance that surprises the characters as much as the reader. They are perhaps gothic, having a dark tone to them, but good still triumphs over evil.

Moonheart is definately a better book, but those who liked it would be interested in the stories in this one. Other reviewers have compared de Lint to Tolkien and CS Lewis, but I think they were misguided. The fantasy of Tolkien and Lewis is of a different brand. For one thing, they are Christian, and this is clearly reflected in the organization of their secondary worlds. De Lint's writing is based on a different, polytheistic tradition, and this also is apparent in his writing. [In Moonheart, it is mainly Celtic w/ some Native American, in Spiritwalk it focuses more on the Native American, and in later works such as Svaha, it is a blend of Native American and Eastern mysticism]. Not that you can't like all three of these authors [I do], but I do not think that they are similar enough to be compared. I appreciate each for his merits. I would consider de Lint to be modern in his themes, and his writing to be exclusively for teenagers and adults [NOT children!] My reason for this would most likely be sex scenes, which, while I'm on the topic, tend be described in rather ridiculous terms, but then, I am no fan of romance novels. These stories are an interesting rendition of ancient rituals of magic crossing into modern Canada.

This book was not about indians at all. At least, it was told from a view that seemed not indian. This book was like a bad pow-wow where people are mean to eachother.