Technology & Engineering
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Back to the WellRethinking the Future of Water |
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 NationAn Illustrated History of Canada's Transformation Behind the Wheel |
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 RunPreventing the Next Urban Water Crisis |
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 WorldThe Saga of Canada's Revolutionary Hydrofoils |
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 TreasureThird Edition |
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 CunardNova Scotia's Master of the North Atlantic |
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 DesignsIndependent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto’s failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront scheme |
"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-FixWhy Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment |
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 EditionCollison between European and Native American Civilizations |
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 ![]() AcknowledgementsFrom: Fastest in the World |
Acknowledgements | John Boileau | 1 | 2004 | $0.10 Add |
From ![]() Civilization, Democracy and GovernmentThe Need for a Native American Historical Perspective |
- | Daniel Paul | 16 | 2006 | $1.12 Add |
From ![]() Forward and PrefaceFrom: Dry Run |
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 ![]() IntroductionFrom: Techno-Fix |
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 ![]() IntroductionA Few Assertions From: Back to the Well |
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 ![]() IntroductionSmart Cities in Canada From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
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 ![]() IntroductionMachines, People, Places and a World Transformed From: Car Nation |
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 |