Science, Technology & Environment

Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the Forest

When Amanda Lewis, a burnt-out book editor, and “completionist,” set out to visit all the Champion trees in British Columbia, she was also tracking something lost during a “difficult” relationship with her goal-and-checklist life. Academic ... Read More »

May 24, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Science, Technology & Environment

Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast

By John Vaillant

Early on in Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, John Vaillant makes one thing very clear – “there has never been a better time to be a fire.” The latest book from the ... Read More »

May 10, 2023 | Filed under: History, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

In the Name of Wild: One Family, Five Years, Ten Countries, and a New Vision of Wildness

By Phillip and April Vannini with Autumn Vannini

“Wild” and “wildness” have been used, and overused, to describe everything from adventure parks to cosmetics companies, and because of this it has become a challenge to define the words. Wilderness depicted in overhead ... Read More »

November 9, 2022 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment, Travel

A Train in the Night: The Tragedy of Lac-Mégantic

By Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny and Christian Quesnel (ill.); W. Donald Wilson (trans.)

Lac-Mégantic made headlines across the country and around the world when a train derailment destroyed half of that sleepy Québec town one summer night in 2013, taking 47 lives in an instant. Now, in an ... Read More »

October 26, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, History, Science, Technology & Environment

Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay

By Merilyn Simonds

Anyone who has studied Canadian history has likely seen a photograph of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, even if unknowingly. She’s crouching in the background in one of the most famous images of the infant Dionne ... Read More »

June 21, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

The Longbow, the Schooner and the Violin: Wood and Human Achievement

By Marq de Villiers

Through the vision of journalist and author Marq de Villiers, you can see the forest for the trees. The natural history of forests and the complex interrelationship between humanity, trees, and wood are the focus ... Read More »

June 8, 2022 | Filed under: Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

This Is the Voice

By John Colapinto

“Project your voice without fear or favor,” John Colapinto writes in his new book, This Is the Voice. “Be aware of its full, fantastic range of expression, and revel in it.” This exploration of our ... Read More »

April 15, 2021 | Filed under: Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society

By Ronald J. Deibert

Trying to determine a through line of broad historical periods is at best a fraught endeavour. But if there is a single driving idea of the 20th and 21st centuries, it might well be simply ... Read More »

October 5, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?: Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk

By James Wilt

“Today everyone who values cities is disturbed by automobiles,” wrote Jane Jacobs in her 1961 classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities. “At present public transportation languishes, but not from a lack of ... Read More »

June 18, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

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