Reference & Language in Nonfiction eBooks

KIND

The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work

by Graham Allcott ...

**Winner - Business Book Awards 2025**What if someone told you the key to success was kindness?While it doesn't always make headlines, there is a growing recognition that kindness is vital to strong performance at work. In the broad range of leadership skills, kindness is inherently quieter, more personal and harder to see – and yes, less interesting or cinematic than controversial tweets and ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

**Winner - Business Book Awards 2025**What if someone told you the key to success was kindness?While it doesn't always make headlines, there is a growing recognition that kindness is vital to strong performance at work. In the broad range of leadership skills, kindness is inherently quieter, more personal and harder to see – and yes, less interesting or cinematic than controversial tweets and
... Read more
Process and Reality. Illustrated

by Alfred North Whitehead ...

Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead is a groundbreaking philosophical work that introduces his process philosophy, a dynamic framework for understanding reality as a continuous flow of interconnected events. Published in 1929, this seminal text challenges traditional static views of existence, offering a vision of the universe as an evolving process shaped by relationships, creativity, ... Read more

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Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead is a groundbreaking philosophical work that introduces his process philosophy, a dynamic framework for understanding reality as a continuous flow of interconnected events. Published in 1929, this seminal text challenges traditional static views of existence, offering a vision of the universe as an evolving process shaped by relationships, creativity,
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The Musical Instrument Desk Reference

A Guide to How Band and Orchestral Instruments Work

by Michael J. Pagliaro ...

In The Musical Instrument Desk Reference, Michael Pagliaro, musical instrument authority extraordinaire, provides the one-stop shop for those in need of a quick, visually-rich reference guide to band and orchestral instruments. Descriptions and illustrations of everything from the physics of sound to detailed discussions of each orchestra and band instrument make this work the ideal desktop ... Read more

$115.99 CAD

In The Musical Instrument Desk Reference, Michael Pagliaro, musical instrument authority extraordinaire, provides the one-stop shop for those in need of a quick, visually-rich reference guide to band and orchestral instruments. Descriptions and illustrations of everything from the physics of sound to detailed discussions of each orchestra and band instrument make this work the ideal desktop
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The Handover

How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational

by Elaine Dewar ...

Until recently, McClelland and Stewart had been known as “The Canadian Publisher,” the country’s longest-lived and best independent press. Its dynamic leader Jack McClelland worked with successive provincial and federal governments to help draft policies in the 1960s and 70s which ensured that Canadian stories would, for the first time in the nation’s history, be told and published by Canadians. M ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

Until recently, McClelland and Stewart had been known as “The Canadian Publisher,” the country’s longest-lived and best independent press. Its dynamic leader Jack McClelland worked with successive provincial and federal governments to help draft policies in the 1960s and 70s which ensured that Canadian stories would, for the first time in the nation’s history, be told and published by Canadians. M
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Masterclass: Writing Crime Fiction

How to create compelling plots, dramatic characters and nail biting twists in crime and detective fiction

by Rosemary Rowe ...

Do you have an idea for a gripping crime novel?Would you like to know how to plot your book flawlessly?Do you want to create beautifully crafted characters and nail biting twists?This book is designed for anyone who wants to write an unputdownable crime novel. Whatever your subgenre, whether Scandi-crime or detective 'cosies', this book is full of inspirational advice, acute insights and practical ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

Do you have an idea for a gripping crime novel?Would you like to know how to plot your book flawlessly?Do you want to create beautifully crafted characters and nail biting twists?This book is designed for anyone who wants to write an unputdownable crime novel. Whatever your subgenre, whether Scandi-crime or detective 'cosies', this book is full of inspirational advice, acute insights and practical
... Read more
The Student Pilot Manual: Airports, Human Factors, Flight Preparation

The Student Pilot Manual, #4

by Stephen Walmsley ...

Series Book 4 - The Student Pilot Manual
If you find yourself peering up at the sky as a plane roars past, there is a good chance you have caught the aviation bug and are fascinated by anything that flies. The Student Pilot Manual provides the perfect foundation for aspiring pilots to take the next step on their aviation journey.Volume 4 of this series contains three important topics that all pilots must master:Pilots can visit many ... Read more

$14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

If you find yourself peering up at the sky as a plane roars past, there is a good chance you have caught the aviation bug and are fascinated by anything that flies. The Student Pilot Manual provides the perfect foundation for aspiring pilots to take the next step on their aviation journey.Volume 4 of this series contains three important topics that all pilots must master:Pilots can visit many
... Read more
Photographer's Guide to the Nikon Coolpix P950

Getting the Most from Nikon's Superzoom Digital Camera

by Alexander White ...

This book, by Alexander S. White, is a complete guide to the operation of the Nikon Coolpix P950 digital camera. The book explains all shooting modes, menus, functions, and controls of this superzoom camera, illustrated by more than 300 full-color images. The guide shows beginning and intermediate photographers how to get excellent results using the many features of the P950.The book explains ... Read more

$14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book, by Alexander S. White, is a complete guide to the operation of the Nikon Coolpix P950 digital camera. The book explains all shooting modes, menus, functions, and controls of this superzoom camera, illustrated by more than 300 full-color images. The guide shows beginning and intermediate photographers how to get excellent results using the many features of the P950.The book explains
... Read more
Take It from Me

An Agent's Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career from Scratch

by Alia Hanna Habib ...

**From the literary agent behind some of today’s most successful authors comes a narrative guide geared specifically to the needs of aspiring and working nonfiction writers, demystifying the world of publishing and offering a practical roadmap to getting your book published.“An invaluable resource.”—Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed“I really, really wish I had this book when I was ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

**From the literary agent behind some of today’s most successful authors comes a narrative guide geared specifically to the needs of aspiring and working nonfiction writers, demystifying the world of publishing and offering a practical roadmap to getting your book published.“An invaluable resource.”—Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed“I really, really wish I had this book when I was
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Gather

Richard Van Camp on the Joy of Storytelling

by Richard Van Camp ...

Series Book 3 - Writers on Writing
WINNER OF THE 2022 NORTHWORDS BOOK AWARDStories are medicine. During a time of heightened isolation, bestselling author Richard Van Camp shares what he knows about the power of storytelling—and offers some of his own favourite stories from Elders, friends, and family.Gathering around a campfire, or the dinner table, we humans have always told stories. Through them, we define our identities and ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

WINNER OF THE 2022 NORTHWORDS BOOK AWARDStories are medicine. During a time of heightened isolation, bestselling author Richard Van Camp shares what he knows about the power of storytelling—and offers some of his own favourite stories from Elders, friends, and family.Gathering around a campfire, or the dinner table, we humans have always told stories. Through them, we define our identities and
... Read more
Two Is Enough

A Couple's Guide to Living Childless by Choice

by Laura S Scott ...

Fall in love. Get married. Have children. For most couples, marriage and children go hand in hand. And yet, the number of people choosing childlessness is on the rise. These are the childless by choice-people who have actively decided not to have children—rather than the childless by circumstance.In Two Is Enough, Laura S. Scott explores the assumptions surrounding childrearing, and explores the ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

Fall in love. Get married. Have children. For most couples, marriage and children go hand in hand. And yet, the number of people choosing childlessness is on the rise. These are the childless by choice-people who have actively decided not to have children—rather than the childless by circumstance.In Two Is Enough, Laura S. Scott explores the assumptions surrounding childrearing, and explores the
... Read more
Small-Block Chevy Engine Buildups HP1400

by Editors of Chevy High Performance Mag ...

How to build small-block Chevy engines for maximum performance. Includes sections on heads, cams, exhaust systems, induction modifications, dyno-tested engine combinations, and complete engine build-ups. ... Read more

Was $31.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

How to build small-block Chevy engines for maximum performance. Includes sections on heads, cams, exhaust systems, induction modifications, dyno-tested engine combinations, and complete engine build-ups.
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Write Naked

A Bestseller's Secrets to Writing Romance & Navigating the Path to Success

by Jennifer Probst ...

Learn how to transform your passion for writing into a career. New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Probst reveals her pathway to success, from struggling as a new writer to signing a seven-figure deal. Write Naked intermingles personal essays on craft with down-to-earth advice on writing romance in the digital age. Probst will teach you how to:• Commit to your current work-in-progress, get ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

Learn how to transform your passion for writing into a career. New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Probst reveals her pathway to success, from struggling as a new writer to signing a seven-figure deal. Write Naked intermingles personal essays on craft with down-to-earth advice on writing romance in the digital age. Probst will teach you how to:• Commit to your current work-in-progress, get
... Read more
301 expressions pour parler comme les Français

by Johan Tekfak (Français authentique) ...

301 expressions authentiques pour apprendre le français, expliquées et commentées par Johan Tekfak, le prof de FLE au million d’abonnés sur YouTube. Avec les enregistrements audio des expressions, des vidéos et des quiz.« Mon prof est chelou », « Ça fait un bail », « Tu assures »...Les Français utilisent de nombreuses expressions dont la compréhension échappe souvent aux non-francophones et que l ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

301 expressions authentiques pour apprendre le français, expliquées et commentées par Johan Tekfak, le prof de FLE au million d’abonnés sur YouTube. Avec les enregistrements audio des expressions, des vidéos et des quiz.« Mon prof est chelou », « Ça fait un bail », « Tu assures »...Les Français utilisent de nombreuses expressions dont la compréhension échappe souvent aux non-francophones et que l
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Immediate Fiction

A Complete Writing Course

by Jerry Cleaver ...

Covering the entire process from story building to manuscript preparation and marketing, Jerry Cleaver shows the novice and experienced writer how to start writing and how to get immediate results.Readers will find everything they need to know about managing time, finding an idea, getting the first word down on the page, staying unblocked, shaping ideas into compelling stories, and submitting ... Read more

$17.59 CAD

Covering the entire process from story building to manuscript preparation and marketing, Jerry Cleaver shows the novice and experienced writer how to start writing and how to get immediate results.Readers will find everything they need to know about managing time, finding an idea, getting the first word down on the page, staying unblocked, shaping ideas into compelling stories, and submitting
... Read more
Laura Secord

by Terry Barber ...

Series series Acts of Courage
Laura Secord is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustrations reflect the text, making the words easy to decode. This high-interest, low-vocabulary biography is ideal for English as a Second Language or adult basic education students. Laura Secord (1775-1868) found herself caught up in the War of 1812 after U.S. ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

Laura Secord is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustrations reflect the text, making the words easy to decode. This high-interest, low-vocabulary biography is ideal for English as a Second Language or adult basic education students. Laura Secord (1775-1868) found herself caught up in the War of 1812 after U.S.
... Read more
The Dyslexia Guide for Adults

Practical Tools to Improve Executive Functioning, Boost Literacy Skills, and Develop Your Unique Strengths

by Marci Peterson ...

Learn how to thrive with dyslexia as an adultNo matter when you're diagnosed, living with dyslexia can be a challenge—but it can also make you a unique and creative thinker. The Dyslexia Guide for Adults helps you boost your confidence with advice for embracing your greatest strengths. With these proven strategies and exercises, you'll learn to understand yourself better as you navigate social ... Read more

$17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn how to thrive with dyslexia as an adultNo matter when you're diagnosed, living with dyslexia can be a challenge—but it can also make you a unique and creative thinker. The Dyslexia Guide for Adults helps you boost your confidence with advice for embracing your greatest strengths. With these proven strategies and exercises, you'll learn to understand yourself better as you navigate social
... Read more
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tunes into TV

by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...

Uncle John channel-surfs through America’s favorite pastime: television.What does Homer Simpson call “friend…mother…secret lover?” Television, you meathead! Here comes your wacky neighbor Uncle John to present TV the way only he can. From test patterns to Top Chef, from My Three Sons to Mad Men, as well as TV news, advertising, scandals, sitcoms, dramas, reality shows, and yadda yadda yadda, Uncle ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

Uncle John channel-surfs through America’s favorite pastime: television.What does Homer Simpson call “friend…mother…secret lover?” Television, you meathead! Here comes your wacky neighbor Uncle John to present TV the way only he can. From test patterns to Top Chef, from My Three Sons to Mad Men, as well as TV news, advertising, scandals, sitcoms, dramas, reality shows, and yadda yadda yadda, Uncle
... Read more
Choisissez l’autorité du cœur

Éveillez le meilleur en votre enfant et en vous

by Brigitte Racine ...

L’autorité est un défi au quotidien. Difficile de trouver un bon équilibre entre se faire obéir et maintenir une relation agréable avec son enfant. Ce livre vous apprend comment faire ! L’autrice y partage les outils et les stratégies de la méthode Éducoeur qu’elle développe depuis 20 ans pour les familles qui la consultent.L’objectif d’Éducœur est simple : instaurer respect et confiance dans les ... Read more

$26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

L’autorité est un défi au quotidien. Difficile de trouver un bon équilibre entre se faire obéir et maintenir une relation agréable avec son enfant. Ce livre vous apprend comment faire ! L’autrice y partage les outils et les stratégies de la méthode Éducoeur qu’elle développe depuis 20 ans pour les familles qui la consultent.L’objectif d’Éducœur est simple : instaurer respect et confiance dans les
... Read more
Penguin Readers Level 5: David Copperfield (ELT Graded Reader)

Adapted and Shortened Edition

by Charles Dickens ...

Series Book 5 - Penguin Readers
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction,
... Read more
The Subversive Copy Editor

Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)

by Carol Fisher Saller ...

A revised and updated copy editor's guide to surviving the publishing industry, with practical advice on working with writers, colleagues, and yourself.Longtime manuscript editor and Chicago Manual of Style guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling. Saller realized that when these sides ... Read more

$14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A revised and updated copy editor's guide to surviving the publishing industry, with practical advice on working with writers, colleagues, and yourself.Longtime manuscript editor and Chicago Manual of Style guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling. Saller realized that when these sides
... Read more
Let Them Be Kids

Adventure, Boredom, Innocence, and Other Gifts Children Need

by Jessica Smartt ...

As parents we want to safeguard our children from the pressures and influences of the world, but also prepare them for age-appropriate realities. How do we find that balance? Jessica Smartt shares ways to be more aware, proactive, and protective, but also adventurous with our kids.A former English teacher and homeschooling mother of three, Jessica Smartt felt the weight of helping prepare her kids ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

As parents we want to safeguard our children from the pressures and influences of the world, but also prepare them for age-appropriate realities. How do we find that balance? Jessica Smartt shares ways to be more aware, proactive, and protective, but also adventurous with our kids.A former English teacher and homeschooling mother of three, Jessica Smartt felt the weight of helping prepare her kids
... Read more
Introduction à la criminologie et problématiques canadiennes - Édition revue et augmentée

Édition revue et augmentée

by Line Beauchesne ...

La première partie traite du développement historique de la criminologie. Partant des réflexions philosophiques et politiques qui ont préparé le terrain à l’arrivée du droit pénal au XVIIIe siècle, particulièrement en ce qui a trait aux premières théories de la peine qui en ont articulé une logique punitive, l’auteur présente son développement au XIXe siècle et la rupture des années 1960-1970 où ... Read more

$42.99 CAD

La première partie traite du développement historique de la criminologie. Partant des réflexions philosophiques et politiques qui ont préparé le terrain à l’arrivée du droit pénal au XVIIIe siècle, particulièrement en ce qui a trait aux premières théories de la peine qui en ont articulé une logique punitive, l’auteur présente son développement au XIXe siècle et la rupture des années 1960-1970 où
... Read more
In the Jungle of Medicine: Journeys Through Caribbean Medical School

by Dr. Tiffany Bursey, Dr. Vanessa Doyle, Dr. Hedieh Ghanbari, Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha ...

This book is the creation of four young Canadian doctors who each attended Ross University School of Medicine on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean.It was there beneath the scorching sun, near banana plantations and mango groves, under the tropic of cancer, that they toiled away in an attempt to fulfill their dreams of one day becoming physicians.Life was not easy for these four and living in ... Read more

$14.08 CAD

This book is the creation of four young Canadian doctors who each attended Ross University School of Medicine on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean.It was there beneath the scorching sun, near banana plantations and mango groves, under the tropic of cancer, that they toiled away in an attempt to fulfill their dreams of one day becoming physicians.Life was not easy for these four and living in
... Read more
Spellbound

My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith

by Phil Hanley ...

National BestsellerAn Amazon Best of Biography/MemoirComedian and severe dyslexic P****hil Hanley reveals his unlikely path to success in a story that is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.When Phil Hanley was in first grade, he realized something that would forever set him apart from his peers: he couldn’t read. His teachers were ill-equipped to assist him, an... ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

National BestsellerAn Amazon Best of Biography/MemoirComedian and severe dyslexic P****hil Hanley reveals his unlikely path to success in a story that is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.When Phil Hanley was in first grade, he realized something that would forever set him apart from his peers: he couldn’t read. His teachers were ill-equipped to assist him, an...
... Read more

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