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
Against the Seas
By Mary Soderstrom
An incredible read. … While unflinching in her analysis, Soderstrom nevertheless gifts us with a message of hope and resilience. — MAUDE BARLOW, activist and author of Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism.
What can we learn about coping with rising sea levels ... Read more
Bittersweet Sands
By Rick Ranson
In Bittersweet Sands, Rick Ranson recounts a twenty-four-day shift at an oilsands operation undergoing a shutdown, giving us a glimpse at a world most of us only know from the evening news. Along the way, he encounters a group of engaging roughnecks, including a husband-and-wife ... Read more
Canadarm and Collaboration
By Elizabeth Howell
Foreword by David Williams & M.D.
With interviews from Chris Hadfield and Marc Garneau, the tale of Canada’s involvement in international space exploration from the 1960s to the present day
Canada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle ... 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
Dinner on Mars
By Lenore Newman & Evan D. G. Fraser
“This culinary cosmic outing is as creative as it is informative. ” — STARRED review, Publishers Weekly
From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars — and ... Read more
Discovery By Design
By Eric Damer
Over the past century mechanical engineers have helped to transform British Columbia from a frontier land of manual labour into a modern technological society. Many of those engineers began their careers as students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University ... 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
Not even geniuses get it right the first time . . . An “entertaining” look at the failures of great inventors (Booklist)
From Alexander Graham Bell’s multi-nippled sheep to Leonardo da Vinci’s walk-on-water shoes, these ludicrous ideas and faulty designs will leave ... Read more