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  • 18 Miles

    The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather

    “With wit and a humbling sense of wonder, this is a book that can be shared and appreciated by a wide audience who now religiously check their phones for daily forecasts.” — Publishers Weekly Starred Review“This terrific, accessible, and exciting read helps us to better understand the aspects of weather and the atmosphere all around us.” —Library Journal Starred ReviewWe live at the bottom of an ... Leer más

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  • Acquainted with the Night

    Excursions Through the World After Dark

    Weaving together science and storytelling, art and anthropology, Dewdney takes readers on a fascinating journey through the nocturnal realm. In twelve chapters corresponding to the twelve hours of night, he illuminates night's central themes, including sunsets, nocturnal animals, bedtime stories, festivals of the night, fireworks, astronomy, nightclubs, sleep and dreams, the graveyard shift, the ... Leer más

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  • The Radiant Inventory

    A Governor General’s Award – nominated poetry collection from a prize-winning poet and essayist. Christopher Dewdney uses the vocabulary of paleontology, biology, and physics in poems that meditate on life in southwestern Ontario. ... Leer más

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  • Acquainted with the Night

    A Celebration of the Dark Hours

    We prepare for it each evening, and spend half our lives in its embrace, yet night retains its mysteries. In ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT, author and poet Christopher Dewdney takes readers on a fascinating journey through the nocturnal realm.Twelve chapters correspond to the twelve hours of an 'ideal' night, starting at 6pm and ending at 6am, and serve as points of departure for night's central ... Leer más

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  • Signal Fires

    Christopher Dewdney’s love for the landscape and the flora and fauna of southwestern Ontario has provoked some of the most gorgeously erotic prose ever to appear in this country. From that love, augmented by ardent research in the field, emerges a marvellously compelling, futuristic vision of time and space collapsed into near-simultaneity. Books IV and V of The Natural History of Southwestern ... Leer más

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  • 30 km

    Series series NON CLASSE
    Nous vivons sous la protection d'un édredon essentiellement composé d'air — 5,2 milliards de tonnes d'air, pour être exact. Cela peut sembler beaucoup; pourtant, 99% de l'atmosphère de la Terre forme une mince couche d'environ 30 kilomètres d'épaisseur.À l'intérieur de cet intervalle fragile se dissimule un royaume magnifique, terrifiant, capricieux et insaisissable. De la forme aléatoire des ... Leer más

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  • Children of the Outer Dark

    The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney

    Series series Laurier Poetry
    A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in southwestern Ontario and moving through eons of natural history to cityscapes and the digital present, Dewdney’s poetics ... Leer más

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  • Human Errors

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  • The Truth About Animals

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  • The Taking of K-129

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