Technology & Engineering

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Back to the Well Rethinking the Future of Water Goose Lane Editions	Droughts. Floods. Contamination. Climate change. The perils to the global fresh-water supply have never been so clear or so numerous, as the crisis in Cape Town’s water supply in early 2018 …	Marq de Villiers	378	2018	View
Car Nation An Illustrated History of Canada's Transformation Behind the Wheel James Lorimer and Company	Canadians fell in love with the car at first glance. They were scared by it too, and by its potential. Canada was quick to become a car nation, as the automobile was enthusiastically adopted by …	Dimitry Anastakis	96	2008	View
Dry Run Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis New Society Publishers	In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for …	Jerry Yudelson	312	2010	View
Fastest in the World The Saga of Canada's Revolutionary Hydrofoils Formac Publishing	Like the builders of the Avro Arrow, the pioneers of hydrofoils are celebrated in this book for their world-class accomplishments. When Alexander Graham Bell was experimenting with flying …	John Boileau	98	2004	View
Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure Third Edition Formac Publishing	Civil engineers Graham Harris and Les MacPhie have spent over a decade investigating the enigma of Nova Scotia’s Oak Island. In this new edition of their book, they set out the previously …		264	2013	View
Samuel Cunard Nova Scotia's Master of the North Atlantic Formac Publishing	An illustrated biography of a Canadian who sparked a world transportation revolution In North America, the name Cunard is synonymous with shipping. This book traces the entrepreneurial rise of …	John Boileau	112	2006	View
Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs Independent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto’s failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront scheme James Lorimer and Company	"Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can …	Alexandra Flynn; Mariana Valverde	200	2020	View
Techno-Fix Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment New Society Publishers	Nanotechnology! Genetic engineering! Miracle Drugs! We are promised that new technological developments will magically save us from the dire consequences of the 300-year fossil-fueled binge known …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	464	2011	View
We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition Collison between European and Native American Civilizations Fernwood Publishing	As a person of First Nation ancestry I cannot help but wonder if the failure of Caucasian Americans and Canadians to reveal and teach about the horrors their ancestors carried out against North …	Daniel Paul	416	2006	View
From Acknowledgements From: Fastest in the World Preview Formac Publishing	Acknowledgements	John Boileau	1	2004	$0.10 Add
From Civilization, Democracy and Government The Need for a Native American Historical Perspective From: We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition Preview Fernwood Publishing	-	Daniel Paul	16	2006	$1.12 Add
From Forward and Preface From: Dry Run Preview New Society Publishers	For this book, I’ve chosen to focus on my first love in the professional world, water, a subject to which I devoted a considerable part of my early professional career. With the arrival of …	Jerry Yudelson	7	2010	$0.70 Add
From Introduction From: Techno-Fix Preview New Society Publishers	Techno-Fix questions a primary paradigm of our age: that advanced technology alone will extricate us from an ever-increasing load of social, environmental and economic ills. Techno-Fix shows why …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	6	2011	$0.60 Add
From Introduction A Few Assertions From: Back to the Well Preview Goose Lane Editions	de Villiers begins the books with 4 assertions about our water future: 1. We aren’t doomed (yet). 2. There is not a global-scale water crisis. Rather, there are thousands of regional water …	Marq de Villiers	4	2018	$0.40 Add
From Introduction Smart Cities in Canada From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs Preview James Lorimer and Company	The introduction provides a general definition of what constitutes a “Smart City” as well as exploring what prompted the authors of this title to write about smart cities in Canada.	Alexandra Flynn; Mariana Valverde	14	2020	$1.40 Add
From Introduction Machines, People, Places and a World Transformed From: Car Nation Preview James Lorimer and Company	Examines the car as a technology that changed the world as we know it. Outlines that the car became a fulcrum for human interaction. Looks at the American Influence on the Canadian Car Industry. …	Dimitry Anastakis	9	2008	$0.90 Add

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