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Series: The Man Who Solved the Market How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover Gregory Zuckerman 9780735217980 $40.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Nov 05, 2019

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardThe perfect gift for the avid reader on your list: the unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm—and made $23 billion doing it.Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. No other investor—Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros—can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance’s signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percen... + Read More
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Series: Letters from an Astrophysicist Hardcover Neil deGrasse Tyson 9781324003311 $25.95 SCIENCE Oct 08, 2019

New York Times Bestseller A luminous companion to the phenomenal bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by revealing his correspondence with people across the globe who have sought him out in search of answers. In this hand-picked collection of 101 letters, Tyson draws upon cosmic perspectives to addr... + Read More
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Series: Reality Ahead of Schedule How Science Fiction Inspires Science Fact Hardcover Joel Levy 9781588346704 $39.95 ART Oct 15, 2019

A rich visual history of science fiction’s impact on real-world technologies, this book is perfect for lovers of H. G. Wells, Star Trek, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Aldous Huxley, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.Have you ever wished for a personal jet pack or a robot butler? Do you wonder how you would fare as an interplanetary traveler? Are you eagerly awaiting driverless cars? Reality Ahead of Schedule explores how what we imagine about the future has influenced our ability to make those ideas into reality. There are many vital technologies that sci... + Read More
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Series: Imagined Life A Speculative Scientific Journey among the Exoplanets in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals Hardcover James Trefil 9781588346643 $39.95 SCIENCE Sep 17, 2019

The captivating possibilities of extraterrestrial life on exoplanets, based on current scientific knowledge of existing worlds and forms of lifeIt is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring readers on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life—unlike anything we have experienced so far—that could exist on planets outside our own solar system.Life could be out there in many forms: on frozen world... + Read More
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Series: Light from the Void Twenty Years of Discovery with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Hardcover Kimberly K. Arcand 9781588346698 $60.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Oct 22, 2019

A lavish coffee-table book featuring spectacular images from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-Ray telescope ever builtTake a journey through the cosmos with Light from the Void, a stunning collection of photographs from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory’s two decades of operation. The book showcases rarely-seen celestial phenomena such as black holes, planetary nebulae, galaxy clusters, gravitational waves, stellar birth and death, and more. Accompanying these images of incredible natural phenomena are captions explaining how they... + Read More
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Series: Into the Planet Hardcover Jill Heinerth 9780385690454 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 10, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLERTaking you to places no one has ever gone before, and blending memoir, adventure and science, Into the Planet is a riveting account of one of the most dangerous yet exhilarating pursuits in the world: diving to the centre of the earth.“If I die, it will be in the most glorious place that nobody has ever seen.”As one of the most celebrated cave divers in the world, Jill Heinerth has seen the planet in a way almost no one has. In a workday, she might swim below you home, through conduits in volcanoes or cracks in the world’s la... + Read More
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Series: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference Expanded Edition Paperback Greta Thunberg 9780141992716 $9.99 SCIENCE Mar 02, 2020

The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation’Everything needs to change. And it has to start today’ In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.This book brings you Greta in her own words,... + Read More
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Series: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference Expanded Edition Hardcover Greta Thunberg 9780241453445 $29.99 SCIENCE Mar 02, 2020

The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation’Everything needs to change. And it has to start today’ In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.This book brings you Greta in her own words,... + Read More
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Series: 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste Paperback Kathryn Kellogg 9781682683316 $23.95 HOUSE & HOME Apr 02, 2019

Minimalism meets DIY in an accessible guide to household waste reduction We all know how important it is to reduce our environmental footprint, but it can be daunting to know where to begin. Enter Kathryn Kellogg, who can fit all her trash from the past two years into a 16-ounce mason jar. How? She starts by saying “no” to straws and grocery bags, and “yes” to a reusable water bottle and compostable dish scrubbers. In 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste, Kellogg shares these tips and more, along with DIY recipes for beauty and home; advice for responsibl... + Read More
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Series: We Are the Weather Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast Hardcover Jonathan Safran Foer 9780735233072 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 17, 2019

The New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer re-evaluated his meat-based diet—and his conscience—in his powerful memoir and investigative report, Eating Animals. Now, he offers a mind-bending and potentially world-changing call to action on climate change.Most books about the environmental crisis are densely academic, depressingly doom-laden, and crammed with impersonal statistics. We Are the Weather is different—accessible, immediate, and with a single clear solution that individual readers can put into practice straight away.A s... + Read More
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Series: Horizon Paperback Barry Lopez 9780307356000 $21.00 NATURE Jan 07, 2020

From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a masterwork in which he recounts the travels around the world and the encounters—human, animal, and natural—that have shaped his extraordinary life.Barry Lopez gives us his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date, a book Robert Macfarlane calls “magnificent; a contemprary epic, at once pained and urgent, personal and oracular.” Horizon moves through the author’s travels in six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert;... + Read More
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Series: Greenwood A Novel Hardcover Michael Christie 9780771024450 $35.00 FICTION Sep 24, 2019

WINNER OF THE ARTHUR ELLIS AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEA CBC BOOKS “BEST CANADIAN FICTION” TITLE OF THE YEARNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud Atlas meets The Overstory in this ingenious nested-ring epic set against the devastation of the natural world.They come for the trees. It’s 2038 ... + Read More
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Series: Primitive Technology A Survivalist's Guide to Building Tools, Shelters, and More in the Wild Hardcover John Plant 9781984823670 $25.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 29, 2019

From the founder of the latest back-to-the-land movement, Primitive Technology—launched in 2015 on the YouTube channel that now counts more than 9.2 million subscribers—comes a wild guide to building huts and tools using your own two hands. Stunning photography, line illustrations, and detailed instructions make this the ultimate handbook for living off the land.Called “a Walden for the YouTube age” by The Paris Review, John Plant is beloved by campers and preppers, hipster woodworkers and craftsmen. Now, for the first time, John’s fans will ge... + Read More
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Series: On Fire The Burning Case for a Green New Deal Hardcover Naomi Klein 9780735279223 $32.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 17, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA MUST-READ book. Naomi Klein pairs a decade of her powerful writing on our acute environmental decline with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of what we choose to do next; and inspiringly offers here a politically viable, just, sustainable path forward.For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet—and the champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with stability and justice at its center. In lucid dispatches from the frontlines—from t... + Read More
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Series: The Mosquito A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator Hardcover Timothy C. Winegard 9780735235793 $34.95 NATURE Aug 06, 2019

“Hugely impressive, a major work.”--NPRA pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was G... + Read More
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Series: Soonish Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything Paperback Kelly Weinersmith 9780399563843 $24.00 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Jun 04, 2019

The instant New York Times bestseller!A Wall Street Journal Best Science Book of the Year!A Popular Science Best Science Book of the Year! From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies -- from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? What is the hold-up? In this smart and funny boo... + Read More
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Series: The Astronaut Selection Test Book Do You Have What it Takes for Space? Paperback Tim Peake 9781529124149 $27.99 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Nov 26, 2019

_________________________*The OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD puzzle book, as featured in the Times, Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Breakfast, and a Guardian Book of the Year pick. Have YOU got what it takes to be an astronaut?This book will help readers of all ages find out. Featuring 100 real astronaut tests and exercises from the European Space Agency’s rigorous selection process, ranging from easy to fiendishly hard, The Astronaut Selection Test Book goes where no puzzle book has gone before. Including puzzles and tests on:· visual perception and... + Read More
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Series: Chasing the Moon The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age Hardcover Robert Stone 9781524798123 $42.00 SCIENCE Jun 04, 2019

JFK issued the historic moon landing challenge. These are the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete his vision with the first lunar landing fifty years ago.A Companion Book to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE® Film on PBS®Going in depth to explore their stories beyond the PBS series, writer/producer Robert Stone—called “one of our most important documentary filmmakers” by Entertainment Weekly—brings these important figures to brilliant life.In 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed the nation spend twenty billion dollars to land a man... + Read More
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Series: Our Planet Hardcover Alastair Fothergill 9780399581540 $47.00 NATURE Apr 02, 2019

With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is the striking photographic companion to the Emmy–winning NETFLIX original documentary series, presenting never-before-seen visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action and the environmental change that has to be seen to be believed.With six hundred members of crew filming in fifty countries over four years, the directors that brought us the original Planet Earth and Blue Planet now take readers on a journey across all the globe’s different biological realms to present stunning visuals o... + Read More
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Series: Foraging with Kids 52 Wild and Free Edibles to Enjoy With Your Children Hardcover Adele Nozedar 9781786781635 $18.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Sep 18, 2018

A fun, informative and practical introduction to safely foraging with kids, from the UK's bestselling foraging author.In today’s world of increasingly sedentary lifestyles and a growing detachment from the food that we eat, it has never been more important to encourage children to put down their screens, get outside and engage with the natural world around them. Foraging with Kids is a fun, practical book for parents to work through with their children that encourages families to interact with their environment and gain knowledge and practical ... + Read More
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Series: You Are Here Around the World in 92 Minutes Hardcover Chris Hadfield 9780345814944 $32.00 SCIENCE Oct 14, 2014

In You Are Here, astronaut Chris Hadfield creates a surprisingly intimate and compelling visual essay about the planet we live on, choosing the best from the thousands of photos he took on the International Space Station. Chris Hadfield's new book shows us our home--our city, country, continent, our whole planet--from a unique perspective. The millions of us who followed Chris's Twitter feed from the ISS thought we knew what we were looking at when we saw his photos. This photo documentary shows us we didn't. We caught the beauty but misse... + Read More
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Series: Empty Planet The Shock of Global Population Decline Hardcover Darrell Bricker 9780771050886 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 05, 2019

From the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape. For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning planetary population will soon overwhelm the earth's resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different kind of alarm. Rather than growing exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline. Throughout histo... + Read More
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Series: Infinite Wonder An Astronaut's Photographs from a Year in Space Hardcover Scott Kelly 9780735233744 $45.00 SCIENCE Oct 30, 2018

From the record-breaking astronaut, national hero, and best-selling author of Endurance, a breathtaking collection of photos documenting his journey on the International Space Station, the vastness of space, and the unparalleled beauty of our own home planet.One's perspective shifts when one lives for an entire year--as Commander Scott Kelly, and no other American astronaut in history, has--in the isolating, grueling, and utterly unforgiving vacuum of space. Kelly's photos prove that this perspective--from 250 miles above Earth-- while hard-won... + Read More
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Series: How To Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems Hardcover Randall Munroe 9780525537090 $37.00 HUMOR Sep 03, 2019

The world’s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing ExplainerFor any task you might want to do, there’s a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It’s full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains... + Read More
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Series: National Geographic Guide to the National Historic Sites of Canada Paperback National Geographic 9781426217555 $29.95 TRAVEL Dec 27, 2016
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Series: National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of Canada, 2nd Edition Paperback National Geographic 9781426217562 $29.95 TRAVEL Dec 27, 2016
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Series: Make Your Own Scratch Games! Paperback Anna Anthropy 9781593279363 $23.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Jul 02, 2019

Learn to make interactive games with Scratch—the beginner-friendly, block-based programming language from the MIT Media Lab! Anna Anthropy, game designer extraordinaire, will show you how to do everything from building a game map to creating animations and debugging the end product. Take a peek inside the history of video game design, learn programming basics, and turn your ideas into creative games that you can play and share with your friends.Learn how to:•Draw characters like a hungry, leaf-eating bug•Animate characters—make them walk, jump,... + Read More
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Series: Learn to Program with App Inventor A Visual Introduction to Building Apps Paperback Lyra Logan 9781593279684 $33.95 COMPUTERS Nov 26, 2019

Learn to build mobile apps for Android devices with MIT App Inventor, a visual drag-and-drop programming language like Scratch.You’ve swiped and tapped your way through countless apps, but have you ever created one? Now you can, thanks to Learn to Program with App Inventor. In less than an hour, you’ll be able to build and run your first app!App Inventor is a free software for making Android apps. All you need is a PC with an Internet connection to build your app, and a mobile phone for testing. You’ll use a simple drag-and-drop interface, whic... + Read More
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Series: Mining Social Media Finding Stories in Internet Data Paperback Lam Thuy Vo 9781593279165 $39.95 COMPUTERS Nov 25, 2019

BuzzFeed News Senior Reporter Lam Thuy Vo explains how to mine, process, and analyze data from the social web in meaningful ways with the Python programming language.Did fake Twitter accounts help sway a presidential election? What can Facebook and Reddit archives tell us about human behavior? In Mining Social Media, senior BuzzFeed reporter Lam Thuy Vo shows you how to use Python and key data analysis tools to find the stories buried in social media.Whether you’re a professional journalist, an academic researcher, or a citizen investigator, yo... + Read More
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Series: Make Your Own PuzzleScript Games! Paperback Anna Anthropy 9781593279448 $23.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Nov 12, 2019

