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  • Seven Modern Plagues

    and How We Are Causing Them

    Epidemiologists are braced for the big one: the strain of flu that rivals the pandemic of 1918-1919, which killed at least 20 million people worldwide. In recent years, we have experienced scares with a host of new influenza viruses: bird flu, swine flu, Spanish flu, Hong Kong flu, H5N1, and most recently, H5N7. While these diseases appear to emerge from thin air, in fact, human activity is ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $34.09 CAD Maintenant $2.73 CAD

  • Florida Scrub-Jay

    Field Notes on a Vanishing Bird

    Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy AwardA portrait of a species on the brinkThe only bird species that lives exclusively in Florida, the Florida scrub-jay was once common across the peninsula. But as development over the last 100 years reduced the habitat on which the bird depends from 39 counties to three, the species became endangered. With a writer’s eye and an explorer’s spirit, Mark ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Seeking the Sacred Raven

    Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island

    Will the 'Alala ever return to the wild? A bird sacred to Hawaiians and a member of the raven family, the 'Alala today survives only in captivity. How the species once flourished, how it has been driven to near-extinction, and how people struggled to save it, is the gripping story of Seeking the Sacred Raven.For years, author Mark Jerome Walters has tracked the sacred bird's role in Hawaiian ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them

    Collections series Shearwater
    West Nile Virus—Mad Cow Disease—HIV/AIDS—Hantavirus—Lyme Disease ... and a new strain of Salmonella. Such modern epidemics have emerged over the past few decades as mysterious, yet significant risks to human health. These "plagues" are forcing us to modify our lifestyles in ways that minimize our chances of becoming a statistic in the latest tally of the afflicted.In Six Modern Plagues, Mark ... En savoir plus

    $36.29 CAD

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  • Transported

    The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams

    **A Wall Street Journal Best Book To ReadA song comes on—and suddenly, you’re somewhere else.**Reliving past heartbreak. Picturing a serene future. Imagining a fantastical scene. Across genres, music has an uncanny ability to carry us into distinct inner worlds.In Transported, acclaimed music cognition researcher Elizabeth Margulis explores the phenomenon of musical daydreams—the vivid, ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Almighty Dollar

    500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money

    par Brendan Greeley ...
    In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations who have surrendered to it.“Eye-opening, educational, exhaustively reported, and very fun to read.”—Foreign PolicyAmerica’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Power of Life

    The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

    par Jessica Riskin ...
    **A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026“A truly remarkable achievement.” —Jill Lepore“A gorgeous story of human nature and animal behavior—and of the way science itself evolves.” —Dava SobelThe tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history of an idea that changed the world**In the early nineteenth century, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the first ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Warhead

    The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern Warfare

    **An Apple Best Book of the MonthFrom award-winning journalist and coauthor of The 15:17 to Paris, an affecting human history of the first self-steering bomb**Paveway, the first "smart" bomb, was created to be a more precise and ostensibly humane weapon, reducing civilian casualties. The true impact of the bomb, however, is ever more complex and unpredictable.In The Warhead, Jeffrey Stern tells ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Well-Connected Animal

    Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies

    "Combines accessible prose with solid science."— Wall Street Journal • " Demonstrates that whatever creature you are—from a giraffe to a Tasmanian devil—life is all about who you know."— New Scientist • "Fascinating. . . . Easily the most intriguing, thorough explanation of animal behavior ever produced."— Library Journal (starred review) • "This book makes a fitting companion to Ed Yong's An ... En savoir plus

    $25.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • All We Say

    The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches

    par Ben Rhodes ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestselling author and one of President Barack Obama’s former speechwriters.“At a time of moral and political drift, Ben Rhodes reminds us what American greatness actually sounds ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Plastic Inc.

    The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil's Biggest Bet

    par Beth Gardiner ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceAn extraordinary exposé of the industry flooding our world with plastic—and now ramping up to make more than ever“A compelling true-crime story.” —Zoë Schlanger, The New York Times Book Review“Deeply researched, sharply written, and totally compelling.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the The Sixth Extinction“It is impossible not to compare Beth Gardiner ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Idea Machine

    How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future

    par Joel J. Miller ...
    Books are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones— they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller shows that books are one of the most important but overlooked factors in the making of our contemporary world. And they still have lessons to teach us.Polls indicate reading is on the decline, but as we ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD