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  • Silk

    A World History

    by Aarathi Prasad ...
    A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for April“Aarathi Prasad’s Silk: A World History is a love song to this protean material. . . . Beautiful [and] fascinating.” —Wall Street Journal"Aarathi Prasad spins a masterpiece of a story, as luminous, supple, and surprising as the wondrous threads themselves." —Sy Montgomery, bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus and Of Time and Turtles... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • Magisteria

    The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

    by Nicholas Spencer ...
    Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.‘A deeply researched history of the interplay between the two ways of understanding the world.’ ECONOMIST, BEST BOOKS OF 2023The true history of science and religion is a human one. It’s about the role of religion in inspiring, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD $0.99 CAD

  • Under a Dark Cloud

    A compulsive British detective crime thriller

    by Louisa Scarr ...
    Series Book 2 - Butler & West
    One dead body. One witness. One answer.Early one morning, DS Robin Butler is summoned to a crime scene. Not as a policeman, but as best friend to renowned meteorologist, Dr Finn Mason. The morning after studying an enormous storm, Finn has locked himself in a van. Bloodied, confused, and with no memory of how he came to be there. And alongside him – a dead body.Butler sets out to prove Finn’s ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life on the Line

    Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic

    by Emma Goldberg ...
    The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening book in the tradition of both Sheri Fink’s Five Days at Memorial and Scott Turow’s One L.In March 2020, soon-to-graduate medical students in New York City were nervously awaiting “match day” when they would learn where they would begin their residencies. Only a week later, these young physicians ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • How the World Really Works

    The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world’s toughest challenges.”*—*Bill Gates“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Better Angels of Our Nature

    Why Violence Has Declined

    by Steven Pinker ...
    **“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."—Bill Gates (May, 2017)Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year**The author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now offers a provocative and surprising history of violence.Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Icepick Surgeon

    Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

    by Sam Kean ...
    From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, "a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Over the Edge of the World

    Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    “A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book ReviewThe acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage.Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Sex at Dawn

    How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

    by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha ...
    “Sex at Dawn challenges conventional wisdom about sex in a big way. By examining the prehistoric origins of human sexual behavior the authors are able to expose the fallacies and weaknesses of standard theories proposed by most experts. This is a provocative, entertaining, and pioneering book. I learned a lot from it and recommend it highly.” — Andrew Weil, M.D.“Sex at Dawn irrefutably shows that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Accidental Species

    Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

    by Henry Gee ...
    “With a delightfully irascible sense of humor, Henry Gee reflects on our origin . . . an excellent primer on how—and how not—to think about human evolution.” —Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite RexThe idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Large Hadron Collider

    The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind

    by Don Lincoln ...
    An insider's history of the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider: why it was built, how it works, and the importance of what it has revealed.Since 2008 scientists have conducted experiments in a hyperenergized, 17-mile supercollider beneath the border of France and Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider (or what scientists call "the LHC") is one of the wonders of the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Plato's Sophist

    Part II of The Being of the Beautiful

    by Plato ...
    Translated by Seth Benardete ...
    Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialogues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as The Being of the Beautiful, these translations can be read separately or as a trilogy. Each includes an introduction, extensive notes, and comprehensive commentary that examines the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La philosophie de la liberté

    by Rudolf Steiner ...
    Series Book 6 - gli Iniziati
    La philosophie de la liberté est l'un des textes clés pour comprendre la pensée de Steiner. Il est divisé en deux parties: la Science de la liberté et la Réalité de la liberté. Dans la première partie Steiner aborde la question de la pensée et de la pensée, qui est la base de la connaissance intuitive et unitive, capable de surmonter le dualisme entre soi et le monde. La deuxième partie examine la ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finding the Mother Tree

    Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

    by Suzanne Simard ...
    **INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*WINNER of the 2021 Banff Mountain Book Prize in Mountain Environment and Natural History**WINNER of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature**WINNER of the 2022 BC and Yukon Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award**SHORTLISTED for the 2022 BC and Yukon Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize**SHORTLISTED for the 202... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Matter of Facts

    Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science

    by Gareth Leng, Rhodri Ivor Leng ...
    PRODUCING AND USING SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: A fascinating study of how biases, the desire for a good narrative, and other problems undermine confidence in modern science.Modern science is built on experimental evidence, yet scientists are often very selective in deciding what evidence to use and tend to disagree about how to interpret it. In The Matter of Facts, Gareth and Rhodri Leng explore how ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Science, Faith and Society

    A searching examination of the meaning and nautre of scientific inquiry

    by Michael Polanyi ...
    In its concern with science as an essentially human enterprise, Science, Faith and Society makes an original and challenging contribution to the philosophy of science. On its appearance in 1946 the book quickly became the focus of controversy.Polanyi aims to show that science must be understood as a community of inquirers held together by a common faith; science, he argues, is not the use of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unchecked

    The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump

    by Karoun Demirjian, Rachael Bade ...
    A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the most dangerous in American history. The definitive—and only—insider account of both Trump impeachments, as told by the two reporters on the front lines covering them for The Washington Post and Politico.In a riveting account that flips the script on ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Red-Handed

    How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win

    by Peter Schweizer ...
    #1 New York Times BestsellerPeter Schweizer says that, in a quarter-century as an investigative journalist, this is the scariest investigation he has ever conducted.That the Chinese government seeks to infiltrate American institutions is hardly surprising. What is wholly new, however, are the number of American elites who are eager to help the Chinese dictatorship in its quest for global hegemony ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Metazoa

    Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    "Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind’s essential link to the animal world." —The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of the animals he observes." —Nigel Warburton, Five BooksThe scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The War on Science

    Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It

    by Shawn Otto ...
    **An “insightful” and in-depth look at anti-science politics and its deadly results (Maria Konnikova, New York Times–bestselling author of The Biggest Bluff).Thomas Jefferson said, “Wherever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” But what happens when they aren’t?From climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense, we are ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vital Organs

    by Suzie Edge ...
    ...a bracing adventure, and one where our ancestors are not reduced to characters of myth and legend, but real people of flesh and blood. It is through this most intimate dissection that the past is brought so vividly to life - The TelegraphIt's an incisive book (pun intended) that will leave you with a newfound appreciation of the vessel that carries you through life - Irish IndependentThe ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD $0.99 CAD

  • Healthy Brain, Happy Life

    A Personal Program to to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better

    by Wendy Suzuki, Billie Fitzpatrick ...
    A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide—a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive abilities.Nearing forty, Dr. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Superior

    The Return of Race Science

    by Angela Saini ...
    This fascinating critique of race science, from the Enlightenment to the 21st century, is an “easy-to-read blend of science reporting, cultural criticism, and personal reflection” (Slate).“An important and timely reminder that race is ‘a social construct’ with ‘no basis in biology.’” —Kirkus ReviewsAfter the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the mainstream scientific world turned its ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Book of Why

    The New Science of Cause and Effect

    by Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie ...
    A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD