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  • Audiobook

    Alien Encounter

    A Scientific Novel

    Narrated by Eddie Lopez ...
    Series series The Science and Fiction Series

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    It has been nearly one hundred years since the Apollo moon landings, when Jack and Vladimir, two astronauts on a mission to Venus, discover a mysterious void related to indigenous life on the planet. Subsequently more voids are detected on Earth, Mars, Titan, and, quite ominously, inside a planetoid emerging from the Kuiper belt.Jack is sent to investigate the voids in the Solar System and ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD

  • We Are Not Alone

    Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life

    **Life on Mars exists but we are too timid to accept the factsLife on Mars exists but are we brave enough to accept the facts?Extraterrestrial life exists and there’s evidence to prove it**The question ‘are we alone?’ has haunted the human race for centuries. In this compelling and controversial work, Dirk Schulze-Makuch and David Darling argue that we already know the answer: no. Abundant ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Life in the Universe

    Expectations and Constraints

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This class-tested textbook examines the basic elements of living systems: energy, chemistry, solvents, and habitats in crucial depth. These elements define the opportunities and limitations for life on other worlds. The book argues that life forms we would recognize may be more common in our solar system than many assume. It also considers, however, the possibility of exotic forms of life based on ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Alien Encounter

    A Scientific Novel

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    It has been nearly 100 years since the Apollo moon landings, when Jack and Vladimir, two astronauts on a mission to Venus, discover a mysterious void related to indigenous life on the planet. Subsequently more voids are detected on Earth, Mars, Titan, and, quite ominously, inside a planetoid emerging from the Kuiper belt.Jack is sent to investigate the voids in the Solar System and intercept the ... Read more

    $25.69 CAD

  • Real Writing

    Modernizing the Old School Essay

    High-school writing prompts often ask students to provide overly simplified responses to complicated issues, but a person’s stance in the real world can rarely, if ever, be reduced to “agree or disagree.” Arguments are complex, with more than two points of view and a range of evidence to consider; however, writing classes don’t always embrace that complexity. Real Writing: Modernizing the Old ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

  • The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia

    by David Darling ...
    The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia is an A-to-Z of the search for life in the Universe. Entries cover astrobiology, the origins and evolution of life, the hunt for exoplanets, SETI, and extraterrestrial life in science fiction, philosophy, and popular speculation (including UFOs). The book is written in an engaging style for the layperson and contains numerous B&W illustrations. ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • International Handbook of Health Literacy

    Research, Practice and Policy across the Life-Span

    by Christina Wieczorek, Josefine Wangdahl, Gillian Rowlands, Diana Sahrai, Tetine Sentell, Connie Arnold, James Davis, Opal Vanessa Buchthal, Elizabeth McFarlane, Phillip Massey, Jennifer Manganello0, Terry Davis1, Ruth Pitt2, Uwe H. Bittlingmayer3, Barbara K Kondilis4, Melanie Messer5, Evelyn McElhinney6, Vanessa Rawlings7, Emma Bond8, Ullrich Bauer9, Paulo Pinheiro1, Leena Paakkari3, Olli Paakkari4, Carla White5, Susan Reid6, Robert Vann (R.V) Rikard7, Julie McKinney8, Sarity Dodson9, Emma Fitzsimon0, Anita Trezona1, Marlene Sator2, Christina Dietscher3, Peter Nowak4, Lorie Donelle5, Linda Shohet6, Irving Rootman7, Sandra Vamos8, Andrew Pearson9, Phyllis Easton0, Blythe Robertson1, Graham Kramer2, Jany Rademakers3, Monique Heijmans4, Iris van der Heide5, Maricel G Santos6, Phil Michael Rehder7, Stefanie Harsch8, Dirk Bruland9, Patricia Wahl0, Kathrin Schulze1, Anne Konring Larsen2, Marie Birk Jørgensen3, Theckla Kwangsa Mbunwe4, Kenneth Yongabi Anchang5, Sarah Marshall6, Suzanne McCarthy7, Laura J Sahm8, Catina O’Leary9, Richard Carmona0, Caitlin Maish1, Kristen Haven Griffin2, Alyssia Rossetto3, Kathryn Cairns4, Isabella Bertschi5, Deborah L Begoray6, E. Anne Marshall7, Marlies Casteleijn8, Paola Ardiles9, Eva Maria Bitzer0, Thomas Mößle1, Anja Stiller2, Lea Kuntz3, Simone Flaig4, Bronwyn McGill5, Hanna Schwendemann6, Paula Bleckmann7, Don Nutbeam8, Diane Levin-Zamir9, Luis Saboga-Nunes1, Joanne Protheroe2, Jane Wills3, Susie Sykes4, Eva-Maria Berens5, Doris Schaeffer6, Dominique Vogt7, Nicola Diviani8, Sarah Mantwill9, Stephan van den Broucke0, Kristin Ganahl1, Jürgen M Pelikan2, Susanne Jordan3, Olga Domanska4, Christiane Firnges5, Torsten Michael Bollweg6, Andrew Pleasant7, Anthony Francis Jorm8, Graca S Carvalho9, Janine Broder00 ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for ... Read more

    $82.39 CAD

  • Megacatastrophes!

    Nine Strange Ways the World Could End

    Acerbic dark humour meets hardcore science in this mind-boggling exploration of the nine worst ways the world could endDiscover the mind-boggling science of the coming apocalypse!'Curiously pleasurable… this will help you get your everyday problems into perspective.' IndependentWhich will get us first? The supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park? An asteroid hurtling thro... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Cosmic Zoo

    Complex Life on Many Worlds

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Are humans a galactic oddity, or will complex life with human abilities develop on planets with environments that remain habitable for long enough? In a clear, jargon-free style, two leading researchers in the burgeoning field of astrobiology critically examine the major evolutionary steps that led us from the distant origins of life to the technologically advanced species we are today.Are the key ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD

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    Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

    by Stephen Webb ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own. The sheer enormity of the numbers almost demands that we accept the truth of this hypothesis. Why, then, have we ... Read more

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  • Religions and Extraterrestrial Life

    How Will We Deal With It?

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In the twenty-first century, the debate about life on other worlds is quickly changing from the realm of speculation to the domain of hard science. Within a few years, as a consequence of the rapid discovery by astronomers of planets around other stars, astronomers very likely will have discovered clear evidence of life beyond the Earth. Such a discovery of extraterrestrial life will change ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of the Seven Spheres

    How Homo sapiens will Conquer Space

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In this book, Giovanni Bignami, the outstanding Italian scientist and astronomer, takes the reader on a journey through the “seven spheres”, from our own planet to neighboring stars. The author offers a gripping account of the evolution of Homo Sapiens to the stage where our species is developing capabilities, in the form of new energy propulsion systems, that will enable us to conquer space. The ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD