Science, Technology & Environment

Sad, Mad and Bad: Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800

In her impressive and frustrating new book, Lisa Appignanesi, author of Freud’s Women, Losing the Dead, and others, provides a tour through the minefield of women’s mental illness (real or assumed) from the 18th century’s ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness

By Jeff Warren

Call it a bad trip. This not-so-fantastic voyage through the nuances of human consciousness is at once annoyingly personal and frustratingly complex. Author Jeff Warren writes with a light, funny, and accessible touch, but the ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-first Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway

By Witold Rybczynski

With his new, generously subtitled book, architecture and design writer Witold Rybczynski (who currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design) follows, in considerable detail, the transformation of a tract of agricultural land ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada

By Adria Vasil

Based on her column in Toronto’s NOW magazine, Adria Vasil’s Ecoholic is a slickly produced and irreverently toned book that makes going green seem almost sexy. It also walks the walk, being printed in vegetable-based ... Read More »

June 14, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Man Who Discovered Flight: George Cayley and the First Airplane

By Richard Dee

The story of the Wright Brothers and their 1903 “discovery” of powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, is one of the enduring historical moments of Western society. But in The Man Who Discovered Flight, ... Read More »

May 15, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Vancouver Wild: A Photographer’s Journey Through the Southern Coast Mountains

By Graham Osborne, Richard Cannings

It seems almost unfair to choose the wilderness around Vancouver as the subject of a photography book. Given how off-the-chart beautiful the place is, you’d think all you’d need to do would be point and ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases That Jump from Animals to Humans

By Dr. David Waltner-Toews

There is not enough vaccine to inoculate us all against bird flu, and even if there eventually were, the disease would likely have already mutated, rendering the vaccine mostly powerless. The latest book by Kitchener, ... Read More »

March 19, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century

By Andrew Nikiforuk

Andrew Nikiforuk, the Calgary-based journalist and winner of the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Saboteurs, about Alberta oil maverick Wiebo Ludwig, calls widespread pandemics “biological invaders” in his new book.This approach makes for interesting reading, ... Read More »

December 14, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Green City: People, Nature and Urban Places

By Mary Soderstrom

We hear so much about “green” these days that the adjective has gotten a little tired. But readers with a taste for books on urban architecture and public planning – and more broadly, the sociology ... Read More »

November 27, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Daggers of the Mind: Psychiatry and the Myth of Mental Disease

By Dr. Gordon Warme

Stating unequivocally that there is no such thing as mental disease is a pretty ballsy thing for a psychiatrist to do. When said psychiatrist is also a prominent professor at the University of Toronto’s medical ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Prev 13 141516 17....49 50 Next

Quill and Quire