Fun introduction to game development by well-known game designer using PuzzleScript, a free online tool for creating puzzles/platform games.PuzzleScript is a free, web-based tool you can use to create puzzle games. In a PuzzleScript game, you move objects around to solve problems and play through the levels.In Make Your Own PuzzleScript Games! you’ll learn how to use PuzzleScript to create interactive games—no programming experience necessary! Learn the basics like how to make objects, create rules, and add levels. You’ll also learn how to edit... + Read More
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Series: Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids Create an MP3 Player, Mod Minecraft, Hack Radio Waves, and More! Paperback Dan Aldred 9781593279462 $33.95 COMPUTERS Dec 02, 2019

Learn coding and electronics through 12 original and daring projects that hack wireless signals.The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive, pocket-sized computer that will help you build and code your own hardware projects.Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids will show you how to harness the power of the Raspberry Pi to create 12 cool projects using simple code and common materials like a webcam, microphone, and LED lights. Step-by-step instructions and detailed diagrams guide you through each project.After a brief introduction to the Python programming lang... + Read More
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Series: Life from Above Epic Stories of the Natural World Hardcover Michael Bright 9781984825988 $54.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Sep 03, 2019

With over 200 spectacular images, including astonishing satellite photographs and stills from the PBS docuseries, Life from Above reveals our planet as you’ve never seen it before.Thanks to advanced satellite images, we can now see the earth’s surface, its megastructures, weather patterns, and natural wonders in breathtaking detail. From the colors and patterns that make up our planet to the mass migrations and seismic changes that shape it, Life from Above sheds new light on the place we call home. It reveals the intimate stories behind the im... + Read More
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Series: Audubon's Animals The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America Hardcover John James Audubon 9780847866724 $67.50 ART Sep 24, 2019

Reproduced from an archival copy, this handsome boxed set includes a new edition of John James Audubon’s classic work on animals along with twenty-four facsimile prints suitable for framing.Following the success of his Birds of America, John James Audubon set out to document North America’s mammals—many never before depicted or seen outside of their native habitat—in the breathtaking color and detail that was his trademark. First published in 1854, Audubon’s portraits of the nation’s native mammals are still considered by many to include the fi... + Read More
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Series: Art Forms in Nature 22 Pull-Out Posters Paperback Ernst Haeckel 9783791382630 $39.95 ART Apr 30, 2019

Perfect for display or close observation, the posters in this elegantly produced collection of Ernst Haeckel's exquisite illustrations of natural forms demonstrate his exceptional artistry.Biologist, physician, philosopher, and artist, Ernst Haeckel was also a prescient observer of the natural world. His highly detailed and expertly rendered illustrations, first published at the turn of the 20th century, are not only beautiful works of art, but also have scientific underpinnings. Now available as a series of large format posters sumptuously pri... + Read More
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Series: Alexander von Humboldt Botanical Illustrations 22 Pull-Out Posters Paperback Otfried Baume 9783791385136 $39.95 ART Apr 30, 2019

A must-have for Alexander von Humboldt fans and botanic enthusiasts, this gorgeous collection of frameable posters of his studies is filled with natural wonders and meticulous detail.More than two centuries after Alexander von Humboldt established himself as a scientific trailblazer, the work of this pioneering explorer and naturalist is being rediscovered. Humboldt's travels in the Americas and Cuba were hailed by many as the "scientific discovery of America". These intricate botanical masterpieces reveal his revolutionary findings as he trave... + Read More
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Series: The Little Book of Lost Words Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting Hardcover Joe Gillard 9780399582677 $19.99 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Sep 03, 2019

The founder of History Hustle presents a handy guide for expressing yourself with history’s best words. This collection features scores of unique words from history that deal with surprisingly modern issues like sleeping in and procrastination—proving that some things never change! The Little Book of Lost Words presents each term that’s ready to be brought back into modern-day use, complete with definition, hilarious sample sentence, and cheeky historical art. You’ll learn new words for the cozy room where you like to Netflix and chill (snugger... + Read More
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Series: That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories Hardcover Ross Petras 9780399581274 $19.99 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Sep 04, 2018

An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse. Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don’t be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famous writers, among others, language gurus Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras explain how to avoid these per... + Read More
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Series: You're Saying It Wrong A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse Hardcover Ross Petras 9780399578083 $19.99 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Sep 13, 2016

For word nerds and grammar geeks, a witty guide to the most commonly mispronounced words, along with their correct pronunciations and pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and histories of use and misuse.With wit and good humor, this handy little book not only saves us from sticky linguistic situations but also provides fascinating cocktail-party-ready anecdotes. Entries reveal how to pronounce boatswain like an old salt on the deck of a ship, trompe l'oeil like a bona fide art expert, and haricot vert like a foodie, while arming us w... + Read More
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Series: The Power of Habit Why We Do What We do in Life and Business Paperback Charles Duhigg 9780385669764 $23.00 PSYCHOLOGY Jan 07, 2014

A New York Times Bestseller and instant classic illuminating how we can change our lives by changing our habits.Groundbreaking new research shows that by grabbing hold of the three-step "loop" all habits form in our brains--cue, routine, reward--we can change them, giving us the power to take control over our lives. In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes readers inside labs where brain scans record habits as they flourish and die; classrooms in which students learn to boost their willpower; an... + Read More
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Series: A Mind for Numbers How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) Paperback Barbara Oakley PhD 9780399165245 $23.00 SELF-HELP Jul 31, 2014

The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses, before enlisting in the army immediately after g... + Read More
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Series: All Things Being Equal Why Math Is the Key to a Better World Hardcover John Mighton 9780735272897 $32.00 EDUCATION Jan 07, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the award-winning founder of JUMP Math, All Things Being Equal is a proven guide to succeeding in math, and a passionate argument for why this success can and must be available to the majority instead of the privileged few. For two decades, John Mighton has developed strategies for fostering intellectual potential in all children through learning math. Math, Mighton says, provides us with mental tools of incredible power. When we learn math we learn to see patterns, to think logically and systematically, to draw analogie... + Read More
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Series: Thinking, Fast and Slow Paperback Daniel Kahneman 9780385676533 $23.00 PSYCHOLOGY Apr 02, 2013

“It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Daniel Kahneman’s contribution to the understanding of the way we think and choose. He stands among the giants, a weaver of the threads of Charles Darwin, Adam Smith and Sigmund Freud…. In an engaging and often lighthearted summary of a lifetime of ground-breaking work, Kahneman shows us how our capacity for quick intuitive thought is the origin of so much of what we do right…. A magisterial work, stunning in its ambition, infused with knowledge, laced with wisdom, informed by modesty and deeply... + Read More
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Series: The Future of the Mind The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind Paperback Michio Kaku 9780307473349 $22.95 SCIENCE Feb 17, 2015

Michio Kaku, the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the Future tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain.The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality. This scientific tour de force unveils the astonishing research being done in top laboratories around the world—all based on the latest advancements in neuroscience and physics—including recent experiments in telepathy, mind cont... + Read More
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Series: Livewired The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain Hardcover David Eagleman 9780385677301 $34.95 SCIENCE Aug 25, 2020

From the bestselling author of Incognito and Sum, comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain based on the most recent scientific discoveries about how it unceasingly adapts, recreates and formulates new ways of understanding the world we live in.The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it’s made of, but in the way those parts re-weave themselves in an electric, living fabric. And there is no more accomplished and accessible guide than renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman to help us understand the nature and changing texture of tha... + Read More
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Series: Living with Nature Decorating with the Rhythms of the Seasons Hardcover Marie Masureel 9780847867943 $57.50 HOUSE & HOME Feb 18, 2020

Invite nature inside by decorating the home with an ever-changing seasonal array of interior design accents—flowers, buds, fronds, seed heads, fruits, and other natural materials—gathered and repurposed from the garden, farm stand, fields, woods, and nature trails.Author Marie Masureel is an interior stylist and photographer whose passion is varying home decor with repurposed elements and found objects from nature, season by season. For autumn, she gathers fallen leaves, seasonal berries, and rose hips for flower arrangements and wreaths. To we... + Read More
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Series: Beyond the Trees A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic Hardcover Adam Shoalts 9780735236837 $32.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2019

National bestsellerA thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from “Canada’s greatest living explorer.”In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America’s greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected, digital world, it’s still possible to wander for months without crossing a single road, or even see another human being.Between his starting point in Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory, to his destination in Baker Lake, Nunavut, lies... + Read More
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Series: Canoe Country The Making of Canada Paperback Roy MacGregor 9780307361424 $24.00 HISTORY May 10, 2016

One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes.From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who have canoed across the country (kids and dogs included): Canoe Country is Roy MacGregor's celebration of the essential and enduring love affair Canadi... + Read More
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Series: The Skin We're In A Year of Black Resistance and Power Hardcover Desmond Cole 9780385686341 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 28, 2020

In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates, a bracing, provocative and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada’s most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We’re In will spark a national conversation, influence policy and inspire activists.In May 2015, the cover story of Toronto Life magazine shook Canada’s largest city to its core. Desmond Cole’s “The Skin I’m In” exposed the racist practices of the Toronto police force, detailing the dozens of times Cole had been stopped and interrogated under the controversial practice... + Read More
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Series: Superior The Return of Race Science Hardcover Angela Saini 9780807076910 $32.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 21, 2019

2019 Best-Of Lists: 10 Best Science Books of the Year (Smithsonian Magazine) · Best Science Books of the Year (NPR's Science Friday) · Best Science and Technology Books from 2019” (Library Journal) An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences. Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. After the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the... + Read More
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Series: Inferior How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story Hardcover Angela Saini 9780807071700 $34.95 SCIENCE May 30, 2017

What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knewFor hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades, scientists—most of them male, of course—claimed to find evidence to support this.Whether looking at intelligence or emotion, cognition or behavior, scie... + Read More
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Series: Underland A Deep Time Journey Hardcover Robert Macfarlane 9780241143803 $42.95 NATURE Jun 25, 2019

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2020'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyThe highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old WaysDiscover the hidden worlds beneath our feet...In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. Fr... + Read More
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Series: Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow Paperback Yuval Noah Harari 9780771038709 $23.00 HISTORY Oct 31, 2017

From the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary follow-up that explores the future of the human species. Now available as a trade paperback. Humans today enjoy unprecedented levels of power and an increasingly god-like status. The great epidemics of the past - famine, plague and war - no longer control our lives. We are the only species in history that has single-handedly changed the entire planet, and we can no longer blame a higher being for our fate. But as our gods take ... + Read More
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Series: The River of Consciousness Paperback Oliver Sacks 9780345809001 $21.00 SCIENCE Oct 09, 2018

Completed shortly before his death, this profoundly fascinating, illuminating work from bestselling thinker and neurologist Oliver Sacks provides readers with a compelling and rare gift. The River of Consciousness reflects Oliver Sacks at his wisest and most humane, as he examines some of the human animal's most remarkable faculties: memory, creativity, consciousness, and our present, ongoing evolution. Before his death, Sacks personally collected into this one volume his recent essays, never before published in book form, which he fe... + Read More
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Series: Stuff Matters The Strange Stories Of The Marvellous Materials That Shape Our Paperback Mark Miodownik 9780241955185 $21.99 SCIENCE Apr 29, 2014

* * * Winner of the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books * * *Stuff Matters by Mark Miodnownik is a unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity.’Enthralling. A mission to re-acquaint us with the wonders of the fabric that sustains our lives’ GuardianEverything is made of something…From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new materials that will shape our future, Stuff Matters reveals the inner workings of the man-made world, the miracles of craft, design, engineering and ingenuity that surround u... + Read More
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Series: This Is Your Brain on Music The Science of a Human Obsession Paperback Daniel J. Levitin 9780452288522 $23.00 SCIENCE Aug 28, 2007

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, he reveals:• How composers p... + Read More
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Series: The Body A Guide for Occupants Hardcover Bill Bryson 9780385685740 $38.00 SCIENCE Oct 15, 2019

New York Times BestsellerNational BestsellerBill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner’s manual for everybody.Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body—how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your... + Read More
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Series: Humble Pi When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World Hardcover Matt Parker 9780593084687 $36.00 MATHEMATICS Jan 21, 2020

An instant #1 bestseller in the UK, this entertaining tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in our everyday livesOur whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes…until it doesn’t. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences.Humble Pi is the book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, “When a... + Read More