Science, Technology & Environment

A Wilderness Called Home: Dispatches from the Wild Heart of Canada

In Charles Wilkins’ odyssey to the mountains, rainforests, and seacoasts of our country, two questions dominate: What is the nature of the Canadian attachment to our land and water; and what constitutes a life justifiably ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair

By Allan Peterkin

One Thousand Beards, Allan Peterkin’s “cultural history of facial hair,” aspires to be a quirky yet authoritative overview of the historical and social roles of facial hair. Peterkin, a Toronto psychotherapist and author, has amassed ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Landscapes of the Heart: Narratives of Nature and Self

By Michael Aleksiuk and Thomas Nelson, eds.

The essays collected by Michael Aleksiuk and Thomas Nelson in Landscapes of the Heart till the fertile ground plowed by Henry David Thoreau in Walden, focusing on writers’ personal relationships with the natural world. Missing ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Good News for a Change: Hope for a Troubled Planet

By David Suzuki and Holly Dressel

The environmental movement has endured a reputation for negativity since its inception. To simply acknowledge the science behind environmentalism is to embrace this negativity – most of the things that so-called developed human society does ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Rediscovering the Great Plains: Journeys by Dog, Canoe, and Horse

By Norman Henderson

The open prairies tend to be ignored or considered fleetingly by many urbanites, a blur from a car heading elsewhere. But in the last decade titles like Don Gayton’s The Wheatgrass Mechanism, Sharon Butala’s The ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World’s Water

By Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

Authors Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke are well known as globe-travelling gadflies taking on NAFTA, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, and other corporate-driven agreements that aim to privatize public services and deprive citizens of local ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Anorexia’s Fallen Angel: The Untold Story of Peggy Claude-pierre and the Controversial Montreux Clinic

By Barbara McLintock

When Peggy Claude-Pierre, owner of the Montreux eating disorders clinic in Victoria, appeared on The Maury Povich Show along with her acutely anorexic client Samantha, the consensus was that Claude-Pierre was heaven-sent. Why else would ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

2030: Confronting Thermageddon in Our Lifetime

By Robert Hunter

Author and Greenpeace co-founder Robert Hunter is at his angry best in 2030 when drawing out the scientifically proven (yes, proven) causes of climate change and the disastrous consequences we may already be facing. Think ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Skinny on Fat

By M. Sara Rosenthal

Prominent bioethicist and prolific author M. Sara Rosenthal promises to distill the overwhelming abundance of diet information in The Skinny on Fat. Rosenthal wants to get to the bottom of “low-fat culture” and put readers ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night

By Nicholas Rogers

This brief look at the history and meaning of Halloween is an uneasy blend of academic treatise, personal observation, and pop-culture rant. York University professor Nicholas Rogers tries to cover too much material in too ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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