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The article reviews the book "The Niobe Papers Volume Four: Oceans Policy in the 1990s: An Atlantic Perspective," edited by F.W. Crickard and K. Orr.

Reviews the book 'The Future of the National Library of Canada.'

The article discusses the book "Modernization and the Canadian State," edited by Daniel Glenday, Hubert Guindon, and Allan Turowetz. The book puts together a useful collection of articles for courses such as Canadian social issues, Canadian society, economic sociology, ethnic-minority relations and introduction to sociology. The papers are grouped into five sections namely "The Impact of the Multinational Corporation," "Regionalism and Community," "Canadians and Québécois," "Ethnicity and Marginality," and "Modernization and the Urban Poor." Guindon's article argues that Trudavian federal policy has been wrongheaded in its attempt to solve the French-Canadian "problem" by expanding francophone opportunities outside Quebec. Several of the commissioned articles justify the price of admission for any interested scholar not on the complimentary copy list. According to Guindon "The federal state has followed a language policy that can only be described as a political Irritation for English Canada which is entirely irrelevant to a modernizing Quebec."

Reviews several art exhibitions. "The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting," held at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa from June through September 2003; "Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France," held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. from October 2003 through February 2004; "The Drawings of François Boucher," at the Frick Collection in New York City from October through December 2003.

Reviews the Fiscal 1990 results of Canada's 500 largest companies. Best and worse sales; Biggest losses; Most productive; More. INSET: Definitions (explanation of terms used)..

Reviews the Fiscal 1990 results of the top 150 subsidiaries of Canada's largest industrial corporations. Sales; Net income; Employees; Major shareholder.

"The Everyday World as Problematic," is a collection of essays which documents the unsentimental journey of a major Canadian social theorist toward a more profoundly feminist sociology. Dorothy E. Smith wrote these six essays over the last decade and a half, and though prefaced by new introductions, the earlier papers are included so that readers can follow Smith's progress. A sociologist at the outset, Smith is still a sociologist at the end, though hardly a conventional one. As the book unfolds, she is increasingly critical of the discursive moral order that is mainstream sociology. Yet like Sandra Harding on science, Smith holds fast to the view that sociological inquiry, in the form of what we might call a "successor" sociology, can yet empower rather than impoverish the lives of the women it studies. This is the first reason that "The Everyday World" is essential reading for sociologists, feminists and non-feminists alike. In the book's six chapters Smith explores philosophically and practically the possibility of a sociology freed of its patriarchal anchorage. Her goal is the development of an alternative feminist sociology, that is, a specialized knowledge of the social world which is rooted in the form of life of its women subjects.

Reviews the book "The Cross of Gold: Money and the Canadian Business Cycle, 1867-1913," by Georg Rich.

The article reviews the book "Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters: Accessing and Persisting in Post-Secondary Education in Canada" edited by Ross Finnie, Richard E. Muller and Arthur Sweetman.

The article reviews the books "The Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire Canadien de droit international, XXX (1992)," edited by C. B. Bourne, and "The Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire Canadien de droit international, XXXI (1993)," edited by Donald M. McRae.

THE PUBLICATION OF DOCTOR KINNARI I. Bhatt's first book, Concessionaires, Financiers and Communities: Implementing Indigenous Peoples' Rights to Land in Transnational Development Projects ("Concessionaires"), comes at a time of uncertainty for the field of Aboriginal law in Canada and across the globe. To contextualize the key themes found throughout Concessionaires, and to provide a basis upon which my critiques shall be built, it is important to briefly detail recent developments in Aboriginal law in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "Frying Plantain," by Zalika Reid-Benta, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Rethinking Restructuring: Gender and Change in Canada," edited by Isabella Bakker.

The article reviews the book "Shipbuilding on Prince Edward Island: Enterprise in a Maritime Setting 1787-1920," by Nicolas de Jong and Marven E. Moore, number 46 in the Mercury Series Paper book series.

The article reviews the book "Divided We Fall: The National Security Implications of Canadian Constitutional Issues," edited by Alex Morrison.

Reviews the book 'The Bridge at Quebec,' by William D. Middleton.

Reviews the book 'Regional Planning in Canada,' by L.O. Gertler.

Reviews the book 'Citizen Participation in Library Decision-Making: The Toronto Experience,' edited by John Marshall.

The article reviews the book "Canadian Income Tax Policy: An Economic Evaluation," Third Edition, by V. Salyzyn.

A review of the book "Nine Lessons I Learned From My Father," by Murray Howe, is presented.

Although the fauna presented in this simple counting book are not uniquely Canadian, the youngest animal lovers in Canada and beyond will appreciate the opportunity to practice a new skill. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE FEDERAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE has been posited as a solution to issues of internal conflict and division within states.3 Over the last century the global prevalence of the federal system has increased. There are currently twenty-six states (accounting for forty per cent of the global population) that have or are in the process of adopting a federal system4--including three of the so-called "BRIC" emerging global powers. While the motivating theory of the federal system is one that often seeks to pacify, contain, or eliminate conflict among subnational groups and governments, such an ideal is not as easily achieved in practice. Many federal states are formed amidst conflict and competing visions of national identity. Thus, it is often not only the division of power and resources within the federation that is contested but also the framework of the federation itself. This underlying struggle is borne out in political arenas through self-determination movements and in courts through legal disputes over division of powers. In turn, states rely on federal institutions to proactively and reactively address intra-state conflict. Situated among these institutions are "federal arbiters" who serve the critical role of adjudicating conflicts over power and resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Getting Used to the Quiet: Immigrant Adolescents' Journey to Belonging in New Brunswick, Canada," by Stacey Wilson-Forsberg.

A review of the book "Ru," by Kim Thúy and translate from French to English by Sheila Fischman is presented.

A review of the book "Taking Medicine: Women's Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930," by Kristin Burnett is presented.

The article reviews the book "The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67" by Patricia E. Roy.

The article reviews the book "Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada," by Stephen J. Pyne.

The article reviews the book "The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Border," by Sheila McManus.

The article reviews the book "Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse," by Andie Diane Palmer.

The article reviews the book "Canadian Cities in Transition: Local Through Global Perspectives," 3rd edition, edited by Trudi Bunting and Pierre Filion.

Reviews the book 'Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact,' by Lyle Dick.