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  • Why We Die

    The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

    by Venki Ramakrishnan ...
    "Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson"An incredible journey." —Siddhartha Mukherjee*WINNER OF THE 2025 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FOR BEST BOOK ON BIOLOGY**2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER FOR SCIENCE AND COSMOLOGY*A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gene Machine

    The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

    by Venki Ramakrishnan ...
    A Nobel Prize–winning biologist’s “engaging and witty” (Forbes) memoir tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology’s most important moleculeEveryone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome—an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms—that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Virtual You

    How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life

    by Peter Coveney, Roger Highfield ...
    Narrated by Quentin Cooper ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    This audiobook narrated by Quentin Cooper describes the visionary science behind the digital human twins that will enhance our health and our futureVirtual You is a panoramic account of efforts by scientists around the world to build digital twins of human beings, from cells and tissues to organs and whole bodies. These virtual copies will usher in a new era of personalized medicine, one in which ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Migration

    by David Olusoga, Chandran Kukathas, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Filippo Grandi, Eva Harris, Kavita Puri, Venki Ramakrishnan, Iain Couzin ...
    Series Book 32 - Darwin College Lectures
    Migration is in the news every day. Whether it be the plight of refugees fleeing Syria, or the outbreak of the Zika virus across Latin America, the modern world is fundamentally shaped by movement across borders. Migration, arising from the 2018 Darwin College Lectures, brings together eight leading scholars across the arts, humanities, and sciences to help tackle one of the most important topics ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Gene Machine

    The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

    by Venki Ramakrishnan ...
    Narrated by Matthew Waterson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 12 min

    Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome—an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms—that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both advances our knowledge of all life ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Why We Die

    The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

    by Venki Ramakrishnan ...
    Narrated by John Moraitis ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 51 min

    ""Utterly fascinating."" —Bill Bryson""An incredible journey."" —Siddhartha Mukherjee*WINNER OF THE 2025 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FOR BEST BOOK ON BIOLOGY**2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER FOR SCIENCE AND COSMOLOGY*A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan<... ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Virtual You

    How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life

    by Peter Coveney, Roger Highfield ...
    The visionary science behind the digital human twins that will enhance our health and our futureVirtual You is a panoramic account of efforts by scientists around the world to build digital twins of human beings, from cells and tissues to organs and whole bodies. These virtual copies will usher in a new era of personalized medicine, one in which your digital twin can help predict your risk of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Housewives Underground

    The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery

    by Kaitlyn Tiffany ...
    Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 47 min

    The untold story of the women who debunked the Warren Report—a “captivating and impressively researched” (The New Yorker) history of obsession, heartbreak, and the myth of the great American century“A ghostly past brought brimmingly, engrossingly to life . . . a social history of novelistic propulsion with fanatical documentation and a sympathetic understanding of what drives the driven.”—The New ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Doomsday Calculation

    How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe

    by William Poundstone ...
    Narrated by Kyle Tait ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 12 min

    In the eighteenth century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. It languished in obscurity for centuries until computers came along and made it easy to crunch the numbers. Now, as the foundation of big data, Bayes's formula has become a linchpin of the digital economy.But here's ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Beyond Measure

    The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

    by James Vincent ...
    Narrated by James Vincent ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    A vibrant account of how measurement has invisibly shaped our world, from ancient civilizations to the modern day.From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In this revelatory work of science and social history, James Vincent dives into its hidden world, taking listeners from ancient Egypt, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Idea of the Brain

    The Past and Future of Neuroscience

    by Matthew Cobb ...
    Narrated by Joe Jameson ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 13 min

    An "elegant", "engrossing" (Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal) examination of what we think we know about the brain and why -- despite technological advances -- the workings of our most essential organ remain a mystery."I cannot recommend this book strongly enough."--Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmFor thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Why We Talk Funny

    The Real Story Behind Our Accents

    by Valerie Fridland ...
    Narrated by Valerie Fridland, Christophe Landa, Khaya Fraites, Elisabeth Lagelée, Aaron Goodson, Michael Mola, Max Newland, Magnus Rook, Lucy Archer Woodcock ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 31 min

    A fun, smart and surprising dive into the past, present and future of accents – and the enduring power of sounding differentAccents have long held our fascination. As far back as the 7th century BCE, Egyptian pharaohs experimented with babies to test out theories about the “original” accent and the Old Testament relays how a small difference in the pronunciation of “s” became a fatal litmus test ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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