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  • The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

    by Abraham Flexner, Robbert Dijkgraaf ...
    A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughsA forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • Prostitution in Europe And History of the Gipsies With Specimens of the Gipsy Language

    by Abraham Flexner & Walter Simson ...
    Prostitution will be studied in these pages from the standpoint of the practical experience of European countries. An effort will be made to ascertain its forms and extent, the sources from which it is recruited, the conditions that either cause or conduce to it, the procedure of different communities in dealing with it and with the conditions responsible for it, the measures which have been ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Universities

    American, English, German

    by Abraham Flexner ...
    Series series Foundations of Higher Education
    Originally published in 1930. Flexiner’s Universities was the big book on higher education when it was first published in 1930 and continued to be such until the appearance of Robert Maynard Hutchins’ The Higher Learning in America in 1936. Universities continues to be one of the great books in the field more than sixty years later・but for quite different reasons now than then. ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

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    From Quantum to Cosmos

    by Neil Turok ...
    Series series Massey Lectures
    The most anticipated nonfiction book of the season, this year's Massey Lectures is a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future by world-renowned physicist Neil Turok.Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the universe around us. Scientific knowledge is our most precious possession, and our future will be shaped by the ... Read more

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  • Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

    The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

    by James Gleick ...
    An illuminating portrayal of Richard Feynman—a giant of twentieth century physics—from his childhood tinkering with radios, to his vital work on the Manhattan Project and beyondRaised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics ... Read more

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  • The Disordered Cosmos

    A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

    by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein ...
    From a star astrophysicist and author of the national bestseller The Edge of Space Time**, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos – and a call for a more just, inclusive practice of science.****“A love letter to the wonderous universe we call home, and an urge to think critically about how we explore its depths” –**Smithsonian MagazineIn The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Presc ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • A Thousand Small Sanities

    The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

    by Adam Gopnik ...
    A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author.Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought.A Thousand Small ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Bare Minimum Dinners

    Recipes and Strategies for Doing Less in the Kitchen

    by Jenna Helwig ...
    "Packed with recipes that have crazy-short ingredient lists, fast cooking times, and creative spins, this is my kind of cookbook." —Jenny Rosenstrach, New York Times –bestselling author of Dinner: The PlaybookGetting a home-cooked meal on the table every day is an admirable goal, but it shouldn't get in the way of your life! In Bare Minimum Dinners, Jenna Helwig—food director at Rea... ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of the Meritocracy

    by Michael Young ...
    Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future Meritocracy. Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century. Projecting himself into the year 2034, the author of this sociological satire shows how present decisions and practices may remold our ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Anarchy in Action

    by Colin Ward ...
    The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organises itself without authority, is always in existence. Through a wide-ranging analysis - drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few - Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as ... Read more

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  • Capitalism and the Historians

    by T. S. Ashton, Louis Hacker, W. H. Hutt, Bertrand de Jouvenel ...
    Essays by economic historians making the case that early factory workers benefited from the Industrial Revolution, despite its hardships and disruptions.The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that system—so say the distinguished economic historians whose papers make up this book.The authors offer ... Read more

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  • Mapping the Heavens

    The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos

    by Priyamvada Natarajan ...
    A theoretical astrophysicist explores the ideas that transformed our knowledge of the universe over the past century.The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is someone at the forefront of the ... Read more

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