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  • Tenkara Fishing in Dorset

    Tenkara, #1

    by John Allen ...
    Series Book 1 - Tenkara
    Tenkara fishing can be seen as a streamlined counterpart to western fly-fishing. The equipment is designed to direct focus to the actual fishing and catching of the fish, not to cause a major preoccupation with the equipment. Only a rod, tenkara line and fly are necessary for tenkara fishing (no reel is used).The appeal of tenkara is its elegant simplicity. There are also other advantages of using ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rabble-Rouser for Peace

    The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu

    by John Allen ...
    South African journalist John Allen movingly captures Desmond Tutu’s life in a commanding story that sheds light on the struggles and triumphs leading up to Tutu’s Nobel Prize for his leadership in the resistance against apartheid in South Africa.To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Tenkara - Ancient and Modern

    Tenkara, #2

    by John Allen ...
    Series Book 2 - Tenkara
    Tenkara fishing can be seen as a streamlined counterpart to western fly-fishing. The equipment is designed to direct focus to the actual fishing and catching of the fish, not to cause a major preoccupation with the equipment. Only a rod, Tenkara line and fly are necessary for Tenkara fishing (no reel is used).The appeal of Tenkara is its elegant simplicity with the advantages of using the long ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Innumeracy

    Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

    This New York Times bestseller shows how understanding probability and statistics can change your life: "Brief, witty, and full of practical applications." — Time MagazineWhy do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market

    Can a renowned mathematician successfully outwit the stock market? Not when his biggest investment is WorldCom. In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market , best-selling author John Allen Paulos employs his trademark stories, vignettes, paradoxes, and puzzles to address every thinking reader's curiosity about the market -- Is it efficient? Is it random? Is there anything to technical analysis, ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    A Numerate Life

    A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours

    Unabridged

    6 hours 46 min

    Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky "meta-memoir" raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment? Which favorite presuppositions are unfounded, which statistically biased? By conjoining two opposing mindsets--the suspension of disbelief required in storytelling and ... Read more

    Was $41.99 CAD Now $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    To Light a Fire on the Earth

    Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age

    Narrated by Adam Verner ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    As secularism gains influence and increasing numbers see religion as dull and backward, Robert Barron wants to illuminate how beautiful, intelligent, and relevant the Catholic faith is.In this compelling new book—drawn from conversations with and narrated by award-winning Vatican journalist John L. Allen Jr.—Barron, founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, proclaims in vivid language the ... Read more

    $27.42 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

    John Allen Paulos is a master at shedding mathematical lights on our everyday world:What exactly did Lani Guinier say about quotas?What is the probability of identifying a murderer through DNA testing?Which are the real risks to our health and which the phony ones?Employing the same fun-filled, user-friendly, and quirkily insightful approach that put Innumeracy on best-seller lists, Paulos now ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Opus Dei

    An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church

    The first serious journalistic investigation of the highly secretive, controversial organization Opus Dei provides unique insight about the wild rumors surrounding it and discloses its significant influence in the Vatican and on the politics of the Catholic Church.Opus Dei (literally “the work of God”) is an international association of Catholics often labeled as conservative who seek personal ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Me and the Biospheres

    A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2

    by John Allen ...
    An uplifting account of the ambitious environmental experiment, Biosphere 2, and the extraordinary life of its creator, John Allen.The 2009 Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Biography/Memoir, Me and the Biospheres is the definitive autobiography of John P. Allen, inventor of the largest laboratory for global ecology ever built and one of the most luminous minds of our time.Contained ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Cairngorm John

    A Life in Mountain Rescue: 10th Anniversary Edition

    by John Allen ...
    'A fascinating account of a man of great humility and remarkable courage.' The Daily RecordThe Cairngorm mountains in Scotland are a magnet for climbers and walkers. John Allen spent more than thirty years in the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team saving the lost and injured. Filled with stories of life and death alongside discussions of hypothermia, first aid, new technology and rescue dogs, ... Read more

    $4.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus