Icy Battleground is the first comprehensive account of the forty-year political controversy over the seal hunt. With a foreword by the Honourable John C. Crosbie, it traces the rise of the anti-sealing ...

Biotechnology may raise more hope and fear…revelation and confusion…excitement and alarm…than any other term in today?s headlines. Scientist and skilled science popularizer Eric Grace helps the ...

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) is one of the previous century’s most important thinkers. Often regarded as the "Father of phenomenology," this collection of essays reveals that he is indeed much more than ...

In 1918, medical science was at a loss to explain the Spanish flu epidemic, which swept the world in three great waves and killed an estimated 20 to 40 million people in just one year, more than the number ...

Take An Ecowalk 1 Science Concepts is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.

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The first mega-scale hydro project to be built in the sub-Arctic, capable of generating as much electricity as fifteen nuclear power plants, its impact includes disruption of vast areas in an extremely ...

There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a country’s social and cultural identity. Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, ...