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  • Pleasurable Kingdom

    Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good

    by Jonathan Balcombe, Peter Singer ...
    Series series MacSci
    "Fascinating and often moving, this book emphasizes that animals—like us—truly have personalities, minds and emotions." —Jane GoodallThe recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Exultant Ark

    A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure

    by Jonathan Peter Balcombe ...
    Nature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle for survival, but this visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more scientifically up-to-date way of looking at the animal kingdom. In more than one hundred thirty striking images, The Exultant Ark celebrates the full range of animal experience with dramatic portraits of animal pleasure ranging from the charismatic and ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

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    Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies

    by Lee Alan Dugatkin ...
    "Combines accessible prose with solid science."— Wall Street Journal • " Demonstrates that whatever creature you are—from a giraffe to a Tasmanian devil—life is all about who you know."— New Scientist • "Fascinating. . . . Easily the most intriguing, thorough explanation of animal behavior ever produced."— Library Journal (starred review) • "This book makes a fitting companion to Ed Yong's An ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Living on Earth

    Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Brainscapes

    The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain—And How They Guide You

    by Rebecca Schwarzlose ...
    An exploration of how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your brain—and how technology can use them to read your mind.Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual maps of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but ... Read more

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  • The Truth About Lies

    The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit

    by Aja Raden ...
    Why do you believe what you believe?You've been lied to. Probably a lot. We're always stunned when we realize we've been deceived. We can't believe we were fooled: What was I thinking? How could I have believed that?We always wonder why we believed the lie. But have you ever wondered why you believe the truth? People tell you the truth all the time, and you believe them; and if, at some later ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • What a Plant Knows

    A Field Guide to the Senses

    by Daniel Chamovitz ...
    Thoroughly updated from root to leaf, this revised edition of the groundbreaking What a Plant Knows includes new revelations for lovers of all that is vegetal and verdant.Plants can hear—and taste things, too!The renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz builds on the original edition to present an intriguing look at how plants themselves experience the world—from the colors they see to the schedules ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Tasted Words

    A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

    by Guy Leschziner ...
    In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads readers through the senses and how, through them, our brain understands or misunderstands the world around us.Vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch are what we rely on to perceive the reality of our world. Our senses are the conduits that bring us the scent of a freshly brewed cup of coffee or the notes of a favorite song suddenly playing on the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Carnivore Minds

    Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are

    by G. A. Bradshaw ...
    "The most exciting, most informative, and most surprising book ever written about animals. . . .the findings are overwhelming." —Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, New York Times– bestselling author of The Hidden Life of DogsMyth and media typically cast animals we consider predators or carnivores as unthinking killers—dangerous, unpredictable, and devoid of emotion. But is this portrait valid? By explo ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poached

    Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking

    by Rachel Love Nuwer ...
    An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders, and the customers--and of those fighting against itJournalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. Our insatiable demand for animals -- for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur -- is ... Read more

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  • Tamed and Untamed

    Close Encounters of the Animal Kind

    by Sy Montgomery, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ...
    Discover extraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures—with The Soul of an Octopus author Sy Montgomery and one of the world’s most influential anthropologists, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.A Mail on Sunday “Critic’s Pick” Best Read of the YearTamed and Untamed―a collection of essays penned by two of the world’s most celebrated animal writers, Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Return of the Sea Otter

    The Story of the Animal That Evaded Extinction on the Pacific Coast

    by Todd McLeish ...
    **"Captivating. . . . a full portrait of this adorable and ecologically important animal." —Publishers WeeklyA science journalist travels the Pacific Coast in search of sea otters in this entertaining and inspiring book on the importance and history of this charismatic endangered species**Sea otters—the adorable, furry marine mammals often seen floating on their backs holding hands—reveal the ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD