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The beak of the finch: a story of evolution in our time
By Jonathan Weiner. 1994
Discusses the work of Peter and Rosemary Grant, who spent more than twenty years in the Galapagos Islands researching Charles…
Darwin's finches to confront Darwin's notion of evolution as a time-suspended process. Weiner incorporates research from other scientists to assert that evolution is dynamic, involving constant, even observable, change. L.A. Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. Winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. 1994.A short history of nearly everything
By Bill Bryson. 2004
This book is Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization…
- how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? Some strong language. 2004.The mummy congress: science, obsession, and the everlasting dead
By Heather Anne Pringle. 2001
After covering a conference of mummy experts, science reporter Heather Pringle became so intrigued with mummies that she spent a…
year circling the globe, visiting leading scientists in the field. She also investigated preserved Italian saints, Scandinavian mummies in bogs, and frozen Inca princesses. Pringle researched Egyptian embalmers, the past public craze for mummy unwrappings, and the Russians' attempts to preserve Stalin, and along the way learned what mummies have to tell us about ourselves. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.The sacred balance: rediscovering our place in nature
By David T Suzuki, Amanda McConnell. 1997
With a focus on the oceans and the water which maintains life, Suzuki discusses the need for environmental conservation. He…
argues that too much water, from global warming, or water too foul from pollution, results in the destruction of all life. Winner of the 1999 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1997.Water: Why You Should Worry
By Marq De Villiers. 1999
Everybody needs it to survive, but very few people give it any thought. Water, one of the most plentiful natural…
resources in the world, has the power to give life and to take it away. De Villiers examines the numerous uses of water, the changes that have occurred in the Earth's water supply, the folklore and myths surrounding water, and the future of water as a natural resource. Winner of the 1999 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1999.Unnatural harvest: how corporate science is secretly altering our food
By Ingeborg Boyens. 1999
According to Boyens, in the first decades of the new millennium, the majority of our food will be the product…
of genetic engineering. She presents the implications of biotechnology, and illustrates the consequences this science may have for the environment, human and animal health, and the global food system. Winner of the National Business Book Award. 1999.The ingenuity gap: How Can We Solve The Problems Of The Future?
By Thomas F Homer-Dixon. 2000
Can we create ideas fast enough to solve the very problems - environmental, social, and technological - we have created?…
Homer-Dixon calls the gap between our need for practical and innovative ideas to solve our complex problems and our actual supply of those ideas the "ingenuity gap". He argues that as the gap widens, political disintegration and violent upheaval can result and suggests ways to overcome these real problems before it is too late. Winner of the 2001 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2000.Rogue primate : an exploration of human domestication
By John A Livingston. 1994
In the 1970s, environmentalist John Livingston began to find serious flaws in the conventional conservation argument. He began to challenge…
the belief that the survival of undomesticated plants and animals in a world dominated by humans could be enabled through "resource conservation" managed by humans. He argues that our dependence on ideas -- in effect, our own domestication -- has cut us off from the natural world, and led us to believe that our domination over nature is itself "natural." Winner of the 1994 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.La galaxie Gutenberg: la genèse de l'homme typographique
By Marshall McLuhan. 1967
Ce livre classique théorise que l'invention de l'impression a formé nos vies. McLuhan regarde la politique, les sciences économiques, la…
philosophie, la littérature et la physique post-Newtonienne. c1967. Titre uniforme: The Gutenberg Galaxy.Horrors of History: Books 1-4 (Horrors of History)
By T. Neill Anderson. 2013
Four stories featuring historical disasters. In City of the Dead, the fate of the residents of Galveston, Texas hangs in…
the balance as floodwaters rise during the great hurricane in 1900. Also includes Ocean of Fire, People of the Plague, and Massacre of the Miners. For grades 5-8. 2015The great Alaska adventure!: Junior Explorer Series Book 2
By Jeff Corwin. 2010
Nine-year-old Benjamin and his younger sister Lucy join their parents on a weeklong research trip to Alaska. Benjamin observes the…
effects of climate change on glaciers and animals in a report for his school in Florida. For grades 2-4. 2010Sea glass: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1970 (Golden Mountain Chronicles)
By Laurence Yep. 2002
California, 1970. After leaving San Francisco for a small town, Craig, a Chinese American eighth-grader, finds it hard to fit…
in. He also has difficulty pleasing his father, who wants him to excel in sports. For grades 6-9. 1979Walking the Choctaw road: Stories from the Heart and Memory of the People
By Tim Tingle, Norma Howard. 2003
Twelve traditional stories reflecting the history and beliefs of the Choctaw nation spanning almost two centuries of tribal life. "Saltypie"…
is Tingle's own story of his family's close bond with his blind grandmother. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2003The Gutenberg galaxy: the making of typographic man
By Marshall McLuhan. 1962
Controversial when first published, this classic book theorizes that the invention of printing has shaped our lives. McLuhan looks at…
politics, economics, philosophy, literature and post-Newtonian physics. Winner of the 1962 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.The Gutenberg galaxy: the making of typographic man
By Marshall McLuhan. 1977
Controversial when first published, this classic book theorizes that the invention of printing has shaped our lives. McLuhan looks at…
politics, economics, philosophy, literature and post-Newtonian physics. Winner of the 1962 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. c1962, 1977.Skies over Sweetwater: a novel
By Julia Moberg. 2008
Bernadette (Byrd) Thompson is 18, the year is 1944, and she is about to fulfill her lifelong dream: leave Iowa…
and become a pilot. She is joining the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in Sweetwater, Texas to learn to fly bombers, pursuits, trainers, and utility planes. She meets Cornelia, Sadie and Opal and the four of them struggle to master handling planes and meeting life's challenges. 2008. UnratedMinn of the Mississippi: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
By Holling Clancy Holling. 1951
Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, who makes a twenty-five-hundred-mile trip from her birthplace in Minnesota at…
the headwaters of the Mississippi River down to the Gulf of Mexico. For grades 4-7. Newbery Honor Book. 1951Leaving Protection
By Will Hobbs. 2004
Port Protection, Alaska. Sixteen-year-old Robbie signs on with captain Tor Torsen to fish for salmon. Robbie realizes he's in danger…
when he discovers Torsen secretly searching for valuable metal plaques laid by early Russian explorers to claim Alaska. Then a storm hits, imperiling them both. For senior high readers. 2004Number the stars: A Newbery Award Winner
By Lois Lowry. 1989
For ten-year-old Annemarie, life in occupied Copenhagen in 1943 is not much changed by the war--until the Nazi persecution of…
Danish Jews begins. Annemarie's family helps a Jewish friend by having her pose as Annemarie's dead sis- ter. When a packet must be taken to the captain of a ship smuggling Jews to Sweden, Annemarie learns that being brave means "not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do." For grades 3-6 and older readers. Newbery Medal. 1989Hope Leslie, or, Early times in the Massachusetts: Or, Early Times In The Massachusetts (American Women Writers Ser.)
By Catharine Maria Sedgwick. 1987
Set in seventeenth-century New England, Hope Leslie portrays early American life and celebrates the role of women in history. At…
the heart of the story is a cross-cultural friendship between Hope-Leslie, a spirited thinker in a repressive Puritan society and Magawisca, the passionate daughter of a Pequot chief. It challenges the conventional view of Indians, tackles interracial marriage and claims for women their rightful place in history. Adult. Unrated