Science, Technology & Environment

★ A Change of Heart: Helping Those with Heart Disease Make a Full Recovery in Both Body and Mind

When my mother was diagnosed with cancer nine years ago, I naively thought that her shocking announcement (delivered calmly by telephone) was the worst of it: both my parents are medical professionals so I assumed ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Braving the Void: Journeys into Healing

By Michael Greenwood

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Midlife Man: A Not-So-threatening Guide to Health and Sex for Man at His Peak

By Art Hister

First a confession: before I read it in public I took the dust cover off Midlife Man: A Not-So-Threatening Guide to Health and Sex for Man at His Peak by Art Hister, MD.The illustration is ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Get Me to the Church Online: A Point and Click Guide to Ecumenical Resources Online

By Cheryl Perry, ed.

Over the past couple of years, I’ve read and reviewed dozens of instructional Internet books: guides aimed at beginners, complicated upgrade manuals for advanced users, and just about everything in between. A few of these ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Handmade Forests: The Treeplanter’s Experience

By Helene Cyr

Treeplanters are like relief workers: they head into remote locations to repair the devastation caused – more often than not – by humans. And like relief work, treeplanting is physically and mentally demanding, requiring long ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Chips & Pop: Decoding the Nexus Generation

By Robert Barnard, Dave Cosgrave, and Jennifer Welsh

Demographics, once a dreary academic pursuit, has recently become an alternative form of astrology. Both disciplines are founded on the notion that people born at the same time will undergo similar experiences; both promise to ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Four Strong Winds: Understanding the Growing Challenges to Health Care

By Michael B. Decter

Few Canadians remain untouched by the turbulent state of our health care system. Constant reports of crisis have resulted in widespread disillusionment. However, Michael B. Decter’s look at the forces behind health care changes takes ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Where on Earth Are We Going?

By Maurice Strong

It’s fitting that Maurice Strong begins this book with an imagined future report to the shareholders of “Earth Inc.” Depicting Earth as a company that’s going under fast in the year 2030 forces a clever ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Measuring the Earth with a Stick: Science as I’ve Seen It

By Bob McDonald

Bob McDonald, the host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, is a journalist who attempts to look at the poetry and beauty behind the gee-whiz science stories he reports. Measuring the Earth with a Stick ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ All Together Now: Connected Communities: How They Will Revolutionize the Way You Live, Work, and Play

By Paul Hoffert

It’s one of the central paradoxes of Internet culture. In the medium’s earliest, pre- e-commerce days, the vast majority of activity on the Net was social and community oriented. The new medium was supposed to ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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