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  • An aide-de-camp of Napoleon. Memoirs of General Count de Ségur, of the French academy, 1800-1812

    by Général Comte Phillipe-Paul de Ségur ...
    Translated by Mrs. Harriette Anne Crookesley Patchett-Martin ...
    Seeing a regiment of Dragoons process through Paris in 1800, Philippe de Ségur decided to join the French cavalry at the ripe old age of 19, swiftly becoming part of Napoleon's headquarters staff. From then on, his career was to be unlike many of his contemporaries, for he was the son of a well-connected father and a protégé of Napoleon's confidante, Grand-Marshal Duroc. He saw service in all of ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Epochs of Nature

    Translated by Jan Zalasiewicz, Anne-Sophie Milon, Mateusz Zalasiewicz ...
    by Georges-Louis Leclerc le Comte de Buffon0 ...
    Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Époques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of Russia and influenced Humboldt, Darwin, Lyell, Vernadsky, and many other renowned scientists. It is the first geological history of the world, stretching ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

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  • The Sea Around Us

    by Rachel Carson ...
    National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller: Explore earth's most precious, mysterious resource—the ocean—with the author of Silent Spring.With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us became a cultural phenomenon when first published in 1951 and cemented Carson's status as the preeminent natural history writer of her time. Her inspiring, intimate writing ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Atlantis the Great Flood and the Asteroid

    by Prescott Rawlings ...
    Atlantis the Great Flood and the Asteroid examines the evidence for an asteroid impact in early human prehistory which interrupted the progression of human development. It considers whether a large asteroid caused the Earth to shift its axis the Great Flood a Mass Extinction Event and possibly sank the island of Atlantis right where Plato said it was. Clues come from geology physics archeology ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Supercontinent

    10 Billion Years In The Life Of Our Planet

    by Ted Nield ...
    The shifting continents of the Earth are heading for inevitable collision: 250 million years from now, all the land masses on this planet will come together in a single, gigantic supercontinent which no human is ever likely to see. That future supercontinent will not be the first to form on Earth, nor will it be the last. Each cycle lasts half a billion years, making it the grandest of all the ... Read more

    $17.69 CAD

  • Views of Nature

    by Alexander von Humboldt ...
    Translated by Mark W. Person ...
    The German naturalist and explorer chronicles his 1799 expedition to Central and South America in this classic work of natural history.While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Humboldt's 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé Bonpland not ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Principles of Geology

    by Charles Lyell ...
    One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling intellectual passion, it is both a seminal work of modern geology and a compelling precursor to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • A Most Improbable Journey

    A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves

    by Walter Alvarez ...
    "A thrilling synthesis from a brilliant scientist who discovered one of the most important chapters in our history." —Sean B. CarrollBig History, the field that integrates traditional historical scholarship with scientific insights to study the full sweep of our universe, has so far been the domain of historians. Famed geologist Walter Alvarez—best known for the “Impact Theory” explaining dinosaur ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

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  • No Need for Geniuses

    Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine

    by Professor Steve Jones ...
    Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics.Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister of Finance just before the upheaval did research on crystals and the spread of animal disease. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Geology and Astronomy

    by Charles Kovacs ...
    Series series Waldorf Education Resources
    The first part of this book describes the different kinds of rocks, soil and mountains found on our planet, and explores how they came into being. This section deals with the depths of the earth, and the long ages of time.In contrast, the second part examines the heights of our universe, in the movement of the sun, moon and stars. These bodies give us our sense of day, month and year.Throughout, ... Read more

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  • Cataclysm!

    Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C.

    by D. S. Allan, J. B. Delair ...
    Follow this multi-disciplinary, scientific study as it examines the evidence of a great global catastrophe that occurred only 11,500 years ago. Crustal shifting, the tilting of Earth's axis, mass extinctions, upthrusted mountain ranges, rising and shrinking land masses, and gigantic volcanic eruptions and earthquakes--all indicate that a fateful confrontation with a destructive cosmic visitor must ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Geopedia

    A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities

    by Marcia Bjornerud ...
    Series series Pedia Books
    A garden of geologic delights for all EarthlingsGeopedia is a trove of geologic wonders and the evocative terms that humans have devised to describe them. Featuring dozens of entries—from Acasta gneiss to Zircon—this illustrated compendium is brimming with lapidary and lexical insights that will delight rockhounds and word lovers alike.Geoscientists are magpies for words, and with good reason. The ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD