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  • Human Creatures

    A Broader View: the World Behind the Modern Surface

    par Fred Howard ...
    A broad, but easy reading, world-view of realities behind the anciently permanent traits of human behavior which cause simple societies to grow, to flourish in great civilizations throughout the world, and to collapse repeatedly, usually with much loss of the expanded populations. Both democracies and tyrannies follow that universal pattern into autocratic decay of civilized empires. This view ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Wilbur and Orville

    A Biography of the Wright Brothers

    par Fred Howard ...
    Collections series Dover Transportation
    In the waning days of the 19th century and on the eve of a new technological era, French, English, and American inventors (as well as a host of charlatans, stuntmen, and profiteers) were racing to be the first to achieve powered, heavier-than-air flight. At the center of this activity were two little-known bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio — Wilbur and Orville Wright.This highly regarded volume, ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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    Wilbur and Orville

    A Biography of the Wright Brothers

    par Fred Howard ...
    Lu par Larry McKeever ...

    Version Longue

    11 heure 44 min

    The Wrights' longest flight in 1903 covered 852 feet and lasted 59 seconds. In 1905, Wilbur flew 24 miles in 38 minutes and the issue was no longer how to fly but how to cash in. Their effort to exploit their invention is a suspense story of the best kind; their voyage into flight and into American history is a gripping tale from takeoff to landing. ... En savoir plus

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  • The Wright Brothers

    The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Fly Girls

    How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

    par Keith O'Brien ...
    A New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * A Time Best Book for SummerBetween the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed—until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Who Were the Wright Brothers?

    Illustré par Tim Foley ...
    Collections series Who Was?
    As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and any sort of machinery they could get their hands on. As adults, the brothers worked together to invent, build, and fly the world’s first successful airplane. This is the fascinating story of the two ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Spontaneous Evolution

    Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here

    We’ve all heard stories of people who’ve experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from illness, but can the same thing happen for our world? According to pioneering biologist Bruce H. Lipton, it’s not only possible, it’s already occurring.In Spontaneous Evolution, this world-renowned expert in the emerging science of epigenetics reveals how our changing understanding of biology will help us ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Billions & Billions

    Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

    par Carl Sagan ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us.These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Meaning of Human Existence

    New York Times BestsellerFinalist for the National Book Award (Nonfiction)How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?"In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Atlantic Fever

    Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic

    par Joe Jackson ...
    "A soaring account of the first flight across the Atlantic . . . Lindbergh's flight still astonishes . . . Suspenseful." — The Cleveland Plain DealerFor five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.Joe Jackson's ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated Third Edition

    The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late

    While everything appears to be collapsing around us – ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars – we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s feature documentary movie The Eleventh Hour and soon to be released HBO special Ice ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Ascent of Humanity

    Civilization and the Human Sense of Self

    Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as ... En savoir plus

    $27.19 CAD