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  • Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics

    Edited by George Amato, Rob DeSalle, Oliver Ryder, Howard Rosenbaum ...
    Series series American Museum of Natural History, Center for Biodiversity Conservation, Series on Biodiversity
    Genome sequencing enables scientists to study genes over time and to test the genetic variability of any form of life, from bacteria to mammals. Thanks to advances in molecular genetics, scientists can now determine an animal's degree of inbreeding or compare genetic variation of a captive species to wild or natural populations. Mapping an organism's genetic makeup recasts such terms as ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

  • Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity

    A Translation of Choricius of Gaza's Preliminary Talks and Declamations

    by Choricius ...
    The first translation, produced by a team of eight scholars, of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. Declamations, deliberative or judicial orations on fictitious themes, were the fundamental advanced exercises of the rhetorical schools of the Roman Empire, of interest also to audiences outside the schools. Some of Choricius' declamations are on ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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    Trilby

    by George Du Maurier ...
    Narrated by Bianca Amato ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 22 min

    Trilby opens in the Latin Quarter of Paris where Trilby O'Ferrall works as an artist's model. Her grace and ingenuous charm make a poignant contrast to the cruel magnetism of Svengali, under whose spell she falls. Using hypnotic powers, Svengali shapes her into a virtuoso singer, the toast of Europe, but her golden voice, and even her life, become fatally tied to him. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Dominican Experiment

    A Teacher and His Students Explore a Garbage Dump, a Sweatshop, and Vodou

    by Michael D’Amato ...
    The Dominican Republic is the most visited country in the Caribbean and, according to CNN, the second-happiest place on the planet. However, most of its workers make less than fifteen dollars a day, it has around two million stateless people, and 70 percent of its schools do not offer students safe drinking water.The island is certainly a fascinating place for students to research, so why not take ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    The Way of All Flesh

    by Samuel Butler ...
    Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 23 min

    This brilliant satirical novel traces the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex, a young man who survives the baleful influence of a hateful, hypocritical father, a doting mother, and a debauched wife to emerge as a decent, happy human being. A fascinating character study, it is also a stinging satire of the Victorian gentry's pomposity, sentimentality, pseudo-respectability, and refined cruelty—one ... Read more

    $39.15 CAD

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  • Behave

    The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

    by Robert M. Sapolsky ...
    New York Times bestseller • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year“It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” —David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal"It has my vote for science book of the year.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times<stron... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Master Of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale (Mobi Classics)

    by Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is a book by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing upon the conflict of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.The novel is presented as the memoir of one Ephraim Mackellar, steward of the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland. The novel opens in 1745, the year of the Jacobite Rising. When Bonnie ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mythology (75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition)

    Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

    by Edith Hamilton, Jim Tierney ...
    This deluxe edition of the world's most beloved, bestselling classic on Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology is stunningly illustrated with specially commissioned full-color plates and a beautiful gold-bordered pages.Since its original publication in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller. For nearly 80 years, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Bicycling Cuba: 50 Days of Detailed Rides from Havana to El Oriente

    50 Days of Detailed Rides from Havana to El Oriente

    by Wally Smith, Barbara Smith ...
    Discover all Cuba has to offer in this complete cycling guide.Wally and Barbara Smith spent months cycling 8,000 miles in Cuba to provide detailed directions for 50 days of cycling. The rides vary in length, many combining to create multi-day loops. Detailed directions describe rides leaving Havana to the west and east. Subsequent rides are clustered in the three best regions of Cuba for cycling: ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Great Dialogues of Plato

    by Plato ...
    Translated by W. H. D. Rouse ...
    Written in the form of debates, Great Dialogues of Plato comprises the most influential body of philosophy of the Western world—covering every subject from art and beauty to virtue and the nature of love. ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Nothing but the Truth

    Selected Dispatches

    by Anna Politkovskaya ...
    Translated by Dr Arch Tait ...
    From the author of the internationally acclaimed Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary.Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta, winning international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars and, more generally, on Russian politics and state corruption. Nothing But the Truth is a definitive collection of Anna Politkovskaya's best writings: ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

    The Long Reach of the Gene

    by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett ...
    Series series Oxford Landmark Science
    By the best selling author of The Selfish Gene 'This entertaining and thought-provoking book is an excellent illustration of why the study of evolution is in such an exciting ferment these days.' Science 'The Extended Phenotype is a sequel to The Selfish Gene . . . he writes so clearly it could be understood by anyone prepared to make the effort' John Maynard Smith, London Review of Books 'Dawkins ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD