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  • Orca

    How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator

    by Jason M. Colby ...
    Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until now, no historical account has explained how we came to care about killer whales in the first place. Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and his own family history, Jason M. Colby ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Historical Animal

    by Jason Colby, Abraham H. Gibson, Sandra Swart, Zeb Tortorici, Lisa Cox, Concepción Cortés Zulueta, David Gary Shaw, Andria Pooley-Ebert, Noah Cincinnati, Dolly Jørgensen, Nicola Foote, Charles W. Gunnels, IV, Stephanie Zehnle, Drew Swanson, Scott A. Miltenberger, Andrew McEwen, Courtney E. White ...
    The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings with complex intelligence. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to examine our ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Business of Empire

    United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America

    by Jason M. Colby ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    "Jason M. Colby has researched and analyzed his topic―the business of empire―well. He exposes the intertwining of imperialism, expansion, racism, and corporate power. The Business of Empire is an insightful story about the interaction of U.S. overseas business and the U.S. and Central American governments. It will prove useful to scholars of U.S. imperialism, international business history, and U ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Disaster Management and Business Continuity for Animal Research Programs

    Edited by Lesley A. Colby, John N. Norton, Jason S. Villano, Lois A. Zitzow ...
    This book provides guidance on planning for, responding to, and recovering from the impacts of disasters that animal research programs may encounter, such as severe weather, catastrophic failures of facility mechanical systems, intentional or accidental damage to equipment or infrastructure, or significant personnel shortages such as those experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

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    Orca

    How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator

    by Jason M. Colby ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 24 min

    Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and his own family history, Jason M. Colby tells the exhilarating and often heartbreaking story of how people came to love the ocean's greatest predator. Historically reviled as dangerous pests, killer whales were dying by the hundreds, even thousands, by the 1950s—the victims of whalers, fishermen, and even the U.S. military. In the ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Lucky Sheet Music

    by Jason Mraz, Colbie Caillat ...
    (Piano Vocal). This sheet music features an arrangement for piano and voice with guitar chord frames, with the melody presented in the right hand of the piano part, as well as in the vocal line. ... Read more

    $4.67 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 24 No. 2, 2013

    by Jane Freeland, Peter Cook, Andrea McKenzie, Simon Devereaux, Elsbeth Heaman, Derek Murray, John Zucchi, Weiting Guo, Evgeny Efremkin, Nicole C. O’Byrne, Rebecca C. Hughes, Rosanne Waters, Jason Colby ...
    Series Book 24 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    Beginning with Columbus’ 1493 report of kings among the “Indians,” European expeditionaries regularly perceived Indigenous leaders as kings during the first century of colonialism in the Americas. English and French narratives of the sixteenth century, following the models of early Spanish and Portuguese accounts, brought to light the existence of Aboriginal monarchs throughout the Americas, from ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Killer Whale Who Changed The World, The

    by Mark Leiren-Young ...
    Narrated by Mark Leiren-Young ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them. Killer whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed when a young killer whale was captured off the west coast of North America and displayed to the public in 1964. Moby Doll, as the ... Read more

    $13.67 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Death at SeaWorld

    Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity

    by David Kirby ...
    The New York Times –bestselling author of Evidence of Harm exposes the dark side of America's most beloved marine mammal park.Death at SeaWorld centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity. Following the story of marine biologist and animal advocate at ... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Beneath the Surface

    Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish

    by John Hargrove, Howard Chua-Eoan ...
    *Now a New York Times Best Seller*Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Orca

    The Whale Called Killer

    by Erich Hoyt ...
    "Hoyt's passionate sense of kinship with orca makes his account effective as both a science and literature. He has chronicled his adventures and discoveries ...with grace, insight, wit--and a comprehensiveness that might satisfy even Herman Melville."(Discover Magazine)Star performers in aquariums and marine parks, killer whales were once considered to be too dangerous to approach in the wild. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Puget Sound Whales for Sale

    The Fight to End Orca Hunting

    by Sandra Pollard ...
    A look at the history of the commercial capturing of orcas in Washington's Puget Sound, the whales taken, and the efforts to save them.In November, 2005, Washington's iconic killer whales, known as Southern Resident orcas, were placed on the endangered species list. It was a victory long overdue for a fragile population of fewer than one hundred whales. Author and certified marine naturalist ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus