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  • City of Water

    by Andrea Curtis ...
    Illustrated by Katy Dockrill ...
    Series Book 2 - ThinkCities
    The second book in the ThinkCities series explores water as a precious, finite resource, tracing its journey from source, through the city, and back again.Living in cities where water flows effortlessly from our taps and fountains, it’s easy to take it for granted. City of Water, the second book in the ThinkCities series, shines a light on the water system that is vital for our health and well ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City of Neighbors

    by Andrea Curtis ...
    Illustrated by Katy Dockrill ...
    Series Book 4 - ThinkCities
    A splash of paint, a place to sit, a popup park or playground bring life and a sense of fun to our cities.Neighborhoods where people look out for each other, eat together, make art and build community are healthier, happier, greener and cleaner. Journey around the world to discover how people have been dreaming up new ways to ensure their cities and neighbourhoods are creative, inclusive and ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Water

    by Andrea Curtis ...
    Seventeen-year-old Christina McBurney has led a sheltered life. But when her twin brother, Jonathan, dies of consumption, Christina, unwilling to be farmed out as a nursemaid or teacher, runs away from home and her destiny. In Owen Sound she boards the Asia, a steamship that transports passengers and freight throughout the Great Lakes. She doesn't really have a plan other than to get to Sault Ste. ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story and Science of Hope

    by Andrea Curtis ...
    Illustrated by Ana Suárez ...
    Hope is more than a feeling — it can change the world! Discover how new science and ancient knowledge can help us face an uncertain world.All over the world, kids are struggling with grief, anxiety and fear about the climate crisis, war, and a future that seems out of their control. Sometimes it’s hard to have hope – but hope may be the one thing that can change the world! Modern researchers – ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Into the Blue

    by Andrea Curtis ...
    Award-winning journalist Andrea Curtis explores the shadows cast over her family by a century-old shipwreck and uncovers the tragedy, disaster and promise of early life on the Great Lakes.Every family has a story, passed down through generations. For Andrea Curtis that story is the wreck of the SS J.H. Jones. In 1906, the late-November swells of Georgian Bay erupt into a blinding storm, sinking ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Eat This!

    How Fast Food Marketing Gets You to Buy Junk (And How to Fight Back)

    by Andrea Curtis ...
    Illustrated by Peggy Collins ...
    A provocative follow-up to the bestselling What's for Lunch?, Eat This! zooms in on fast food marketing to children — an immense industry worth billions of dollars. Andrea Curtis shows how fast food companies push their unhealthy food and beverages by embedding their sales pitches in everything from Snapchat filters to movies, from videogames to school curriculum. An exploration of media literacy ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • City Streets Are for People

    by Andrea Curtis ...
    Illustrated by Emma FitzGerald ...
    Series Book 3 - ThinkCities
    Congested city streets are noisy and thick with cars and trucks, while pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed to the dangerous edges—but does it have to be this way?Imagine a city where we aren’t stuck in cars, where clean air makes it easier to breathe, and where transit is easy to access—and on time. Imagine a city where streets are for people!This fun, accessible and ultimately hopeful book ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Barnaby

    by Andrea Curtis ...
    Illustrated by Kass Reich ...
    A vain blue budgie flies the coop only to find that there's no place like homeBarnaby is a blue budgie who’s got it all: a golden cage, bells to jingle-jangle, and an owner who gives him all the snacks and attention he wants. Until his owner brings home a “friend” for Barnaby: a little yellow canary.Barnaby is not happy. When his tantrums don’t convince his owner to get rid of the canary, Barnaby ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport

    Sexual assault by and against athletes is a pervasive and long-standing problem in Canada, but reports are commonly minimized, doubted, and dismissed by sport administrators, police, and judges. Through a detailed examination of over 300 cases appearing in news media and legal files across Canada from 1990 to 2020, Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport uncovers an enduring institutional tolerance of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Loop de Loop

    Circular Solutions for a Waste-Free World

    by Andrea Curtis ...
    Illustrated by Roozeboos ...
    Get loopy with this playful introduction to the hopeful, transformative possibilities of circular systems!Nature works on a cycle, where everything in the loop has value and nothing is wasted. But modern humans have created a different kind of system: it’s less like a circle and more like a line. We take, make, use and then, when those things break or we’re finished with them, we toss them away ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Forest in the City

    by Andrea Curtis ...
    Illustrated by Pierre Pratt ...
    Series Book 1 - ThinkCities
    This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest and dives into the question of how we can live in harmony with city trees.“Imagine a city draped in a blanket of green … Is this the city you know?”A Forest in the City looks at the urban forest, starting with a bird’s-eye view of the tree canopy, then swooping down to street level, digging deep into the ground, then moving up ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Simulation and Wargaming

    Understanding the potential synergies between computer simulation and wargamingBased on the insights of experts in both domains, Simulation and Wargaming comprehensively explores the intersection between computer simulation and wargaming. This book shows how the practice of wargaming can be augmented and provide more detail-oriented insights using computer simulation, particularly as the ... Read more

    $155.99 CAD