Science, Technology & Environment

All in the Family: A Cultural History of Family Life

“Family life is imperfect and difficult everywhere, all the time,” according to author Suanne Kelman. How much more humanely – and helpfully – government programs might operate if politicians trumpeting the demise of the Canadian ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

An Ecology of Enchantment: A Year in a Country Garden

By Des Kennedy

Four years ago I was a complete gardening ignoramus. I thought hostas were a sort of Latin American mobster (it’s a long story), lupines a terrible skin disease, and city people who grew their own ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Grow Wild! Native Plant Gardening in Canada and Northern United States

By Lorraine Johnson, photographs by Andrew Leyerle

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Cultivating Sacred Space: Gardening for the Soul

By Elizabeth Murray

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Pocket Gardening: A Guide to Gardening in Impossible Places

By Marjorie Harris, photographs by Tim Saunders

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: The Revolutionary New Approach to Understanding and Curing Anorexia and Bulimia

By Peggy Claude-Pierre

News of Peggy Claude-Pierre’s phenomenal success rate in curing “hopeless” sufferers of eating disorders spread quickly. Her Montreux Counselling Centre, operating in Victoria since 1993, gained instant notoriety after she appeared on Oprah, and following ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Good Health Online: A Wellness Guide for Every Canadian

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

The Internet is fast becoming the global library: an information resource unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Don’t know which refrigerator to buy? How to get in touch with childhood friends? Which store might sell ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment