Science, Technology & Environment

Facing the Hunter: Reflections on a Misunderstood Pursuit

More than a decade after Lines on the Water, his 1998 Governor General’s Literary Award–winning non-fiction book about fishing on the Miramichi River, David Adams Richards returns to the Northern New Brunswick of his youth, ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society

By Ian Dowbiggin

According to a 2009 report from the Public Health Agency of Canada, a whopping 20 per cent of Canadians will experience some mental health issue in their lifetimes. This includes 4.8 per cent who will ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time

By Jessa Gamble

At one point in our collective history, humans didn’t measure time. At least, not in the neatly segmented, overly regimented way we do now around most of the planet. In the past, time was measured ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Callously Targets Children

By Joel Bakan

University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan scored a surprise bestseller with The Corporation, the 2003 book developed alongside the feature-film documentary of the same name. Bakan resumes his anti-corporate attack with this account ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge

By Tzeporah Berman with Mark Leiran-Young

As Tzeporah Berman, co-director of Greenpeace International’s climate and energy program, explains in her memoir, the history of social movements is filled with familiar patterns. A movement may begin as a fringe protest, but once ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

By Charlotte Gill

Start with a winter in the mountains of temperate Vancouver Island, then add a troop of tree planters, about to begin their annual cycle once more. Then add Charlotte Gill. After 20 years on the ... Read More »

September 20, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme

By Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman, eds.

With Persistence, editors Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman have produced an inclusive and balanced anthology that illuminates a wide array of issues surrounding gender and identity. The book covers vast territory, but the pieces ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty

By William Byers

With The Blind Spot, William Byers, professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics at Concordia University, has written a passionate, informed manifesto that takes aim at our culture’s reigning myth of scientific certainty. Byers would like ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery

By Andrew Westoll

Only the most intransigent heart will be unmoved by Andrew Westoll’s account of his time spent volunteering at Quebec’s Fauna Sanctuary, a refuge for chimpanzees that have been “retired” from biomedical research. In Westoll’s hands, ... Read More »

April 27, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System

By Ray Jayawardhana

In January 2011, a 10-year-old New Brunswick girl became the youngest person to discover a supernova, or exploding star, situated about 240 million light years from Earth. Technology, especially as it applies to telescopes at ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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