Science, Technology & Environment

Teach Yourself… Windows 95

Our society has always been good at hyperbole; look at the whole Elvis phenomenon. Overweight, drug-addicted rock star goes from has-been to messiah-in-waiting just by dying relatively young in a particularly messy way. Marilyn Monroe, ... Read More »

March 29, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Windows 95 Simplified

By maranGraphics’ Development Group

March 29, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

How to Use Windows 95

By Douglas Hergert

March 29, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Haida Gwaii

By Ian Gill, David Nunuk

Writer-photographer team Ian Gill and David Nunuk have paired up for a second book about Canada’s West Coast, Haida Gwaii. Though the colour photographs that document their three journeys hiking, sailing, and kayaking through the ... Read More »

March 25, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Dark Age Ahead: Caution

By Jane Jacobs

Some six centuries before the Christian era began, the prophet Jeremiah lamented: “How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people.” That agile-minded social observer, Jane Jacobs, has written a jeremiad of sorts, ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Damaged Angels: A Mother Discovers the Invisible Cost of Alcohol in Pregnancy

By Bonnie Buxton

It wasn’t until her troubled adopted daughter was in her teens that Bonnie Buxton even heard the term Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Damaged Angels outlines, with brutal honesty, the cost of FASD, the difficult ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Timely Death: Considering Our Last Rights

By Anne Mullens

In her preface to Timely Death, B.C. journalist Anne Mullens, who covered the Sue Rodriguez story for The Vancouver Sun and later The Toronto Star, writes of how her attitude towards death changed during the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Life’s Losses: Living Through Grief, Bereavement and Sudden Change

By Betty Jane Wylie

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Presumption of Culture: Structure, Strategy, and Survival in the Canadian Cultural Landscape

By Tom Henighan

When Sheila Finestone, Secretary of State for Multiculturalism, suggested a couple of years ago that “Canada has no national culture,” her intention may have been to affirm Canada’s wide diversity of cultures and lack of ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Boom, Bust and Echo

By David Foot and Daniel Stoffman

Does everything come down to demographics? Is the study of human populations the key to solving all our nation’s problems?According to demographer David Foot and journalist Daniel Stoffman, the answer is, more or less, yes. ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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