Science, Technology & Environment

★ Official Duke Nukem 3D Strategies and Secrets

New technologies such as CD-ROMs, faster processors, and better monitors mean that computer games are finally approaching cinema-quality graphics and sound. While just 15 years ago graphic-less “text adventures” were the ultimate in gaming, computer ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

An Ecological Guide to a North Temperate Garden: Bioplanning for the Next Millennium

By Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Voltaire’s Candide saw a world full of misery, and concluded that one must cultivate one’s garden. Those of us who love gardening anyway will be glad to know that we really can make a difference, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ A History of Reading

By Alberto Manguel

I’ve long been devoted to books like Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines, books that gather around a single subject and with the help of history and literature and a sympathetic sensibility of their own, illuminate it ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

1997 Canadian Internet Handbook

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

A short time ago, the Western press fell in love with something called the Internet. The Information Highway was about to arrive, and boy, was it ever going to be great.Four or so years later, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

1997 Canadian Internet Directory

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Racism, Sexism, and the University: The Political Science Affair at the University of British Columbia

By M. Patricia Marchak

Canadian universities are being torn apart by battles over racism and sexism, by what has been collectively called political correctness. Old white male heterosexual professors, the supporters of the great books (all by older white ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Whose Bright Idea Was It? True Stories of Invention

By Larry Verstraete

Whose Bright Idea Was It? is a contribution to the genre of books that present us with lists of interesting, unusual, and humorous facts. It’s aimed at kids as well as “children of all ages.” ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ At the Border Called Hope: Where Refugees Are Neighbours

By Mary Jo Leddy

For more than five years, prominent social activist Mary Jo Leddy has lived and worked at Romero House, a Toronto refugee shelter. The first part of At the Border Called Hope, a remarkable and important ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Dispatches from the Poverty Line

By Pat Capponi

A war is being fought across Canada right now, but it’s one we seldom see dramatized in vivid images on the late-night television news. The war, of course, is the poverty war, and depending on your ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Government Online in Canada

By Pierre Bourque, forewords by Jean Chrétien and Frank McKenna, afterword by Mike Duffy

Pierre Bourque, an Ottawa journalist and member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, promises an “official and unofficial” look at web sites that will offer us access to our history, legal system, information on First Nations, ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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