Science, Technology & Environment

The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean

There is a lovely shorter book in The Last Great Sea – or several different shorter books. As it is, too much of the material here strays from Glavin’s theme, passages and ideas are repeated, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Ingenuity Gap: How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?

By Thomas Homer-Dixon

In his famous 1798 treatise, An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus posited that poverty and distress are inextricable to the human condition because population always increases faster than the means of subsistence. ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers

By Terry Gould

If the word “swinger” conjures up ugly images of the open-shirted, creepy-looking guy, you’re not alone. As Terry Gould relates in the introduction to The Lifestyle (to be released, aptly, on Valentine’s Day), he initially ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the World

By Hugh Brody

A mix of anthropological text and memoir, The Other Side of Eden takes the reader into radical geographical and intellectual terrain. Drawing on his extensive experience living amongst “hunter-gatherer” societies – mainly in the Canadian ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Long Shadows

By Erna Paris

As Erna Paris’s life was “forever altered” by a chance visit to a Nazi death camp, the reader too is forever changed by reading Long Shadows, her monumental study of the schism between real and ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Into Thin Air: The Illustrated Edition

By Jon Krakauer

Sometimes simple demographics make it possible to predict what books are going to top the non-fiction bestseller lists. In recent years, baby boomers hoping to live long and prosper have fuelled prolific sales of books ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2

By Clint Willis, ed.

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

K2: Dreams and Reality

By Jim Haberl

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea

By Clint Willis, ed.

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Technologies of Knowing: A Proposal for the Human Sciences

By John Willinsky

Rarely a day goes by without the media trumpeting some new scientific research that directly contradicts earlier findings – whether it’s new information about the effects of divorce on kids (It has no effect whatsoever!) ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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