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  • Mozart's Starling

    An NPR Best Book of the Year:****“A heady hybrid of science, history, how-to and memoir” about a great composer, a common bird, and our bond with nature (Los Angeles Times).On May 27, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from his Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major. Sensing a kindred spirit in the plucky young ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • Sleight of Mind

    75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy

    by Matt Cook ...
    This “fun, brain-twisting book . . . will make you think” as it explores 75+ paradoxes in math, philosophy, physics, and social science (Sean Carroll, New York Times–bestselling author of Something Deeply Hidden).Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician’s purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn’t require ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • Outlive

    The Science and Art of Longevity

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert“One of the most important books you’ll ever read.”—Steven D. Levitt, New York ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Lone Survivors

    How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

    A top researcher proposes a controversial new theory of human evolution in a book “combining the thrill of a novel with a remarkable depth of perspective” (Nature).In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity’s origin, challenging both the multiregionalists (who hold that modern humans developed from ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Ministry for the Future

    A Novel

    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR**“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox)**The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD $2.99 CAD

  • Altruistic Armadillos, Zenlike Zebras

    Understanding the World's Most Intriguing Animals

    From the elegant, lithe, and yes, friendly cheetah to the diminutive and faithful sea horse, and from the giant and surprisingly warlike hippopotamus to the majestic gorilla, animals have long fascinated humans. In this appealing book, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson draws from his wealth of knowledge and a lifetime of fascination with the animal kingdom to present little-known facts and thorough ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • Subtract

    The Untapped Science of Less

    by Leidy Klotz ...
    "You need to read this book." —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author“A great book changes the world you live in, revealing mysteries you didn't even know were there. This is a great book." —Sendhil Mullainathan, MacArthur fellow and author of Scarcity“Klotz shows us how deleting things from our lives can lead us to exciting new places.”—Carol Dweck, author of MindsetWe pile on “... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD $2.99 CAD

  • Drawing Physics

    2,600 Years of Discovery From Thales to Higgs

    by Don S. Lemons ...
    THE HISTORY OF THE PHYSICS: Short chronological essays and simple drawings “illuminate a millennia of famous discoveries” and explain 51 key physics concepts (Physics Today).Humans have been trying to understand the physical universe since antiquity. Aristotle had one vision (the realm of the celestial spheres is perfect), and Einstein another (all motion is relativistic). More often than not, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Perfect Horse

    The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Ride of Her Life and The Eighty-Dollar Champion comes the “winningly readable” (The Christian Science Monitor) true story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the closing days of World War II.“Hard to put down . . . One need not be an equestrian or horse lover in order to appreciate this story.”—New York Journal of BooksWINNER OF T... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD $2.99 CAD

  • Becoming Cliterate

    Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It

    We’ve been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex = penis + vagina, and everything else is just secondary. Standard penetration is how men most reliably achieve orgasm. The problem is, women don’t orgasm this way. We’ve separated our most reliable route to orgasm—clitoral stimulation—from how we feel we should orgasm—penetration. As a result, we’ve ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • No Beast So Fierce

    The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Man-Eater in History

    The astonishing true story of the man-eating tiger that claimed a record 437 human lives**“Thrilling. Fascinating. Exciting.” *—*Wall Street Journal • "Riveting. Haunting.” —Scientific AmericanNepal, c. 1900: A lone tigress began stalking humans, moving like a phantom through the lush foothills of the Himalayas. As the death toll reached an astonishing 436 lives, a young local hunter was ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD $2.99 CAD

  • The Ends of the World

    Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

    by Peter Brannen ...
    One of Vox’s Most Important Books of the DecadeNew York Times Editors' Choice 2017Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass e... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • Sapiens

    A Brief History of Humankind

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDestined to become a modern classic in the vein of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Sapiens is a lively, groundbreaking history of humankind told from a unique perspective.**100,000 years ago, at least six species of human inhabited the earth. Today there is just one.Us.Homo Sapiens.How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Salt Path

    The prize-winning, Sunday Times bestseller from the million-copy bestselling author

    by Raynor Winn ...
    Bring nature into your home with t****he inspiring true story of hope and the healing powers of the natural world, in one of the most talked about books of the decadeFROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'This is what you need right now to muster hope and resilience . . . a beautiful story and a reminder that humans can endure adversity' Stylist*'*A beautiful book, it really lives up to the hype ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Ordures!

    Journal d’un vidangeur

    En lisant ce journal d’un vidangeur, vous ferez la découverte d’un monde dont vous ne soupçonniez pas l’existence. Un rassemblement d’excentriques et de personnages plus ou moins intégrés à la vie normale qui travaillent sur la ligne de crête entre ce que notre société considère propre et ce qu’elle juge sale. Qui sont ces athlètes qui courent nos rues chaque semaine derrière des camions, qu’il ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Confident Mind

    A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance

    Believe and be unshakable.The Director of West Point’s influential Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to performance in any field.Dr. Nate Zinsser has spent his career training the minds of the U.S. Military Academy’s cadets as they prepare to lead and perform when the stakes are the very ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fire Weather

    The Making of a Beast

    by John Vaillant ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2024 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing • Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize • Winner of the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize • Winner of the 2024 Lane Anderson Award • Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction • Finalist for the National Book Award in ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Golden Spruce

    A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

    by John Vaillant ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION • WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ TRUST NON-FICTION PRIZE**“Absolutely spellbinding.” —The New York TimesThe environmental true-crime story of a glorious natural wonder, the man who destroyed it, and the fascinating, troubling context in which this act took place.FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR**On a winter night ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Blood of Emmett Till

    This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic).* A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • The Serviceberry

    Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

    An Instant New York Times BestsellerFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Why We Die

    The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

    "Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson"An incredible journey." —Siddhartha MukherjeeA groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki RamakrishnanThe knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. One of the most difficult moments of childhood must be when each of us first realizes that not ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Barracoon

    The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

    One of the New York Times' Most Memorable Literary Moments of the Last 25 Years! • New York Times Bestseller • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’s Best Audio Books of 2018 • The Atlantic’s Books ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

    by Henry Thoreau ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD