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  • Earth and Life

    A Four Billion Year Conversation

    From the world-renowned geobiologist and bestselling author of A Brief History of Earth, the epic story of a planetary conversation four billion years in the makingHow did the world as we know it—from the soil beneath our feet to the air we breathe and the life that surrounds us—come to be? Geologists have proposed one set of answers while biologists have proposed another. Earth and Life is the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Random Universe

    How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos

    An award-winning astrophysicist looks at how the understanding of uncertainty and randomness has led to breakthroughs in our knowledge of the cosmosAll of us understand the world around us by constructing models, comparing them to observations, and drawing conclusions. Scientists create, test, and replace these models by applying the twinned concepts of probability and randomness. Exploring how ... Read more

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  • Life on a Young Planet

    The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition

    Series series Princeton Science Library
    Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a ... Read more

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  • The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

    Ssu ta ch'i-shu

    Series series
    A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynastyIn this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the “Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel” (ssu ta ch'i-shu). Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives, Plaks shows that their fullest critical revisions represent a sophisticated new genre of ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • A Brief History of Earth

    Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

    Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP)“A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED reviewHow well do you know the ground beneath your feet?Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Honor and Fidelity

    Series Book 2 - The Fifth Foreign Legion
    A military sci-fi fantasy where troops keeping peace on an alien planet find themselves engaged in an interstellar war.It was an easy assignment on a peaceful alien world—until the natives attacked! The Sandcastle, on a water world on the fringe of Earth's expanding empire, houses the Fifth Foreign Legion—troops sent there to protect the interests of Seafarms Interstellar, a powerful Terran ... Read more

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  • Black Cat Weekly #165

    It’s our final Halloween issue of the year—with lots of treats and only a few tricks. Headlining this issue is Bram Stoker’s “lost” horror tale, “Gibbet Hill,” which a researcher recently discovered in an Irish newspaper supplement from 1890. (It wasn’t listed in any of Stoker’s bibliographies, and it created quite a stir among horror aficionados.) I’ve very carefully edited it, correcting typos ... Read more

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  • Invisible Sun

    Bent to the point of breaking, Ian stands at Lake Pontchartrain's edge in New Orleans, spiraling after his brother Hugo's suicide. Everything sinks around him—the city, his faith, and perhaps his life—as he untangles the reason behind Hugo's fatal decision.In Invisible Sun, Andrew H. Housley probes mental illness and the painful consequences of choice. He questions brotherly bonds, belief systems, ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning

    How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (4th Edition)

    Unabridged

    11 hours 43 min

    In The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results, renowned instructors and consultants Dr. Roy Pollock, Andrew Jefferson, and Calhoun Wick deliver a complete blueprint to maximize the effectiveness and ROI of training and development programs within any organization. In this newly revised and extensively updated Fourth Edition, listeners ... Read more

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  • No Time for Tears

    THE STORY OF A TEN-YEAR-OLD BOY'S DESPERATE BUT SUCCESSFUL BATTLE TO SURVIVE POLIO, AND HIS FAMILY'S ROLE IN GUIDING HIM BACK TO A NORMAL LIFE."This book tells of a ten-year-old boy who was suddenly deposited in an iron lung to battle for his very life. What he went through will illustrate the new ways that have been developed to fight polio. In recent years much has been learned about treating ... Read more

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  • The Orange Fairy Book (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. 33 Traditional Stories & Fairy Tales

    Illustrated by H. J. Ford ...
    The Orange Fairy Book (1906) gathers tales from a strikingly wide range of traditions, including sources from India, Scandinavia, Africa, and Eastern Europe, presenting them in the polished, lucid prose characteristic of Andrew Lang's celebrated "coloured" fairy books. Its narratives—of enchanted animals, perilous quests, cunning heroines, and supernatural justice—belong to the late Victorian and ... Read more

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  • The Blue Fairy Book (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Enchanted Tales of Fantastic & Magical Adventures

    The Blue Fairy Book gathers a foundational treasury of European and Near Eastern wonder tales, including "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin," and "Little Red Riding Hood." Published in 1889, it inaugurates Andrew Lang's celebrated "coloured" fairy books and presents oral and literary traditions in lucid Victorian prose. Its style is direct, elegant, and rhythmically suited to reading ... Read more

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