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  • A Most Extraordinary Ride

    Space, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream

    by Marc Garneau ...
    A captivating and inspiring memoir by Canada's first man in space.On October 5th, 1984, Marc Garneau made history. Blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle and reaching a speed of 28,000 km/hour, he became the first Canadian to fly to outer space. That monumental achievement, now etched in Canadian history as one of our country’s proudest moments, inspired a nation ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    A Most Extraordinary Ride

    Space, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream

    by Marc Garneau ...
    Narrated by Marc Garneau ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 27 min

    A captivating and inspiring memoir by Canada's first man in space.On October 5th, 1984, Marc Garneau made history. Blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle and reaching a speed of 28,000 km/hour, he became the first Canadian to fly to outer space. That monumental achievement, now etched in Canadian history as one of our country’s proudest moments, inspired a nation ... Read more

    $40.00 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Leisure and Hypermodernity

    Edited by Jean-Marc Adjizian, Romain Roult, Jocelyn Garneau ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Leisure Studies
    This thought-provoking and innovative book argues for the importance of leisure studies as a lens through which to understand and interrogate our ‘hypermodern’ society.In the book, leading leisure scholars describe the hypermodern moment, in which globalisation and technology have led to an acceleration of contemporary life, defined by constant experience, consumption, and pleasure-seeking, and ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    Chrystia

    From Peace River to Parliament Hill

    by Catherine Tsalikis ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Mitchell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    The intriguing, in-depth story of the most powerful woman in Canadian politics. *A NATIONAL BESTSELLER*Catherine Tsalikis traces Chrystia Freeland's remarkable journey from the northwestern Alberta town of Peace River to Moscow, London, and New York, where she spent two decades as a journalist, to the halls of Parliament Hill as deputy prime minister and finance minister in Justin Trudeau's ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Off the Record

    by Peter Mansbridge ...
    INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERPeter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with him in this entertaining and revealing look into his life and career, from his early broadcasting days in the remote northern Manitoba community of Churchill to the fast-paced news desk of CBC’s flagship show, The National, where he reported on stories from around the world.Today, Peter Mansbridge is often recognized ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The End of Love

    A Sociology of Negative Relations

    by Eva Illouz ...
    Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our spine at the mere thought of him or her. Yet, a culture that has so much to say about love is virtually silent on the no less mysterious moments ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Vietnam

    by Bill Hayton ...

    $24.19 CAD

  • The Ecology of Attention

    by Yves Citton ...
    Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit.In this new book, cultural theorist Yves Citton goes against the tide of these standard laments to offer a new perspective on the problem of attention in the digital age. Phrases like �paying ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Crash Detectives

    Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters

    by Christine Negroni ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Negroni is a talented aviation journalist who clearly understands the critically important part the human factor plays in aviation safety.”** —Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, pilot of US Airways 1549, the Miracle on the HudsonA fascinating exploration of how humans and machines fail—leading to air disasters from Amelia Earhart to MH370—and how the lessons learned ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Another End of the World is Possible

    Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It)

    by Pablo Servigne, Gauthier Chapelle, Raphaël Stevens ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it.As individuals, we are faced with a daily deluge of bad news about the worsening situation, preparing ourselves to live with years of deep ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Air Canada

    The History

    by Peter Pigott ...
    Begun as a social experiment in 1937, Air Canada has evolved into one of the world’s greatest airlines.Air Canada: The History explores a modern miracle that has made commercial air travel in our country an everyday occurrence. The airline was born in 1937 as "Trans Canada Airlines," a ward of the Canadian National Railway. Renamed "Air Canada" in 1964 to reflect its status as a jet-age airline, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Money, Morals, & Manners

    The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class

    by Michèle Lamont ...
    Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michèle Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class—the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book is a subtle, textured description of how these men define the values and attitudes they consider ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus