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  • This Book is a Plant

    How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the Natural World

    "INFORMATIVE AND ORIGINAL" Guardian, 'This month's best paperbacks'We've become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools, resources, or just as an attractive background to our own lives.But it's time to change our minds.New research shows that plants can think, plan - and may even have memories. We share our planet with beings whose potential we have only glimpsed. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Practical Course in Personal Magnetism

    The Victorian Guide to Health, Happiness, Power and Success: Doctor’s Orders from Wellcome Library

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    Finally, the secrets of natural magnetism made plain, in the 19th Century's delightful prelude to How to Win Friends and Influence People"You are not the weak, downtrodden creature you have so long considered yourself, but a glorified, radiant, happy being!"Drawn from the long-forgotten self-help bestsellers of the Victorian age, A Practical Course in Personal Magnetism presents a comprehensive ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Songs of Trees

    Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

    WINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING“Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.” —Science FridayThe author of Sounds Wild and Broken and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Losing Eden

    Why Our Minds Need the Wild

    by Lucy Jones ...
    A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'Beautifully written, movingly told and meticulously researched ... a convincing plea for a wilder, richer world' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding'By the time I'd read the first chapter, I'd resolved to take my son into the woods every afternoon over winter. By the time I'd read the sixth, I was wanting to break prisoners out of cells and onto the mossy moors. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Where Do Camels Belong?

    Why Invasive Species Aren't All Bad

    by Ken Thompson ...
    The ecologist and author of Do We Need Pandas? "presents a stimulating challenge to our perceptions of nature" and non-native species (George Monbiot).You may be surprised to learn that camels evolved and lived for tens of millions of years in North America—and also that the leek, national symbol of Wales, was a Roman import to Britain, as were chickens, rabbits and pheasants. These classic ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ten Trusts

    What We Must Do to Care for The Animals We Love

    Two leaders in animal welfare share their conservation plan to protect animals and educate people on saving both animals and the environment."The Ten Commandments for the future of advanced life on our planet." —Huston Smith, author of The World's ReligionsWorld-renowned behavioral scientists Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff argue passionately and persuasively that if we put these ten trusts to work ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Irish Atlantic Rainforest

    A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding

    by Eoghan Daltun ...
    An Post Irish Book Award Winner'An inspiring vision' Manchán Magan'The stories are absorbing, the writing charismatic and the ideas thought-provoking' Irish IndependentOn the Beara peninsula in West Cork, a temperate rainforest flourishes. It is the life work of Eoghan Daltun, who had a vision to rewild a 73-acre farm he bought, moving there from Dublin with his family in 2009.A... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Eat the Beetles!

    An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects

    "Provides a sturdy literary exoskeleton to the field of human insectivory . . . it entertains as it enlightens" (Daniella Martin, author of Edible).Meet the beetles: there are millions and millions of them and many fewer of the rest of us—mammals, birds, and reptiles. Since before recorded history, humans have eaten insects. While many get squeamish at the idea, entomophagy—people eating insects ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fire Use in Northern Forest Survival

    Fire Use in Northern Forest SurvivalThe why, when and where in justifying the use of fire.A good campfire holds a special fascintation for some and is therapeutic for others. Its warmth and calming effect may help to dissipate the insanities induced by modern life, something difficult to achieve sitting around a camp stove. Today, the concern for the possible negative ecological impacts of ... Read more

    $3.00 CAD

  • The Animal Manifesto

    Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint

    by Marc Bekoff ...
    In this inspirational call to action, Marc Bekoff, the world’s leading expert on animal emotions, gently shows that improving our treatment of animals is a matter of rethinking our many daily decisions and expanding our compassion footprint.” He demonstrates that animals experience a rich range of emotions, including empathy and compassion, and that they clearly know right from wrong. Driven by ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Insect Crisis

    The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

    by Oliver Milman ...
    A devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food on our plate.From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are everywhere. Three out of every four of our planet’s known animal species are insects. In The Insect Crisis, acclaimed journalist Oliver Milman dives into the torrent ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Pig Who Sang to the Moon

    The Emotional World of Farm Animals

    Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling, irrefutable evidence that barnyard creatures have feelings too, even consciousness.Weaving history, literature, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD