Science, Technology & Environment

Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity

Exploring the dynamics of racism in Canada is a tricky proposition, for discrimination in this self-professed tolerant society is often expressed in a more subtle, multilayered manner than in America. Author and professor Cecil Foster ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Birds of a Feather: Tales of a Wild Bird Haven

By Linda Johns

Artist and author Linda Johns – known as the “Bird Lady of Nova Scotia” – checks in with her sixth ornithological opus, Birds of a Feather. The book is filled with dozens of poignant stories ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

With the Boys: Field Notes on Being a Guy

By Jake MacDonald

In the first pages of his second man-in-nature memoir, Jake MacDonald invokes the manliest muse, Ernest Hemingway, lamenting that all hunting and fishing books end up being compared to the work of Papa. With such ... Read More »

April 11, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

By John Vaillant

It’s obvious how trees in myth and literature enter the public imagination – Eden’s tree of knowledge, the Bodhi tree, Tolkien’s Ents, H.C. Anderson’s fir tree – but how trees become famous in real life ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Earth’s Blanket: Traditional Teaching for Sustainable Living

By Nancy J. Turner

While the fate of the environment appears bleaker with each new report about global warming or water pollution, there are still those working on the front lines who refuse to subscribe to the notion that ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World’s Food Crises

By Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon, eds.

Feeding the Future, the second collection of thematically linked essays edited by Investeco Capital president Andrew Heintzman and CBC personality and writer Evan Solomon (the two were also co-founders of Shift magazine), is subtitled From ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ A Stain upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming

By Stephen Hume et al

Purchasing a steady supply of fresh and canned fish is a privilege to which most inland Canadians have never given a second thought. They take it for granted at their peril, as this startling new ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

By Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer at The New Yorker, made a name for himself with his bestseller, The Tipping Point, which looked at how small trends can suddenly and unexpectedly morph into mass phenomena. Gladwell’s ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks

By James P. Delgado

James P. Delgado is a marine archeologist, diver, and writer most widely known as the co-host of the Sea Hunter television series about diving on shipwrecks. In his new book, Adventures of a Sea Hunter, ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality

By Elaine Dewar

Newspapers try to track the latest developments from the seemingly fantastic world of genetic science: cloned sheep, genetically modified food, in vitro fertilization (IVF), stem cell research. It’s a brave new world. Biologists are in ... Read More »

October 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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