Science, Technology & Environment

Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity

Insects is not a book for the merely ento-curious. Stephen A. Marshall, an entomology professor at the University of Guelph for almost 25 years, has assembled here an exhaustive – and somewhat exhausting, given the ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ When the Rivers Run Dry: Journeys into the Heart of the World’s Water Crisis

By Fred Pearce

From the time we’re old enough to go to school, we learn that 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, and that a similar percentage of the human body is made up of ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Shadow of the Bear: Travels in Vanishing Wilderness

By Brian Payton

Vancouver nature writer and novelist Brian Payton returns to familiar ground with his new non-fiction title, Shadow of the Bear. Travelling to all corners of the planet where bears are found he delves into the ... Read More »

July 11, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather

By Marq de Villiers

Marq de Villiers, the Nova Scotia-based winner of the 1999 Governor General’s Award for Water and co-author of 2004’s A Dune Adrift, a history of his home province’s remote Sable Island, is back with another ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Waiting for the Macaws: And Other Stories from the Age of Extinctions

By Terry Glavin

To Gary Snyder, “we are all indigenous to this planet, this garden we are being called on … to reinhabit in good spirit.” For Edward O. Wilson, “nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, ... Read More »

April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Bringing Back the Dodo: Lessons in Natural and Unnatural History

By Wayne Grady

The dodo bird is symbolic of humanity’s often indiscriminate domination over nature. Then along come disasters like the tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina to remind us that domination can go both ways. It is ... Read More »

April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting

By Darren Wershler-Henry

There’s a current vogue for histories of various objects of arcana, but Darren Wershler-Henry takes the genre a step further with a book that is not actually a history of the typewriter – books of ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Golden Cell: Gene Therapy, Stem Cells, and the Quest for the Next Great Medical Breakthrough

By Karen van Kampen

While many North Americans are familiar with such subjects as stem cell research and regenerative medicine from parsing the odd newspaper article, it is probably safe to say that the vast majority of us are ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities

By Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

Ever wonder why we are all separated by six degrees from actor Kevin Bacon? Are you really more likely to die in a car crash on your way to the store to buy your lottery ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

What Canadians Think About Almost Everything

By Darrell Bricker and John Wright

Someone famous – Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Benjamin Disraeli have all have received credit – once said that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. That’s the nagging thought many ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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