Science, Technology & Environment

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

Gabor Maté’s latest book is a sprawling but fascinating look at addiction that is part science, part diatribe, part character study, and part confessional. Maté, a physician at the Portland Clinic in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Prognosis: The Current State and Shaky Future of Canada’s Health System

By John Lawrence Reynolds

Talking about health care is as Canadian a pastime as watching hockey. That’s the argument made by John Lawrence Reynolds in his introduction to Prognosis. A mystery novelist and non-fiction author, Reynolds writes not as ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Can I Have a Word With You?

By Howard Richler

Though these two engaging new word books should set logophiles atwitter, their broad appeal and lack of pretension make them attractive to a far broader audience as well. In Can I Have a Word with ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Carnal Knowledge: A Navel Gazer’s Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia

By Charles Hodgson

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Ebb and Flow

By Tom Koppel

Tom Koppel, the author of 2001’s Powering the Future, has always had a thing for tides, ever since his summer visits to Star Island as a child. Boasting only one tree on its barren flanks, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul

By Mario Beauregard, Denyse O’Leary

Head through the Ideas or Books section of any weekend paper these days and an unquestioned orthodoxy quickly asserts itself from behind the veneer of open-minded enquiry. That orthodoxy is the doctrine of scientific materialism, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Doctor Who Was Followed by Ghosts: The Family Saga of a Chinese Woman Doctor

By Li Qunying, Louis Luping Han

In the last century, China has undergone considerable political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In The Doctor Who Was Followed by Ghosts, Li Qunying, a former member of the Communist army, delivers a memoir that recounts ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History

By Katherine Ashenburg

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Katherine Ashenburg’s The Dirt on Clean, it’s that 17th-century Europe must have been a pungent place. According to Ashenburg’s history of cleanliness in the western world, royalty of ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto

By Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt, eds.

Most of GreenTOpia, the third installment in Coach House’s “TOpia” series, is a lot of fun to read. This collection of essays and lists of resources could easily have been pretty boring and ended up ... Read More »

December 3, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Literary Celebrity in Canada

By Lorraine York

In this slim book, Lorraine York, a professor of English at McMaster University, examines the condition of literary celebrity in Canada. She begins by looking at early celebrity authors in this country – Pauline Johnson, ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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