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  • The Monster's Bones

    The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

    by David K. Randall ...
    **One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books of 2022A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America’s most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record.**In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Into Unknown Skies

    An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World

    by David K. Randall ...
    “Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America’s pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely heroes to bring the dream of world flight to the public imagination.”—Wall Street Journal“David K. Randall has conjured the first air race to circumnavigate the globe in all its death-defying glory, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Demaris: Protocol

    by Brian David Randall ...
    Surviving this mission may mean losing each other . . . or their lives.In the summer of 1992, Trey Carter—Southern, evangelical, and deeply closeted—accidentally outs himself at a pool party. This spirals him down a dark path and into the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency, but Trey’s skills are in football and gymnastics, not guns and espionage. He’s not the first twenty-one-year-old to ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Death at the Golden Gate

    The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

    by David K. Randall ...
    “A mash-up of Erik Larson and Richard Preston.” —Tina Jordan, New York Times Book Review podcastOn March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown—but when corrupt politicians mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Clovermead

    by David Randall ...
    Twelve–year–old Clovermead Wickward's head is filled with stories of adventure. She dreams about the thrill of a sword fight, the excitement of heroic quests, and the clash of mighty armies. The last thing she expects is for those dreams to come true. It seems that her beloved father, Waxmelt, is not who she has believed him to be — but is harboring secrets that threaten to tear their family apart ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

    Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

    by David K. Randall ...
    An engrossing examination of the science behind the little-known world of sleep.Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange science of sleep.In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • The King and Queen of Malibu

    The True Story of the Battle for Paradise

    by David K. Randall ...
    "A true story of the battle for paradise…men and women fighting for a slice of earth like no other." —New York Times Book ReviewFrederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu’s transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart of this story of American grit and determinism. He was a Harvard-trained ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Monster's Bones (Young Readers Edition)

    The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

    by David K. Randall ...
    The thrilling tale of America’s early paleontologists and the discovery of the first T. Rex fossil, now adapted for young readers.From the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: socialite Henry Fairfield Osborn and intrepid fossil hunter Barnum Brown.When Brown unearths the first ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

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    The Monster's Bones

    The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

    by David K. Randall ...
    Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 48 min

    T. Rex.One of the most iconic and fearsome creatures to ever walk the Earth. But how did the King of the Dinosaurs come to dominate our culture millennia after its extinction?In this engaging young readers edition of The Monster’s Bones, David K. Randall journeys from prehistory to present day on a gripping, gritty expedition through the history of one of the world’s greatest scientific ... Read more

    $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • In the Shadow of the Bear: The Complete Series

    The Complete Series

    by David Randall ...
    Clovermead's struggle with the demonic Lord Ursus — the complete series. ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Z-Order Glitching: Rendering Sprites and Breaking Dimensions

    Layers, Math, and Overlaps in Classic Two-Dimensional Game Development

    by David Randall ...
    In classic two-dimensional video games, depth is an elaborate and fragile mathematical lie. A television screen has no physical depth; it is merely a flat grid of illuminated pixels. To create the illusion that a hero is standing in front of a tree, programmers must dictate a strict rendering order. This hierarchical system is known as the Z-order. The engine must calculate, frame by frame, which ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate

    by David Randall ...
    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
    An essential primer on atmospheric processes and their important role in the climate systemThe atmosphere is critical to climate change. It can amplify shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them. This primer offers a short, reader-friendly introduction to these atmospheric processes and how they work, written by a leading expert on the subject.Giving readers an overview of key ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD