The recipes in More Food that Really Schmecks are interesting, easy, use ingredients that many of us have on hand and above all, yield food that everyone loves. This is one of my "desert island" cookbooks. Among the 400+ in my collection, this is one of the top five! (Likewise Food that Schmecks, the first in the series.) I also love the little stories about Edna's mother and friends. There is a strong influence from old order Mennonites (similar to the Amish in the US.)

In this book, Brian Smith wrote about the motives of International NGOs from the US, Europe, and Canada which have been active in trying to help Third World countries to stand on their feet. It also contains a history on how these motives have evolved from the 1940s to the present. The conclusion of the book is that quite often, NGOs real motives are often differ from their "official" statements - while most NGOs stated that they are concentrating on meeting the immediate needs of their clients, in reality many are working more on long term projects that do not have immediate impacts, but might have one in the future, which in itself is not a bad thing. Some of the more troubling findings of the book are that many NGOs are afraid of challenging the status quo and the economic orders in the developing countries they are involved with, for fearing that doing so would intimidate both the host country and their own government(s), since most NGOs relied heavily from their governments' assistance to survive. Also, many NGOs failed to fully disclose their real mission in the developing world, which could create lack of transparency and could result in demands of more accountability and tighter enforcements from their home country's constituents. Overall, an excellent book. Perhaps it should be updated soon, given many changes that have occured in the pasy decade since the book was published (e.g., the end of Cold War, globalization, shift of development strategy from planning to market, reduction in foreign aid due to tigher budget of the Western countries, etc.).

If you think there are no really good places to cycle in the Midwest, this book will change your mind. Very detailed...everything you need to know, how to get there, how to find the trails, what to expect, etc.

"Mountie Makers" is, quite simply, one of the greatest books, of any type, that I have ever read. Expecting a lot of boring, cliche' RCMP training horror stories, I began reading. However, I was pleasantly surprised. I instantly became interested and quickly became attached to the characters. All of them have that "Hey- I know a guy just like that" kind of quality to them. It wasn't long before I was turning the last page. The characters, the descriptions...everything about this book is well- done and unique and tells the awesome tale of the training process of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. Sad, happy, uplifting, and often hilarious, "Mountie Makers" made me proud to be Canadian. Heck, it might even inspire you to join the RCMP. Even if you don't particularly like biographies or RCMP stories, buy this book anyway. If I HAD to give criticism, it would be that it all ended too soon (only 160 pages.) Still-you won't be disappointed-- I guarantee it.

This is Canadian poet and author George Bowering's memoir of his friend and compatriot, the painter Greg Curnoe, who died in a road accident in 1992. The two were friends for almost 30 years.

Until 24 hours ago, I had heard of neither. I picked this book up for a few pennies at the literary equivalent of the last chance saloon - a vast line of shelves outside a second hand bookshop in Hay-on-Wye on the England-Wales border.

Having read a quarter of it before even paying, I went back to my car, mesmerised, and finished the book before driving home. I now want to read as much as I can by this author and to see the works of his subject.

Bowering chooses not to give us the written equivalent of a photograph, but rather that of a briefly and deftly-made sketch - a sketch which is all the more effective because of precisely that brevity and deftness.

Each page contains a single memory. It might be a memory of an art installation, a poetry reading, a strange dream, a meal, a car journey, a television appearance, the two men and their families going on a day trip, or whatever. In spite of its brevity, my first thought on reading The Moustache was to make a comparison with Boswell's Johnson. That is not to say Bowering is guilty of Boswell's self-aggrandizement, but rather that he has the Georgian biographer's ability to draw with words and, above all, the same empathy with and love for his subject.

From what I can tell by browsing Amazon, Bowering is as deservedly well-known in his native land and the United States as he is undeservedly unknown here, even if this book is currently out of print on your side of the Atlantic.

The Moustache is one of those pieces a person discovers and then feels the need to evangelize about.

Which I suppose I just have.

Richard Day has written on excellent book from a poststructuralist perspective on the Canadian state's discourse of multiculturalism and the ways in which its rise in postmodern society results in both the shift away from the NATION-state (singular) to the MULTINATION-state (plural) and how that tension tends to also call the legitimacy of the state into question on multiple fronts even while it temporarily strengthens it to adapt to the "problem" of diversity. This book will be of interest to those interested in theories of multiculturalism, alternative histories of Canada and the applied philosophy of Nietzche, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari.

I really love this book. I am an 'artist', so that is the reason I discovered it.

Ian Thom does an excellent job of introducing the initial project, the restoration of the murals, and the painters lives and decisions.

The pictures of course are the best part! Get this book, you will love it too!

Like the whimsical/ repulsive image from a Brothers Quay film that graces the cover, "The Museum of Love" is a nightmarish, hallucinogenic quest novel. It crackles with a strange, hypnotic energy. Mixing Catholic mysticism, the brutal reality of the Canandian physical, pyschic and cultural landscape, the novel defies description. It is remenscient of the strange bildungsromans of Hesse, Genet, and Kafka. In an era of PC, cookie-cutter fiction, "The Museum of Love" is deliberate, surrealist and elusive. The protagonist is homosexual, but you won't find a "feel-good" resolution. And Weiner's black, bleak humor and startling imagery raises the book above any simple explaination. Having the logic of a dream, the tension of a suspense novel, horror strong enough make Stephen King look like a wimp, and the depth of Joyce is hard to pull off. Weiner's first novel is a work of genius. I'm looking forward to his next novel

I was a close friend of the author, and helped prepare the manuscript for publication after she passed away. This book will be of great relevance to anyone interested in history, museography, communication, anthropology, ethnography, and art history. It is an ambitious and scholarly attempt to review the history and practices of museum exhibitions of Native Canadians, and addresses fundamental questions: when and why are objects considered "art" vs. "artifacts"? How should non-Native museums and curators approach the challenges of exhibiting cultures they do not belong to? Building on Clifford's art/artifact, authentic/inauthentic analytical axes, Moira's study enriches our understanding of how Western culture has chosen to re-present the history and cultures of Native peoples in Canada--in settings where traditionally there has not been space allowed for Native voices themselves to be heard. Although the book is focused on Canada, the issues are relevant to Native populations anywhere in the world. Needless to say, I strongly recommend this book!

This book is the story of one mountie wife and all mountie wives. The long hours alone while their husbands face danger and possible death; the less than generous pay and allowances; the need to meet RCMP standards and requirements without any RCMP understanding or support -- all mountie wives will be able to relate to Nora Kelly's frustration with the force. They will also likely be able to relate to her eventual appreciation for the history of this great Canadian peacekeeping institution and her admiration of the many accomplishments of her mountie, his partners and the force. Very readable and very fresh, this book is also a compelling personal look at an important and fascinating time in Canadian history. There are two other fine companion books co-authored by Nora Kelly and her husband William H. Kelly -- "Policing the Fringe: A Young Mountie's Story" and "Policing in Wartime: One Mountie's Story".