Science, Technology & Environment

Chips & Pop: Decoding the Nexus Generation

By Robert Barnard, Dave Cosgrave, and Jennifer Welsh

Demographics, once a dreary academic pursuit, has recently become an alternative form of astrology. Both disciplines are founded on the notion that people born at the same time will undergo similar experiences; both promise to ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Four Strong Winds: Understanding the Growing Challenges to Health Care

By Michael B. Decter

Few Canadians remain untouched by the turbulent state of our health care system. Constant reports of crisis have resulted in widespread disillusionment. However, Michael B. Decter’s look at the forces behind health care changes takes ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Where on Earth Are We Going?

By Maurice Strong

It’s fitting that Maurice Strong begins this book with an imagined future report to the shareholders of “Earth Inc.” Depicting Earth as a company that’s going under fast in the year 2030 forces a clever ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Measuring the Earth with a Stick: Science as I’ve Seen It

By Bob McDonald

Bob McDonald, the host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, is a journalist who attempts to look at the poetry and beauty behind the gee-whiz science stories he reports. Measuring the Earth with a Stick ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ All Together Now: Connected Communities: How They Will Revolutionize the Way You Live, Work, and Play

By Paul Hoffert

It’s one of the central paradoxes of Internet culture. In the medium’s earliest, pre- e-commerce days, the vast majority of activity on the Net was social and community oriented. The new medium was supposed to ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean

By Terry Glavin

There is a lovely shorter book in The Last Great Sea – or several different shorter books. As it is, too much of the material here strays from Glavin’s theme, passages and ideas are repeated, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Ingenuity Gap: How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?

By Thomas Homer-Dixon

In his famous 1798 treatise, An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus posited that poverty and distress are inextricable to the human condition because population always increases faster than the means of subsistence. ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers

By Terry Gould

If the word “swinger” conjures up ugly images of the open-shirted, creepy-looking guy, you’re not alone. As Terry Gould relates in the introduction to The Lifestyle (to be released, aptly, on Valentine’s Day), he initially ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the World

By Hugh Brody

A mix of anthropological text and memoir, The Other Side of Eden takes the reader into radical geographical and intellectual terrain. Drawing on his extensive experience living amongst “hunter-gatherer” societies – mainly in the Canadian ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Long Shadows

By Erna Paris

As Erna Paris’s life was “forever altered” by a chance visit to a Nazi death camp, the reader too is forever changed by reading Long Shadows, her monumental study of the schism between real and ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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