Extending the reach of higher education through flexibility.

An incisive assessment of environmental successes and failures over the past twenty years—and what we should do next.

A comprehensive, up-to-date, and probing examination of media and politics in Canada.

Connecting Canadians examines the burgeoning field of community informatics.

This book examines current theory, methods, and ethics underlying global trends in involving publics in the governance of new technologies.

A critical look at the social, environmental, and economic impacts of agricultural biotechnology in Canada.

An introduction to the field of data structures and algorithms.

Northscapes examines concepts of North and the way in which different northern environments are shaped by the intersection of technology and human societies.

A consideration of the impact of racism and questions of sovereignty on genetic research, which details the exploitative history of research on Taiwanese Aborigines.

This highly readable book tells Canadians what they ought to know to better understand the ways in which surveillance is expanding – mostly unchecked – into every facet of their lives, and what they can do about it.

This pivotal work offers a clear and accessible vision of how we can transform the electric power industry to adapt to twenty-first century challenges.

This collection provides a critical, interdisciplinary analysis of how everyday exposures to common chemicals are adversely affecting the health of Canadians and reveals the connections between social inequity, environmental risks, and the gendered division of health burdens in Canada.

Disarming Intervention traces the social, historical, and legal legitimization of non-lethal weapons in the United States.

The totalizing scope of the combined effects of computerization and the worldwide network are the subject of the essays in The Digital Nexus, a volume that responds to McLuhan’s request for a “special study” of the tsunami-like transformation of the communication landscape.