Science, Technology & Environment

Human Wildlife

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

Requiem for a Giant: A.v. Roe and the Avro Arrow

By Palmiro Campagna

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

Secret Ingredients: The Brave New World of Industrial Farming

By Stuart Laidlaw

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: The Ecology of the North Pacific Ocean

By Robert Butler

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

Sahara: A Natural History

By Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle

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

From Free Trade to Forced Trade: Canada in the Global Economy

By Peter Urmetzer

With his academic pedigree as a sociologist, Peter Urmetzer offers a fresh perspective on free trade. His book provides a more nuanced view of the topic than is usually peddled by journalists, demonstrators, and politicians. ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Cure of Folly: A Psychiatrist’s Cautionary Tale

By Gordon Warme

With his book The Cure of Folly, University of Toronto psychiatry professor Gordon Warme attempts to recast the practice of psychiatry as “soul care,” an idea close to its roots, rather than a dubious science ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values

By Michael Adams

An innocuous, unarmed United States with health care – this is what Canada is to many. However, according to Michael Adams’ second book, Fire and Ice (much less intriguingly titled than his first, Sex in ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

By Kim Vicente

Notwithstanding the soporific title, this book on technology is a lot of fun. Professor of human factors engineering – what we lay people often call ergonomics – Kim Vicente gives readers plenty of real-life examples ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Forever Young: The “teen-aging” of Modern Culture

By Marcel Danesi

In Forever Young, University of Toronto professor Marcel Danesi aims to expose our society’s view of adolescence and its associated “problems” as an artificial construct perpetuated by a media-driven culture. This is worsened, Danesi argues, ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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