Selected Book Reviews
Sheilla has been reviewing popular science books since the mid 1990s.
Across the Universe - Charming cosmological tour shows how physics is the key to everything, The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos by Neil Turok, Anansi, published in The Globe and Mail, R13, October 20, 2012
Tantalizing Ambiguity: Could science be more creative if it were less sure of itself? The Blind Spot:Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty by William Byers, Princeton University Press, 2011, published in the Literary Review of Canada, page 14, Vol.19, No. 7, September 2011
The Sexes and the Sciences: Why aren't women rushing to the labs as we thought they would? The Bold and the Brave: A History of Women in Science and Engineering by Monique Frize, University of Ottawa Press, 2010, published in the Literary Review of Canada, page 10, Vol. 18, No. 2, March 2010.
Creating another Einstein: The money and intrigue behind Waterloo's Perimeter Institute. First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science by Howard Burton, foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, Key Porter Books, 2009, published in the Literary Review of Canada, page 22, Vol. 17, No. 5, June 2009
Theology in the Context of Science by John Polkinghorne, Yale University Press, 2009, for The Globe and Mail Daily Review, forThe Globe and Mail, April 23, 2009
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind, HarperCollins, 2008, for The Globe and Mail, D6, September 20, 2008
The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter by Helen R. Quinn and Yossi Nir, Princeton University Press, 2008, for The Globe and Mail, D10, March 8, 2008
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall, HarperCollins, 2005, for The Globe and Mail
Einstein 1905, The Standard of Greatness by John Ridgen, Harvard University Press, 2005, for The Globe and Mail, D9, January 15, 2005
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006, for University Affairs
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene, Knopf, 2004, for The Globe and Mail
The Future of Life, by Edward O. Wilson, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, for The Ottawa Citizen, C11, March 10, 2002
Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries by Steven Weinberg, Harvard University Press, 2001/Who Rules in Sceince? A Guide to the Wars by James Robert Brown, Harvard University Press, 2001, for The Globe and Mail, D4, February 9, 2002
The Universe in a Nutshell, by Stephen Hawking, Random House, 2001, for The Ottawa Citizen, C11, January 13, 2002
New Perspectives in Astrophysical Cosmology by Martin Rees, Cambridge University Press, 2000, for Physics in Canada, January/February, 2001