July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
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 »
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
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
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
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
The dodo bird is symbolic of humanity’s often indiscriminate domination over nature. Then along come disasters like the tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina to remind us that domination can go both ways. It is ... Read More »
April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
There’s a current vogue for histories of various objects of arcana, but Darren Wershler-Henry takes the genre a step further with a book that is not actually a history of the typewriter – books of ... Read More »
March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
While many North Americans are familiar with such subjects as stem cell research and regenerative medicine from parsing the odd newspaper article, it is probably safe to say that the vast majority of us are ... Read More »
November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Ever wonder why we are all separated by six degrees from actor Kevin Bacon? Are you really more likely to die in a car crash on your way to the store to buy your lottery ... Read More »
October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Someone famous – Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Benjamin Disraeli have all have received credit – once said that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. That’s the nagging thought many ... Read More »
July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment