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  • What Really Sank the Titanic:

    New Forensic Discoveries

    Was the ship doomed by a faulty design?Was the hull's steel too brittle?Was the captain negligent in the face of repeated warnings?On the night of April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, with over 2,200 passengers onboard, struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and plunged to a watery grave. For nearly a century, the shocking loss has haunted the world. Now the same CSI techniques that are ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Authoritarianism. Vol 1

    A Risk Analysis of the Alt-Right Phenomenon

    This volume considers from a risk perspective the current phenomenon of the new Alt-Right authoritarianism and whether it represents ‘real’ democracy or an unacceptable hegemony potentially resulting in elected dictatorships and abuses as well as dysfunctional government. Contributing authors represent an eclectic range of disciplines, including cognitive, organizational and political psychology, ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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  • Celestial Navigation for the Complete Idiot - A Simple Explanation

    by Gene Grossman ...
    This book won the Dan Poynter 2011 First-place GOLD Global eBook Award in the Non-Fiction/Sports categorySome time ago, Gene Grossman signed on as a crew-member with some friends of his who were delivering a large sailboat with no navigation electronics from Marina del Rey California, through the Panama Canal, to a charter company's tropical island location.On the evening of departure, Gene asked ... Read more

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  • How to Read Water

    Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

    Series series Natural Navigation
    **A New York Times BestsellerA Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016The ultimate guide to interpreting natural signs in water**From oceans to puddles, lakes to streams, rain to fog, our planet is covered in water of all kinds. And once you learn to read water’s hidden clues the way writer and navigator Tristan Gooley can, the world becomes a trove of secret signs. In How to Read ... Read more

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  • Cold

    Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

    by Bill Streever ...
    From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to The Year Without Summer, Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold -- real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole; in September while excavating our planet's ancient and not so ancient ice ages; ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • A Farewell to Ice

    A Report from the Arctic

    by Peter Wadhams ...
    **'Utterly extraordinary ... the starkest book I've read on the impacts of accelerating climate change for a very long time ... if we're not listening to the likes of Peter Wadhams, then we too are in denial' Jonathon PorrittMost of the scientific establishment predict that the North Pole will be free of ice around the middle of this century. As Peter Wadhams, the world's leading expert on sea ice ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Practical Encyclopedia of Boating : An A-Z Compendium of Navigation, Seamanship, Boat Maintenance, and Nautical Wisdom: An A-Z Compendium of Navigation, Seamanship, Boat Maintenance, and Nautical Wisdom

    An A-Z Compendium of Navigation, Seamanship, Boat Maintenance, and Nautical Wisdom

    by John Vigor ...
    “Vigor is one of the finest boating writers of our time.”--Cruising World“You name it, it’s in here. Covers every boating situation. This book is both informative and entertaining.”--Latitudes & Attitudes“John Vigor is the answer guy if you’re having onboard arguments about nautical terminology or the science of sailing in general, and his new book lives up to the promise in its title.”--Good Old ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Titanic: A Very Deceiving Night

    by Tim Maltin ...
    Tim Maltin, Britain's foremost authority on RMS Titanic, can finally reveal precisely why Titanic struck the iceberg. Through vivid images, first person testimonies and forensic investigation Maltin also reveals why the nearby ship, the Californian, failed to come to her rescue, resulting in the death of 1500 passengers. Titanic: A Very Deceiving Night finally draws to a close the world's biggest ... Read more

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  • Who Was Charles Darwin?

    Illustrated by Nancy Harrison ...
    Series series Who Was?
    As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa, South America, and the Galapagos Islands, and expanded his groundbreaking ideas that would ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Farewell, Titanic

    Her Final Legacy

    On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears foreverThe Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenger ship the world had ever seen; the ads proclaimed it to be unsinkable. When it sank in April 1912 after hitting an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people, the world was forever changed and the ... Read more

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  • Sinkable

    Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic

    by Daniel Stone ...
    From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into the story of the world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS TitanicOn a frigid April night in 1912, the world’s largest—and soon most famous—ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new journey began, a seemingly limitless odyssey through the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • An Empire of Ice

    Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

    A Pulitzer Prize–winning author examines South Pole expeditions, "wrapping the science in plenty of dangerous drama to keep readers engaged" ( Booklist).An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration—placing the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and ... Read more

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