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  • Too Good To Check

    by Flynn Mercer ...
    Not just another "misattribution" retread: the series so far has moved from correct evidence that took too long (Book 1) to correct credit that landed on the wrong person (Book 2). The natural third move completes the set — incorrect beliefs that got corrected decades ago and are still repeated as fact anyway. Where Books 1 and 2 were both, in their own ways, hopeful (the truth eventually surfaces ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Load-Bearing

    by Flynn Mercer ...
    Somewhere in the ocean right now, a small, aging fleet of specialized ships is repairing the cables that carry 99% of the world's international internet traffic. Somewhere else, a content moderator is watching the worst material the internet produces, so you never have to see it. Their success is defined by invisibility — the job is done right exactly when nobody notices it happened at all.Load ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Wrong Name

    by Flynn Mercer ...
    The last book I wrote was about evidence that took too long to be believed. Partway through it, working on a chapter about a nineteenth-century cholera outbreak, I ran into a smaller story that didn't fit the book I was writing at all. An Italian anatomist named Filippo Pacini had identified the actual bacterium behind the disease in 1854 — the same year as the outbreak in question — and published ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Second Read

    by Flynn Mercer ...
    A Dutch art forger stands trial for treason — and the only way to prove his innocence is to convince the court that he's a fraud.A pathologist notices bacteria that, according to every medical textbook, cannot survive in the human stomach.A geologist watches his life's work dismissed for decades, not because he was wrong, but because the instrument that would prove him right hadn't been invented ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Loanwords

    by Flynn Mercer ...
    Every language is a compressed archive. Say "quarantine" and you're citing Venice's forty-day rule against plague ships. Say "boycott" and you're naming one Irish land agent, ostracized so completely in 1880 that his name became a verb within months.But some of the best-known word-origin stories are themselves myths. "Salary" really does come from the Latin word for salt — but no Roman soldier was ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Line

    by Flynn Mercer ...
    An unexplained five-minute wait feels longer than an explained ten-minute one. This isn't a guess — it's a documented, engineered principle, and Disney's Imagineers built an entire discipline around it: posted wait times quietly padded so the actual wait feels like a win, queue paths designed to hide their own length, entertainment placed exactly where boredom peaks.The Line takes the single most ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing

    Edited by Maria Flynn, Dave Mercer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks in Nursing
    With a brand new team of expert authors, the second edition of the central series title the Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing has been completely rewritten for today's nurse. Brought fully up to date with the latest nursing competencies and professional knowledge, it ensures you have everything you need to deliver appropriate nursing care and interventions. Designed to reflect the NMC nursing ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Survival of the Richest

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    "A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and enraging read." —Naomi KleinFive mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The subject? How to survive the "Event": the societal collapse they know is coming. Rushkoff argues that these men were under the ... Read more

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  • Being Wrong

    Adventures in the Margin of Error

    by Kathryn Schulz ...
    The bestselling history of and investigation into human error by beloved New Yorker writer Kathryn Schulz"Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it." —Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New PlanetTo err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

    by Jamie Wheal, Steven Kotler ...
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