Science & Technology

This guidebook offers practical advice and tips for the professional and career development of graduate students in the sciences.

This book shares the life story of William Playfair, the father of statistical graphics, who experienced extreme ups and downs in his various careers, including as a statistician, economist, and fraudster.

Focusing on the entanglement of art, technology, and culture, The Quantum Revolution illuminates the contemporary scientific imagination as a new way of understanding everyday life.

Adopting a cautious and yet optimistic view of an uncertain legal future, The Legal Singularity presents a coherent account of the radically positive impact artificial intelligence may have in the coming decades on law and legal institutions.

Rescuing Humanity ​examines the possible roots of most planetary crises and reveals how we might instead create a livable and sustainable future.

What’s in Your Genome? describes the functional regions of the human genome, the evidence that 90% of it is junk DNA, and the reasons this evidence has not been widely accepted by the popular press and much of the scientific community.

This book re-centres the practice and discipline of ethics as the core aspect of education.

This book explores relations between smartness and social justice, and questions whether working toward more just and sustainable cities requires that we look beyond the limitations of "smartness" altogether.

Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin examines the lives of the scientists and scholars who sought refuge in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

With stories of life in the Anthropocene, this book places Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements and his groundbreaking theory of elementality into modern context.

Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada’s most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics, a pivotal development that forever altered how we think of our planet.

Ideas, Institutions, and Interests explores thirty years of science, technology, and innovation policy development and implementation by focusing on provincial and territorial contributions.

Made to Order explains more than three centuries of attitudes toward animal breeding.

Cybersecurity Management looks at the current state of cybercrime and explores how organizations can develop resources and capabilities to prepare themselves for the changing cybersecurity environment.

Technologies of the New Real explores the human impact of technology in the twenty-first century.

Making a Grade takes historiographic and sociological perspectives developed to understand large-scale scientific and technical systems and uses them to highlight the standardization that went into "standardized testing."