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  • What Would Nature Do?

    A Guide for Our Uncertain Times

    par Ruth DeFries ...
    Not long ago, the future seemed predictable. Now, certainty about the course of civilization has given way to fear and doubt. Raging fires, ravaging storms, political upheavals, financial collapse, and deadly pandemics lie ahead—or are already here. The world feels less comprehensible and more dangerous, and no one, from individuals to businesses and governments, knows how to navigate the path ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Big Ratchet

    How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis

    par Ruth DeFries ...
    How an ordinary mammal manipulated nature to become technologically sophisticated city-dwellers -- and why our history points to an optimistic future in the face of environmental crisisOur species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

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    The Big Ratchet

    How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis

    par Ruth DeFries ...
    Lu par Pam Ward ...

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    7 heure 15 min

    The Big Ratchet is the story of the ratchets: the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket.Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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    Utopia for Realists

    How We Can Build the Ideal World

    par Rutger Bregman ...
    Lu par Peter Noble ...

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    Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today."A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." -- New York TimesAfter working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way -- and in some ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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    Warmth of Other Suns, The

    The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    Lu par Robin Miles ...

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    22 heure 40 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY - A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY - LOS ANGELES TIMES’S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS - AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES“A brilliant and stirring epic . . . ... En savoir plus

    $24.72 CAD

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    Land

    How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

    Lu par Simon Winchester ...

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    13 heure 46 min

    “In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”—Boston GlobeThe author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—bought, earned, or received; in Europe, Africa, North America, or the South ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    A Gentleman in Moscow

    A Novel

    par Amor Towles ...
    Lu par Nicholas Guy Smith ...

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    17 heure 52 min

    **The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers • A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” PickFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel**In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by ... En savoir plus

    $34.00 CAD

  • The Innovators

    How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

    par Walter Isaacson ...
    Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • 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

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  • The Folly of Fools

    The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

    par Robert Trivers ...
    Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive -- but deceit and self-deception carry the costs of being alienated from reality and can lead to disaster. So why does deception play such a prominent role in our everyday lives? In short, why do we deceive?In his bold ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $2.99 CAD

  • An Economist Gets Lunch

    New Rules for Everyday Foodies

    par Tyler Cowen ...
    A leading economist, “who may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman” (Wall Street Journal), illuminates the state of American food todayTyler Cowen, one of the most influential economists of the last decade, wants you to know that just about everything you’ve heard about how to get good food is wrong. Drawing on a provocative range of examples from around the globe, Cowen reveals ... En savoir plus

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  • Sex, Time, and Power

    How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

    par Leonard Shlain ...
    As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain’s provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from.Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $15.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD