Science, Technology & Environment

The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul

Head through the Ideas or Books section of any weekend paper these days and an unquestioned orthodoxy quickly asserts itself from behind the veneer of open-minded enquiry. That orthodoxy is the doctrine of scientific materialism, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Doctor Who Was Followed by Ghosts: The Family Saga of a Chinese Woman Doctor

By Li Qunying, Louis Luping Han

In the last century, China has undergone considerable political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In The Doctor Who Was Followed by Ghosts, Li Qunying, a former member of the Communist army, delivers a memoir that recounts ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History

By Katherine Ashenburg

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Katherine Ashenburg’s The Dirt on Clean, it’s that 17th-century Europe must have been a pungent place. According to Ashenburg’s history of cleanliness in the western world, royalty of ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto

By Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt, eds.

Most of GreenTOpia, the third installment in Coach House’s “TOpia” series, is a lot of fun to read. This collection of essays and lists of resources could easily have been pretty boring and ended up ... Read More »

December 3, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Literary Celebrity in Canada

By Lorraine York

In this slim book, Lorraine York, a professor of English at McMaster University, examines the condition of literary celebrity in Canada. She begins by looking at early celebrity authors in this country – Pauline Johnson, ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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

By Lisa Appignanesi

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

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