January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
When 16-year old Brion Gysin hopped a train from Edmonton in 1932, it was with the intention of leaving bourgeois burgs forever, the better to become a traveller, poet, painter, and all-around student of ecstasy. ... Read More »
A key area has fallen through the cracks in the follow-up discussions to the Romanow Commission on Canada’s health care system: mental health. Thankfully, activist Pat Capponi has been paying close attention to the fate ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
When The Body Says No explores the intimate connection between mind, body, and spirit through life stories and intimate interviews with dozens of people who have lived, died, and sometimes overcome chronic illnesses. Vancouver physician ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
It’s a common enough story: boy grows up in isolated small town, escapes to big city, never looks back. But author and former Globe and Mail columnist Brian Fawcett can’t quite leave his hometown of ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
The influenza epidemic after the First World War was the deadliest outbreak on record, killing an estimated 20 to 40 million people in one year. Kirsty Duncan, a geographer at the University of Windsor, became ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
The average adult is made up of 100 trillion cells. But only one-tenth of those are human. The rest are bacteria, fungi, parasites, and “miscellaneous riff-raff.” That is one of the astonishing facts in Dr. ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Numerous books have been written about the rise of A.V. Roe Canada and its development of the Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor plane, raising the question: can another book about the subject add anything significant to ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Stuart Laidlaw, a member of The Toronto Star’s editorial board who has led the paper’s coverage of Canadian farm and agricultural issues, has written a compassionate and harrowing account of the burgeoning industrialization of Canadian ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
The Jade Coast stretches from northern California to southeast Alaska, and Robert Butler, in his roles as park naturalist, wildlife biologist, government scientist, and university professor, knows a lot about the region and the thousands ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
It is true, the authors of this fascinating book tell us, that the Sahara Desert is “The Great Nothing, the Endless Emptiness,” where nomads wander for days and days under a pitiless sun, over valleys ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment