Science, Technology & Environment

The Breaking Point: Understanding Your Potential for Violence

High-profile cases of murder, rape, and pedophilia have focused Canadians’ attention on the issue of violence, but are the people who commit these crimes really that different from the rest of us? In The Breaking ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives

By Michael Dertouzos

“In this age of unprecedented information flow, people are haunted by the belief that they are actually ignorant. The stock excuse is that this is because there is literally too much to be known.” – ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Design for Dying

By Timothy Leary

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Virtual Power: Using Your Pc to Realize the Life of Your Dreams

By Mark Bunting, Mark Seal

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Protect Your Privacy on the Internet

By Bryan Pfaffenberger

Once upon a time, hackers were hackers and crackers were crackers, and everyone who counted knew the difference. The earliest hackers were members of an electric train club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who would ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

At Large: The Strange Case of the World’s Biggest Internet Invasion

By David C. Freedman and Charles C. Mann

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Computer Security for Dummies

By Peter T. Davis, Barry D. Lewis

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Halting the Hacker: A Practical Guide to Computer Security

By Donald L. Pipkin

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Great Lakes

By Pierre Berton,Andre Gallant, photog.

Approximately 35 million Canadians and Americans inhabit the cities, towns, and villages ringing the Great Lakes, and most of those souls take the lakes for granted. This is a pity, because lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, ... Read More »

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

Sex in the Snow: Canadian Social Values at the End of the Millennium

By Michael Adams

What is it with these guys? Earlier this year we had demographer David Foot telling us in Boom, Bust and Echo that demographic research explains “two-thirds of everything.” Then we had Angus Reid warning in ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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