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10% from the sales of all books by or about Indigenous Canadians will be donated to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.
A Kind Life: Eat Plants, Buy Less, Slow Down, and Save the Planet
$22.95 CAD
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"A Kind Life takes readers on a personal journey, laying a pathway of how to live more kindly on the earth" —Keegan Kuhn, co-director of CowspiracyWhat...
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
$27.00 CAD
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“A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.” --Kathy ReichsA brilliant blend of science and crime, A TASTE FOR POISON...
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Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way
$28.50 CAD
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The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global...
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All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
$27.99 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead...
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Anatomicum
$49.99 CAD – Sold Out
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Welcome to a museum that is always open to explore. Inside these pages you’ll get a peek at the workings of the major systems of...
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Badlands: A Geography of Metaphors
$45.00 CAD
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Foreword by Ross King, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Governor General's Award. There can be few places in the world where the visual...
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Being Caribou
$24.99 CAD
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Since time immemorial, the Porcupine caribou herd has ranged the Arctic in a 2,800-mile annual trek between its winter feeding grounds inland and its summer...
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Best Places to Bird in the Prairies
$24.95 CAD
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Three local experts reveal their favorite places to watch birds in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. In Best Places to Bird in the Prairies, three of Canada’s...
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Bird Brains
$29.95 CAD
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In an original and scrupulously researched text, Candace Savage describes the life and behaviours of sixteen representative species of corvids — members of the crow...
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Birds Art Life
$22.00 CAD
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A seminal work, Birds Art Life recounts Maclear's year-long adventure of discovering inspiration in the intricacies of birds, bird-searching and bird-watching in a big city. The natural...
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Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek (Marty)
$21.00 CAD
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In describing the true events surrounding a series of frightening bear attacks in l980, a bestselling nature/adventure author explores our relationship with the great grizzly.Many...
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Braiding Sweetgrass
$29.95 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...
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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
$24.99 CAD
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A picture book adaptation of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking On the Origin of Species, lushly illustrated and told in accessible and engaging easy-to-understand text for young readers.On the...
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Cloudspotting For Beginners
$33.99 CAD – Sold Out
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A beautifully illustrated guide to clouds and the sky for inspiring and educating curious minds with meteorological wonder.Renowned journalist, public speaker, and founder of the...
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Crows
$21.95 CAD
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A treasure trove of stories, poems, and information on the brainy, black-feathered bird that’s rich in insight and humor.This revised and expanded edition of Candace...
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
$24.99 CAD
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From the bestselling author of Breath, a “fascinating, informative, exhilarating” voyage from the ocean’s surface to its darkest trenches (Wall Street Journal) New York Times Book...
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Dinosaurium: Welcome to the Museum
$49.99 CAD
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The newest title in the Welcome to the Museum series focuses its attention on the impressive beasts that once ruled the world: dinosaurs.With artwork from...
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
$24.95 CAD
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WINNER of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Washington Post “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction” Science News “Favorite Science Books of 2018” Booklist “Top Ten Science/Technology...
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Echo Loba
$32.00 CAD – Sold Out
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A unique look at the cultural, environmental, historical, literary, metaphorical, and political role of the wolf. Echo Loba, Loba Echo is a story about the metaphor...
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Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish
$23.99 CAD
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“Eels [is] more than a fish book. It is an impassioned defense of nature itself. . . . [Prosek] passes on the truth that the often...
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Eight-Legged Wonders: The Surprising Lives of Spiders
$34.95 CAD
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An encounter with a spider will never be the same again …This warm-hearted book offers fascinating science and captivating storytelling to persuade readers to fall...
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Enchanted Moon
$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...
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
$27.99 CAD
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“Merlin Sheldrake’s marvelous tour of these diverse and extraordinary life forms is eye-opening on why humans should consider fungi among the greatest of earth’s marvels. . ....
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Extraordinary Insects
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This enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we could not survive without them is “a joy” (The Times, London)...
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Fathoms: The World in the Whale
$25.99 CAD
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Winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O....
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Fen, Bog and Swamp
$24.99 CAD
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*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!**A 2022 NBCC Awards Nonfiction Finalist and a 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award...
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Fresh Banana Leaves
$23.95 CAD
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A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & TechnologyAn Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by...
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
$22.95 CAD
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What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the...
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Gathering Moss
$23.95 CAD
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Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a commonbut largely unnoticed element of the natural world. GatheringMoss is a beautifully written mix of science...
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Genius of Birds
$25.99 CAD
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An award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According...
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Goshawk Summer
$22.95 CAD
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In early 2020, wildlife cameraman James Aldred was commissioned to film the lives of a family of Goshawks in the New Forest, his childhood home. He...
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Held by the Land
$32.99 CAD
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Author Leigh Joseph, an ethnobotanist and a member of the Squamish Nation, provides a beautifully illustrated essential introduction to Indigenous plant knowledge.Plants can be a...
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High Cols & Deep Canyons
$34.99 CAD
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A memoir of a life spent in wild country, learning to understand and appreciate the magnificence of nature. This book explores the relationship between family,...
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Hope Matters
$22.95 CAD
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“This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW.” —Jane Goodall Fears about...
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How To Catch a Mole
$22.95 CAD
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In this evocative and heart-wrenching memoir, a hard-working Welsh molecatcher reveals his double life as a poet and a dreamer • “A wonderful memoir … hands down...
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How to Forage for Mushrooms Without Dying
$22.99 CAD
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With the surging interest in foraging for mushrooms, those new to the art need a reliable guide to distinguishing the safe fungi from the toxic....
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Imminent Domains
$23.00 CAD
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Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric...
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Lapidarium
$41.00 CAD
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Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this book is a beautifully designed collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our...
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Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
$24.95 CAD
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FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND BOOKLISTThe story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why...
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Message in a Bottle
$24.00 CAD
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FINALIST FOR THE 2023 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION • WINNER OF THE 2023 BMO WINTERSET AWARD • From the heart of the Labrador...
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Mushrooming
$38.95 CAD
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Foraging for wild mushrooms is an increasingly popular pursuit and this beautifully produced volume—filled with insights, anecdotes and details about more than 120 common and...
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Never Cry Wolf
$17.95 CAD
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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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Not on My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon
$22.00 CAD
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Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of...
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On Animals
$24.99 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” —The Boston GlobeSusan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer...
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Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers
$47.00 CAD
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Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA kaleidoscopic journey into the world of nature’s most tantalizing flower, and the lives it has...
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Planta Sapiens
$25.99 CAD
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Decades of research document plants’ impressive abilities: they communicate with each other, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is that...
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Practical Regeneration
$26.99 CAD
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"To begin evaluating an agricultural system, you'll need to get to the core ideas and features that actually drive the system to ensure that you...
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Quadrivium
$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...
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