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  • Other Minds

    The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    Series series
    Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other MindsAlthough mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Metazoa

    Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    "Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind’s essential link to the animal world." —The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of the animals he observes." —Nigel Warburton, Five BooksThe scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Theory and Reality

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • George Price - A Life Revealed: The Authorized Biography

    by Godfrey P. Smith ...
    Once described as the ‘prime minister who wanted to be a priest’, George Price was one of the most enigmatic and secretive leaders of the modern Caribbean and Central American sub-region. Little is known of his personal life and his long political career was often mired in controversy. Now, his autobiography George Price: A Life Revealed, written by a former political acolyte, Godfrey Smith, ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Living on Earth

    Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Theory and Reality

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 29 min

    How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the listener on a grand tour of one hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Assassination of Maurice Bishop

    by Godfrey P. Smith ...
    The trial of the ‘Grenada 17’ for the assassination of Maurice Bishop, the popular leader of the Grenada Revolution, though resulting in a guilty verdict for all of them, left many unanswered questions. Among those questions were: who ordered the killing and where was the body taken? Now, after close to four decades, comes an authoritative work that, while not claiming to provide all the answers, ... Read more

    $14.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michael Manley

    The Biography

    by Godfrey P. Smith ...
    Michael Manley has been the subject of many books, yet he remains an enigmatic figure to even his family. Twenty years after his passing, Jamaicans and the world remain ambivalent in their judgement of the legacy of this controversial post-independence leader who challenged the history of a complex nation as he sought to build on the legacy of politically and culturally influential parents.Now ... Read more

    $14.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philosophy of Biology

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    An essential introduction to the philosophy of biologyThis is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to philosophers, biologists, and students of both, the book provides sophisticated and innovative coverage of the central topics and many of the latest developments in the field. Emphasizing ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this mechanism was the key to explaining the most puzzling features of the natural world, and science and philosophy were changed forever as a result. The exact nature of the Darwinian process has been controversial ever since ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021

    by Otto Penzler ...
    Narrated by Matt Godfrey, Emily Sutton-Smith ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 7 min

    Lee Child selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, and many more.Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award–winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Other Minds

    The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...
    Series series

    Unabridged

    7 hours 1 min

    Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other MindsAlthough mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook