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  • Methuselah's Zoo

    What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives

    by Steven N. Austad ...
    Extraordinary stories of extraordinary animals—from 1,000-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks—and what they teach us about human health and longevity.“An entertaining tour of the whole animal kingdom in all its mad variety”—for animal lovers, fans of natural history, and anyone interested in longevity science (Telegraph).Opossums in the wild don’t make it to the age of three; our pet cats ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • To Err Is Human, To Admit It Is Not and Other Essays

    Thoughts on Criminal Justice, Health, Holidays, Nature, and the Universe

    by Steven N. Austad ...
    What simple practice could reduce fatal medical errors? Do juries make sense if the goal of criminal justice is to discover the truth? What are the alternatives? What kind of health studies should be taken seriously and what kinds should not? In this compendium of short, entertaining essays, Austad answers these very practical questions and others. Do we really become more foolish with age? Is ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why We Age

    What Science Is Discovering about the Body's Journey Through Life

    by Steven N. Austad ...
    Book detailsPrint length256 pagesLanguageEnglishPublisherWileyPublication dateMay 23, 1997Dimensions6.4 x 0.94 x 9.53 inchesISBN-100471148032ISBN-13978-0471148036See all detailsDescriptionEditorial reviewsWhy has the life span of the average American increased from 48 to 75 years in this century alone?. . . If the body is a machine that sim... ... Read more

    $12.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Methuselah's Zoo

    What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives

    by Steven N. Austad ...
    Narrated by Tristan Morris ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    Opossums in the wild don't make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years. Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for several millennia. Meanwhile, human life expectancy tops out around the mid-eighties, with some outliers living past 100 or even 110. Is there anything humans can learn from the exceptional longevity ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Handbook of the Biology of Aging

    Edited by Steven N. Austad, Edward J. Masoro ...
    Series series Handbooks of Aging
    Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Seventh Edition, reviews and synthesizes recent findings and discoveries in the field. This volume is part of The Handbooks of Aging series, which also includes The Handbook of the Psychology of Aging and The Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences. The book is organized into two parts. Part 1 covers basic aging processes. It covers concepts relevant to clinical ... Read more

    $91.19 CAD

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    Planta Sapiens

    The New Science of Plant Intelligence

    by Paco Calvo ...
    Narrated by Christopher P. Brown ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence.Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with one another, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is the new evidence that plants may actually be sentient. Although plants may not have brains, their microscopic ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Crossing

    El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story

    by Richard Parker ...
    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 41 min

    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year “Top Pick”“American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,’ Parker asserts, in this sweeping history.” —The New YorkerA revelatory work of Southwest history that recenters the American origin story two-thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texas—heart of Indigenous power and resistance, locus ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Copernicus Complex

    Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities

    by Caleb Scharf ...
    Narrated by Caleb Scharf ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 2 min

    The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff PickIn the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth rotates around the Sun. Having demoted Earth from its unique position in the cosmos to one of mediocrity, Cope... ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    A Million Years in a Day

    A Curious History of Everyday Life From the Stone Age to the Phone Age

    by Greg Jenner ...
    Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 25 min

    Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old.Structured around one ordinary day, A Million Years in a Day reveals the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    Unfinished Business

    Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

    by Vivian Gornick ...
    Narrated by Vivian Gornick ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 28 min

    One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.“I sometimes think I was born reading…I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.”Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have ... Read more

    $21.08 CAD

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    Zapped

    From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light

    by Bob Berman ...
    Narrated by Peter Ganim ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    How much do you know about the radiation all around you?Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear, smell or feel it, but there is never a single second when it is not flying through your body. Too much of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Storm’s Edge

    Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

    by Peter Marshall ...
    Narrated by Kenny Blyth ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 44 min

    'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES**'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND'An astonishing tour de force’ SPECTATORShortlisted for the HWA Nonfiction Crown AwardLonglisted for the Highland Book PrizeFrom Peter Marshall, winner of the 2018 Wolfson Prize, Storm’s Edge is a n... ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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