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  • "The Stage's Glory"

    John Rich (1692–1761)

    by Berta Joncus, Jeremy Barlow, Terry Jenkins, Robert D. Hume, Judith Milhous, David Hunter, Matthew J. Kinservik, Moira Goff, Linda J. Tomko0, Jennifer Thorp1, Donald Burrows2, Olive Baldwin3, Thelma Wilson4, Vanessa L. Rogers5, Fiona Ritchie6, Felicity Nussbaum7, Ana Martínez8, Al Coppola9, Robin Simon0, Marcus Risdell1 ...
    John Rich (1692-1761) was a profoundly influential figure of the eighteenth-century London stage. As producer, manager, and performer, he transformed the urban entertainment market, creating genres and promotional methods still with us today. This volume gives the first comprehensive overview of Rich’s multifaceted career, appreciation of which has suffered from his performing identity as Lun, ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Foodborne Illness: Latest Threats and Emerging Issues, an Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics

    by David Acheson, Jennifer McEntire, Cheleste M. Thorpe ...
    Series Book Volume 27-3 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    Food Borne Illness is a common, costly, yet preventable public health problem. This issue of the Infectious Disease Clinics covers the most common food borne pathogens, along with articles that include indentifying, diagnosing, and treating food borne illness. The issue also covers food borne illness in special populations, as well as long term complications associated with food borne illness. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything

    from the Big Bang to Belly-button Fluff

    by New Scientist, Stephen Hawking, Graham Lawton ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 36 min

    DOES ANYTHING EAT WASPS meets INFORMATION IS BEAUTIFUL: A journey through life, the universe and everything.From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why your ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Why the Universe Exists

    How particle physics unlocks the secrets of everything

    by New Scientist ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert

    Unabridged

    4 hours 54 min

    Why The Universe Exists takes you deep into the world of particle physics to explore how the universe functions at the smallest scales.As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons.If the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson piqued ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    This Book Will Blow Your Mind

    Journeys at the Extremes of Science

    by New Scientist ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever end? What is time and does it even exist? These are the biggest imagination-stretching, brain-staggering questions in the universe - and here are their fascinating answers.From quantum weirdness to freaky cosmology (like white holes - which spew out matter instead of sucking it in), This Book Will Blow Your Mind takes you on an epic journey to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    The Quantum World

    The disturbing theory at the heart of reality

    by New Scientist ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert

    Unabridged

    4 hours 26 min

    Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are one and the same, and objects change their behaviour according to whether they are being watched. This is not some alternative universe but the realm of the very small, where quantum mechanics rules. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    How Your Brain Works

    Inside the most complicated object in the known universe

    by New Scientist ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert

    Unabridged

    5 hours 8 min

    In How Your Brain Works leading neuroscientists and New Scientist introduce the evolution and anatomy of the brain viewed through traits such as: memory, emotions, sleep, sensing and perception.Ever wondered what's going on inside your head?You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences of the world, are somehow conjured up by 1.4 kilograms of grey matter inside your ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Where the Universe Came From

    How Einstein's relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos

    by New Scientist ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert

    Unabridged

    4 hours 23 min

    How did it all begin? Where is it all going?A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. His theory changed the way we think about space and time, revealed how our universe has been expanding from a hot dense state called the big bang and predicted black holes.WHERE THE ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    How Evolution Explains Everything About Life

    From Darwin's brilliant idea to today's epic theory

    by New Scientist ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert

    Unabridged

    7 hours 6 min

    The journey of a lifetime exploring the question of whether life is inevitable or a one-off fluke, and how it got kick-started.How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants.We now know ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    This is Planet Earth

    Your ultimate guide to the world we call home

    by New Scientist ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert

    Unabridged

    6 hours 19 min

    This Is Planet Earth is dedicated to the wonders of Planet Earth, the most amazing place in the known Universe.The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special, but somehow it evolved to become the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    A Journey Through The Universe

    A traveler's guide from the centre of the sun to the edge of the unknown

    by New Scientist ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    A Journey Through The Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos.There's a whole universe out there...Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way?The answer is: mostly ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Human Origins

    7 million years and counting

    by New Scientist ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    The story of how our ancestors made the first tentative steps towards becoming human, how we lost our fur but gained language, fire and tools, and how we strode out of Africa, invented farming and cities and ultimately created modern civilisation.Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook