21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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In Sapiens, he explored our past; in Homo Deus he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present...
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A Thousand Small Sanities
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A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author.Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism,...
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Age of Wonder
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A decade in the making, pre-eminent biographer Richard Holmes presents this marvellously original look of the early scientific movement in Britain at a time when...
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At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York
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From the beloved Canadian New Yorker writer comes a vivid memoir to stand alongside his bestselling Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate, capturing the energy, ambition and...
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Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
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WINNER OF THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE • "Readers might well wonder if Jonathan Swift at his edgiest has been at work."—RBC Taylor Prize Jury...
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Conrad Kain: Letters From a Wandering Mountain Guide
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Conrad Kain is a titan amongst climbers in Canada and is well-known in mountaineering circles all over the world. His letters to Amelie Malek—a life-long...
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Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business
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Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History is an easily accessible and comprehensive summary of current studies on the Canadian ranching...
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Dam Busters: Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid Against Nazi Germany
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National BestsellerForeword by Peter Mansbridge“Barris tells the jaw-dropping story of a night that changed the war.” —The Globe and Mail It was a night that changed...
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
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In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie travelled the 1,125 miles of the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest...
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the...
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.In...
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Epic Wanderer
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Popular historian D’Arcy Jenish recreates the adventure and sacrifice of mapmaker David Thompson’s fascinating life in the wilderness of North America.Epic Wanderer, the first full-length...
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Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure
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The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and...
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons we're Wrong About the World
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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...
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Hell Burned Through | David Mould: The Art and Story of a Lancaster Rear Gunner
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'Hell Burned Through is a view of Royal Canadian Air Force Flight Sergeant Mould's service as a rear gunner on a Lancaster Bomber. Is is...
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Horse Woman
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Lee McLean was born to ride ... and to write. In these pages, you will enter the world of a master horsewoman and ride with...
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How to Lose a Country
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’This is essential’ Margaret Atwood‘She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts of the furtive growth of fascism. Everyone should know about this’ Philip...
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
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THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO® DOCUMENTARY SERIES#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate | Buzzfeed | Jezebel | Philadelphia...
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
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A classic account of exploration and endurance from the bestselling author of The Wayfinders. In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a...
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John McCrae: Beyond Flanders Fields
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A surprising and intimate biography of the complex healer/soldier. Softcover.
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—our proprietary relationship with the land—through human history, how it has shaped us and...
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Map That Changed the World
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From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who...
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Memoirs of a Wildcat
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Mary Tidlund was never able to blend in, so she embraced standing out. Labelled “unadoptable” because of the colour of her skin, the odds seemed...
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Morrison: The Long-lost Memoir of Canada's Artillery Commander in the Great War
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The never-before-published memoir of Major-General Sir Edward Morrison, a true Canadian hero of the First World War. The First World War marked a turning point...
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Never Cry Wolf
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"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be--the mythologized epitome of a...
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On The Road: The Original Scroll
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The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed itIN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first...
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Paris to the Moon
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The finest book on France in recent years.”—Alain de Botton, The New York Times Book Review In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and...
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Phantom Atlas
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Discover the mysteries within ancient maps - Where exploration and mythology meetThis richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range...
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Recollections of My Nonexistence
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In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender...
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Salt Path
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Bring nature into your home with the uplifting true story of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of salvation across the...
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Surfacing
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“[Kathleen Jamie’s] essays guide you softly along coastlines of varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until the narrator stumbles over — not a...
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The Age of Creativity
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A moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for late-stage creativity from Emily Urquhart, the bestselling author of Beyond the Pale:...
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The Comeback
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Now in paperback, Canada's leading public intellectual's powerful entry into the national discourse on Aboriginal rights and the renaissance of Canada Historic moments are always uncomfortable,...
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The Great Escape - The Untold Story
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2014 Libris Award — Joint Winner, Non-Fiction Book of the YearGlobe and Mail BestsellerToronto Star BestsellerA unique retelling of WWII’s most dramatic escape, told through first-hand recollections...
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The Hanging of Angelique
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Writer, historian and poet Afua Cooper tells the astonishing story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large...
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The Last Viking
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"An intensely researched, thoroughly enjoyable life of one of history's best explorers...A superb biography of a fiercely driven explorer who traveled across the last inaccessible...
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The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
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Finalist for the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA Library Journal Best Science & Technology Book of 2020A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 20202020 Goodreads Choice Award...
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The Perfectionists
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The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to...
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The Spy and the Traitor
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The celebrated author of A Spy Among Friends and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Cold War-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose...
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The Stranger in the Woods
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A National Geographic Best Book of the Year National BestsellerMany people dream of escaping modern life. Most will never act on it—but in 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight did...
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Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York
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Following Adam Gopnik’s best-selling Paris to the Moon, the adventure continues against the panorama of another storied city.Autumn, 2000: the Gopnik family moves back to a...
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Two Trees Make a Forest
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WINNER of the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction PrizeOne of The Globe and Mail’s “100 favourite books of 2020”On CBC’s list of “the best Canadian nonfiction of 2020”An...
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