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  • Living With Arabs

    Nine Years with the Petra Bedouin

    by Joan Ward ...
    Horrendous news from the Middle East fills our newspapers and screens every day. How can we begin to understand what drives people to treat each other as they do? “Medieval” is a word often used. Well-informed commentators analyse political and military issues but give little insight into the cultural and domestic backgrounds of the protagonists.Living With Arabs is an account of nine years spent ... Read more

    $7.25 CAD

  • Enigmas

    Edited by Emily Joan Ward, Robin Reuvers ...
    Series series Darwin College Lectures
    Arising from the 2020 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents eight essays from prominent public intellectuals on the theme of Enigmas. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, together constituting an illuminating and diverse interdisciplinary volume. Enigmas features contributions by professor of physics Sean M. Carroll, author Jo Marchant, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Royal Childhood and Child Kingship

    Boy Kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c. 1050–1262

    by Emily Joan Ward ...
    Series Book 120 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    Refining adult-focused perspectives on medieval rulership, Emily Joan Ward exposes the problematic nature of working from the assumption that kingship equated to adult power. Children's participation and political assent could be important facets of the day-to-day activities of rule, as this study shows through an examination of royal charters, oaths to young boys, cross-kingdom diplomacy and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 12 - Edge Question Series
    Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch

    by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen ...
    Series Book 3 - The Science of Discworld
    Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen Univeristy feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Science of Discworld IV

    Judgement Day

    by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen ...
    Series Book 4 - The Science of Discworld
    The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction, cutting-edge science and philosophy.Marjorie Daw is a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Seeing Further

    350 Years of the Royal Society and Scientific Endeavour

    Edited by Bill Bryson ...
    From the Royal Society, a peerless collection of all-new science writing.Bill Bryson, who explored all—or at least a great deal of—current scientific knowledge in A Short History of Nearly Everything, now turns his attention to the history of that knowledge. As editor of Seeing Further, he has rounded up an extraordinary roster of scientists who write and writers who know science in order to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Weird Earth

    Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet

    by Donald R. Prothero ...
    "A breath of intellectual fresh air . . . [an] amusing look at how to dispel endemic pseudoscience and conspiracy theories through rational thinking." — Publishers WeeklyAliens. Ley lines. Water dowsing. Conspiracies and myths captivate imaginations and promise mystery and magic. Whether it's arguing about the moon landing hoax or a Frisbee-like Earth drifting through space, when held up to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged)

    Adventures in Math and Science

    by Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford ...
    **"Multifaceted, surprising, and full of wonders…You really owe it to yourself to read it." —Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add UpThe complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts).**Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what’s happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Ways of Being

    Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

    by James Bridle ...
    Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings— beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Journey of the Universe

    by Brian Thomas Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker ...
    The basis for the Emmy-winning film. "A wonderful, highly readable account of the history of the universe from the Big Bang through the present moment."—Thomas Lovejoy, University Professor in Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason UniversityThrough the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Human Cosmos

    Civilization and the Stars

    by Jo Marchant ...
    A Best Book of 2020 NPRA Best Book of 2020 The EconomistA Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 SmithsonianA Best Science & Technology Book of 2020 Library JournalA Must-Read Book to Escape the Chaos of 2020 NewsweekStarred review BooklistStarred review Publishers WeeklyAn historically unprecedented disconnect between humanity and the heavens has opened. Jo Marchant... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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