Gay & Lesbian Online

Jeff Dawson’s Gay & Lesbian Online describes itself as a “travel guide” to the Internet and the World Wide Web for gays and lesbians. Arranged alphabetically, the entries include everything from “law and legal issues,” ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Lunar Perspectives: Field Notes from the Culture Wars

By Michael Keefer

Public education is under attack, the forces on the left outgunned and outmaneuvered by a well-financed campaign on the right, says English professor Michael Keefer. Across North America, conservatives are trying to starve universities into ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Cyberpower: The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet

By Tim Jordan

Remember 1994? In those days, the Internet was still known as the information highway, and the media was filled with stories about how online technology would one day make the world’s accumulated knowledge available to ... Read More »

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

E.con: How the Internet Undermines Democracy

By Donald Gutstein

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Digital Democracy: Policy and Politics in the Wired World

By Cynthia J. Alexander and Leslie A. Pal, eds.

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Reader’s Digest A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants

By Christopher Bricknell, Trevor Cole, Judith D. Zuk, eds.

At 1,092 pages and about 4 kilograms, the A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants is an ambitious volume that’s packed with essential ABCs for North American gardeners – and all sorts of extras not available in ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Muskoka II

By Judy Ross, with photos by John de Visser

Sometimes old adages are wrong and you can go back, and it isn’t so very different, and you are happy. Photographer John de Visser and writer Judy Ross published their successful Muskoka in 1989, capturing ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Connected Intelligence: The Arrival of the Web Society

By Derrick de Kerckhove

Derrick de Kerckhove’s ambitious new book of techno-theory, Connected Intelligence, follows up on his preceding work, The Skin of Culture, published only two years ago. It seems much has changed in that time, or at ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Teach Yourself Office 97 in 24 Hours

By Greg Perry

I doubt many people saw it coming, but it’s happened; computers have shed their stodgy images and become the sexy party accessories of the 1990s. People with better bodies than you have taken to swapping ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment