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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

U. R. Sumaila

U. Rashid Sumaila is director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia where he also directs the Fisheries Economics Research Unit.

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The Value of the Seas

If global oceans stay unappreciated, humanity will pay June 2009
Alanna Mitchell demonstrates in this topical and highly relevant book why I am a fan of science journalists—they take complex scientific works and turn them into understandable material for the public. In Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, Mitchell transports the reader from Australia to the United States, Puerto Rico, England, Panama,…