The Wave
Hardcover | 352 pages | Doubleday Canada | Science; Science - Oceanography
978-0-385-66667-1 (0-385-66667-5)
September 14, 2010 | $34.95
A riveting and rollicking tour-de-force about the terrifying power of nature's most deadly phenomena — colossal waves — and the scientists and super surfers who are obsessed with them.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth probes the dramatic convergence of baffling gargantuan waves that pummel oil rigs and sink massive ships...
Hardcover | 352 pages | Doubleday Canada | Science; Science - Oceanography
978-0-385-66667-1 (0-385-66667-5)
September 14, 2010 | $34.95
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A riveting and rollicking tour-de-force about the terrifying power of nature's most deadly phenomena — colossal waves — and the scientists and super surfers who are obsessed with them.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth probes the dramatic convergence of baffling gargantuan waves that pummel oil rigs and sink massive ships...
Seeing Further
Hardcover | 416 pages | Doubleday Canada | Science; Science - Essays
978-0-385-66746-3 (0-385-66746-9)
November 2, 2010 | $32.95
From the Royal Society, a peerless collection of all-new science writing
Bill Bryson, who explored all - or at least a great deal of - current scientific knowledge in A Short History of Nearly Everything, now turns his attention to the history of that knowledge. As editor of Seeing Further, he has...
Hardcover | 416 pages | Doubleday Canada | Science; Science - Essays
978-0-385-66746-3 (0-385-66746-9)
November 2, 2010 | $32.95
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From the Royal Society, a peerless collection of all-new science writing
Bill Bryson, who explored all - or at least a great deal of - current scientific knowledge in A Short History of Nearly Everything, now turns his attention to the history of that knowledge. As editor of Seeing Further, he has...
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The Erotic Engine
Hardcover | 320 pages | Doubleday Canada | Social Science - Pornography
978-0-385-66736-4 (0-385-66736-1)
September 7, 2010 | $32.95
Pornography: The force for change that has been written out of the history of world culture.
From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. And in so doing, it has helped to promote and propel...
Hardcover | 320 pages | Doubleday Canada | Social Science - Pornography
978-0-385-66736-4 (0-385-66736-1)
September 7, 2010 | $32.95
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Pornography: The force for change that has been written out of the history of world culture.
From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. And in so doing, it has helped to promote and propel...
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Homer's Odyssey
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Bantam | Nature - Cats; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-34398-5 (0-385-34398-1)
September 7, 2010 | $17.00
ONCE IN NINE LIVES, SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENS.
The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. Then Gwen’s veterinarian called with a story about a three-week-old eyeless kitten who’d been abandoned. It was love at first...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Bantam | Nature - Cats; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-34398-5 (0-385-34398-1)
September 7, 2010 | $17.00
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ONCE IN NINE LIVES, SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENS.
The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. Then Gwen’s veterinarian called with a story about a three-week-old eyeless kitten who’d been abandoned. It was love at first...
No Impact Man
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Humor
978-0-7710-1076-7 (0-7710-1076-1)
September 7, 2010 | $19.99
The riotous story of a guilty liberal who snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, turns off his power, and becomes a bicycle nut in an effort to make zero environmental impact
Manhattanite Colin Beavan spent a year trying to live without a net environmental impact, and he dragged his baby daughter...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Humor
978-0-7710-1076-7 (0-7710-1076-1)
September 7, 2010 | $19.99
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The riotous story of a guilty liberal who snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, turns off his power, and becomes a bicycle nut in an effort to make zero environmental impact
Manhattanite Colin Beavan spent a year trying to live without a net environmental impact, and he dragged his baby daughter...
Through a Dog's Eyes
Hardcover | 240 pages | Spiegel & Grau | Pets - Dogs
978-1-4000-6888-3 (1-4000-6888-6)
August 10, 2010 | $28.95
A stirring, inspiring book with the power to change the way we understand and communicate with our dogs.
Few people are more qualified to speak about the abilities and potential of dogs than Jennifer Arnold, who for the past twenty years has trained service dogs for people with physical disabilities and special...
Hardcover | 240 pages | Spiegel & Grau | Pets - Dogs
978-1-4000-6888-3 (1-4000-6888-6)
August 10, 2010 | $28.95
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A stirring, inspiring book with the power to change the way we understand and communicate with our dogs.
Few people are more qualified to speak about the abilities and potential of dogs than Jennifer Arnold, who for the past twenty years has trained service dogs for people with physical disabilities and special...
Carrots and Sticks
Hardcover | 240 pages | Bantam | Science; Business & Economics - Consumer Behavior
978-0-553-80763-9 (0-553-80763-3)
September 21, 2010 | $30.00
Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk? Would you finally set up your billing software if it meant that your favorite charity would earn a new contribution? If you’ve ever tried to meet a goal and came up short, the problem may not have been that the goal...
Hardcover | 240 pages | Bantam | Science; Business & Economics - Consumer Behavior
978-0-553-80763-9 (0-553-80763-3)
September 21, 2010 | $30.00
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Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk? Would you finally set up your billing software if it meant that your favorite charity would earn a new contribution? If you’ve ever tried to meet a goal and came up short, the problem may not have been that the goal...
Present at the Creation
Hardcover | 288 pages | Crown | Science
978-0-307-59167-8 (0-307-59167-0)
October 5, 2010 | $29.99
The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions that existed some 13.7...
Hardcover | 288 pages | Crown | Science
978-0-307-59167-8 (0-307-59167-0)
October 5, 2010 | $29.99
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The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions that existed some 13.7...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything, Illustrated Edition
Trade Paperback | 624 pages | Anchor Canada | History
978-0-385-66355-7 (0-385-66355-2)
October 5, 2010 | $35.00
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of...
Trade Paperback | 624 pages | Anchor Canada | History
978-0-385-66355-7 (0-385-66355-2)
October 5, 2010 | $35.00
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One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of...
The Earth's Last Wilderness
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Broadway | Science - Environmental Science; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7679-3176-2 (0-7679-3176-9)
October 12, 2010 | $16.99
Adventurer turned environmentalist Robert Swan illuminates the perils facing the planet come 2041—the year when the international treaty protecting Antarctica is up for review—and the many steps that can be taken to avoid environmental calamity.
In 1985, when Robert Swan walked across Antarctica, the fragile polar environment was not high in his...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Broadway | Science - Environmental Science; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7679-3176-2 (0-7679-3176-9)
October 12, 2010 | $16.99
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Adventurer turned environmentalist Robert Swan illuminates the perils facing the planet come 2041—the year when the international treaty protecting Antarctica is up for review—and the many steps that can be taken to avoid environmental calamity.
In 1985, when Robert Swan walked across Antarctica, the fragile polar environment was not high in his...
Bad Science
Hardcover | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Science - Life Sciences; Health & Fitness - Health Care Issues; Health & Fitness
978-0-7710-3578-4 (0-7710-3578-0)
October 12, 2010 | $29.99
The informative and witty expose of the "bad science" we are all subjected to, called "one of the essential reads of the year" by New Scientist.
We are obsessed with our health. And yet — from the media's "world-expert microbiologist" with a mail-order Ph.D. in his garden shed laboratory, and via multiple...
Hardcover | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Science - Life Sciences; Health & Fitness - Health Care Issues; Health & Fitness
978-0-7710-3578-4 (0-7710-3578-0)
October 12, 2010 | $29.99
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The informative and witty expose of the "bad science" we are all subjected to, called "one of the essential reads of the year" by New Scientist.
We are obsessed with our health. And yet — from the media's "world-expert microbiologist" with a mail-order Ph.D. in his garden shed laboratory, and via multiple...
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Future Babble
Hardcover | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Psychology & Psychiatry; Psychology & Psychiatry - History; Psychology & Psychiatry - Cognitive Psychology
978-0-7710-3519-7 (0-7710-3519-5)
October 12, 2010 | $32.99
In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would have one of the fastest-growing economies in the year 2000; in 2000, the USSR did not exist. In 1911, it...
Hardcover | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Psychology & Psychiatry; Psychology & Psychiatry - History; Psychology & Psychiatry - Cognitive Psychology
978-0-7710-3519-7 (0-7710-3519-5)
October 12, 2010 | $32.99
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In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would have one of the fastest-growing economies in the year 2000; in 2000, the USSR did not exist. In 1911, it...
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eBook.
The Mind's Eye
Hardcover | 288 pages | Knopf Canada | Psychology & Psychiatry
978-0-307-39809-3 (0-307-39809-9)
October 26, 2010 | $32.00
From the author of the #1 national bestselling Musicophilia comes a truly visionary book: an exploration of the remarkable, unpredictable ways that our brains cope with the loss of sight by finding new forms of perception to create worlds as complete and rich as the no-longer-visible world.
Following the phenomenal success of...
Hardcover | 288 pages | Knopf Canada | Psychology & Psychiatry
978-0-307-39809-3 (0-307-39809-9)
October 26, 2010 | $32.00
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From the author of the #1 national bestselling Musicophilia comes a truly visionary book: an exploration of the remarkable, unpredictable ways that our brains cope with the loss of sight by finding new forms of perception to create worlds as complete and rich as the no-longer-visible world.
Following the phenomenal success of...
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eBook.
Dr. Joe's Brain Sparks
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Doubleday Canada | Science
978-0-385-66930-6 (0-385-66930-5)
November 2, 2010 | $22.99
Prepare to be amazed once again.
Did you know what when you shake a ketchup bottle you're practicing thixotropy? That the ancient Greeks made themselves look less ancient by inventing moisturizer? That the mysterious drug obecalp* is as effective as homeopathy and many herbal cures? From the bestselling author of An Apple...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Doubleday Canada | Science
978-0-385-66930-6 (0-385-66930-5)
November 2, 2010 | $22.99
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Prepare to be amazed once again.
Did you know what when you shake a ketchup bottle you're practicing thixotropy? That the ancient Greeks made themselves look less ancient by inventing moisturizer? That the mysterious drug obecalp* is as effective as homeopathy and many herbal cures? From the bestselling author of An Apple...
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Split-Second Persuasion
Hardcover | 400 pages | Doubleday Canada | Social Science - Popular Culture
978-0-385-66270-3 (0-385-66270-X)
November 2, 2010 | $32.95
It is a special kind of persuasion with an incubation period of just seconds. It is a psychological secret weapon that can instantly disarm even the most discerning mind . . .
This is the kind of high-wire psychological espionage which, in the right hands, can dismantle any conflict — but which...
Hardcover | 400 pages | Doubleday Canada | Social Science - Popular Culture
978-0-385-66270-3 (0-385-66270-X)
November 2, 2010 | $32.95
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It is a special kind of persuasion with an incubation period of just seconds. It is a psychological secret weapon that can instantly disarm even the most discerning mind . . .
This is the kind of high-wire psychological espionage which, in the right hands, can dismantle any conflict — but which...
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eBook.
Eternity Soup
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Three Rivers Press | Science
978-0-307-40791-7 (0-307-40791-8)
December 7, 2010 | $17.00
Mix the latest and most rigorous scientific research, irrepressible old-fashioned entrepreneurship, and the ancient human desire to live forever (or at least a lot longer) and the result is today’s exploding multibillion-dollar antiaging industry. Its achievements are so far mostly marginal, but its promises flow with all the allure of a...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Three Rivers Press | Science
978-0-307-40791-7 (0-307-40791-8)
December 7, 2010 | $17.00
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Mix the latest and most rigorous scientific research, irrepressible old-fashioned entrepreneurship, and the ancient human desire to live forever (or at least a lot longer) and the result is today’s exploding multibillion-dollar antiaging industry. Its achievements are so far mostly marginal, but its promises flow with all the allure of a...
Great Migrations
Hardcover | 304 pages | National Geographic | Nature - Wildlife; Science - Zoology; Photography - Nature & Wildlife
978-1-4262-0644-3 (1-4262-0644-5)
October 12, 2010 | $40.00
Hardcover | 304 pages | National Geographic | Nature - Wildlife; Science - Zoology; Photography - Nature & Wildlife
978-1-4262-0644-3 (1-4262-0644-5)
October 12, 2010 | $40.00
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At a riverbank in Africa's Serengeti, thousands of migrating wildebeest try desperately to cross as terrifying crocs feast on the galloping herds--which must attempt the river for a chance at survival. In the Falkland Islands, the albatross--king of migrations--journeys thousands of miles to nest despite the deadly cara cara, a predatory...
