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| By John Seabrook - $16.95 - add to cart | |
Flash of Genius And Other True Stories of Invention by John Seabrook, staff writer for The New Yorker, is a collection of true stories about where great ideas come from, and is the basis for the M...
| By Robin Wheeler - $16.95 - add to cart | |
Where would you find your groceries if your supermarket's shelves were suddenly empty? The threat of earthquakes, trucker strikes, power outages, or a global market collapse makes us vulnerable lik...
| By Anne Schmauss - $21.95 - add to cart | |
Do you think you have to travel great distances to see exciting wild birds? Would you like to set up a birdfeeder in your yard, but feel overwhelmed by the choices in your local store? Puzzled by h...
| By Tim Lilburn - $21.95 - add to cart | |
Like his contemporaries Robert Bringhurst, Ronald Wright, Dennis Lee, Don McKay, and Jan Zwicky, Tim Lilburn has long been a deep thinker on issues of ecology and writing, and how the two fit toget...
| By Jeffrey Simpson - $18.99 - add to cart | |
Here’s a clear, believable book for Canadians concerned about our situation — and it offers a solution. It’s a brilliant mix. To “Canada’s best mind on the environment,” Mark Jaccard, who won th...
| By Herve Kempf - $14.50 - add to cart | |
A best seller in France, and already translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Korean, Hervé Kempf’s How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth now appears in its first English edition. Bringing to b...
| By Patrick Buckley - $18.50 - add to cart | |
The Hungry Scientist Handbook brings DIY technology into the kitchen and onto the plate. It compiles the most mouthwatering projects created by mechanical engineer Patrick Buckley and his band of ...
| By Douglas Hofstadter - $18.50 - add to cart | |
Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understandin...
| By Kathy Harrison - $18.95 - add to cart | |
When the unexpected strikes—from small storms and blackouts to larger-scale natural disasters and other calamities—a family must be organized and prepared to keep the household running comfortably ...
| By Andrew Weaver - $34.00 - add to cart | |
Monster wildfires in Australia, January golfers in PEI, ruined fruit crops in California, snowless ski runs in Switzerland, starving polar bears in the North, devastated trees in Stanley Park. Clim...
| By Bryan Christy - $27.99 - add to cart | |
Imagine The Sopranos, with snakes! The Lizard King is a fascinating account of a father and son family business suspected of smuggling reptiles, and the federal agent who tried to take them down. ...
| By Robert Twigger - $18.95 - add to cart | |
From the bestselling author of "Angry White Pyjamas", "Big Snake" and "Voyageur", this documents Twigger's latest journey is search of paradise, in the Egyptian Sahara.
| By Mary Rose O'reilley - $17.50 - add to cart | |
At the outset of this quiet, quirky book, O'Reilley (The Barn at the End of the World) declares that she has written neither a memoir nor a collection of essays: rather, she has collected ephemera....
| By Oliver Sacks - $13.97 - add to cart | |
What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capabl...
| By Jill Bolte Taylor - $27.50 - add to cart | |
On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her br...
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