Science, Technology & Environment

Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World’s Food Crises

By Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon, eds.

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

★ A Stain upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming

By Stephen Hume et al

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

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

By Malcolm Gladwell

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

Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks

By James P. Delgado

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

The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality

By Elaine Dewar

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

No Man’s River

By Farley Mowat

In May of this year Farley Mowat turned 83. His latest book, No Man’s River, shows that the grand old man of Canadian adventure writing hasn’t lost his touch. This is a first-person account of ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Fashion: A Canadian Perspective

By Alexandra Palmer, ed.; $35 cloth 0-8020-8590-3

The symmetry is to die for. Among this year’s must-have travel accessories is an upscale tote bag from The Bay, a leather-trimmed carry-all made of richly finished white wool, with a border of austere, familiar ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark

By Christopher Dewdney

Over the past five years or so, a distinctive new genre of non- fiction has appeared on the literary horizon, recently and rather uninspiringly christened by an article in The Atlantic Monthly as “mundane studies.”Unlike ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Harvest of a Quiet Eye: The Cabin as Sanctuary

By Lawrence Scanlan

There are already so many great memoirs chronicling humanity’s attempts to connect with the natural world that it’s an enormous challenge to produce noteworthy new work on the subject. Harvest of a Quiet Eye doesn’t ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Dune Adrift: The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island

By Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle

There are many books written about the world’s exotic places and peoples. Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, won’t fit most people’s definition of exotic – a crescent-shaped chunk of land in the ... Read More »

June 28, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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