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  • The Butterfly Effect

    Insects and the Making of the Modern World

    by Edward D. Melillo ...
    A fascinating, entertaining dive into the long-standing relationship between humans and insects, revealing the surprising ways we depend on these tiny, six-legged creatures.Insects might make us shudder in disgust, but they are also responsible for many of the things we take for granted in our daily lives. When we bite into a shiny apple, listen to the resonant notes of a violin, get dressed, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Butterfly Effect

    Insects and the Making of the Modern World

    by Edward D. Melillo ...
    Narrated by Kaleo Griffith ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 47 min

    A fascinating, entertaining dive into the long-standing relationship between humans and insects, revealing the surprising ways we depend on these tiny, six-legged creatures.Insects might make us shudder in disgust, but they are also responsible for many of the things we take for granted in our daily lives. When we bite into a shiny apple, listen to the resonant notes of a violin, get dressed, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Individual's Guidebook to Wills and Estates

    by Edward M. Melillo ...
    What would happen to your money if you died without a Last Will and Testament? What about your stocks, your family business, your home? What would become of your loved ones? Without a final Will, the fate of your life’s work is in the hands of the court. Dying without having legally laid out your wishes is a recipe for uncertainty, ill will, financial turmoil, and heartache.You have the power to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire

    New Views on Environmental History

    Edited by Dr James Beattie, Dr Edward Melillo, Dr Emily O'Gorman ...
    19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today's globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna and commodities around the world and led to a series of radical environmental changes never before experienced in history. Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire explores how these networks shaped ecosystems, cultures and societies ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Strangers on Familiar Soil

    Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection

    by Edward Dallam Melillo ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes with Chilean president Michelle Bachelet’s diplomatic visit to the Golden State in 2008. During the intervening centuries, new crops, foods, fertilizers ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Dark Emu

    Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

    by Bruce Pascoe ...
    History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Late Victorian Holocausts

    El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer).“ . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Niño weather patterns at that time . . . groundbreaking, mind-stretching.” —The IndependentExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • First Knowledges Country

    Future Fire, Future Farming

    by Bruce Pascoe, Bill Gammage ...
    What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Crimes Against Nature

    capitalism and global heating

    by Jeff Sparrow ...
    A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis, which argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action.Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issue of our times. It takes the familiar narrative about global warming — the one in which we are ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Quarterly Essay 9 Beautiful Lies

    Population and Environment in Australia

    by Tim Flannery ...
    Series Book 9 - Quarterly Essay
    In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold damage to our river system for the sake of white immigration. The lie that rushing to preserve ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • People of the Saltwater

    An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon

    by Charles R. Menzies ...
    A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn People of the Saltwater, Charles R. Menzies explores the history of an ancient Tsimshian community, focusing on the people and their enduring place in the modern world. The Gitxaała Nation has called the rugged north coast of British Columbia home for millennia, proudly maintaining its territory and traditional way of life.People of the Saltwater first ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines

    by Mitchell Rolls, Murray Johnson ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    The Australian Aborigines first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago. They almost certainly landed on the northwest coast by sea from the nearby islands of the Indonesian archipelago. That first arrival may have been replicated many times over. The following exploration and settlement of a vast and varied continent was a venture of heroic proportions. The new settlers had reached ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD