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  • Tom Jones

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. Attacked at the time as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery', it overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. This carefully modernized ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Culinary Reactions

    The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking

    When you're cooking, you're a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe, you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. In your kitchen you denature proteins, crystallize compounds, react enzymes with substrates, and nurture desired microbial life while suppressing harmful bacteria and fungi. And unlike in a laboratory, you can eat your experiments ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gut Reactions

    The Science of Weight Gain and Loss

    How much do you really know about how the human body works—how it reacts to food, exercise, nutrition, and the environment? While most of us have read about at least one fad diet, we're left wondering about the greater biochemistry, psychology, sociology, and physiology of the obesity crisis in the United States. Gut Reactions by chemist Simon Quellen Field shows us how our bodies react to food ... Read more

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  • Boom!

    The Chemistry and History of Explosives

    Black powder, the world's first chemical explosive, was originally developed during the Tang dynasty in China.It was a crude mixture at first, but over time chemists discovered the optimum proportion of sulfur, charcoal, and nitrates, as well as the best way to mix them for a complete and powerful reaction. Author and chemistry buff Simon Quellen Field takes readers on a decades-long journey ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Is Milk White?

    & 200 Other Curious Chemistry Questions

    When it comes to chemistry, most kids have more questions than answers. Why do you get cavities when you eat too much sugar? How does sun block protect your skin from getting a sunburn? What makes soda so fizzy? And why do you need antifreeze in your car? Teenager Alexa Coelho quizzed her neighbor, chemist Simon Field, with hundreds of perplexing questions, and now she has the answers. Field ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tom Jones

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Office of the Lost

    Narrated by Simon Dornet ...
    Series series Chaos and Order

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    When Perfection Collides With Chaos, Sparks FlyCrispin Eladrin, desk fae at the Office of the Lost, could find a needle in ten haystacks. His desk is so neat it would make an accountant blush, and he's never failed to complete a recovery mission. He has no idea how adorable he is, especially when he's at his most annoyingly officious.Enter utterly chaotic Leopold Lane. His life is a masterclass in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    Gut Reactions

    The Science of Weight Gain and Loss

    Narrated by David Marantz ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 29 min

    How much do you really know about how the human body works, and how it reacts to food, exercise, nutrition, and the environment? While most of us have read about at least one fad diet, we’re left wondering about the greater biochemistry, psychology, sociology, and physiology of the obesity crisis in the United States.Gut Reactions by chemist Simon Quellen Field shows us how our bodies react to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Reflections on Evidence-Based Policing

    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) has over the last decade made an increasing mark in several fields, notably health and medicine, education and social welfare. In recent years it has begun to make its mark in criminal justice. As engagement with EBP has spread, it has begun to evolve from what might be regarded as a somewhat narrow doctrine and orthodoxy to something more complex and various. Often ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Clever Camper Cookbook

    Enjoy some of our favourite recipes for eating well on the road wherever your travels take you. Having spent months exploring the world in their trusty VW camper, Megan and Simon are experts at putting together incredible food equipped with just a two-burner camping stove and a tiny fridge or cool box. The Clever Camper Cookbook features over 40 of the best recipes they came up with on their ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Basher Money

    How to Save, Spend and Manage Your Moolah!

    Illustrated by Simon Basher ...
    Series series
    Ever heard that money makes the world go round? It’s true! Just try getting anywhere without a little cash in your pocket. But there’s more to money than opening a bank account. Take loans and discounts, for example, or wages and pensions, or Bitcoin and bonds. These things could make or break you in the finance world. Want to know more? Just step into Basher’s Money. It’s full of savvy characters ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Electronics for Artists

    Adding Light, Motion, and Sound to Your Artwork

    With today's modern technology—LEDs, servomotors, motion sensors, speakers, and more—artwork can incorporate elements of light, sound, and motion for dramatic effects. Author and educator Simon Quellen Field has developed a primer for creative individuals looking for new ways to express themselves though electronically enhanced art. Following step-by-step examples of basic circuitry and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus