June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
Exploring the dynamics of racism in Canada is a tricky proposition, for discrimination in this self-professed tolerant society is often expressed in a more subtle, multilayered manner than in America. Author and professor Cecil Foster ... Read More »
Artist and author Linda Johns – known as the “Bird Lady of Nova Scotia” – checks in with her sixth ornithological opus, Birds of a Feather. The book is filled with dozens of poignant stories ... Read More »
June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
In the first pages of his second man-in-nature memoir, Jake MacDonald invokes the manliest muse, Ernest Hemingway, lamenting that all hunting and fishing books end up being compared to the work of Papa. With such ... Read More »
April 11, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
It’s obvious how trees in myth and literature enter the public imagination – Eden’s tree of knowledge, the Bodhi tree, Tolkien’s Ents, H.C. Anderson’s fir tree – but how trees become famous in real life ... Read More »
March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
While the fate of the environment appears bleaker with each new report about global warming or water pollution, there are still those working on the front lines who refuse to subscribe to the notion that ... Read More »
March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Feeding the Future, the second collection of thematically linked essays edited by Investeco Capital president Andrew Heintzman and CBC personality and writer Evan Solomon (the two were also co-founders of Shift magazine), is subtitled From ... Read More »
March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Purchasing a steady supply of fresh and canned fish is a privilege to which most inland Canadians have never given a second thought. They take it for granted at their peril, as this startling new ... Read More »
January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer at The New Yorker, made a name for himself with his bestseller, The Tipping Point, which looked at how small trends can suddenly and unexpectedly morph into mass phenomena. Gladwell’s ... Read More »
December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
James P. Delgado is a marine archeologist, diver, and writer most widely known as the co-host of the Sea Hunter television series about diving on shipwrecks. In his new book, Adventures of a Sea Hunter, ... Read More »
November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Newspapers try to track the latest developments from the seemingly fantastic world of genetic science: cloned sheep, genetically modified food, in vitro fertilization (IVF), stem cell research. It’s a brave new world. Biologists are in ... Read More »
October 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment