The late N. J. Berrill
From one of Canada's most distinguished writers and scientists comes this startlingly prescient examination of how humanity's evolutionary past shapes both human nature and the human future. Winner of the Governor General's Award for non-fiction in 1955 and hailed by The New York Times as
demonstrating "the imagination of an artist" and "the courage of an independent and original mind," Man's Emerging Mind is the compelling story of man's evolution, told with humour, insight, and poetry. In a book that remains as relevant as today's news headlines, Berrill examines the various crises
confronting humanity-resource depletion, overpopulation, cultural nihilism, and ecological collapse-and suggests a way forward that safeguards both our essential humanity as well as the beauty and diversity of the natural world.
David Stover: Introduction to the Wynford Edition
1. I Who Speak
2. Time Binders
3. Patterns and Bones
4. Climbers
5. Sitters
6. Walkers
7. Matrix of the Mind
8. Exploding Brains
9. The Essence
10. Ice, Fire and Stones
11. Naked and Tanned
12. Old Mortality
13. Beauty and the Beast
14. Points of View
15. The Face of Circumstance
16. Rain, Race and Transition
17. The Human Crop
18. Growing Up
19. Atoms and Genes
20. Personal Equation
21. The Shape of Wonder
22. Star of Destiny
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N. J. Berrill was one of mid-twentieth-century Canada's leading scientists and writers. Born in Bristol, England, in 1903, he received his doctorate at the University of London. In 1928 he joined the faculty at McGill University, where he served as chair of the Department of Zoology for more
than a decade and then as Strathcona Professor of Zoology from 1947 to 1965. His research focused on marine organisms and he contributed dozens of papers to leading scientific journals over a span of more than 50 years. Named to Britain's Royal Society in recognition of his accomplishments in
science, Berrill embarked on a second career in the 1950s as one of North America's leading science popularizers. The Living Tide was singled out by Rachel Carson (author of The Sea Around Us and Silent Spring) as one of the best books of 1951, and two of Berrill's later works-Sex and the Nature of
Things and Man's Emerging Mind-won the Governor General's Award for creative non-fiction, Canada's most prestigious literary prize. Berrill continued to carry out research in the United States following his retirement from McGill. He died in 1996.
French Canada in Transition - Everett Hughes
Introduction by Lorne Tepperman and Foreword by Nathan Keyfitz
I Brought the Ages Home - Charles T. Currelly
Minetown, Milltown, Railtown - Rex Lucas and Lorne Tepperman
Canadian Short Stories - Edited by Robert Weaver
Preface by William Toye
The Fraser - The late Bruce Hutchison
Introduction by Vaughn Palmer
No Passport - The late Eugene Cloutier
Translated by Joyce Marshall
Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada - Evelyn Kallen
The Double Ghetto - Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong
Corporate Power in a Globalizing World - William Carroll
Regions Apart - Edward Grabb and The late James Curtis
Wasting Away - Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong
The Jews in Canada - Edited by Robert J. Brym, William Shaffir and Morton Weinfeld
The Unknown Country - The late Bruce Hutchison and Introduction by Vaughn Palmer
Approaches to Politics - The late Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Translated by The late Ivon Owen, Foreward and Introduction by Ramsay Cook and Preface by The late Jacques Hébert
The Sea Around Us - Rachel L. Carson
Magic Universe - Nigel Calder
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
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