Technology & Engineering
A Profession of Hope
By Jenna Butler
Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award
Gold Medal for the Green Living category in the Living Now Book Awards
Finalist for the High Plains Book Award for creative nonfiction
"This is not the story of a ready-made farm, complete with generations of history, ... Read more
Bittersweet Sands
By Rick Ranson
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Rick Ranson has collected stories from all over North America, from the DEW Line and the drill ships of Working North to the raging waters of the Mississippi in Paddling South. Now, join this engaging raconteur as he ventures to one of Canada's most talked-about locations: ... Read more
Consulted to Death
By Doug Smith
Twenty years ago governments across Canada adopted--with much ballyhoo-new occupational health and safety laws. Consulted to Death shows how the laws failed to deliver on their promise because, despite their rhetoric, they refused to adequately confront the issue of power in ... Read more
Cursed Objects
By Jason Christie
What happens to identity when we're obsessed with self-surveillance and devalued words? Now that we've sold ourselves to ourselves, shuffling letters and sounds around to hide the pain, how do we represent the uncanny valley in which we've set up shop? In Cursed Objects, Jason ... Read more
Discovery By Design
By Eric Damer
From steam power and biplanes to today's high tech world of robots and spacecraft, Damer offers a compelling history of UBC's Department of Mechanical Engineering. Woven throughout the history are hard-working and high-spirited students, distinguished and energetic faculty members, ... Read more
Dishonour of the Crown
By Paula Sherman
Introduction by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
The territory of the Omàmìwinini (Algonquin) peoples of southern Ontario is rich with natural resources. Yet for more than four centuries, the Algonquin have been economically and politically marginalized, while corporate and foreign interests profited from their land. In ... Read more
Edison`s Concrete Piano
By Judy Wearing
Highlighting the careers of well-known inventors, this exploration of failure amid greatness reveals the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about their careers, their wackier hobbies, and their big flops alongside great successes. Thomas Edison, for example, not only revolutionized ... Read more
HTO
Edited by Christina Palassio & Wayne Reeves
Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is a city dominated by water. Recently, the trend of fettering Toronto’s water and putting it underground has been countered by persistent citizen-led efforts to ... Read more
Humans 3.0
By Peter Nowak
Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-the-spot solutions and shared the valuable ... Read more
Private Journal of Captain G.H. Richards, The
Edited by Linda Dorricott & Deidre Cullon
Captain Richards' journal is an account of three survey seasons on Vancouver Island aboard two British Navy ships, the HMS Plumper and the HMS Hecate. Between 1860 and 1862 Richards and his dedicated crew surveyed and charted the entire coastline of Vancouver Island, creating ... Read more