Social Aspects

For decades, government, industry, and the mainstream media haveextolled the virtues of biotechnology while downplaying its negativeside effects. Focusing on agriculture, Resistance Is Fertilechallenges this dominant rhetoric by analyzing the major issues aroundwhich opponents of biotechnology in Canada are mobilizingresistance – namely, the encl …

Shifting Time is an incisive, fact-filled examination of social policy in Canada and the impact of new technology on the changing job market. It challenges the technological imperative and the accompanying religion of economic growth at whatever cost, including unsustainable insults to the environment.

George Grant -- philosopher, conservative, Canadian nationalist -- was one of Canada's most significant thinkers and the author of Lament for a Nation. In Technology and Empire, Grant reflects on the extent to which technology has shaped our modern culture.

In six magnificent essays, George Grant reflects on the extent to which technology has shaped the way we live now. Admirers of Grant's English-Speaking Justice will welcome this exploration of the fate of traditional values in modern education, social behaviour, and religion, as well as Grant's penetrating insights into the technology of birth.

Festival organizers, band managers, musicians, digital devotees and co-authors Matt Voyno and Roshan Hoover bring their award winning e-book The New Rockstar Philosophy to paper book format for distribution across North America. Hailed by indie musician-composer Michael Franti as "an outstanding guide for the Internet-era D.I.Y. musician who wants …