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  • Darwin's Sacred Cause

    Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

    by Adrian Desmond, James Moore ...
    In this remarkable book Adrian Desmond and James Moore, world authorities on Darwin, give a completely new explanation of how Darwin came to his famous view of evolution, which traced all life to an ancient common ancestor. Darwin was committed to the abolition of slavery, in part because of his family's deeply held beliefs. It was his 'Sacred Cause' and at its core lay a belief in human racial ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Charles Darwin

    by Adrian Desmond, James Moore, Janet Browne ...
    Series series Very Interesting People
    Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Reign of the Beast

    The Atheist World of W. D. Saull and his Museum of Evolution

    by Adrian Desmond ...
    In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man's institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ‘Devil's Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robert Owen, Saull ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Bottled Spirits & Other Dark Tales

    by Adrian Ludens ...
    Narrated by Desmond Manny ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    Thirteen newly collected encounters with darkness from Adrian Ludens, the author of the collections Ant Farm Necropolis and Cobwebs: Tales of Dread and Disquiet.Margo lives in a society where people remove organs and amputate limbs to celebrate growing older. Her world is shattered when her new boyfriend makes a shocking request in "Reduced to Tears."The trickster god Iktomi helps, hinders, and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Impossible Monsters

    Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

    by Michael Taylor ...
    “Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country’s southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Dictionary People

    The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

    by Sarah Ogilvie ...
    A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST • The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word.“Enthralling and exuberant, Sarah Ogilvie tells the surprising story of the making of the OED. Philologists, fantasists, crackpots, criminals, career ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • 12 Books That Changed The World

    How words and wisdom have shaped our lives

    by Melvyn Bragg ...
    When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or in the palaces of power, or even in the violence of nature, but between the pages of a book.In our digitised age of instant information it is ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • Stop, Thief!

    The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance

    by Peter Linebaugh ...
    Series series Spectre
    In this majestic tour de force, celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops. Scarcely a society has existed on the face of the earth that has not had commoning at its heart. “Neither the state nor the market,” say the planetary commoners. These essays kindle ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Man and the Natural World

    Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800

    by Sir Keith Thomas ...
    'Man and the Natural World, an encyclopaedic study of man's relationship to animals and plants, is completely engrossing ... It explains everything - why we eat what we do, why we plant this and not that, why we keep pets, why we like some animals and not others, why we kill the things we kill and love the things we love ... It is often a funny book and one to read again and again' Paul Theroux, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Enlightenment

    Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

    by Roy Porter ...
    For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Work of the Dead

    A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

    by Thomas W. Laqueur ...
    The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth centuryThe Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Georgians

    The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

    by Penelope J. Corfield ...
    A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes todayThe Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD