Science, Technology & Environment

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

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

Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity

By Stephen A. Marshall

Insects is not a book for the merely ento-curious. Stephen A. Marshall, an entomology professor at the University of Guelph for almost 25 years, has assembled here an exhaustive – and somewhat exhausting, given the ... Read More »

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

★ When the Rivers Run Dry: Journeys into the Heart of the World’s Water Crisis

By Fred Pearce

From the time we’re old enough to go to school, we learn that 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, and that a similar percentage of the human body is made up of ... Read More »

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

Shadow of the Bear: Travels in Vanishing Wilderness

By Brian Payton

Vancouver nature writer and novelist Brian Payton returns to familiar ground with his new non-fiction title, Shadow of the Bear. Travelling to all corners of the planet where bears are found he delves into the ... Read More »

July 11, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather

By Marq de Villiers

Marq de Villiers, the Nova Scotia-based winner of the 1999 Governor General’s Award for Water and co-author of 2004’s A Dune Adrift, a history of his home province’s remote Sable Island, is back with another ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Waiting for the Macaws: And Other Stories from the Age of Extinctions

By Terry Glavin

To Gary Snyder, “we are all indigenous to this planet, this garden we are being called on … to reinhabit in good spirit.” For Edward O. Wilson, “nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, ... Read More »

April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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