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  • Tasty

    The Art and Science of What We Eat

    par John McQuaid ...
    “A fascinating blend of culinary history and the science of taste” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), from the first bite taken by our ancestors to ongoing scientific advances in taste and today’s “foodie” revolution.Can’t resist the creamy smoothness of butter? Blame Darwinian natural selection. Crave the immediate zing of sweets? They bathe your brain in a seductive high. Enjoy the savory ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Path of Destruction

    The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms

    At 5:02 A.M. on August 29, 2005, Power Went Out in the Superdome. Not long after, wind ripped giant white rubber sheets off the roof and sent huge shards of debris flying toward Uptown. Rivulets of rainwater began finding their way down through the ceiling, dripping and pouring into the stands, the mezzanine, and the football field. Without ventilation, the air began to get gamy with the smell of ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • City Adrift

    New Orleans Before and After Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina was a stunning example of complete civic breakdown. Beginning on August 29, 2005, the world watched in horror as—despite all the warnings and studies—every system that might have protected New Orleans failed. Levees and canals buckled, pouring more than 100 billion gallons of floodwater into the city. Botched communications crippled rescue operations. Buses that might have ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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    Tasty

    The Art and Science of What We Eat

    par John McQuaid ...
    Lu par Tom Perkins ...

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    8 heure 19 min

    Taste has long been considered the most basic of the five senses because its principal mission is a simple one: to discern food from everything else. Taste is a whole-body experience, and breakthroughs in genetics and microbiology are casting light not just on the experience of french fries and foie gras but the mysterious interplay of body and brain.Tasty explains the scientific research taking ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

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  • On the Noodle Road

    From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta

    par Jen Lin-Liu ...
    A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love.As a newlywed traveling in Italy, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked back in China, where she’d lived for more than a decade. Who really invented the noodle? she wondered, like ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

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    What the Dog Saw

    And Other Adventures

    Lu par Malcolm Gladwell ...

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    12 heure 46 min

    The bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker.What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    The Long Way Home

    A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

    par Louise Penny ...
    Lu par Ralph Cosham ...
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    12 heure 4 min

    Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole."While ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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    The Goldfinch

    A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

    par Donna Tartt ...
    Lu par David Pittu ...

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    32 heure 26 min

    A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

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    Kingdom of the Blind

    A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

    par Louise Penny ...
    Lu par Robert Bathurst ...
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    12 heure 20 min

    ****Winner of the 2020 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator**"[Narrator Robert Bathurst] engages us completely...If you haven't listened to this series, start at once. You'll love your stay in Three Pines." — AudioFile Magazine on A Great ReckoningKingdom of the Blind, the new Chief Inspector Gamache audiobook from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.**When a peculiar letter arrives inviting ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Eurasian Miracle

    par Jack Goody ...
    The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression from Antiquity through Feudalism to Capitalism which could not have taken place elsewhere. Today there are many who still believe that this progression was part of a European miracle that ... En savoir plus

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    Factfulness

    Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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    For fans of Freakonomics and Thinking, Fast and Slow, here is a book by Hans Rosling, the scientist called "a true inspiration" by Bill Gates, that teaches us how to see the world as it truly is. Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends-what percentage of the world's population live ... En savoir plus

    $28.84 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Sense of Style

    The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

    par Steven Pinker ...
    “Charming and erudite," from the author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now, "The wit and insight and clarity he brings . . . is what makes this book such a gem.” —Time.comWhy is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing—and why should we care? From the author of The ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD