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The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: and Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
by Carly Anne York
Why would anyone research how elephants pee? Or study worms who tie themselves into a communal knot? Or quantify the squishability of a cockroach? It all sounds pointless, silly, or even disgusting. Maybe it is. But in The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog, Carly Anne York shows how unappreciated, overlooked, and simply curiosity-driven science has led to breakthroughs big and small.
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Acts of Darkness
by John L. Hill
From the chilling crimes of Paul Bernardo and the unrepentant violence of Michael McGray, to the calculated schemes of Edwin Alonzo Boyd, Helmuth Buxbaum, and Gilbert Galvan, this collection unravels the lives of some of Canada's most notorious offenders. With unflinching detail, Acts of Darkness exposes the cracks in our legal and correctional systems, forcing readers to confront unsettling questions about justice, morality, and the true cost of punishment. A must-read for true crime enthusiasts seeking chilling insights into justice and morality.
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The Fifth Season: Creativity in the Second Half of Life
by Mark Nepo
Now in his seventies, poet and philosopher Mark Nepo explores the rhythms of aging in the second half of life. As the years go by, the question for each of us becomes more and more real: What does it mean to age? Despite the limitations that come as thebody wears down, Mark Nepo believes that there are many gifts to inhabit by aging. So much is gained and so much is shed along the way. As Mark began to reflect on the gifts and challenges of this process we're all immersed in, he realized, more than ever, that we are called to live a creative life as we age.
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: a Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
by Scott Anderson
In his thought-provoking and unputdownable latest, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Scott Anderson (The Quiet Americans) chronicles the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini and ushered in an era of religious nationalism that continues to this day. Further reading: The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran by Andrew Scott Cooper
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Greenbelt Trails: The 30 Best - West of Toronto, from Oakville and Hamilton to Niagara and Beyond
by Lindsay Davies
Ontario's Greenbelt offers hundreds of kilometres of trails. Here, for the first time, is a guide that presents the best nature walks and trails along this protected natural terrain. Outdoor enthusiast and travel writer Lindsay Davies has done the legwork to select 30 of the most scenic and rewarding trails west of Toronto, including Milton, Halton Hills, Caledon, Burlington, Hamilton, Niagara and and beyond. From lush wetlands to charming historic villages, cascading waterfalls to serene nature gardens.
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How to be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World
by Mari Andrew
A luminous collection of essays exploring the lessons we can incorporate from the animal world in order to live more fully as humans A shelter cat teaches us that our damaged parts, too, are worthy of love... a captive orca shows us that inconvenience and difficulties are the blessing of a full life... a gorilla teaches the universal language of grief... a group of oysters who prove that magic and science can and do coexist... In How to Be a Living Thing, Mari Andrew reflects on the ways animals mirror, challenge, and deepen our experiences as living creatures in the world.
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Ghosts of Hiroshima
by Charles Pellegrino
Based on years of forensic archaeological research combined with interviews of more than two hundred survivors and their families, Ghosts of Hiroshima is a you-are-there account of ordinary human beings thrust into extraordinary events, during which our modern civilization entered its most challenging phase--a nuclear adolescence that, unless we are very wise and learn from our past, we may not survive.
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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
by F. E. Close
The thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story of the physics that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bomb. Although Henri Becquerel didn't know it at the time, he changed history in 1895 when he left photographic plates and some uranium rocks in a drawer. The rocks emitted something that exposed the plates: it was the first documented evidence of spontaneous radioactivity. So began one of the most exciting and consequential efforts humans have ever undertaken.
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