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A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD – Sold Out

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A stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown from the author of Recollections of My NonexistenceWritten as a series of autobiographical...

A History of Ideas

Alpine Books

$50.50 CAD

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A collection of humanity’s most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive.    This is an unusual sort...

A History of the World Through Body Parts

Alpine Books

$34.95 CAD

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A grab bag of historic spleens, chins, and more, this is your ultimate literary dissection of body parts throughout history!From famous craniums to prominent breasts,...

A Week at the Airport

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD

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The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel spends a week at an airport in a wittily intriguing meditation on the "non-place" that he...

All Good Things

Alpine Books

$40.50 CAD

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A wondrous journey with the world-renowned art curator Stephen Ellcock.Designed to stimulate and inspire, All Good Things is an exciting, eclectic collection of over 200 images from...

All That Happiness Is

Alpine Books

$23.99 CAD – Sold Out

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Our society is obsessed with achievement. Young people are pushed toward the next test or the “best” grammar school, high school, or college they can...

Ask the Very Beasts

Marilyn Geddes

$19.95 CAD

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ASK THE VERY BEASTS: Words of Wisdom & Comfort from Unexpected Sources, is an inspired collection of magical conversations, with animals—and also some unexpected sources—that...

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

Alpine Books

$21.99 CAD

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The author of Anam Cara describes, in his unique style, rediscovering the true sources of compassion, serenity, and hope in our livesIn this eagerly awaited...

Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into the Mystery and Art of Living

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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A New York Times bestseller!"I’m not sure there’s such a thing as the cultural 'center,' nor that it’s very interesting if it exists. But left of center...

Begin Again

Alpine Books

$29.99 CAD

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In his first picture book created specifically with a wider audience in mind, Oliver Jeffers shares a history of humanity and his dreams for its...

Braiding Sweetgrass

Alpine Books

$30.95 CAD

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ANew York Times BestsellerAWashington Post BestsellerNamed a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary HubAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions...

Comfortable with Uncertainty (Chodron)

Dempsey

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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Common as Air: Revolution

Alpine Books

$31.50 CAD

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Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue...

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Alpine Books

$30.99 CAD – Sold Out

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington PostA...

Divine Might: Goddesses

Alpine Books

$23.99 CAD

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New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar. Few writers today have reshaped...

Elements

Alpine Books

$47.00 CAD

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Elements is an eclectic, evocative, and resoundingly beautiful treasury of imagery exploring depictions of the elemental forces that reveal their profound significance to ancient philosophers,...

Embers

Alpine Books

$21.95 CAD

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A beautifully packaged collection of personal reflections from one of Canada's foremost First Nations authors. 'Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties....

Enchanted Moon

Dempsey

$25.95 CAD – Sold Out

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The ultimate book of authentic lunar ceremonies, spells, mythos and science, The Enchanted Moon will transform and inspire you. The alchemy of lunar science will show you how...

Enlightenment Now

Alpine Books

$25.00 CAD

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill GatesIf you think the world...

Good Witch's Guide, The

Dempsey

$24.99 CAD – Sold Out

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From cleansing spells to hands-on healing to the spiritual use of herbs, witches know which magickal and natural remedies work best!The Good Witch’s Guide offers a...

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Alpine Books

$25.95 CAD – Sold Out

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The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means...

Jewels: A Secret History

Alpine Books

$27.00 CAD

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Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks...

Landmarks

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Underland—a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of...

Life A User's Manual: Life Advice from the Great Philosophers to Get You Through

Alpine Books

$22.99 CAD

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How should I live?What is my purpose?Can I find happiness?Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There...

Lost Words

Alpine Books

$42.00 CAD

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From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the...

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Alpine Books

$27.99 CAD

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A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their...

Man's Search For Meaning

Alpine Books

$22.00 CAD – Sold Out

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A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was...

Nature and The Human Soul

Alpine Books

$37.95 CAD

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Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals...

Orwell's Roses

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography“An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times...

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Alpine Books

$23.99 CAD – Sold Out

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . ....

Practicing Peace

Dempsey

$10.95 CAD – Sold Out

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Inspiring teachings on what each of us can do to promote peace from the inside out—now available in a pocket-sized paperback editionWith war and violence...

Psychic Spellcraft

Dempsey

$25.99 CAD

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The authors of the bestselling Wiccapedia and creators of the successful Modern-Day Witch series provide an in-depth guide to the fascinating realm of psychic and divination spellcraft.For...

Quadrivium

Alpine Books

$35.00 CAD

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The quadrivium-the classical curriculum-comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way...

Reimagining Fire: The Future of Energy

Alpine Books

$32.50 CAD

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In this book, environmentally conscious writers, poets, and artists exert their opinions about energy transition. How can we envision the future? What actual options are...

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge (SPO, Solnit)

Alpine Books

$19.00 CAD

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Mark Lynton History PrizeThrough the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the...

Sew Witchy

Dempsey

$37.50 CAD

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Enhance your witchcraft by putting needle and thread to fabric. Part sewing manual and part grimoire, this fun and easy guide turns every craft project...

Soulcraft

Alpine Books

$30.50 CAD

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Written for people in search of their true selves––in particular those on the verge of adulthood and those at a major crossroads such as divorce...

Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)

Alpine Books

$39.00 CAD

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An astronomer "who writes like a poet" (Wall Street Journal) gives a sweeping, "beautifully written" (Nature) inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history For...

Start Where You Are (Chodron)

Dempsey

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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Stephen Ellcock's Book of Textiles: The Karun Thakar Collection

Alpine Books

$40.00 CAD

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• For the first time, social-media art-curator sensation Stephen Ellcock turns his hand to textiles and fashion • Lavishly illustrated with many previously unseen images...

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeShortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch AwardA Wall Street Journal Top...

The Book of Change

Alpine Books

$41.95 CAD

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A better world is within our grasp, let art show you the way.A collection of radically beautiful and provocative images from one of the world's...

The Book of the Raven

Alpine Books

$25.99 CAD

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Corvids play an outsize role in the human imagination. We keep ravens in towers, emblazon rooks on banners, find crows in the constellations, and make...

The Call of the Red-winged Blackbird

Alpine Books

$22.00 CAD

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In this collection of essays Tim Bowling picks up the common questions, and beauties, of life and examines them closely. From questions of love and...

The Compassion Book

Dempsey

$19.95 CAD – Sold Out

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The revered Buddhist teacher and author of When Things Fall Apart presents the lojong teachings—pithy slogans for daily contemplation—and the ways in which they can enrich our lives Welcome compassion...

The Consolations of Philosophy

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers...

The Devil's Dictionary

Alpine Books

$19.95 CAD

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"Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy."In this extraordinary work of scathing satire, Ambrose Bierce provided new humorous definitions of the words that formed the lexicon...

The Essays

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works,...