Master the fascinating science of plant biology and discover the exact cellular processes that turn sunlight into food. Whether you are studying for school exams or simply looking to enrich your daily commute, this educational journey takes you from the leaves on your windowsill to the invisible molecular choreography powering our ecosystems.Experience a calm, vividly guided exploration of the natural world that requires absolutely no prior scientific background. By breaking down c...

**A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2025“I will grant here at the outset that the Doctor was not who he seemed, but this shall turn out to be of little import in the tale to come. He is, as am I, but a charge in a wire. We were conductors for another force, vassals to a vessel. This vessel I cannot speak of for some pages however central it will become, but I gallop ahead of myself. . . . I believe it is important that you see how I came to meet the good Doctor, and f...

Kobo Originals and West End Phoenix present the third and final installment of Telegrams from Home, a collection of stories, reflections, and poems from some of Canada's greatest literary voices writing on the subject of life under quarantine during COVID-19. Featuring work by Jesse Thistle, Marissa Stapley, Waubgeshig Rice, Michael Redhill, Dani Couture, Phoebe Wang, Sina Queyras, and Stephen Brunt, and these pieces are interwoven with stories from citizens across Canada...

“There is a vast part of this city with mouths buried in it . . . . Mouths capable of speaking to us. But we stop them up with concrete and build over them and whatever it is they wanted to say gets whispered down empty alleys and turns into wind. . . .”These are among the last words of Professor David Hollis before he throws himself off a ferry into the frigid waters of Lake Ontario. A renowned professor of “forensic geology,” David leaves in his wake bot...

***Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize*A darkly comic literary thriller about a woman who fears for her sanity—and then her life—when she learns that her doppelganger has appeared in a local park.**Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market, where she sometimes buys churros and drags an empty shopping cart down the streets, like she's looking for something to put in it...

Discover the everyday technology quietly powering our modern world with this accessible popular science guide to lasers. Perfect for your daily commute, this awe-inspiring journey skips the heavy math and drops the technical jargon, transforming complex physics into vivid mental pictures.Whether you consider yourself a lifelong learner or simply want to satisfy your curiosity about how things actually work, this reassuring narrative builds foundational concepts from the ground up. ...

Transform corporate uncertainty into an unstoppable strategic advantage with this enterprise risk management playbook. Whether you are navigating a sudden organizational crisis or commuting to a critical boardroom presentation, this framework delivers the empowered, focused executive confidence needed to make bold decisions.Stop treating risk as a compliance chore and start leveraging it as the ultimate engine for corporate resilience. As you prepare to level up your leadership car...

From acclaimed poet and Giller Prize–winning novelist Michael Redhill comes Fidelity, a subtle but searing collection of short fiction.By turns brooding, strange, and funny, Fidelity probes the blandishments of temptation, the swooning submission to concupiscence, the illusory redemption of desire, the ambivalence at the heart of the most intimate trust, and, most importantly, the irony that when we betray, we betray ourselves first.His ch...

Much of the existing literature within the "varieties of capitalism " (VOC) and "comparative business systems " fields of research is heavily focused on Europe, Japan, and the Anglo-Saxon nations. As a result, the field has yet to produce a detailed empirical picture of the institutional structures of most Asian nations and to explore to what extent existing theory applies to the Asian context. The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems aims to address this imbalance by explori...

A twisted tale of a woman trapped within her own erotic world of climaxes, murder, and insanity. In a perfect world, crime, loyalty and respect wouldn't play a role in the horrors that go on inside an individuals head but what if that individual has multiple personalities.. Faces of Illusion is a must read erotic thriller that captures the readers erotic nature wrapping it in a sick and twisted tale of a sex addicted, cultist who has a taste for blood......

Winner of the Best of the Edinburgh Fringe PrizeAlthea: Do you believe in your own death? Every moment you are alive is endless and the present goes on and on with you inside it. Of course the end is truly coming, but it’s so far off, and in the meantime the spring bulbs need bringing out of the dark and the windows must be cleaned. These distant murmurings of unrest are like the way you sometimes hear your name on the wind and you shudder. Because it’s eerie t...

National Bestseller · Winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award · Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canadian-Caribbean Region) · Finalist for the Giller Prize · Finalist for the Trillium Book Award · Finalist for the City of Toronto Book AwardIn 1984, Jolene Iolas, a student in upstate New York, encounters Martin Sloane's art while visiting a Toronto gallery. Flush with the confidence of youth, she strikes up a correspondence with the older artist, a...