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  • The Envoy

    by Edward Wilson ...
    "The Envoy", Edward Wilson's second novel, will prove familiar territory for fans on "A River in May". The setting is 1950s London, at the height of the Cold War. Kit Fournier is ostensibly a senior diplomat at the US embassy in Grosvenor Square who is also CIA Chief of Station. With the arms race looming large Kit goes undercover to meet with his KGB counterpart to pass on secret information ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Kodiak Island

    by Edward W. Wilson ...
    Emotionally bankrupt, and financially strapped, psychologist Ethan McLaren returns home to Kodiak after 3 devastating year in southern California. Hoping to recover in quiet solitude. Instead, he is drawn into the murder case of a minister he met on the ferry crossing from Homer when 73 year old, former Island madam, Mz. Martha Marie dragoons him into investigating. Accompanied by his loyal dog ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Meaning of Human Existence

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    New York Times BestsellerFinalist for the National Book Award (Nonfiction)How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?"In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Farewell Dinner for a Spy

    A Telegraph Crime Thriller of the Year

    by Edward Wilson ...
    Series Book 8 - William Catesby
    "A compelling slice of mid-century espionage that expertly blends history with possibility. All comparisons that will inevitably be made with le Carré are entirely apt" Tim Glister'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent1949: William Catesby returns to London in disgrace, accused of murdering a 'double-dipper' the Americans believed to be one of their ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Darkling Spy

    by Edward Wilson ...
    A spy thriller that will change your view of the Cold War forever, by a former special forces officer and 'the thinking person's John le Carre'**'The thinking person's John le Carré' Tribune'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent**'More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A Teacher On the Yukon - The Rampart Alaska Letters 1972-1977

    by Edward W. Wilson ...
    In 1972 I moved from the Arctic Whaling village of Pt. Hope (Tigara) to the dying gold mining town of Rampart (population 55) to resurrect the K-12 one-room school serving the town's 13 school age children. Over 5 years I restored the building and grounds, wrestled control over the town from the trading post owner who run it for 40 years, and restored a degree of safety to the residents and the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Letters to a Young Scientist

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation.Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man

    by Edward Wilson ...
    A thrilling spy novel by a former special forces officer who is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carr****é'**'The thinking person's John le Carré' Tribune'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent'More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers' Publishers ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Genesis

    The Deep Origin of Societies

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    “The book bursts to life with [Wilson’s] observations of nature, from fire ants and social spiders to starlings.”—Aarathi Prasad, New York Times Book ReviewAn “endlessly fascinating” (Michael Ruse) work of scientific thought and synthesis, Genesis is Edward O. Wilson’s twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Midnight Swimmer

    by Edward Wilson ...
    October, 1962. If the Cuban gamble goes wrong and war breaks out, Britain will no longer exist. London dispatches a secret envoy to defuse the confrontation. Spawned in the bleak poverty of an East Anglian fishing port, Catesby is a spy with a big anti-establishment chip on his shoulder. He loves his country, but despises the class who run it. Loathed by the Americans and trusted by the Russians, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Social Conquest of Earth

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the famous ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Whitehall Mandarin

    by Edward Wilson ...
    A captivating spy thriller taking the reader from 60s sex scandals to the Vietnam War, by a former special forces officer w****ho is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre'**'The thinking person's John le Carré' Tribune'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent'More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook