In the Circle of Ancient Trees

$30.00

“In these exquisitely illustrated pages, we hear from ten explorers who clamber down cliffs, traverse bogs, and dodge killer bees to study the world’s greatest plants.”—Oliver Uberti, author of Atlas of the Invisible and Where the Animals Go

From the Giant Sequoia to the Bald Cypress, this captivating book explores the stories of 10 species of ancient trees, their unique environments, and what they have to tell us about the history of our world.

Ingrained and encrypted in the growth rings of every tree are stories of its environment and the events to which it bore witness. In the Circle of Ancient Trees presents the stories of ten ancient tree varieties in engrossing chapters written by ecologists with specialist knowledge. From the Bosnian pine to the giant sequoia, from the United States, to Europe, to South America, these essays explore how human and environmental history share common roots, while drilling down into the ecology, persistence, and resilience of trees.

Beautifully designed, and illustrated with wood-engravings and graphics that visualize each tree’s chronology and geography, In the Circle of Ancient Trees considers what lessons for our future might be discovered in our planet’s past.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

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The Secret Life of a Cemetery

$17.95

From the head curator of the most famous cemetery in the world—a moving and "enchanting" (Guardian) story about a place where joy, grief, and wild nature converge in unexpected and inspiring ways.

"Not only is this a book that answers, fact for fact, everything you ever wanted to know about Père-Lachaise but were afraid to ask, it is also a portrait of a person who truly loves his work."—The New York Times

For Benoît Gallot, Père Lachaise is best explored without a guide: You’re guaranteed to lose your way. You’ll feel as though you’ve stepped out of time, out of Paris, and into another place entirely. In his debut memoir, Gallot, head curator of Père Lachaise and son of a grave stonemason, pulls back the curtains on his otherworldly workplace—a cemetery crammed with tourists in the high season and mourners year round, but also a natural paradise, where foxes roam, birds flit between trees, and wildflowers and moss encroach onto tombstones.

In elegant, engrossing chapters, Gallot reveals the secret world of Père Lachaise—its Napoleonic origins, its unusual graves and monuments—alongside touching stories from his working life in the cemetery. Born into a family of undertakers, Gallot was named curator of Père-Lachaise in his early-thirties, inheriting the complex job of managing over 100 acres of green space, overseeing 70,000 graves, and arranging burials and cremations, all while contending with millions of tourists—plus film crews, birdwatchers, ghost hunters, and the occasional nude performance artist. Gallot, who also lives on the cemetery grounds with his wife and young children, demystifies his unusual and often misunderstood profession, which in reality requires much more contact with living people than dead ones. In doing so, he provides insight into the history of graveyards and our evolving relationship with death.

Gallot also shares vivid descriptions of flora and fauna, which have reemerged in recent years thanks to a huge rewilding effort. Initially unsure about the idea, he embraced it as the cemetery alleys blossomed and birdsong proliferated. Then in April 2020, with the city in lockdown, Gallot took an early-morning stroll and crossed paths with a fox—in the middle of Paris! He snapped a picture and posted it, unwittingly setting off a media frenzy. Gallot’s daily photographs of Père-Lachaise’s flourishing animal and plant life have attracted followers from around the world, helping to change the public perception of cemeteries, which ultimately exist as places for the living.

A bestseller in France, lauded as “a superb book … full of humor, empathy, and great sweetness” by the French literary press, The Secret Life of a Cemetery is a life-affirming read that will stand the test of time.

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The Hiking Book From Hell

$18.95

For fans of Bill Bryson and David Sedaris comes an anti-nature memoir that will resonate with anyone who would rather stay inside with a book than venture into the mountains, from one of Scandinavia’s biggest comedians.

“A smart, funny and honest exposé of the cult of the outdoors, from the sublime to the ridiculous.”—Foreword Reviews

Sometime around his forties, Are Kalvø starts losing his friends… to the mountains. Friends who used to meet him at the pub are now hiking and skiing every weekend, and when they do show up, all they talk about is feeling at one with nature (without a hint of irony). When Are realizes he’s the only person who hasn’t posted a selfie on a mountain, he starts to wonder: does he have it all wrong?

To find out, Are buys some ridiculously expensive gear and heads into the woods. The result of his sardonic trek is at once a smart and funny take-down of outdoors culture, and a reluctant surrender to nature’s undeniable pull. An adventure, a comedy, and a tragedy, The Hiking Book from Hell is destined to become a nature writing (and nature hating) classic.

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My Head for a Tree

$28.95

“The remarkable Bishnoi of India, whose unique religion ‘has environmental protection at its very core,’ recruited Goodman to tell their dramatic story…”—Booklist, STARRED review

Perfect for nature enthusiasts, My Head for a Tree is a timely and remarkable book about India’s Bishnoi people, passionate defenders of nature whose ecological wisdom carries a powerful message.

Meet the Bishnoi, followers of a religion with nature conservation at its heart. Today, Bishnois remain fierce defenders of trees and animals, living by principles set by their guru Jambhoji in the fifteenth century. They chase down armed poachers, rescue and care for injured animals, save endangered species, and lead heroic reforestation efforts in the Rajasthani desert. In a time of biodiversity loss and climate change, what lessons do they have to teach us?

The story of the Bishnoi is true, though it reads like a fable. In 1730, the Maharajah of Jodhpur sent his troops to chop down a forest in northwest India. When 363 local villagers, led by Amrita Devi, hugged the trees to protect them, the Maharajah’s men chopped off their heads. Who are these people who love trees so much that they would give their lives to save them?

My Head for a Tree takes us from temples, homes, and schoolrooms to animal sanctuaries, farms, and desert forests, revealing a thriving community of eco-warriors. Their stories inspire and challenge readers to live more kindly and defend nature with a passion. While you can only be born a Bishnoi, we can all follow their example.

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Eating Dirt

$19.95

Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction

Shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

A vivid, intimate look at the life of a tree planter on the Pacific Northwest coast, exposing the brutal, exhilarating realities of modern reforestation, a unique subculture, and the importance and wonders of forests.

In the remote rain-drenched forests of Cascadia, an eclectic group of tree planters rises before dawn to replace the trees loggers have felled. Over Charlotte Gill’s 20-year, million-tree career, she came to know these clearcuts as a collision site between human civilization and the natural world—a working frontier where chainsaws go quiet and a different kind of crew moves in to stitch the ground back together.

In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of tree planting life in all its soggy, gritty exuberance. She traces the life of a seedling from cone picker to greenhouse to helicopter sling, and asks what is really restored when a razored hillside is replanted in tight ranks of conifers. Along the way, she braids in the deep history of forests from ancient redwoods and Indigenous cedar cultures to the clear-cut empires of Rome, Britain, and North America. She looks at logging's environmental impact and its boom-and-bust history, and reveals how thoroughly our cities, wars, and daily comforts have been carved from wood.

More than a memoir, Eating Dirt is a meditation on resilience: of ecosystems, of seasonal workers, and of trees themselves. Gill celebrates the wonder and stubborn beauty of forests and confronts the moral tangle of trying to mend them. Most of all, the book joyously celebrates the priceless value of forests and the ancient, ever-changing relationship between humans and trees.

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A Geography of Blood

$19.95

Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year

Bestselling author Candace Savage embarks on a profound and dramatic journey through the eloquent landscape of the northern Great Plains to reveal the haunting untold history of the land.

When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, Saskatchewan, she has no idea what awaits her. From their home on the edge of Eastend, they look out over the tawny sweep of the Frenchman River valley, watch swallows skim the water and deer graze at dusk, and wander among dinosaur bones. The prairie, which once seemed empty, begins to reveal itself as a living archive of history and fragile life.

As Savage explores further, she uncovers a darker reality. Archaeological shards, old police forts, and Métis wintering sites lead her into the buried history of the northern plains: the deliberate slaughter of the buffalo, the Cypress Hills Massacre, whiskey forts and starvation camps, the forced herding of Indigenous Peoples onto reserves. Listening to Blackfoot and Assiniboine elders, Métis descendants, and the Nekaneet people who still claim the hills as home, she is compelled to confront the violence that made her own homesteading ancestry possible—and to rethink everything she thought she knew about “pioneer” courage and prairie progress.

Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and imbued with Savage's passion for this place, A Geography of Blood braids memoir, natural history, and Indigenous testimony. Savage’s unforgettable portrait of the Cypress Hills and the surrounding plains offers both a shocking retelling of western Canadian history and an invitation to see the prairies with new eyes.

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Trauma Farm

$19.95

A Times Literary Supplement and Globe and Mail Book of the Year

Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Canadian Non-Fiction Prize

“A wonderful meditation on farm life and by extension life itself … told intelligently and often humorously, by a writer with a welcome fresh sharp eye.”—Peter Matthiessen, author of Shadow Country and The Snow Leopard

In this new special edition of a beloved rural memoir, a farmer’s intimate bond with his land and animals reveals hard-won truths about trauma, endurance, and belonging.

From the straining of muscles at dawn chores to the last check of the animals under a darkening sky, Brian Brett brings readers along as he moves through a day on his farm, tending to animals, soil, and machinery while reckoning with the quiet weight of trauma that saturates the land.

Both an unflinching memoir and an irreverent natural history of the small mixed farm, Trauma Farm wanders backward and forward in time, from childhood chores to present scars, from ancient Babylonian planting cycles to the pressures of globalization. Brett lingers on the feel of earth in his hands, the steam of breath from cattle in winter, the small decisions that mean life or death for vulnerable creatures. Along the way, Brett reflects on the costs of such a life—the scars etched into bodies, the grief carried for animals and people lost, and the fierce bonds that hold a rural community together.

Meditating on the nature of care, the ethics of killing, the strange tenderness of routine, and the cycles of planting, harvest, and decay, the book balances raw realism with lyrical wonder. It offers a fierce critique of romanticized visions of the countryside while celebrating the miracles of birth, weather, and endurance that confront the farm every day.

Passionate, practical, and frequently hilarious, this is an unforgettable portrait of one farm and the people and animals who live there. Trauma Farm is a powerful reminder of our entanglement with the natural world, and of the quiet heroism required simply to go on.

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Hidden Guests

$19.95

"[A] fascinating book. . . . [Barnéoud] ruminates on how microchimerism might change our understanding of ourselves."—Sam Kean, Wall Street Journal

What if some of your cells were not your own? What if they once belonged to someone else?

Part mind-bending medical mystery—part cutting-edge science—Hidden Guests uncovers the astonishing phenomenon of microchimerism: the presence of foreign cells inside our own bodies. The incredible story of how those cells got there—and what they do once they arrive—might change everything we know about the immune system, lineage, and identity.

We are all told the same story as children: that we grew from a single cell into a human, that all of our cells came from the first fertilized egg, and that we have one distinct genetic code. But scientists are beginning to challenge that story.

The discovery of microchimerism shows that not all our cells are our own—some of them migrated from other bodies. How did they get there? Scientists are still studying their journey, but today we know cells are exchanged in pregnancy, through transplants and blood transfusions, and possibly even through sex. But what does this mean for our daily lives—is it really such a big deal if someone else’s cell turns up in our bodies? The answer is, as author Lise Barnéoud shows in Hidden Guests, that the implications could be earth-shattering.

In Hidden Guests, Barnéoud interviews doctors, researchers, and medical experts at the forefront of microchimerism research. She interweaves their fascinating discoveries with the shocking human stories of microchimerism including:

- The story of the mother who gave birth to the genetic children of her sister … even though her sister had never been born.

- The story of the man whose DNA was found at a crime scene—only he was in prison at the time. It turned out that he had received a bone marrow transplant, and the DNA came from his donor—the actual offender.

- The story of a cancer survivor who discovered that the cells in his blood, saliva, hair, and even his semen were slowly being replaced by the cells of his organ donor

- The story of a woman whose children were nearly taken away after genetic testing showed she was not their mother—until she proved that their DNA came from a vanished twin whose cells she had absorbed in utero

Hidden Guests traces the history of this still emerging science while asking philosophical and probing questions about immunity, biology, evolution, parental testing, criminal forensics, and the concept of individual identity. Barnéoud makes the case for expanding our notions of both self and immunity: as ever-changing collectives of cells in relation, we are not unlike ecosystems. And like ecosystems, perhaps, the greater our diversity, the greater our resilience.

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Mind Myths

$19.95

Challenge everything you think you know about your brain. Expose the myths. Embrace the complexity. Transform your understanding of human nature and behavior.

Modern culture bombards us with seductive brain myths—from the "left-brain/right-brain" fallacy to dopamine being the "happiness hormone." These oversimplified explanations promise easy answers to complex human behaviors, yet they fundamentally misrepresent how our minds actually work. Mind Myths exposes the dangerous gap between genuine neuroscience and the reductive myths that shape our understanding of addiction, pain, personality, and mental health.

This groundbreaking exploration reveals how centuries of scientific progress have been distorted by commercial interests and cultural biases. Through compelling case studies and rigorous analysis, the book dismantles popular misconceptions about brain imaging, personality tests, and pharmaceutical solutions while examining how social media algorithms exploit our psychological vulnerabilities. From the historical roots of phrenology to contemporary debates about psychedelic therapy, each chapter challenges readers to think beyond simplistic brain-based explanations.

Readers will gain the critical thinking tools needed to navigate an era of neuroscientific misinformation. By understanding how context, culture, and environment shape our mental lives, you'll develop a more sophisticated appreciation for human complexity. This isn't just about debunking myths—it's about reclaiming agency over your own mind and making informed decisions about your mental health, relationships, and personal development in an age of neurohype.

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The Inbetween Leader

$28.95

From Jody Wilson Raybould, #1 national bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet, True Reconciliation, and Reconciling History—and co-written with peace educator Roshan Danesh—comes a how-to guide for a new type of leadership.

We live in a time of paradox. At once, it feels like we are pulling together and pulling apart.

In this era of extreme polarization, traditional leadership models rooted in competition and hierarchy are failing to bridge the gap. In The Inbetween Leader, Wilson-Raybould and Danesh offer an alternative—one that fosters interconnectedness, empowers diverse teams, and maintains unity without erasing difference.

Drawing on Indigenous governance traditions and integrative worldviews, and building on discussions in the national bestsellers True Reconciliation and Reconciling History, Wilson-Raybould and Danesh show how leaders in workplaces, communities, and families can create environments where everyone feels valued and engaged. Featuring personal experiences, expert advice, and actionable strategies—and informed by Indigenous wisdom and frontline experience in government and peacebuilding—this is crucial reading for a new generation of leaders.

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The Inner Life of Animals: The Illustrated Edition

$40.00

From the author of The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition

A visually stunning journey into the rich inner lives of animals.

In his New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben opened readers’ eyes to the scientific mysteries of the forest. Next, he explored the world of animal emotions in The Inner Life of Animals. Now this new, breathtakingly illustrated edition of The Inner Life of Animals celebrates animals on the page like never before.

This stunning illustrated edition pairs highlights from the original text with remarkable photos that illuminate Wohlleben’s enchanting storytelling and draws connections among a wide range of species. Animals, he reveals, are different from us in ways that amaze us—and they are also much closer to us than we ever would have thought.

Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, Wohlleben weaves scientific research into how animals interact with the world with his own experiences in forests and fields. We learn that horses feel shame, deer grieve, and goats discipline their kids. Ravens call their friends by name, rats regret bad choices, and butterflies choose the very best places for their children to grow up. Domestic and wild mammals alike, along with a wide variety of insects, fish, and birds, come to life through the vivid photography and thought-provoking captions that accompany their stories, sparking greater compassion and respect for all animals as part of the web of life.

An eye-opening celebration of the incredible diversity and richness of animals’ emotions and inner lives, this illustrated edition is the ideal gift for animal lovers everywhere.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

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Be More Bird

$27.95

In this exhilarating debut memoir, a woman's extraordinary bond with her hawk imparts life lessons about resilience, freedom, and self-discovery.

Isolated in the British countryside with her young family during 2020, writer Candida Meyrick makes the leap to adopt a twelve-week-old Harris’s hawk named Sophia Houdini Whitewing—aka Bird. Over the following months, she trains Bird to soar, hunt, and dazzle, and as Bird masters the sky, Candida is swept into a new way of living: one that centers courage and self-discovery. Through her time with Bird, Candida finds lessons for herself—to experience life fully, to be daring, to let go, and try new things—as well as lessons in parenting both Bird and her own children.

Working with her Harris’s hawk over the following years reveals a new world: confronting mortality daily, moving through a liminal landscape, part sky-, part earth-bound. Every day’s hunting brings a new life-lesson. Bird opens up a way of being that is everything Candida most longs to be: courageous, compassionate, independent, full of joy—free as a bird.

Through daily adventures across field and woodland, through bog and briar, Candida comes to realise that Bird is showing her the way, guiding her soul, revealing truths about her life that would otherwise have remained hidden.

Set against the untamed beauty of remote and rustic Welsh and English forests, fields, hedgerows, and seashore, Candida’s evocative story charts the subtle, profound bond between human and hawk—a relationship that bridges species, cultures, and worlds. In poetic prose, Be More Bird illuminates the ancient, worldwide art of falconry and its urgent relevance for the modern mind: the importance of untethering our souls and belief-systems and rediscovering our place in the wilder world.

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The Elements of Life

$29.95

Trace the hidden elemental forces shaping life, civilization, and our planet's future—nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium revealed as never before.

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium sustain every living cell, yet their invisible cycles now teeter on the edge of planetary collapse. Kerstin Hoppenhaus exposes how these three elements—essential to agriculture, ecosystems, and human survival—have become both humanity's greatest resource and most dangerous liability. From the catastrophic Beirut explosion to oxygen-starved ocean dead zones, from colonial phosphate mining on Pacific islands to the revolutionary Haber-Bosch process that feeds billions, this groundbreaking work connects elemental chemistry to ecological crisis, revealing the profound consequences of disrupting Earth's ancient nutrient flows.

Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction and readers who enjoyed Richard Powers' The Overstory, Hoppenhaus masterfully weaves scientific rigor with compelling narrative, tracing nutrients from cosmic origins through geological time to modern industrial agriculture. She illuminates the Green Revolution's paradox—dramatically increased food production alongside catastrophic environmental degradation—while exploring innovative solutions: mycorrhizal networks, precision agriculture, legal personhood for ecosystems like Spain's Mar Menor lagoon, and the urgent framework of planetary boundaries. Her interdisciplinary approach spans geochemistry, marine ecology, agricultural history, and environmental law, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of biogeochemical cycles that rivals works by Jared Diamond and Bill McKibben.

Readers seeking transformative environmental science books for 2025 will discover actionable insights into sustainable farming, nutrient recycling, and planetary stewardship. Hoppenhaus challenges us to reimagine our relationship with Earth's elemental foundations—before we irreversibly destabilize the systems sustaining civilization itself.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

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The Age of Alchemy

$29.95

For readers of Sam Kean and Bill Bryson, The Age of Alchemy uncovers a vibrant, interconnected world of forgotten artisans, scholars, and experimenters who, across millennia and continents, transformed mystical alchemy into modern chemistry.

“Timely and essential, this is great storytelling.”—Hugh Aldersey-Williams, bestselling author of Periodic Tales

3,000 years ago, on the banks of the Tigris in what is now known as Iraq, a woman perfumer named Tappūtī mastered the control of temperature and the arts of distillation, calcination, condensation, filtering, purification, fixation, and sublimation, unknowingly staking her claim as the first chemist in history.

From Egyptian tombs and the dazzling workshops of Alexandria to Chinese emperors seeking immortality, The Age of Alchemy uncovers the hidden roots of alchemy and its transformation into chemistry. Kit Chapman brings to life forgotten innovators—women alchemists, artisan experimenters, and ingenious fraudsters—while challenging Eurocentric myths and celebrating the diverse cultures that forged our understanding of matter.

Blending vivid storytelling, forgotten history, and fascinating science, the book explores the meaning and impact of chemical knowledge—its power to heal, to harm, and to transform societies. It explores how alchemists inspired modern medicine, how the search for immortality led to both lethal elixirs and life‑saving antimalarials, how pigments and alloys reshaped economies and empires, and how the old dream of transmuting metals was finally realized in nuclear physics. The Age of Alchemy invites readers to see chemistry not as a dry catalogue of formulas, but as a four‑thousand‑year human drama of curiosity, ambition, ingenuity, and resilience—a global story of how we learned to understand and manipulate the material world.

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A History of the World in Twelve Beans

$22.95

From ancient empires to modern kitchens, discover how twelve humble beans have quietly changed the world in vast and unimaginable ways.

In A History of the World in Twelve Beans, food writer and history buff Joël Broekaert reveals how beans have profoundly shaped human history, culture, and society, through millennia and across continents.

Beans have been long dismissed as the “common person’s food”—a cheap and nutritious form of protein that replaces expensive meat—and are often the butt of jokes about flatulence (enough to make some Greek philosophers forbid their followers from eating them). But beans, as Broekaert shows, are surprisingly mighty. Fava beans helped pull medieval Europe out of the Dark Ages and fuel a population boom. While soy powered the Chinese empire, thanks to the culinary innovations that turned a nearly indigestible bean into delicious miso, soy sauce, and tofu.

The story of beans is also a story of colonialism, exploitation, and survival. The common bean, originating in the Americas and central to the diet of many Indigenous Peoples, crossed the Atlantic as part of the “Columbian exchange” of new foods—along with devastating diseases that decimated Indigenous populations. Cocoa and coffee beans became engines of colonial wealth, slavery, and revolution. Yet beans can also be a symbol of hope. Black-eyes peas, carried to the Americas with enslaved Africans, became a soul food staple and an emblem of Black emancipation. Today, beans are even being promoted as a solution to climate change and food insecurity, with high-tech meat substitutes made from lupin beans in the works.

Blending botany, anthropology, culture, economics, and environmental issues, A History of the World in Twelve Beans is a witty, surprising, and eye-opening tour of world history as told through legumes. As Broekaert shows, beans have not only shaped human civilization; they might be a key to a sustainable future, too.

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Reconciling Ways of Knowing

$19.95

In this groundbreaking, collaborative book, Indigenous knowledge keepers and Western scientists offer a revolutionary blueprint for environmental healing.

Reconciling Ways of Knowing invites readers into a powerful, ongoing conversation about how to bring together Indigenous knowledge systems and Western science in ethical, practical, and transformative ways. Rooted in the insight that Indigenous Peoples hold expert, place-based knowledge of lands, waters, and more‑than‑human relatives—knowledge built over millennia—this book argues that true reconciliation must also be an epistemic one: a reconciliation of ways of knowing.

Conceived by longtime collaborators and friends Kilslaay Kaaji Sding Miles Richardson (Haida leader) and Dr. David Suzuki (geneticist and environmental leader), and convened with Anishinaabe Elder Dr. Dave Courchene and ethnobotanist Dr. Nancy Turner, this project brought together an impressive range of Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders, Elders, scholars, and practitioners. During the Covid‑19 pandemic, they met online in a series of rich, nearly monthly dialogues to ask tough questions:

How should we care for the Earth, not merely “manage resources”?
What does ethical collaboration between Indigenous and Western knowledge actually look like in practice?
How can we transform decision‑making in nation‑states such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand—societies shaped by centuries of colonization?

Curated by the lead organizers of the Reconciling Ways of Knowing: Indigenous Knowledge and Science project, this book gathers the most urgent ideas, critiques, and proposals that emerged from those conversations. It shows how Western science, while responsible for many advances, has also produced grave unintended harms—from ozone depletion and toxin biomagnification to the worsening climate emergency—and why integrating Indigenous knowledge, values, and responsibilities is essential to charting a different course.

At once sobering and hopeful, Reconciling Ways of Knowing offers:

Inspiring examples of cross‑cultural collaboration and environmental leadership
A clear-eyed critique of the limits of Western science when it stands alone
A forward-looking vision for living respectfully with each other and our more‑than‑human relatives

For readers of environmental studies, Indigenous studies, science, policy, and anyone seeking pathways toward a just, sustainable future, this book is both a call to action and a guide for rethinking how we come to know—and care for—our shared planet.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

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Desert Flowers

$19.95

From world renowned master storyteller Jairo Buitrago comes a stunning story of place and the simple pleasures of the desert.

Who knows whether, maybe, you might like this story.

Against the backdrop of the vast desert, two little girls are celebrating their grandmother’s birthday in her house, with a little table, hats and lemonade. But nobody else has shown up.

“I have a very big friend who lives all alone,” explains their grandmother, and so, the three of them set out searching for the friend. Quickly, they find themselves alone, surrounded by the beautiful blooming desert. In the quiet moments, the girls begin to wonder: perhaps there is no greater gift than the time they spend together.

Filled with breathtaking illustrations from award-winning artist Manuel Monroy, Desert Flowers is an extraordinary depiction of the Mexican desert and is a beautiful expression of intergenerational relationships and the small comforts of everyday life.

More than a story of a grandmother, a cactus, an owl,
a little table in the middle of nowhere…and two girls—
It's a story of how happy I felt when I met them.

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Flores del desierto / Desert Flowers

$19.95

From world renowned master storyteller Jairo Buitrago comes a stunning story of place and the simple pleasures of the desert.

Who knows whether, maybe, you might like this story.

Against the backdrop of the vast desert, two little girls are celebrating their grandmother’s birthday in her house, with a little table, hats and lemonade. But nobody else has shown up.

“I have a very big friend who lives all alone,” explains their grandmother, and so, the three of them set out searching for the friend. Quickly, they find themselves alone, surrounded by the beautiful blooming desert. In the quiet moments, the girls begin to wonder: perhaps there is no greater gift than the time they spend together.

Filled with breathtaking illustrations from award-winning artist Manuel Monroy, Flowers in the Desert is an extraordinary depiction of the Mexican desert and is a beautiful expression of intergenerational relationships and the small comforts of everyday life.

More than a story of a grandmother, a cactus, an owl,
a little table in the middle of nowhere…and two girls—
It's a story of how happy I felt when I met them.

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Mountainous

$19.95

When the world moves so fast, mountains seem to stand still. But mountains move and change just like you… Can you imagine?

From award-winning author-illustrator Julia Kuo comes a wondrous exploration into mountains. Just imagine … Trek up, up, up, to where glaciers slide, volcanoes erupt, and meadow flowers burst into color. Discover all of the marvelous ways mountains sway and hum, wiggle and shake, and even make their own weather.

Perfect for ages 4-8, Mountainous features:

A wide display of mountains from around the world
Fascinating scientific facts about how mountains are made, how they support ecosystems, and can reshape landscapes (and more!)
Dynamic sidebars and a unique search-and-find backmatter invites readers to dive back into the pages again and again

With simple lyrical text and informative sidebars, this stunning picture book is perfect for introducing readers of all ages to the mysteries of mighty mountains and the wonders of our natural world.

Book 2 in the I Am Nature series, following the award-winning Luminous.

Praise for Luminous
STARRED Kirkus Reviews
STARRED Horn Book
STARRED BookList
STARRED Publishers Weekly

An Outstanding Science Trade Book from the National Science Teachers Association
2025 Choose to Read Ohio (CTRO) booklist in the Young Children category
Arkansas Diamond Primary Award, Nominee, 2024-2025
Named a 2023 CCBC Choices Best Book of the Year
and many more!

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Trauma Farm

$19.95

A Times Literary Supplement and Globe and Mail Book of the Year

Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Canadian Non-Fiction Prize

“A wonderful meditation on farm life and by extension life itself … told intelligently and often humorously, by a writer with a welcome fresh sharp eye.”—Peter Matthiessen, author of Shadow Country and The Snow Leopard

In this new special edition of a beloved rural memoir, a farmer’s intimate bond with his land and animals reveals hard-won truths about trauma, endurance, and belonging.

From the straining of muscles at dawn chores to the last check of the animals under a darkening sky, Brian Brett brings readers along as he moves through a day on his farm, tending to animals, soil, and machinery while reckoning with the quiet weight of trauma that saturates the land.

Both an unflinching memoir and an irreverent natural history of the small mixed farm, Trauma Farm wanders backward and forward in time, from childhood chores to present scars, from ancient Babylonian planting cycles to the pressures of globalization. Brett lingers on the feel of earth in his hands, the steam of breath from cattle in winter, the small decisions that mean life or death for vulnerable creatures. Along the way, Brett reflects on the costs of such a life—the scars etched into bodies, the grief carried for animals and people lost, and the fierce bonds that hold a rural community together.

Meditating on the nature of care, the ethics of killing, the strange tenderness of routine, and the cycles of planting, harvest, and decay, the book balances raw realism with lyrical wonder. It offers a fierce critique of romanticized visions of the countryside while celebrating the miracles of birth, weather, and endurance that confront the farm every day.

Passionate, practical, and frequently hilarious, this is an unforgettable portrait of one farm and the people and animals who live there. Trauma Farm is a powerful reminder of our entanglement with the natural world, and of the quiet heroism required simply to go on.

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Henri and the Secret Letters

$19.95

Perfect for readers ages 4-8!

For fans of Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad and Anika Denise’s The Love Letter comes a charming celebration of autumn and the comforting little pleasures of the cozy season.

It’s autumn, Henri the badger’s favorite season. As always, leaves are bursting into color and the smell of comforting dishes fills the air. But this season brings a surprise—a letter from a mysterious sender!

He was puzzled.
Who could the secret sender be?
Was someone playing a trick on him?

A delightful story to celebrate the fall season, complete with six cozy comfort-food recipes to enjoy with someone special, Henri and the Secret Letters is a timely tale of friendship and a charming illustration of autumn and the joys of the season.

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Bompa's Intertidal Adventure

$18.95

Let's go on an intertidal adventure for kids ages 4 to 8! The second book in the Nature Adventures with Bompa series, following Bompa’s Insect Expedition.

It’s time for the twins to go on another nature expedition with their Bompa. But this time, they want to take HIM on an adventure—to the seashore! What will they discover this time?

This exciting and educational tribute to the intertidal zone features:

Amazing facts about intertidal zone creatures including extensive backmatter pages and a shoreline search-and-find
Key information on how families can protect the intertidal zone and help these areas thrive
A celebration of grandparents: depicts the fun two children have with their grandfather

Featuring gorgeous art by Qin Leng, Bompa’s Intertidal Adventure is an imaginative exploration of the natural world, based on the true-life adventures of David Suzuki and his grandkids.

Book 2 in the Nature Adventures with Bompa series
This picture book series is based on the real life expeditions David Suzuki takes with his grandkids, Nakina and Kaoru. From the amazing world of insects to the incredible intertidal zone, the twins and their Bompa are always discovering new things about the natural world, and learning more about each other and themselves too.

Praise for Bompa’s Insect Expedition:
A Bank Street College of Education Children’s Book Committee Best Book of the Year
Lane Anderson Award—Young Readers Category, Shortlisted
The Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Awards—Youth Category, Longlisted

"A terrific invitation to take closer looks and think longer thoughts.”—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED

“The message about finding the extraordinary in the ordinary is a worthy one, especially for young explorers who might not have much access to nature spaces.”—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

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Carrots Make Me Suspicious

$19.95

From an award-winning creator, comes an adorable exploration of what it is like to be a selective eater and the big emotions that come up as kids are introduced to new foods and flavors—some more suspicious than others!

ALL bunnies love carrots… except for one: he thinks carrots are suspicious! But he can’t help it. Carrots crunch and munch when you eat them. He prefers quiet foods like bananas and yogurt and cinnamon cake. Not to mention that carrots grow underground—a suspicious way to grow! He decides to investigate carrots so he can learn more about them, and maybe give them a chance. What things will he discover along the way?

Perfect for kids and parents navigating selective eaters, Carrots Make Me Suspicious offers:

A gentle exploration of sensitive eating habits and the emotions kids and parents encounter while expanding their tastebuds
An affirming, child-centered experience to food sensory behaviors

From beloved creator Robin Mitchell Cranfield comes a charming and child-centered exploration of what it is like to be a selective eater and the process of exploring new foods in a positive and encouraging way.

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A Dress for the Moon

$19.95

From Hans Christian Andersen Award nominee Linda Wolfsgruber, comes a stunning story of embracing one’s unique beauty and true self.

From high up, Moon gazes down from the night sky and envies the beautiful dresses worn by people on Earth. “How I would love to have a dress like that too,” thought the moon. Quickly, Moon invites the help from a confident, high-fashion tailor who promises to create a one-of-a-kind gown.

As the tailor takes Moon’s measurements and begins his work, he quickly discovers a problem: each time Moon returns for a fitting, its shape has changed! The moon wanes and waxes, shrinking to a thin crescent and then growing full again, making it impossible for the tailor’s dress to ever fit. He begins to wonder: could any dress he makes ever be as wonderful as the Moon’s own shiny light?

Through playful and poetic narrative and stunning illustrations by award-winning creator Linda Wolfsgruber, A Dress for the Moon is a whimsical story about the beauty of being oneself.

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Eating Dirt

$19.95

Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction

Shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

A vivid, intimate look at the life of a tree planter on the Pacific Northwest coast, exposing the brutal, exhilarating realities of modern reforestation, a unique subculture, and the importance and wonders of forests.

In the remote rain-drenched forests of Cascadia, an eclectic group of tree planters rises before dawn to replace the trees loggers have felled. Over Charlotte Gill’s 20-year, million-tree career, she came to know these clearcuts as a collision site between human civilization and the natural world—a working frontier where chainsaws go quiet and a different kind of crew moves in to stitch the ground back together.

In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of tree planting life in all its soggy, gritty exuberance. She traces the life of a seedling from cone picker to greenhouse to helicopter sling, and asks what is really restored when a razored hillside is replanted in tight ranks of conifers. Along the way, she braids in the deep history of forests from ancient redwoods and Indigenous cedar cultures to the clear-cut empires of Rome, Britain, and North America. She looks at logging's environmental impact and its boom-and-bust history, and reveals how thoroughly our cities, wars, and daily comforts have been carved from wood.

More than a memoir, Eating Dirt is a meditation on resilience: of ecosystems, of seasonal workers, and of trees themselves. Gill celebrates the wonder and stubborn beauty of forests and confronts the moral tangle of trying to mend them. Most of all, the book joyously celebrates the priceless value of forests and the ancient, ever-changing relationship between humans and trees.

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A Geography of Blood

$19.95

Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year

Bestselling author Candace Savage embarks on a profound and dramatic journey through the eloquent landscape of the northern Great Plains to reveal the haunting untold history of the land.

When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, Saskatchewan, she has no idea what awaits her. From their home on the edge of Eastend, they look out over the tawny sweep of the Frenchman River valley, watch swallows skim the water and deer graze at dusk, and wander among dinosaur bones. The prairie, which once seemed empty, begins to reveal itself as a living archive of history and fragile life.

As Savage explores further, she uncovers a darker reality. Archaeological shards, old police forts, and Métis wintering sites lead her into the buried history of the northern plains: the deliberate slaughter of the buffalo, the Cypress Hills Massacre, whiskey forts and starvation camps, the forced herding of Indigenous Peoples onto reserves. Listening to Blackfoot and Assiniboine elders, Métis descendants, and the Nekaneet people who still claim the hills as home, she is compelled to confront the violence that made her own homesteading ancestry possible—and to rethink everything she thought she knew about “pioneer” courage and prairie progress.

Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and imbued with Savage's passion for this place, A Geography of Blood braids memoir, natural history, and Indigenous testimony. Savage’s unforgettable portrait of the Cypress Hills and the surrounding plains offers both a shocking retelling of western Canadian history and an invitation to see the prairies with new eyes.

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The Elements of Life

$29.95

Trace the hidden elemental forces shaping life, civilization, and our planet's future—nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium revealed as never before.

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium sustain every living cell, yet their invisible cycles now teeter on the edge of planetary collapse. Kerstin Hoppenhaus exposes how these three elements—essential to agriculture, ecosystems, and human survival—have become both humanity's greatest resource and most dangerous liability. From the catastrophic Beirut explosion to oxygen-starved ocean dead zones, from colonial phosphate mining on Pacific islands to the revolutionary Haber-Bosch process that feeds billions, this groundbreaking work connects elemental chemistry to ecological crisis, revealing the profound consequences of disrupting Earth's ancient nutrient flows.

Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction and readers who enjoyed Richard Powers' The Overstory, Hoppenhaus masterfully weaves scientific rigor with compelling narrative, tracing nutrients from cosmic origins through geological time to modern industrial agriculture. She illuminates the Green Revolution's paradox—dramatically increased food production alongside catastrophic environmental degradation—while exploring innovative solutions: mycorrhizal networks, precision agriculture, legal personhood for ecosystems like Spain's Mar Menor lagoon, and the urgent framework of planetary boundaries. Her interdisciplinary approach spans geochemistry, marine ecology, agricultural history, and environmental law, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of biogeochemical cycles that rivals works by Jared Diamond and Bill McKibben.

Readers seeking transformative environmental science books for 2025 will discover actionable insights into sustainable farming, nutrient recycling, and planetary stewardship. Hoppenhaus challenges us to reimagine our relationship with Earth's elemental foundations—before we irreversibly destabilize the systems sustaining civilization itself.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

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A History of the World in Twelve Beans

$22.95

From ancient empires to modern kitchens, discover how twelve humble beans have quietly changed the world in vast and unimaginable ways.

In A History of the World in Twelve Beans, food writer and history buff Joël Broekaert reveals how beans have profoundly shaped human history, culture, and society, through millennia and across continents.

Beans have been long dismissed as the “common person’s food”—a cheap and nutritious form of protein that replaces expensive meat—and are often the butt of jokes about flatulence (enough to make some Greek philosophers forbid their followers from eating them). But beans, as Broekaert shows, are surprisingly mighty. Fava beans helped pull medieval Europe out of the Dark Ages and fuel a population boom. While soy powered the Chinese empire, thanks to the culinary innovations that turned a nearly indigestible bean into delicious miso, soy sauce, and tofu.

The story of beans is also a story of colonialism, exploitation, and survival. The common bean, originating in the Americas and central to the diet of many Indigenous Peoples, crossed the Atlantic as part of the “Columbian exchange” of new foods—along with devastating diseases that decimated Indigenous populations. Cocoa and coffee beans became engines of colonial wealth, slavery, and revolution. Yet beans can also be a symbol of hope. Black-eyes peas, carried to the Americas with enslaved Africans, became a soul food staple and an emblem of Black emancipation. Today, beans are even being promoted as a solution to climate change and food insecurity, with high-tech meat substitutes made from lupin beans in the works.

Blending botany, anthropology, culture, economics, and environmental issues, A History of the World in Twelve Beans is a witty, surprising, and eye-opening tour of world history as told through legumes. As Broekaert shows, beans have not only shaped human civilization; they might be a key to a sustainable future, too.

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Mind Myths

$19.95

Challenge everything you think you know about your brain. Expose the myths. Embrace the complexity. Transform your understanding of human nature and behavior.

Modern culture bombards us with seductive brain myths—from the "left-brain/right-brain" fallacy to dopamine being the "happiness hormone." These oversimplified explanations promise easy answers to complex human behaviors, yet they fundamentally misrepresent how our minds actually work. Mind Myths exposes the dangerous gap between genuine neuroscience and the reductive myths that shape our understanding of addiction, pain, personality, and mental health.

This groundbreaking exploration reveals how centuries of scientific progress have been distorted by commercial interests and cultural biases. Through compelling case studies and rigorous analysis, the book dismantles popular misconceptions about brain imaging, personality tests, and pharmaceutical solutions while examining how social media algorithms exploit our psychological vulnerabilities. From the historical roots of phrenology to contemporary debates about psychedelic therapy, each chapter challenges readers to think beyond simplistic brain-based explanations.

Readers will gain the critical thinking tools needed to navigate an era of neuroscientific misinformation. By understanding how context, culture, and environment shape our mental lives, you'll develop a more sophisticated appreciation for human complexity. This isn't just about debunking myths—it's about reclaiming agency over your own mind and making informed decisions about your mental health, relationships, and personal development in an age of neurohype.

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The Inbetween Leader

$28.95

From Jody Wilson Raybould, #1 national bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet, True Reconciliation, and Reconciling History—and co-written with peace educator Roshan Danesh—comes a how-to guide for a new type of leadership.

We live in a time of paradox. At once, it feels like we are pulling together and pulling apart.

In this era of extreme polarization, traditional leadership models rooted in competition and hierarchy are failing to bridge the gap. In The Inbetween Leader, Wilson-Raybould and Danesh offer an alternative—one that fosters interconnectedness, empowers diverse teams, and maintains unity without erasing difference.

Drawing on Indigenous governance traditions and integrative worldviews, and building on discussions in the national bestsellers True Reconciliation and Reconciling History, Wilson-Raybould and Danesh show how leaders in workplaces, communities, and families can create environments where everyone feels valued and engaged. Featuring personal experiences, expert advice, and actionable strategies—and informed by Indigenous wisdom and frontline experience in government and peacebuilding—this is crucial reading for a new generation of leaders.

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The Inner Life of Animals: The Illustrated Edition

$40.00

From the author of The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition

A visually stunning journey into the rich inner lives of animals.

In his New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben opened readers’ eyes to the scientific mysteries of the forest. Next, he explored the world of animal emotions in The Inner Life of Animals. Now this new, breathtakingly illustrated edition of The Inner Life of Animals celebrates animals on the page like never before.

This stunning illustrated edition pairs highlights from the original text with remarkable photos that illuminate Wohlleben’s enchanting storytelling and draws connections among a wide range of species. Animals, he reveals, are different from us in ways that amaze us—and they are also much closer to us than we ever would have thought.

Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, Wohlleben weaves scientific research into how animals interact with the world with his own experiences in forests and fields. We learn that horses feel shame, deer grieve, and goats discipline their kids. Ravens call their friends by name, rats regret bad choices, and butterflies choose the very best places for their children to grow up. Domestic and wild mammals alike, along with a wide variety of insects, fish, and birds, come to life through the vivid photography and thought-provoking captions that accompany their stories, sparking greater compassion and respect for all animals as part of the web of life.

An eye-opening celebration of the incredible diversity and richness of animals’ emotions and inner lives, this illustrated edition is the ideal gift for animal lovers everywhere.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

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The Age of Alchemy

$29.95

For readers of Sam Kean and Bill Bryson, The Age of Alchemy uncovers a vibrant, interconnected world of forgotten artisans, scholars, and experimenters who, across millennia and continents, transformed mystical alchemy into modern chemistry.

“Timely and essential, this is great storytelling.”—Hugh Aldersey-Williams, bestselling author of Periodic Tales

3,000 years ago, on the banks of the Tigris in what is now known as Iraq, a woman perfumer named Tappūtī mastered the control of temperature and the arts of distillation, calcination, condensation, filtering, purification, fixation, and sublimation, unknowingly staking her claim as the first chemist in history.

From Egyptian tombs and the dazzling workshops of Alexandria to Chinese emperors seeking immortality, The Age of Alchemy uncovers the hidden roots of alchemy and its transformation into chemistry. Kit Chapman brings to life forgotten innovators—women alchemists, artisan experimenters, and ingenious fraudsters—while challenging Eurocentric myths and celebrating the diverse cultures that forged our understanding of matter.

Blending vivid storytelling, forgotten history, and fascinating science, the book explores the meaning and impact of chemical knowledge—its power to heal, to harm, and to transform societies. It explores how alchemists inspired modern medicine, how the search for immortality led to both lethal elixirs and life‑saving antimalarials, how pigments and alloys reshaped economies and empires, and how the old dream of transmuting metals was finally realized in nuclear physics. The Age of Alchemy invites readers to see chemistry not as a dry catalogue of formulas, but as a four‑thousand‑year human drama of curiosity, ambition, ingenuity, and resilience—a global story of how we learned to understand and manipulate the material world.

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Be More Bird

$27.95

In this exhilarating debut memoir, a woman's extraordinary bond with her hawk imparts life lessons about resilience, freedom, and self-discovery.

Isolated in the British countryside with her young family during 2020, writer Candida Meyrick makes the leap to adopt a twelve-week-old Harris’s hawk named Sophia Houdini Whitewing—aka Bird. Over the following months, she trains Bird to soar, hunt, and dazzle, and as Bird masters the sky, Candida is swept into a new way of living: one that centers courage and self-discovery. Through her time with Bird, Candida finds lessons for herself—to experience life fully, to be daring, to let go, and try new things—as well as lessons in parenting both Bird and her own children.

Working with her Harris’s hawk over the following years reveals a new world: confronting mortality daily, moving through a liminal landscape, part sky-, part earth-bound. Every day’s hunting brings a new life-lesson. Bird opens up a way of being that is everything Candida most longs to be: courageous, compassionate, independent, full of joy—free as a bird.

Through daily adventures across field and woodland, through bog and briar, Candida comes to realise that Bird is showing her the way, guiding her soul, revealing truths about her life that would otherwise have remained hidden.

Set against the untamed beauty of remote and rustic Welsh and English forests, fields, hedgerows, and seashore, Candida’s evocative story charts the subtle, profound bond between human and hawk—a relationship that bridges species, cultures, and worlds. In poetic prose, Be More Bird illuminates the ancient, worldwide art of falconry and its urgent relevance for the modern mind: the importance of untethering our souls and belief-systems and rediscovering our place in the wilder world.

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Reconciling Ways of Knowing

$19.95

In this groundbreaking, collaborative book, Indigenous knowledge keepers and Western scientists offer a revolutionary blueprint for environmental healing.

Reconciling Ways of Knowing invites readers into a powerful, ongoing conversation about how to bring together Indigenous knowledge systems and Western science in ethical, practical, and transformative ways. Rooted in the insight that Indigenous Peoples hold expert, place-based knowledge of lands, waters, and more‑than‑human relatives—knowledge built over millennia—this book argues that true reconciliation must also be an epistemic one: a reconciliation of ways of knowing.

Conceived by longtime collaborators and friends Kilslaay Kaaji Sding Miles Richardson (Haida leader) and Dr. David Suzuki (geneticist and environmental leader), and convened with Anishinaabe Elder Dr. Dave Courchene and ethnobotanist Dr. Nancy Turner, this project brought together an impressive range of Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders, Elders, scholars, and practitioners. During the Covid‑19 pandemic, they met online in a series of rich, nearly monthly dialogues to ask tough questions:

How should we care for the Earth, not merely “manage resources”?
What does ethical collaboration between Indigenous and Western knowledge actually look like in practice?
How can we transform decision‑making in nation‑states such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand—societies shaped by centuries of colonization?

Curated by the lead organizers of the Reconciling Ways of Knowing: Indigenous Knowledge and Science project, this book gathers the most urgent ideas, critiques, and proposals that emerged from those conversations. It shows how Western science, while responsible for many advances, has also produced grave unintended harms—from ozone depletion and toxin biomagnification to the worsening climate emergency—and why integrating Indigenous knowledge, values, and responsibilities is essential to charting a different course.

At once sobering and hopeful, Reconciling Ways of Knowing offers:

Inspiring examples of cross‑cultural collaboration and environmental leadership
A clear-eyed critique of the limits of Western science when it stands alone
A forward-looking vision for living respectfully with each other and our more‑than‑human relatives

For readers of environmental studies, Indigenous studies, science, policy, and anyone seeking pathways toward a just, sustainable future, this book is both a call to action and a guide for rethinking how we come to know—and care for—our shared planet.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

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Lulu is a Rhinoceros

$9.95

NOW AN INSPIRING ANIMATED SPECIAL ON APPLE TV+ FEATURING MOANA’S AULIʻI CRAVALHO

Everyone thinks Lulu is a bulldog.

But she knows that can’t be true!

Because Lulu is a rhinoceros!

‘Kids will love this inspiring and funny picture book about a spunky bulldog who has the courage to be herself. “The perfect storyline to talk to kids about so many topics!’ —Neuroclastic

Lulu knows she is a rhinoceros. She may have soft, fuzzy fur and a little nub that wiggles when she’s happy—but in her heart, she has thick grey skin and a tail that whips and twirls. And more than anything, Lulu would like her very own rhinoceros horn! ‘If only I had my horn, they would finally see the REAL me!’

As Lulu sets out to find her horn, she meets all sorts of dogs and even pigeons who don’t understand her. To them, Lulu does not look like a rhinoceros! But Lulu doesn’t let others stand in her way. Soon, she meets a small friend that makes a big difference in her life. With help from her new friend, Lulu realizes that the courage to be herself was inside her all along ...

The first picture book in a new series, Lulu is a Rhinoceros takes readers on an adventure through New York City and into Central Park Zoo to fetch and retrieve the most important possession Lulu owns—her identity! With adorable and vibrant artwork by acclaimed Lancashire-based illustrator Sophie Corrigan, Lulu is a Rhinoceros conveys gentle messages for young readers about diversity, tolerance, self-expression, radical acceptance, and interdependence.

Book 1 in the Lulu series:
Lulu is kind, curious and brave; she knows who she is, and she believes in herself. In this hopeful series, Lulu and her friends remind young readers that anything is possible when we listen to each other, celebrate our differences, and approach others with curiosity, not judgement—just like Lulu does!

Stream the music from the Apple TV+ hit musical special, Lulu Is A Rhinoceros, featuring songs “Good Morning, Beautiful You” and “The Perfect Me” from Auli’I Cravalho (Moana, Mean Girls: The All New Movie) and Alex Newell (Glee, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist). Available on your favourite streaming platform!

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The Hockey Song

$9.95

Based on the unforgettable ode to the greatest game on ice, The Hockey Song is a perfect gift for the hockey fans and young players in your life.

Oh! The good ol’ hockey game is the best game you can name.
And the best game you can name is the good ol’ hockey game.

Played before, after, and during hockey games across North America, Stompin’ Tom Connors’ iconic song evokes the pure joy the good ol’ hockey brings to players and fans alike. Gary Clement’s illustrations bring the song to life through depicting a pick-up game on a cold city rink. A father and son are soon joined by skater after skater, until the whole community is grabbing a stick—passing, shooting, scoring, and having the time of their lives.

A fresh take on a classic song, The Hockey Song is a tribute to hockey, winter, and having fun with the best game you can name.

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Queen of the Wolves

$18.95

For fans of A Wolf Called Wander comes the dramatic story of the life and legacy of the most famous wolf in the world—Wolf 06—in the third installment of The Chronicles of the Yellowstone Wolves series.

Praise for Book 1 in the series

"An inspiring read for any child who loves the natural world."—ROSANNE PARRY, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A WOLF CALLED WANDER

Introducing... Yellowstone royalty.

The 06 Female is brave, intelligent, and beautiful. She’s bold enough to survive on her own, and strong enough to take down a fully grown elk by herself. Descended from some of the park’s most legendary wolves, she seems destined for greatness.

In the world of the Yellowstone wolf packs, alpha females are a powerful force and Wolf 06 is ready to take on the role—she just needs to find a mate who will match her skills with his own.

Based on the observations of renowned Yellowstone wolf expert Rick McIntyre, Queen of the Wolves celebrates Wolf 06 and other alpha females. Their stories will leave no doubt about the legacy of these remarkable wolves.

Book 3 in The Chronicles of the Yellowstone Wolves series!

In The Chronicles of the Yellowstone Wolves series, renowned wolf expert Rick McIntyre and award-winning author David A. Poulsen team up to bring the fascinating stories of the Yellowstone wolves to a new generation of readers. Based on McIntyre's award-winning, bestselling books for adult readers, and containing a wealth of scientifically sound information on wolf behavior, this series is written in an engaging style that brings the drama and intrigue of the wolves' world to life.

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Choose Your Age

$27.95

In this groundbreaking manual for longevity, leading longevity expert Jean-Marc Lemaitre reveals how the latest science can help you measure, slow, and even reverse biological aging at a cellular level.

For generations, we've accepted aging as an inevitable decline, measuring our years by birthdays while ignoring the more crucial metric—our biological age. Traditional medicine continues to treat the symptoms of age-related diseases rather than addressing their root cause: cellular aging itself. Too often, healthcare systems intervene only after disease has taken hold, managing decline rather than preventing it.

In Choose Your Age, Jean-Marc Lemaitre—a renowned biogerontologist (a scientist of biological aging and age-related diseases)—presents a revolutionary alternative: a personalized, proactive approach to longevity that targets the fundamental mechanisms of aging before disease begins.

This is not speculation or trendy "biohacking"—it's cutting-edge science: a comprehensive, evidence-based strategy for extending not just lifespan but healthspan, the years you spend free from disease and decline. Lemaitre's approach isn't prescriptive but educational, empowering you to understand the science of aging so you can make informed decisions about your health journey. In Choose Your Age, readers will discover:

Why your chronological age is often misleading, and how new biological clocks can measure your true physiological age—revealing whether you're aging faster or slower than your peers.
How telomeres, the protective caps on your chromosomes, influence aging, and what practical steps can help maintain their length and integrity.
The revolutionary science of epigenetic reprogramming that could transform medicine's approach to aging by actually reversing cellular age.
Why the Mediterranean diet and specific fasting protocols can dramatically impact longevity, and how to adapt these approaches to your unique biochemistry.
How the lifestyles of centenarians in the world's "Blue Zones" offer practical insights for extending your own healthspan.
The emerging potential of senolytic therapies, metformin, and rapamycin in targeting senescent "zombie cells" that accelerate aging.
Why social connections, optimism, and time in nature are as crucial to longevity as any medical intervention—and how to incorporate them into your life.

Choose Your Age provides a new paradigm for thinking about aging, transforming it from an inevitable decline into a manageable process that you can influence at every stage of life. With this roadmap in hand, you can chart a different course for your future—one where each decade brings not just more years, but better ones.

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The Hunger Code

$29.95

THE SEQUEL TO THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER THE OBESITY CODE BY ACCLAIMED NEPHROLOGIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, JASON FUNG, MD

"Jason Fung nails it again in The Hunger Code. This book clearly and compellingly explains why most Americans are overweight and gives us a concise, evidence-based way to manage our weight with as little hunger as possible."—Dan Buettner, New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Zones

The Obesity Code helped thousands of people lose weight naturally.

The Hunger Code will help thousands more lose weight—and keep it off—in an era of weight‑loss drugs and ultra-processed foods…without counting calories.

For generations, we've accepted the story that weight loss can never last—that as soon as we go off the diet or stop taking the medication, we revert to our old habits, regain the weight, and the calorie-counting journey starts all over again. Traditional medicine continues to treat the symptom of weight gain rather than addressing its root causes. Too often, healthcare systems intervene with quick fixes and short-term solutions, ignoring the factors that lead to sustainable weight loss that can last a lifetime.

What if the secret to long-term weight maintenance and better health isn’t just about what you eat—or even when you eat—but why you eat?

With the food industry's reliance on ultra-processed foods and the popularity of Ozempic and Mounjaro, understanding the forces behind why we eat is more important than ever before.

In The Hunger Code, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Jason Fung reveals the three powerful forces that drive us to eat:

Physical Hunger
Emotional Hunger
Social Hunger

Dr. Fung also introduces the concept of the body’s “fat thermostat”—a biological “set point” that regulates how much fat your body tries to maintain. Guided by hormones and metabolism, this internal system drives hunger and energy use, explaining why lasting weight loss requires more than just willpower …

With three Golden Rules and 50 actionable tips, The Hunger Code empowers you to recognize and respond to hunger appropriately. Learn how to slow digestion, break emotional eating cycles, and overcome social pressures to eat constantly, so you can maintain a healthy weight—from scratch, after fasting, or after using weight‑loss drugs.

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Piet Finds A Home

$19.95

The bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees partners with his daughter to introduce readers to all of the fascinating things trees do as they change through the seasons!

Piet the squirrel needs a new home. Peter the forester suggests he move into an old beech tree, but Piet is nervous—the tree is VERY big! As he settles in, he soon finds that his new home is full of surprises: it can drink water with its roots, make sugar from sun, air and water, and sweat through its leaves. Piet learns more and more about his home as the year and seasons pass. Could Piet’s new home be something more?

In this charming book readers discover:

How trees are not only homes to animals like Piet, but share so much in common with us
Informational sidebars throughout
An authors’ note at the end filled with facts about animals, nature, and forests

Filled with stunning illustrations by Rachel Qiuqi, this second book in the Peter and Piet series follows the adventures of Piet the squirrel as he explores his forest home and his friend Peter the forester. These fun stories by bestselling author Peter Wohlleben and Carina Wohlleben include backmatter and informative sidebars.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

Cover image for Piet Finds A Home, isbn: 9781778400292

The Elegance of Ferns

$24.95

Discover the weirdly wonderful world of ferns—plants that outlived the dinosaurs, inspired a Victorian-era obsession, and continue to enchant us with their mathematical perfection and lush beauty.

Ancient and enigmatic, ferns captivate with understated elegance. Their fronds unfurl in perfect mathematical spirals, connecting us to Earth's primordial past. Victorian-era "fern fever" transformed these plants into cultural icons inspiring art and literature, while Māori traditions revere them as sacred links between heaven and earth. Ferns also played a central role in the picturesque movement, where artists like Reverend William Gilpin sought to capture their untamed naturalism in evocative landscapes. While for poets like John Clare, ferns symbolized a mystical connection to nature, their shadowy habitats offering a refuge for contemplation and melancholy.

But ferns are more than symbols—they are ecological marvels, resilient and adaptive. Nitzke also explores the environmental and evolutionary importance of ferns, which have adapted to thrive in diverse environments, from the lush rainforests of New Zealand to the fossilized landscapes of Saxony. Their prehistoric dominance—towering three stories high—is preserved in fossilized remains 360 million years old.

The Elegance of Ferns invites us to marvel at these living relics—symbols of beauty, cultural identity, and ecological resilience illuminating our connection to the natural world.

Cover image for The Elegance of Ferns, isbn: 9781778403385

The Boy, The Father, and The Bear

$21.95

From award-winning Swedish author Per Gustavsson comes a touching story about life, death, and new beginnings.

A boy and his father live alone on an island. They play football, fish, and have a very happy life together. His father gives him advice, to avoid bears and sharks, but as the father’s life comes to an end he remarkably turns into a tree…

“Everything will be all right,” the branches creaked back.
It was as if his father were talking to him.

The boy must set out on his new life of his own. Along the way, he encounters new friends who help him discover that even after loss, life can still be filled with companionship and wonder.

For readers ages 6-8, The Boy, the Father, and the Bear, is a gentle meditation about the nature of life and finding your place in the world no matter what.

Cover image for The Boy, The Father, and The Bear, isbn: 9781778402203

Aya Has Never Seen a Bear

$20.95

"An example of environmental stewardship in action ... gentle, appealingly straightforward narration sets a steady pace that reflects the story’s theme of patience ... Understated and charming."—Kirkus Reviews

A stunning glimpse into the rich culture and traditions of the Oroqen people from the beloved creators of The Moose of Ewenki.

A marvelous story about Aya, a young girl whose grandfather lives a traditional life in the mountains of northern China. He has introduced her to all the animals and plants of their region and the way of life of the Oroqen people. One morning, Aya’s grandfather tells her that he will take her deep into the forest to see bears—something she has dreamed of for a long time. So off they ride, very quietly, through the fall woods.

Filled with stunning illustrations, Aya Has Never Seen a Bear is a beautiful introduction to one of the traditional peoples of China.

Cover image for Aya Has Never Seen a Bear, isbn: 9781778403064

A Bird's IQ

$28.00

“This book is a gem, witty, entertaining, insightful, and deeply informative—a must-read for anyone interested in birds or brains.” JENNIFER ACKERMAN, New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, What an Owl Knows, and The Bird Way

Discover the secret intelligence of birds, revealed by one of the world’s leading researchers in avian innovation.

Surveying a wide variety of birds, including crows, finches, tits, and parrots, Louis Lefebvre, a world-renowned expert in animal behavior, describes the remarkable innovations and problem-solving abilities of species often dismissed as “featherbrains.” From crows using cars as nutcrackers to cockatoos crafting tools, Lefebvre reveals how birds exhibit creativity, social learning, and even cultural transmission—traits once thought to be exclusive to humans and other primates.

Blending his decades of scientific research with engaging anecdotes, Lefebvre examines the evolutionary forces that have shaped avian intelligence. He explores how birds adapt to urban environments, innovate in response to challenges, and pass down knowledge across generations. This goldmine of bird behavior yields an “innovation quotient” (like our human IQ) widely used by researchers to measure and rank how innovative a bird species is. Using his encyclopedic knowledge, Lefebvre answers questions such as:

When a bird species learns a new technique, how do their innovations spread?
Why is research on bird cognition being used to train AI models and even robots?
What makes certain birds endlessly innovative while others stubbornly repeat the same behaviors?

With vivid storytelling and groundbreaking insights, A Bird’s IQ invites readers to reconsider their perceptions, celebrating the ingenuity of birds and highlighting the interconnectedness of all intelligent life.

Cover image for A Bird's IQ, isbn: 9781778402647

Fiddlehead Forest

$14.95

For fans of Narwhal and Jelly, this hilarious graphic novel explores the beautifully diverse ecosystem created by nurse logs.

The second graphic novel in the Little Habitats series, following the beloved Barnacle Bay. Each book in this series explores a different ecosystem, from oceans to forests, and more!

When a tree falls in the forest, Fern is determined to step up and lead a rescue mission to raise it back up to its grand height. With the help of her quirky and ambitious forest friends—Millipede, Moth, Slug, Lichen, and Mushroom—the crew springs to action in search of LOG-ical solutions to restore the tree to its upright position. Will they succeed in their mission? You’ll never be-LEAF what happens next!

Designed for kids aged 6-9, Fiddlehead Forest features:

Science-based information about nurse logs and forest biodiversity reviewed by experts
Fun facts about the unique and connected creatures—big and small—in forests
Hilarious and brightly colored graphic style illustrations

Packed with humor, playful puns, and fun facts about nurse logs and forests, this beautifully illustrated graphic novel dives into the fascinating world hidden within this tiny and important ecosystem.

Book 2 in the Little Habitats series!

This series of graphic novels for young readers introduces children to nature’s small and vital ecosystems. Full of humor and hijinks, each book in the series features a heartwarming story set in a different habitat, with accompanying fact pages throughout.

Cover image for Fiddlehead Forest, isbn: 9781778401046

Lessons From a Lifetime

$30.00

This keepsake collection, featuring tributes from Margaret Atwood and Neil Young, captures the essence of a revolutionary life as it celebrates the legacy of environmental icon David Suzuki.

Across his 90 years on planet Earth, David Suzuki has inspired generations of his followers to fight for environmental and social causes with courage and conviction. In Lessons From a Lifetime, Suzuki shares pearls of wisdom and hard-earned lessons for the next generation of activists, alongside personal stories and heartfelt contributions from his friends and family, his admirers, and even his opponents, including:

Margaret Atwood
Neil Young
Jane Fonda
Elizabeth May
Justin Trudeau
… and many more.

In words and photographs, Lessons From a Lifetime shares David Suzuki's journey from surviving internment camps as a Japanese-Canadian child to becoming North America's most trusted voice in science communication. The book charts his years as a geneticist and superstar professor at the University of British Columbia; his dedication to demystifying complex science through his public broadcasting work, especially his beloved CBC Television program, The Nature of Things; his founding of The David Suzuki Foundation; and his unparalleled dedication to standing up for Indigenous and environmental rights, a dedication that continues today.

A stunning tribute to a fearless truth-teller who transformed how we understand our relationship with the natural world, Lessons From a Lifetime belongs on every bookshelf.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

Cover image for Lessons From a Lifetime, isbn: 9781778403606

Dead Bees Still Sting

$19.95

“Electric, alive, and tender, Cormier's world is one of deep entanglement and ethical implication. How do we live with the natural world in a time when the borders between domestication and wildness are blurred—and how do we grapple with its changes? This book, playful and direct at once, offers a path.”—Jessica J. Lee, author of Dispersals and Two Trees Make a Forest

For readers of Raising Hare and How to Catch a Mole comes a poetic exploration of life at the precarious edge of nature and human settlement.

On a small acreage teeming with wild and domestic animals, buzzing with a half-million honeybees, and dotted with fruit trees—including one affectionately named Bill—lives beekeeper-poet Susan Cormier. Circling the farm, an aggressive tangle of forest and blackberry vines thrives, but beyond, the shadow of urban development creeps ever closer. Over five seasons Cormier takes readers through the rhythms of semi-agricultural life, reflecting on the dichotomy between beauty and grief, loss and renewal, and humor and the often heart-wrenching realities of animal existence in an agrarian landscape.

Susan’s acreage is filled with an ever-changing cast of animals, from the hand-raised quail Birb, who likes to play peekaboo, to companionable cats and dogs, Frodo the rescued rabbit, deer, elusive mink, and owls. Dead Bees Still Sting also offers a rich education in beekeeping, guiding readers through the complexities of hive life, the art of capturing swarms, and the serious challenges facing bees today, including the unintended harm caused by inexperienced hobbyists.

Lyrical and poignant, Dead Bees Still Sting is a moving meditation on the cycles of nature, vulnerability, persistence, and survival. Above all, it is a celebration of what it means to belong to a place, to witness its changes, and to find beauty and meaning in the ongoing conversation between humans and nature.

Cover image for Dead Bees Still Sting, isbn: 9781778402012

My Life With Wolves

$27.95

America’s beloved wolf historian and longtime Yellowstone park ranger shares his long-awaited biography—a story filled with true grit, laughter, and love for America’s National Parks.

“There is literally no one else who could tell these stories.” NBC

“The chief historian of the most famous wolf population in the world.” Washington Post

“Like Darwin, McIntyre is an inclusionist and is thus able to enter the hearts and minds of wolves.” Mountain Journal

“Rick McIntyre is the ultimate guru of wolf behavior.” Jane Goodall

In this entertaining memoir, Rick McIntyre recounts his life spent amongst wild nature while working in the National Parks Service as a park ranger and shares the wisdom he has gained from spending nearly every day of his adult life in the presence of wolves.

McIntyre has calculated whether to outpace a grizzly or stand and face it. He has narrowly missed a charge by a moose. He has watched alpha wolves come up against each other in battles for territory—only to be surprised by their benevolent actions.

Throughout his career, McIntyre has used his experience in the great outdoors and through watching apex predators in the sights of his telescope to de-escalate fights between humans—even once helping to apprehend an armed man inside Yellowstone National Park by simply inviting him to his wolf talk later that evening.

This book chronicles Rick’s journey, explains his values, and brings readers up to date on the latest dramas of the Junction Butte pack in Yellowstone. Along the way, this tale is threaded through with Rick’s calm assertiveness in the face of conflict, his wise dealings with humans and animals alike, and his gentle sense of humor—like the time a woman excitedly thought she saw a grizzly bear through his telescope and Rick had to break it to her that what she saw was really an … Arctic ground squirrel.

Cover image for My Life With Wolves, isbn: 9781778401213

Buffalo Lessons

$21.95

The breathtaking true story of the return of wild bison to the Rockies, as told by the wildlife biologist who helped lead them there.

Featuring behind-the-scenes photographs from one of North America’s most ambitious conservation projects.

For thousands of years, wild bison numbering in the millions roamed across a range spanning half of North America. Then, in the 1800s, they were nearly exterminated by European settlers. Buffalo Lessons shares the story of their triumphant return to a mountainous corner of their historic range, nearly a century and a half after they last walked the land.

Karsten Heuer, the conservationist tasked with leading the project, chronicles the groundbreaking reintroduction of plains bison to Banff National Park, beginning in 2017, when ten pregnant females and six males were airlifted into an enclosed pasture. It was a complex and ambitious project, designed to restore North America’s largest land mammal to its important ecological role in the landscape and its cultural role for Indigenous peoples. Despite meticulous planning, Heuer and his team found themselves repeatedly “buffaloed” by the animals, who had a knack for doing the unexpected, and teaching the humans lessons along the way.

Heuer packs his narrative with thrilling moments: a horseback chase to tranquilize a bison, a helicopter-assisted translocation into the rugged backcountry, and the tense tracking of wayward bulls that scale steep, treacherous terrain. Throughout, his encounters with these massive creatures—both awe-inspiring and humbling—force him to confront his assumptions about control, nature, and conservation.

In 2024, Heuer was diagnosed with a terminal brain condition, and he completed the manuscript for Buffalo Lessons in the weeks and days before his death. His narrative ends seven years after the initial introduction, with a thriving population of around one hundred bison and the organization of the first Indigenous hunt in the region in over 150 years. Buffalo Lessons stands as a testament to the resilience of bison, and as the culmination of a life’s work in conservation.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

Cover image for Buffalo Lessons, isbn: 9781778403149

The Hidden Life of Trees

$18.95

A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • One of the most beloved books of our time: an illuminating account of the forest, and the science that shows us how trees communicate, feel, and live in social networks. After reading this book, a walk in the woods will never be the same again.

“Breaks entirely new ground ... [Peter Wohlleben] has listened to trees and decoded their language. Now he speaks for them.”—The New York Review of Books

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BRAINPICKINGS • HONORABLE MENTION: SEJ Rachel Carson Environment Book Award • Shortlisted: Audible International Book of the Year Award • Books For a Better Life Award • Indie Choice Award—Nonfiction Book of the Year

Are trees social beings? In The Hidden Life of Trees forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration that he has observed in his woodland.

“A declaration of love and an engrossing primer on trees, brimming with facts and an unashamed awe for nature.”—Washington Post

“Heavily dusted with the glitter of wonderment.”—The New Yorker

Includes a Note From a Forest Scientist by Dr.Suzanne Simard

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

Cover image for The Hidden Life of Trees, isbn: 9781771643771

Thinking Like a Wolf

$19.95

Book Five in the Award-Winning “Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone” series

“Rick’s writing is so vivid, so powerful, that I feel I have been right there with him among the wolves of Yellowstone.”—Jane Goodall

Following eight major wolf personalities, Thinking Like a Wolf draws on decades of field notes to uncover the challenges and triumphs of Yellowstone’s wolf packs, from the “chief historian of the most famous wolf population in the world” (Washington Post).

In his latest book, award-winning author and renowned wolf researcher, Rick McIntyre, explores the intricate world of wolf behavior in Yellowstone National Park and highlights the individual character traits that allow wolf packs to thrive.

Unveiling power struggles, pack politics, the roles of family protection, inter-pack conflicts, and more, Rick skillfully follows the intricacy of packs and the unique attributes each wolf has. In these true stories, he celebrates the many lessons we can learn from wolf packs and the dynamic personalities that enable them to expand across new territories amidst adversity.

Weaving an impressive web of politics and power, family cooperation and commitment, rivalry and resilience, Thinking Like a Wolf provides readers with a unique window into the fascinating inner workings of wolf packs.

Cover image for Thinking Like a Wolf, isbn: 9781778403767

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

$19.95

From the award-winning illustrator of The Hockey Song comes a stunning tribute to baseball’s most beloved anthem.

Take me out to the ball game!

A boy tries to convince his father to leave his work behind and join him for an afternoon—out with the crowd so they can root, root, root for the home team!

Colorful cartoon-style illustrations bring the nostalgic lyrics to life, making it an infectious read-aloud for readers young and old.

Perfect for families, young sports fans, and enthusiastic baseball lovers, this fresh take on a classic song is a joyful celebration of the sights, sounds, and spirit of the old ball game.

Cover image for Take Me Out to the Ball Game, isbn: 9781778403255

Dead Bees Still Sting

$19.95

“Electric, alive, and tender, Cormier's world is one of deep entanglement and ethical implication. How do we live with the natural world in a time when the borders between domestication and wildness are blurred—and how do we grapple with its changes? This book, playful and direct at once, offers a path.”—Jessica J. Lee, author of Dispersals and Two Trees Make a Forest

For readers of Raising Hare and How to Catch a Mole comes a poetic exploration of life at the precarious edge of nature and human settlement.

On a small acreage teeming with wild and domestic animals, buzzing with a half-million honeybees, and dotted with fruit trees—including one affectionately named Bill—lives beekeeper-poet Susan Cormier. Circling the farm, an aggressive tangle of forest and blackberry vines thrives, but beyond, the shadow of urban development creeps ever closer. Over five seasons Cormier takes readers through the rhythms of semi-agricultural life, reflecting on the dichotomy between beauty and grief, loss and renewal, and humor and the often heart-wrenching realities of animal existence in an agrarian landscape.

Susan’s acreage is filled with an ever-changing cast of animals, from the hand-raised quail Birb, who likes to play peekaboo, to companionable cats and dogs, Frodo the rescued rabbit, deer, elusive mink, and owls. Dead Bees Still Sting also offers a rich education in beekeeping, guiding readers through the complexities of hive life, the art of capturing swarms, and the serious challenges facing bees today, including the unintended harm caused by inexperienced hobbyists.

Lyrical and poignant, Dead Bees Still Sting is a moving meditation on the cycles of nature, vulnerability, persistence, and survival. Above all, it is a celebration of what it means to belong to a place, to witness its changes, and to find beauty and meaning in the ongoing conversation between humans and nature.

Cover image for Dead Bees Still Sting, isbn: 9781778402029

Piet Finds A Home

$19.95

The bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees partners with his daughter to introduce readers to all of the fascinating things trees do as they change through the seasons!

Piet the squirrel needs a new home. Peter the forester suggests he move into an old beech tree, but Piet is nervous—the tree is VERY big! As he settles in, he soon finds that his new home is full of surprises: it can drink water with its roots, make sugar from sun, air and water, and sweat through its leaves. Piet learns more and more about his home as the year and seasons pass. Could Piet’s new home be something more?

In this charming book readers discover:

How trees are not only homes to animals like Piet, but share so much in common with us
Informational sidebars throughout
An authors’ note at the end filled with facts about animals, nature, and forests

Filled with stunning illustrations by Rachel Qiuqi, this second book in the Peter and Piet series follows the adventures of Piet the squirrel as he explores his forest home and his friend Peter the forester. These fun stories by bestselling author Peter Wohlleben and Carina Wohlleben include backmatter and informative sidebars.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

Cover image for Piet Finds A Home, isbn: 9781778400308

Aya Has Never Seen a Bear

$20.95

A stunning glimpse into the rich culture and traditions of the Oroqen people from the beloved creators of The Moose of Ewenki.

A marvelous story about Aya, a young girl whose grandfather lives a traditional life in the mountains of northern China. He has introduced her to all the animals and plants of their region and the way of life of the Oroqen people. One morning, Aya’s grandfather tells her that he will take her deep into the forest to see bears—something she has dreamed of for a long time. So off they ride, very quietly, through the fall woods.

Filled with stunning illustrations, Aya Has Never Seen a Bear is a beautiful introduction to one of the traditional peoples of China.

Cover image for Aya Has Never Seen a Bear, isbn: 9781778403071

The Boy, The Father, and The Bear

$21.95

From award-winning Swedish author Per Gustavsson comes a touching story about life, death, and new beginnings.

A boy and his father live alone on an island. They play football, fish, and have a very happy life together. His father gives him advice, to avoid bears and sharks, but as the father’s life comes to an end he remarkably turns into a tree…

“Everything will be all right,” the branches creaked back.
It was as if his father were talking to him.

The boy must set out on his new life of his own. Along the way, he encounters new friends who help him discover that even after loss, life can still be filled with companionship and wonder.

For readers ages 6-8, The Boy, the Father, and the Bear, is a gentle meditation about the nature of life and finding your place in the world no matter what.

Cover image for The Boy, The Father, and The Bear, isbn: 9781778402210

My Life With Wolves

$27.95

America’s beloved wolf historian and longtime Yellowstone park ranger shares his long-awaited biography—a story filled with true grit, laughter, and love for America’s National Parks.

“There is literally no one else who could tell these stories.” NBC

“The chief historian of the most famous wolf population in the world.” Washington Post

“Like Darwin, McIntyre is an inclusionist and is thus able to enter the hearts and minds of wolves.” Mountain Journal

“Rick McIntyre is the ultimate guru of wolf behavior.” Jane Goodall

In this entertaining memoir, Rick McIntyre recounts his life spent amongst wild nature while working in the National Parks Service as a park ranger and shares the wisdom he has gained from spending nearly every day of his adult life in the presence of wolves.

McIntyre has calculated whether to outpace a grizzly or stand and face it. He has narrowly missed a charge by a moose. He has watched alpha wolves come up against each other in battles for territory—only to be surprised by their benevolent actions.

Throughout his career, McIntyre has used his experience in the great outdoors and through watching apex predators in the sights of his telescope to de-escalate fights between humans—even once helping to apprehend an armed man inside Yellowstone National Park by simply inviting him to his wolf talk later that evening.

This book chronicles Rick’s journey, explains his values, and brings readers up to date on the latest dramas of the Junction Butte pack in Yellowstone. Along the way, this tale is threaded through with Rick’s calm assertiveness in the face of conflict, his wise dealings with humans and animals alike, and his gentle sense of humor—like the time a woman excitedly thought she saw a grizzly bear through his telescope and Rick had to break it to her that what she saw was really an … Arctic ground squirrel.

Cover image for My Life With Wolves, isbn: 9781778401220

Buffalo Lessons

$21.95

The breathtaking true story of the return of wild bison to the Rockies, as told by the wildlife biologist who helped lead them there.

Featuring behind-the-scenes photographs from one of North America’s most ambitious conservation projects.

For thousands of years, wild bison numbering in the millions roamed across a range spanning half of North America. Then, in the 1800s, they were nearly exterminated by European settlers. Buffalo Lessons shares the story of their triumphant return to a mountainous corner of their historic range, nearly a century and a half after they last walked the land.

Karsten Heuer, the conservationist tasked with leading the project, chronicles the groundbreaking reintroduction of plains bison to Banff National Park, beginning in 2017, when ten pregnant females and six males were airlifted into an enclosed pasture. It was a complex and ambitious project, designed to restore North America’s largest land mammal to its important ecological role in the landscape and its cultural role for Indigenous peoples. Despite meticulous planning, Heuer and his team found themselves repeatedly “buffaloed” by the animals, who had a knack for doing the unexpected, and teaching the humans lessons along the way.

Heuer packs his narrative with thrilling moments: a horseback chase to tranquilize a bison, a helicopter-assisted translocation into the rugged backcountry, and the tense tracking of wayward bulls that scale steep, treacherous terrain. Throughout, his encounters with these massive creatures—both awe-inspiring and humbling—force him to confront his assumptions about control, nature, and conservation.

In 2024, Heuer was diagnosed with a terminal brain condition, and he completed the manuscript for Buffalo Lessons in the weeks and days before his death. His narrative ends seven years after the initial introduction, with a thriving population of around one hundred bison and the organization of the first Indigenous hunt in the region in over 150 years. Buffalo Lessons stands as a testament to the resilience of bison, and as the culmination of a life’s work in conservation.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

Cover image for Buffalo Lessons, isbn: 9781778403156

I Hear You, Ocean

$9.95

This joyful and soothing book about ocean sounds for kids 3-7 will transport readers to the seaside.

When a child visits the ocean with his little brother, he whispers to him, “The ocean has lots to say, if you listen.” Together, they hear wondrous things, like the rumble of pebbles tumbling and filling the beach with shiny gems, the bark of a seal playing peekaboo, and the whooshing of a shell murmuring messages.

The second book in the Sounds of Nature Series for young children, I Hear You, Ocean is an excellent resource for outdoor education and social-emotional learning, helping to teach:

How to engage with nature in fun and respectful ways
Mindfulness and empathy with the world around us
Positive and gentle play with younger siblings
The ocean makes magical sounds—you just have to listen!

Book 2 in the Sounds of Nature series! This picture book series about listening to nature explores different ecosystems, including forest, ocean, and mountain soundscapes. It encourages mindfulness, outdoor education, and social-emotional learning, as readers join the characters in using their imaginations to hear the many things nature has to say.

Cover image for I Hear You, Ocean, isbn: 9781778403712

On the Other Side of the Forest

$12.95

A 2021 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book

“Absorbing storytelling.”—Publishers Weekly STARRED Review

“A riveting read.”—Kirkus Reviews STARRED Review

What’s on the other side of the forest? A young rabbit and his father are determined to find out in this modern picture book that “feels like a vintage gem” (New York Times), calling to mind the tender work of Beatrix Potter.

Some say that wolves, ogres, and giant badgers live in the forest beside Arthur’s house. That’s why no one ever goes in there, to see what’s on the other side. But one day, Arthur’s dad has an idea—a magnificent idea! Build a tower to look over the treetops! But a magnificent idea takes a lot of work. Will the villagers join and help them? And when the tower takes shape, what will they see on the other side?

This wonderful, heartwarming story reminiscent of classic children’s books, is perfect for:

Teaching kids about cooperation and teamwork—and how they help us achieve our dreams!
A fun and creative Easter or Spring-themed gift for kids

Cover image for On the Other Side of the Forest, isbn: 9781778403729

The Nature of Play

$22.95

Perfect for ages 8+, readers are invited to explore, learn, and play in harmony with nature—no matter what season we’re in!

Filled with bespoke crafts and seasonal activities for readers young and old, The Nature of Play is the perfect resource for exploring and engaging with nature and your creative side—whether you’re at home, in your backyard, or a local park.

Discover seasonal recipes, hands-on projects, and detailed guides to plants and animals, including:

How to find your way using nature's signs
How to create a leaf mask
How to stargaze and discover solar constellations
How to create seasonal mobiles that celebrate the seasons
How to plant a terrarium, and so much more!

The perfect book for families, forest schools, educators, and anyone looking to connect with the outdoors, The Nature of Play inspires curiosity and hands-on learning, making it easy to enjoy and appreciate nature—wherever you are, all year round.

From the author:
“Many children don't know how to play without a screen—this book is a small inoculation against that state of being. It requires children to challenge themselves, find solutions and rely on their skills and imaginations. Most of all, it asks them to slow their pace enough to really observe, to examine, to contemplate and to wonder.”
—Delfina Aguilar

Cover image for The Nature of Play, isbn: 9781778403095

Train Beyond the Mountains

$19.95

A captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the world's most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other international railways through the eyes of travellers past and present.

Rick Antonson has ridden trains in more than thirty-five countries—but almost everything he thinks he knows about train travel changes when he boards the Rocky Mountaineer with his ten-year-old grandson, Riley. As they wind over trestles and through tunnels, each mile of track uncovers stories of dynamite and discovery, surveyors and schemers, explorers and visionaries, and the people who helped to build Canada against the odds of geography and politics. Surrounded by a wild landscape that sparks imagination, fellow passengers recount train travels in other countries, get nostalgic for the era of steam locomotives, and consider life’s unfinished journeys.

Peppered with spirited dialogue, heartrending vignettes, and intriguing anecdotes, Train Beyond the Mountains is a travelogue with urgency: to make your travel dreams happen now. As one passenger muses, "The mistake we make is that we think we have time."

Cover image for Train Beyond the Mountains, isbn: 9781778403774

Queen of the Wolves

$18.95

For fans of A Wolf Called Wander comes the dramatic story of the life and legacy of the most famous wolf in the world—Wolf 06—in the third installment of The Chronicles of the Yellowstone Wolves series.

Praise for Book 1 in the series

"An inspiring read for any child who loves the natural world."—ROSANNE PARRY, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A WOLF CALLED WANDER

Introducing... Yellowstone royalty.

The 06 Female is brave, intelligent, and beautiful. She’s bold enough to survive on her own, and strong enough to take down a fully grown elk by herself. Descended from some of the park’s most legendary wolves, she seems destined for greatness.

In the world of the Yellowstone wolf packs, alpha females are a powerful force and Wolf 06 is ready to take on the role—she just needs to find a mate who will match her skills with his own.

Based on the observations of renowned Yellowstone wolf expert Rick McIntyre, Queen of the Wolves celebrates Wolf 06 and other alpha females. Their stories will leave no doubt about the legacy of these remarkable wolves.

Book 3 in The Chronicles of the Yellowstone Wolves series!

In The Chronicles of the Yellowstone Wolves series, renowned wolf expert Rick McIntyre and award-winning author David A. Poulsen team up to bring the fascinating stories of the Yellowstone wolves to a new generation of readers. Based on McIntyre's award-winning, bestselling books for adult readers, and containing a wealth of scientifically sound information on wolf behavior, this series is written in an engaging style that brings the drama and intrigue of the wolves' world to life.

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Lessons From a Lifetime

$30.00

This keepsake collection, featuring tributes from Margaret Atwood and Neil Young, captures the essence of a revolutionary life as it celebrates the legacy of environmental icon David Suzuki.

Across his 90 years on planet Earth, David Suzuki has inspired generations of his followers to fight for environmental and social causes with courage and conviction. In Lessons From a Lifetime, Suzuki shares pearls of wisdom and hard-earned lessons for the next generation of activists, alongside personal stories and heartfelt contributions from his friends and family, his admirers, and even his opponents, including:

Margaret Atwood
Neil Young
Jane Fonda
Elizabeth May
Justin Trudeau
… and many more.

In words and photographs, Lessons From a Lifetime shares David Suzuki's journey from surviving internment camps as a Japanese-Canadian child to becoming North America's most trusted voice in science communication. The book charts his years as a geneticist and superstar professor at the University of British Columbia; his dedication to demystifying complex science through his public broadcasting work, especially his beloved CBC Television program, The Nature of Things; his founding of The David Suzuki Foundation; and his unparalleled dedication to standing up for Indigenous and environmental rights, a dedication that continues today.

A stunning tribute to a fearless truth-teller who transformed how we understand our relationship with the natural world, Lessons From a Lifetime belongs on every bookshelf.

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

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The Elegance of Ferns

$24.95

Discover the weirdly wonderful world of ferns—plants that outlived the dinosaurs, inspired a Victorian-era obsession, and continue to enchant us with their mathematical perfection and lush beauty.

Ancient and enigmatic, ferns captivate with understated elegance. Their fronds unfurl in perfect mathematical spirals, connecting us to Earth's primordial past. Victorian-era "fern fever" transformed these plants into cultural icons inspiring art and literature, while Māori traditions revere them as sacred links between heaven and earth. Ferns also played a central role in the picturesque movement, where artists like Reverend William Gilpin sought to capture their untamed naturalism in evocative landscapes. While for poets like John Clare, ferns symbolized a mystical connection to nature, their shadowy habitats offering a refuge for contemplation and melancholy.

But ferns are more than symbols—they are ecological marvels, resilient and adaptive. Nitzke also explores the environmental and evolutionary importance of ferns, which have adapted to thrive in diverse environments, from the lush rainforests of New Zealand to the fossilized landscapes of Saxony. Their prehistoric dominance—towering three stories high—is preserved in fossilized remains 360 million years old.

The Elegance of Ferns invites us to marvel at these living relics—symbols of beauty, cultural identity, and ecological resilience illuminating our connection to the natural world.

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Choose Your Age

$27.95

In this groundbreaking manual for longevity, leading longevity expert Jean-Marc Lemaitre reveals how the latest science can help you measure, slow, and even reverse biological aging at a cellular level.

For generations, we've accepted aging as an inevitable decline, measuring our years by birthdays while ignoring the more crucial metric—our biological age. Traditional medicine continues to treat the symptoms of age-related diseases rather than addressing their root cause: cellular aging itself. Too often, healthcare systems intervene only after disease has taken hold, managing decline rather than preventing it.

In Choose Your Age, Jean-Marc Lemaitre—a renowned biogerontologist (a scientist of biological aging and age-related diseases)—presents a revolutionary alternative: a personalized, proactive approach to longevity that targets the fundamental mechanisms of aging before disease begins.

This is not speculation or trendy "biohacking"—it's cutting-edge science: a comprehensive, evidence-based strategy for extending not just lifespan but healthspan, the years you spend free from disease and decline. Lemaitre's approach isn't prescriptive but educational, empowering you to understand the science of aging so you can make informed decisions about your health journey. In Choose Your Age, readers will discover:

Why your chronological age is often misleading, and how new biological clocks can measure your true physiological age—revealing whether you're aging faster or slower than your peers.
How telomeres, the protective caps on your chromosomes, influence aging, and what practical steps can help maintain their length and integrity.
The revolutionary science of epigenetic reprogramming that could transform medicine's approach to aging by actually reversing cellular age.
Why the Mediterranean diet and specific fasting protocols can dramatically impact longevity, and how to adapt these approaches to your unique biochemistry.
How the lifestyles of centenarians in the world's "Blue Zones" offer practical insights for extending your own healthspan.
The emerging potential of senolytic therapies, metformin, and rapamycin in targeting senescent "zombie cells" that accelerate aging.
Why social connections, optimism, and time in nature are as crucial to longevity as any medical intervention—and how to incorporate them into your life.

Choose Your Age provides a new paradigm for thinking about aging, transforming it from an inevitable decline into a manageable process that you can influence at every stage of life. With this roadmap in hand, you can chart a different course for your future—one where each decade brings not just more years, but better ones.

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Fiddlehead Forest

$14.95

For fans of Narwhal and Jelly, this hilarious graphic novel explores the beautifully diverse ecosystem created by nurse logs.

The second graphic novel in the Little Habitats series, following the beloved Barnacle Bay. Each book in this series explores a different ecosystem, from oceans to forests, and more!

When a tree falls in the forest, Fern is determined to step up and lead a rescue mission to raise it back up to its grand height. With the help of her quirky and ambitious forest friends—Millipede, Moth, Slug, Lichen, and Mushroom—the crew springs to action in search of LOG-ical solutions to restore the tree to its upright position. Will they succeed in their mission? You’ll never be-LEAF what happens next!

Designed for kids aged 6-9, Fiddlehead Forest features:

Science-based information about nurse logs and forest biodiversity reviewed by experts
Fun facts about the unique and connected creatures—big and small—in forests
Hilarious and brightly colored graphic style illustrations

Packed with humor, playful puns, and fun facts about nurse logs and forests, this beautifully illustrated graphic novel dives into the fascinating world hidden within this tiny and important ecosystem.

Book 2 in the Little Habitats series!

This series of graphic novels for young readers introduces children to nature’s small and vital ecosystems. Full of humor and hijinks, each book in the series features a heartwarming story set in a different habitat, with accompanying fact pages throughout.

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A Bird's IQ

$28.00

“This book is a gem, witty, entertaining, insightful, and deeply informative—a must-read for anyone interested in birds or brains.” JENNIFER ACKERMAN, New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, What an Owl Knows, and The Bird Way

Discover the secret intelligence of birds, revealed by one of the world’s leading researchers in avian innovation.

Surveying a wide variety of birds, including crows, finches, tits, and parrots, Louis Lefebvre, a world-renowned expert in animal behavior, describes the remarkable innovations and problem-solving abilities of species often dismissed as “featherbrains.” From crows using cars as nutcrackers to cockatoos crafting tools, Lefebvre reveals how birds exhibit creativity, social learning, and even cultural transmission—traits once thought to be exclusive to humans and other primates.

Blending his decades of scientific research with engaging anecdotes, Lefebvre examines the evolutionary forces that have shaped avian intelligence. He explores how birds adapt to urban environments, innovate in response to challenges, and pass down knowledge across generations. This goldmine of bird behavior yields an “innovation quotient” (like our human IQ) widely used by researchers to measure and rank how innovative a bird species is. Using his encyclopedic knowledge, Lefebvre answers questions such as:

When a bird species learns a new technique, how do their innovations spread?
Why is research on bird cognition being used to train AI models and even robots?
What makes certain birds endlessly innovative while others stubbornly repeat the same behaviors?

With vivid storytelling and groundbreaking insights, A Bird’s IQ invites readers to reconsider their perceptions, celebrating the ingenuity of birds and highlighting the interconnectedness of all intelligent life.

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The Hunger Code

$29.95

THE SEQUEL TO THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER THE OBESITY CODE BY ACCLAIMED NEPHROLOGIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, JASON FUNG, MD

"Jason Fung nails it again in The Hunger Code. This book clearly and compellingly explains why most Americans are overweight and gives us a concise, evidence-based way to manage our weight with as little hunger as possible."—Dan Buettner, New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Zones

The Obesity Code helped thousands of people lose weight naturally.

The Hunger Code will help thousands more lose weight—and keep it off—in an era of weight‑loss drugs and ultra-processed foods…without counting calories.

For generations, we've accepted the story that weight loss can never last—that as soon as we go off the diet or stop taking the medication, we revert to our old habits, regain the weight, and the calorie-counting journey starts all over again. Traditional medicine continues to treat the symptom of weight gain rather than addressing its root causes. Too often, healthcare systems intervene with quick fixes and short-term solutions, ignoring the factors that lead to sustainable weight loss that can last a lifetime.

What if the secret to long-term weight maintenance and better health isn’t just about what you eat—or even when you eat—but why you eat?

With the food industry's reliance on ultra-processed foods and the popularity of Ozempic and Mounjaro, understanding the forces behind why we eat is more important than ever before.

In The Hunger Code, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Jason Fung reveals the three powerful forces that drive us to eat:

Physical Hunger
Emotional Hunger
Social Hunger

Dr. Fung also introduces the concept of the body’s “fat thermostat”—a biological “set point” that regulates how much fat your body tries to maintain. Guided by hormones and metabolism, this internal system drives hunger and energy use, explaining why lasting weight loss requires more than just willpower …

With three Golden Rules and 50 actionable tips, The Hunger Code empowers you to recognize and respond to hunger appropriately. Learn how to slow digestion, break emotional eating cycles, and overcome social pressures to eat constantly, so you can maintain a healthy weight—from scratch, after fasting, or after using weight‑loss drugs.

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game

$19.95

From the award-winning illustrator of The Hockey Song comes a stunning tribute to baseball’s most beloved anthem.

Take me out to the ball game!

A boy tries to convince his father to leave his work behind and join him for an afternoon—out with the crowd so they can root, root, root for the home team!

Colorful cartoon-style illustrations bring the nostalgic lyrics to life, making it an infectious read-aloud for readers young and old.

Perfect for families, young sports fans, and enthusiastic baseball lovers, this fresh take on a classic song is a joyful celebration of the sights, sounds, and spirit of the old ball game.

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The Nature of Play

$22.95

Perfect for ages 8+, readers are invited to explore, learn, and play in harmony with nature—no matter what season we’re in!

Filled with bespoke crafts and seasonal activities for readers young and old, The Nature of Play is the perfect resource for exploring and engaging with nature and your creative side—whether you’re at home, in your backyard, or a local park.

Discover seasonal recipes, hands-on projects, and detailed guides to plants and animals, including:

How to find your way using nature's signs
How to create a leaf mask
How to stargaze and discover solar constellations
How to create seasonal mobiles that celebrate the seasons
How to plant a terrarium, and so much more!

The perfect book for families, forest schools, educators, and anyone looking to connect with the outdoors, The Nature of Play inspires curiosity and hands-on learning, making it easy to enjoy and appreciate nature—wherever you are, all year round.

From the author:
“Many children don't know how to play without a screen—this book is a small inoculation against that state of being. It requires children to challenge themselves, find solutions and rely on their skills and imaginations. Most of all, it asks them to slow their pace enough to really observe, to examine, to contemplate and to wonder.”
—Delfina Aguilar

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The Eh Team

$19.95

“Funny, short snippets of Canadiana wrung through the hilariously encyclopedic mind of Charlie Demers—so good.”—Ins Choi, creator of Kim's Convenience

A laugh-out-loud funny guide to how to talk, live, and feel like a Canadian—from CBC “The Debaters” fan-favourite and celebrated Canadian comedian, Charles “Charlie” Demers.

Oh, sorry! Did we bump into you there? Welcome to The Eh Team, the ultimate guide to the quirks, charm, and outright hilarity of the Canadian lexicon. This quirky and proudly patriotic book is your backstage pass to the words, phrases, and expressions that make Canada the Great White North. From "double-double" to "pencil crayons," from "Nanaimo bars" to "toque,” The Eh Team reveals the unique language and culture that define life above the 49th parallel.

Whether you're a lifelong Canuck or just visiting for the poutine, The Eh Team will have you chuckling, nodding in recognition, and maybe even saying, “Give’r, eh!” With every turn of the page, you'll uncover the delightful ways Canadians express themselves, their love of the land, and their famously polite (but fiercely proud) spirit.

The Eh Team is more than just a book—it's a celebration of what it means to be unapologetically Canadian. So grab your toque, pour yourself a Caesar, and settle in for a fun, feel-good read that will have you embracing your inner Canuck like never before.

The Eh Team

$19.95

“Funny, short snippets of Canadiana wrung through the hilariously encyclopedic mind of Charlie Demers—so good.”—Ins Choi, creator of Kim's Convenience

A laugh-out-loud funny guide to how to talk, live, and feel like a Canadian—from CBC “The Debaters” fan-favourite and celebrated Canadian comedian, Charles “Charlie” Demers.

Oh, sorry! Did we bump into you there? Welcome to The Eh Team, the ultimate guide to the quirks, charm, and outright hilarity of the Canadian lexicon. This quirky and proudly patriotic book is your backstage pass to the words, phrases, and expressions that make Canada the Great White North. From "double-double" to "pencil crayons," from "Nanaimo bars" to "toque,” The Eh Team reveals the unique language and culture that define life above the 49th parallel.

Whether you're a lifelong Canuck or just visiting for the poutine, The Eh Team will have you chuckling, nodding in recognition, and maybe even saying, “Give’r, eh!” With every turn of the page, you'll uncover the delightful ways Canadians express themselves, their love of the land, and their famously polite (but fiercely proud) spirit.

The Eh Team is more than just a book—it's a celebration of what it means to be unapologetically Canadian. So grab your toque, pour yourself a Caesar, and settle in for a fun, feel-good read that will have you embracing your inner Canuck like never before.

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We All Love

$18.95

The follow-up to We All Play! An adorable celebration of all the ways that animals and humans show love—from award-winning Indigenous artist/author Julie Flett.

“This book is like a big warm hug that envelops readers … a first choice for any library’s picture book collection.”—School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW

Snuggle up! Animals love—like you!

Join baby bears, little ducklings, curious foxes, and many more adorable creatures as they remind us of all the ways, big and small, that we show love and care. We All Love is a poetic and beautifully illustrated reminder of the interconnectedness of the natural world—demonstrating how care, protection, and love are experienced by all living things.

We All Love features:

A glossary of Cree animal names used throughout the text
A letter to the reader from Julie Flett

Part of the We Do Too! series, following We All Play, We All Love is a celebration of the love that connects us all—big and small, near and far.

We love too! / kîstanaw mîna

Praise for We All Play
A Best Children’s Book of the Year: New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Globe & Mail
Kirkus starred review
Publishers Weekly starred review
Horn Book starred review
School Library Journal starred review, and more!

We All Love

$18.95

The follow-up to We All Play! An adorable celebration of all the ways that animals and humans show love—from award-winning Indigenous artist/author Julie Flett.

“This book is like a big warm hug that envelops readers … a first choice for any library’s picture book collection.”—School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW

Snuggle up! Animals love—like you!

Join baby bears, little ducklings, curious foxes, and many more adorable creatures as they remind us of all the ways, big and small, that we show love and care. We All Love is a poetic and beautifully illustrated reminder of the interconnectedness of the natural world—demonstrating how care, protection, and love are experienced by all living things.

We All Love features:

A glossary of Cree animal names used throughout the text
A letter to the reader from Julie Flett

Part of the We Do Too! series, following We All Play, We All Love is a celebration of the love that connects us all—big and small, near and far.

We love too! / kîstanaw mîna

Praise for We All Play
A Best Children’s Book of the Year: New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Globe & Mail
Kirkus starred review
Publishers Weekly starred review
Horn Book starred review
School Library Journal starred review, and more!

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America's Strategic Blunders

$28.99

This survey of more than fifty years of national security policy juxtaposes declassified U. S. national intelligence estimates with recently released Soviet documents disclosing the views of Soviet leaders and their Communist allies on the same events. Matthias shows that U. S. intelligence estimates were usually correct but that our political and military leaders generally ignored them—with sometimes disastrous results. The book begins with a look back at the role of U. S. intelligence during World War II, from Pearl Harbor through the plot against Hitler and the D-day invasion to the "unconditional surrender" of Japan, and reveals how better use of the intelligence available could have saved many lives and shortened the war. The following chapters dealing with the Cold War disclose what information and advice U. S. intelligence analysts passed on to policy makers, and also what sometimes bitter policy debates occurred within the Communist camp, concerning Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, the turmoil in Eastern Europe, the Six-Day and Yom Kippur wars in the Middle East, and the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. In many ways, this is a story of missed opportunities the U. S. government had to conduct a more responsible foreign policy that could have avoided large losses of life and massive expenditures on arms buildups.

While not exonerating the CIA for its own mistakes, Matthias casts new light on the contributions that objective intelligence analysis did make during the Cold War and speculates on what might have happened if that analysis and advice had been heeded.

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The Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics

$28.99

The bonds among republican citizens are created, in part, through the stories told and retold as the foundational myths of the republic. In this book, Melissa Matthes takes advantage of the way in which republican theorists in different eras—Livy, Machiavelli, and Rousseau—retell the story of the rape of Lucretia to support their own conceptions of republicanism.

The recurring presentation of this story as theater by these different theorists reveals not only the performative elements of republicanism but, as Matthes argues, adds to Hannah Arendt’s emphasis on the oral dimensions of speech and hearing the important idea of public space as a visual field.

Lucretia’s story also helps illuminate the gendering of republicanism, particularly the aspects of violence and subordination that lie at its very origin. By focusing attention on this underlying and deeply gendered quality of republics, Matthes brings republican theory into fruitful dialogue with feminism.

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Chinese Christians in America

$28.99

Christianity has become the most practiced religion among the Chinese in America, but very little solid research exists on Chinese Christians and their churches. This book is the first to explore the subject from the inside, revealing how Chinese Christians construct and reconstruct their identity—as Christians, Americans, and Chinese—in local congregations amid the radical pluralism of the late twentieth century.

Today there are more than one thousand Chinese churches in the United States, most of them Protestant evangelical congregations, bringing together diasporic Chinese from diverse origins—Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Southeast Asian countries. Fenggang Yang finds that despite the many tensions and conflicts that exist within these congregations, most individuals find ways to creatively integrate their evangelical Christian beliefs with traditional Chinese (most Confucian) values. The church becomes a place where they can selectively assimilate into American society while simultaneously preserving Chinese values and culture.

Yang brings to this study unique experience as both participant and observer. Born in mainland China, he is a sociologist who converted to Christianity after coming to the United States. The heart of this book is an ethnographic study of a representative Chinese church, located in Washington, D. C., where he became a member. Throughout the book, Yang draws upon interviews with members of this congregation while making comparisons with other churches throughout the United States. Chinese Christians in America is an important addition to the literature on the experience of "new" immigrant communities.

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Is There a Single Right Interpretation?

$39.99

Is there a single right interpretation for such cultural phenomena as works of literature, visual artworks, works of music, the self, and legal and sacred texts? In these essays, almost all written especially for this volume, twenty leading philosophers pursue different answers to this question by examining the nature of interpretation and its objects and ideals.

The fundamental conflict between positions that universally require the ideal of a single admissible interpretation (singularism) and those that allow a multiplicity of some admissible interpretations (multiplism) leads to a host of engrossing questions explored in these essays: Does multiplism invite interpretive anarchy? Can opposing interpretations be jointly defended? Should competition between contending interpretations be understood in terms of (bivalent) truth or (multivalent) reasonableness, appropriateness, aptness, or the like? Is interpretation itself an essentially contested concept? Does interpretive activity seek truth or aim at something else as well? Should one focus on interpretive acts rather than interpretations? Should admissible interpretations be fixed by locating intentions of a historical or hypothetical creator, or neither? What bearing does the fact of the historical situatedness of cultural entities have on their identities?

The contributors are Annette Barnes, Noël Carroll, Stephen Davies, Susan Feagin, Alan Goldman, Charles Guignon, Chhanda Gupta, Garry Hagberg, Michael Krausz, Peter Lamarque, Jerrold Levinson, Joseph Margolis, Rex Martin, Jitendra Mohanty, David Novitz, Philip Percival, Torsten Pettersson, Robert Stecker, Laurent Stern, and Paul Thom.

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Sweet Land of Liberty

$27.99

It is often said that the American Revolution was a conservative revolution, but in many parts of the British colonies the Revolution was anything but conservative. This book follows the Revolution in Pennsylvania’s backcountry through the experiences of eighteen men and women who lived in Northampton County during these years of turmoil. Fox’s account will startle many readers for whom the Revolution symbolizes the high-minded pursuit of liberty. In 1774, Northampton County was the second largest of Pennsylvania’s eleven counties, comprising more than 2,500 square miles, three towns (Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton), and some 15,000 people. When the Revolution broke out, militias took control. Frontier justice replaced the rule of law as zealous patriots preoccupied themselves not with fighting the British but with seizing local political power and persecuting their pacifist neighbors.

Sweet Land of Liberty reawakens the Revolution in Northampton County with sketches of men and women caught up in it. Seldom is this story told from the vantage point of common folks, let alone those in the backcountry. In Fox’s hands, we see in these individuals an altogether more disturbing Revolution than we have ever reckoned with before.

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Radical Women in Latin America

$28.99

Radical Women in Latin America is a collection of original essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines—anthropology, history, and political science—on the political activism of women from both the left and the right. The stories of these radical women challenge traditional portrayals of men as violent and women as inherently peaceful. This volume forces us to confront the fact that there is no automatic sisterhood among women, even among those of the same class and ethnicity. At the same time, the essays show the similarities that can unite women across immense political divides.

This book analyzes radical women’s actions and motivations through four interrelated themes—maternalism, feminism, autonomy, and coalitions between left- and right-wing women—in three Central American countries (Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala) and three South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, and Chile). The editors and contributors to this volume have done extensive and recent field research in Latin America.

Radical Women in Latin America challenges both stereotypical views of Latin American women as easily manipulated and portrayals of women’s activism as inherently progressive. This book will make clear that women are capable of defining their own interests and their political identities, organizing autonomously, and even using violence, if they deem it necessary to pursue their goals.

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Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein

$39.99

The original essays in this volume, while written from diverse perspectives, share the common aim of building a constructive dialogue between two currents in philosophy that seem not readily allied: Wittgenstein, who urges us to bring our words back home to their ordinary uses, recognizing that it is our agreements in judgments and forms of life that ground intelligibility; and feminist theory, whose task is to articulate a radical critique of what we say, to disrupt precisely those taken-for-granted agreements in judgments and forms of life.

Wittgenstein and feminist theorists are alike, however, in being unwilling or unable to "make sense" in the terms of the traditions from which they come, needing to rely on other means—including telling stories about everyday life—to change our ideas of what sense is and of what it is to make it. For both, appeal to grounding is problematic, but the presumed groundedness of particular judgments remains an unavoidable feature of discourse and, as such, in need of understanding. For feminist theory, Wittgenstein suggests responses to the immobilizing tugs between modernist modes of theorizing and postmodern challenges to them. For Wittgenstein, feminist theory suggests responses to those who would turn him into the "normal" philosopher he dreaded becoming, one who offers perhaps unorthodox solutions to recognizable philosophical problems.

In addition to an introductory essay by Naomi Scheman, the volume’s twenty chapters are grouped in sections titled "The Subject of Philosophy and the Philosophical Subject," "Wittgensteinian Feminist Philosophy: Contrasting Visions," "Drawing Boundaries: Categories and Kinds," "Being Human: Agents and Subjects," and "Feminism’s Allies: New Players, New Games." These essays give us ways of understanding Wittgenstein and feminist theory that make the alliance a mutually fruitful one, even as they bring to their readings of Wittgenstein an explicitly historical and political perspective that is, at best, implicit in his work. The recent salutary turn in (analytic) philosophy toward taking history seriously has shown how the apparently timeless problems of supposedly generic subjects arose out of historically specific circumstances. These essays shed light on the task of feminist theorists—along with postcolonial, queer, and critical race theorists—to (in Wittgenstein’s words) "rotate the axis of our examination" around whatever "real need[s]" might emerge through the struggles of modernity’s Others.

Contributors (besides the editors) are Nancy E. Baker, Nalini Bhushan, Jane Braaten, Judith Bradford, Sandra W. Churchill, Daniel Cohen, Tim Craker, Alice Crary, Susan Hekman, Cressida J. Heyes, Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Christine M. Koggel, Bruce Krajewski, Wendy Lynne Lee, Hilda Lindemann Nelson, Deborah Orr, Rupert Read, Phyllis Rooney, and Janet Farrell Smith.

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Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh"

$24.99

Hailing from the Keystone State’s rugged western counties, the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves was one of the Civil War’s most heavily engaged units. Of more than 2,100 regiments raised by the North, it suffered the eighth highest number of battle deaths, earning it the gruesome sobriquet "Bloody Eleventh."

Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh" tells the story of this often-overlooked element of the Army of the Potomac from before the war up through 1864. Drawing on letters, diaries, and archival documents, Joseph Gibbs writes of men such as Colonel Thomas Gallagher, who led his troops into battle smoking a cigar, and Samuel Jackson, who became the regiment’s commander following Gallagher’s promotion. He rediscovers the complexities of the men who commanded the brigades and divisions of which the Eleventh Reserves was a part—figures such as George Meade, John Reynolds, and Samuel Crawford.

While Gibbs writes about the officers, he never loses sight of the men in the ranks who marched into places such as Gaines’ Mill, Miller’s Cornfield at Antietam, and the Wheatfield at Gettysburg. Nor does he forget the homes, wives, and children they left behind in western Pennsylvania.

With its meticulous research and lucid prose, Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh" provides both scholars and Civil War enthusiasts with an unprecedented look inside the trials and tribulations of one of the war’s most battle-tested units.

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Everyday Life in the German Book Trade

$28.99

In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century talked of living in a Frederican age, they were sometimes referring not to the monarch in Sans Souci, but to his namesake, the Berlin bookseller Friedrich Nicolai." Such was the importance attributed to Nicolai’s role in the intellectual life of his age by his own contemporaries.

While long neglected by students of the period, who tended to accept the caricature of him as a philistine who failed to recognize Goethe’s genius, Nicolai has experienced a resurgence of interest among scholars reexploring the German Enlightenment and the literary marketplace of the eighteenth century.

This book, drawing upon Nicolai’s large unpublished correspondence, rounds out the picture we have of Nicolai already as author and critic by focusing on his roles as bookseller and publisher and as an Aufkärer in the book trade.

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The Site of the Social

$33.99

Inspired by Heidegger’s concept of the clearing of being, and by Wittgenstein’s ideas on human practice, Theodore Schatzki offers a novel approach to understanding the constitution and transformation of social life. Key to the account he develops here is the context in which social life unfolds—the "site of the social"—as a contingent and constantly metamorphosing mesh of practices and material orders. Schatzki’s analysis reveals the advantages of this site ontology over the traditional individualist, holistic, and structuralist accounts that have dominated social theory since the mid-nineteenth century.

A special feature of the book is its development of the theoretical argument by sustained reference to two historical examples: the medicinal herb business of a Shaker village in the 1850s and contemporary day trading on the Nasdaq market. First focusing on the relative simplicity of Shaker life to illuminate basic ontological characteristics of the social site, Schatzki then uses the sharp contrast with the complex and dynamic practice of day trading to reveal what makes this approach useful as a general account of social existence. Along the way he provides new insights into many major issues in social theory, including the nature of social order, the significance of agency, the distinction between society and nature, the forms of social change, and how the social present affects its future.

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The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania

$20.99

What is the Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania? It is the story of Abraham Lincoln in the Keystone State—the chronicle of where he went, what he did, and what he said in the state. The trail begins with Lincoln's Pennsylvania ancestors, moves on to his travels, public appearances, and speeches, and concludes with his funeral train in 1865. The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania tells a story for the reader, but it is also a guide for those who would travel the state figuratively or literally, to recover the memory of America's sixteenth president.

The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania transports the reader back in time to key moments in Lincoln's public life. In 1846, at the age of thirty-seven, Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Using mileage that Lincoln claimed for his trip, available routes, duration of the journey, and average speeds, Bradley Hoch is the first to establish the probable route Lincoln followed on his way from Illinois to Washington, D.C. Hoch concludes that he traveled by steamboat along the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers and by stagecoach on the National Road into Maryland.

After Lincoln was elected president in November 1860, he transformed his inaugural journey from Springfield to Washington into a grand railroad tour of northern cities, hoping to cement the people's loyalty to the Union and to himself. His inaugural train, the first of its kind, made several stops in Pennsylvania. Hoch follows Lincoln throughout his journey, including the dramatic last leg—the "secret night train"—when Allan Pinkerton and his agents, determined to protect Lincoln from would-be assassins, cut telegraph lines and sidetracked trains in order to spirit him safely from Harrisburg to Washington.

Hoch recovers symbolic moments, none more moving than Lincoln's funeral train as it stopped in several Pennsylvania cities, including York, Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Erie. In Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell was placed at the head of Lincoln's coffin when it lay in Independence Hall. As more than one hundred thousand mourners passed by, the bell's inscription memorialized his life: "Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the inhabitants thereof."

Rarely seen photographs, engravings, and maps enrich this illuminating volume. In the final chapter, Hoch offers a guide of sites to visit in present-day Pennsylvania, making The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania a welcome book for a wide range of readers interested in American history.

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Protecting the Elderly

$28.99

Building on the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas and political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, this book develops and applies "grid-group" theory to show how political culture can be used to explain decisions about social policy and how, as an interpretive approach, this theory complements the now more dominant "rational choice" and "institutionalist" models.

In Part One, Lockhart elaborates on the basic ideas involved in grid-group theory, using examples to help illuminate how the theory can address areas of explanation left out of rational-choice and institutionalist models, such as preference formation and institutional design. According to grid-group theory, different societies have varying proportions of their members who adhere to one or another of three ubiquitous, socially interactive cultures: hierarchy, individualism, and egalitarianism. The adherents of these disparate cultures adopt culturally constrained rationalities (based on rival sets of values) and strive to construct distinctive institutional designs.

In Part Two, this theory is used to help make better sense of social policy decision making. A society whose political elite is predominantly hierarchical, for instance, will develop social programs sharply distinct from those of societies whose leaders are adherents of individualism or egalitarianism. The empirical focus of this part of the book is on the decisions about policy affecting the elderly in the United States, the former Soviet Union, Germany, and Japan during the economically difficult 1980s. Important aspects of these decisions, Lockhart shows, reflect the relative influence of rival cultural purposes among relevant societal elites.

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Seeking Social Justice Through Globalization

$28.99

As demonstrations at meetings of world economic leaders have dramatically shown, the "globalization" of the world economy is now a subject of heated political debate. Generally supported for its positive benefits by neoliberals and attacked for its negative repercussions by the left, it is a multifaceted phenomenon, and even the term is much in dispute as both academic experts and political activists tend to define it in ways that best support their own biases.

In this book, Gavin Kitching is not interested so much in providing new information about globalization as an economic and social process as he is in clarifying how globalization is to be understood and evaluated as a "good" or "bad" thing. Central to his argument is that a proper evaluation requires historical self-awareness, both of the historical background of globalization itself and of the historical origins of the very norms by which such evaluations are made.

Unusual for a book written from a leftist perspective, Seeking Social Justice Through Globalization argues that those who care for social justice should seek more globalization, not try to prevent its development or roll it back. In his "modified Ricardian" analysis, Kitching warns especially about the constraints that the inherited discourse of economic and cultural nationalism places on the full potential of globalization to improve the welfare of poor people, which is his principal concern.

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Romney

$16.99

Owen Wister is known to most Americans as the creator of the heroic cowboy in The Virginian (1902). Despite his success as a Western novelist, Wister's failure to write about his native city of Philadelphia has been lamented by many for the loss of a literary "might-have-been." If only, sighed Wister's contemporary Elizabeth Robins Pennell in 1914, the novelist could understand that Philadelphia was as good a subject as the Wild West. Hence the surprise when James Butler uncovered a substantial fragment of a Philadelphia novel, which Wister intended to call Romney. Here, published for the first time, is the complete fragment of Romney together with two of his other unpublished Philadelphia works.

Even in its incomplete state—nearly fifty thousand words—Romney is Wister's longest piece of fiction after The Virginian and Lady Baltimore. Writing at the express command of his friend Theodore Roosevelt, Wister set Romney in Philadelphia (called Monopolis in the novel) during the 1880s, when, as he saw it, the city was passing from the old to a new order. The hero of the story, Romney, is a man of "no social position" who nonetheless rises to the top because he has superior ability. It is thus a novel about the possibilities for meaningful social change in a democracy. Although, alas, the story breaks off before the birth of Romney, Wister gives us much to savor in the existing thirteen chapters. We are treated to delightful scenes at the Bryn Mawr train station, the Bellevue Hotel, and Independence Square, which yield brilliant insights into life on the Main Line, the power of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the insidious effects of political corruption.

Wister's acute analysis in Romney of what differentiates Philadelphia and Boston upper classes is remarkably similar to, but anticipates by more than half a century, the classic study by E. Digby Baltzell in Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (1979). Like Baltzell, Wister analyzes the urban aristocracy of Boston and Philadelphia, finding in Boston a Puritan drive for achievement and civic service but in Philadelphia a Quaker preference for toleration and moderation, all too often leading to acquiescence and stagnation.

Romney is undoubtedly the best fictional portrayal of "Gilded Age" Philadelphia, brilliantly capturing Wister's vision of old-money, aristocratic society gasping its last before the onrushing vulgarity of the nouveaux riches. It is a novel of manners that does for Philadelphia what Edith Wharton and John Marquand have done for New York and Boston.

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My Mama Loves Me

$16.95

Your little mtoto will listen, laugh and learn as young Lily-Rose shares her wide-eyed first adventure with her mommy in Kenya. Life is not exactly as she knows it back home in Canadain this new place, there are elephants on the road and goats as pets, mud houses and maize porridge, and no subways or even socks!but there are still games, songs, baths, and most importantly, mamas who love their children.

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My Grandma Follows Me on Twitter

$9.95

You're irked there's no Wi-Fi in the bathroom stall. The yoga mat sticking out of your bag is cramping your style. And the barista completely butchered your chai latte again (yes, you specifically said soy milk and light on the foam). You've got some First World Problems, friend. And we feel your pain. Acclaimed activists Craig and Marc Kielburger have witnessed firsthand some of the world's most serious troubles. And now, for a dose of perspective, they've compiled a hilarious volume of complaints heard only in the developed world. For each of these trifling tribulations, the Kielburger's draw on their experience in international development and offer suggestions for small, corresponding actions that can make an actual world difference. It's a side-splitting collection guaranteed to give pause for both gratitude and laughter. With 100 percent of the proceeds going directly to the charitable work of Free The Children, complaining will never feel this good. Free The Children is an international and educational partner working domestically and internationally to empower and enable youth to be agents of change.

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Lessons from a Street Kid

$19.95

After starting Free The Children when he was twelve years old, Craig Kielburger continued his crusade in Brazil. It was on the streets of Salvador, Brazil, that Craig learned the firsthand stories of street children. In this easy-to-read, full-color illustrated children’s book, the reader learns about the joys of these very children.

A cut above your typical children’s book, this true story culminates in a soccer game using a plastic bottle as a ball. After the game ends, it is a young child named José that shows Craig the true meaning of selflessness by giving him his prized possession — literally the soccer jersey off his back. Perfect for young readers, this adventure reveals how the universal act of generosity defies borders.

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Standing Tall

$19.95

Spencer West is many things. Accomplished speaker. University graduate. Natural prankster. Former cheerleader. And a young man without legs—something that has never held him back. Spencer was born without the use of his legs. When he was five, doctors decided to amputate below his pelvis to better help him get around. It didn’t bother him; he was Superman and nothing would ever get in his way. Or so he thought. Navigating through life on his hands, Spencer has always lived with purpose. But he wanted more out of life than just a paycheque and material possessions. He wanted to make an impact but wasn’t always sure how. That was until he had the epiphany: He was different for a reason. Infused with humour and humility, Spencer has never lost the hope or courage he needed to tackle personal obstacles—bullying, isolation, failure, or pride. His secret? Always standing tall.

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My Maasai Life

$19.95

In My Maasai Life, growing readers follow a young Robin Wiszowaty as she travels to Kenya for the first time. Living with the Maasai people, Robin explores the land with her new family as they get water, find wood, and sing songs. It is all a part of the adventure with the Maasai.My Maasai Life: A Child’s Adventure in Africa is a perfect introduction for children to the social issues in Africa. With easy-to-pronounce Swahili words, they can join Robin as she learns about the Maasai, fetching water and looking out for wild animals.

Sales of this book support Free The Children, the world’s largest network of children helping children through education.

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The World Needs Your Kid

$19.95

The Dalai Lama has observed that the greatest challenge facing our time is that we're raising a generation of passive bystanders. If he is right, then the most vital work in this moment belongs to parents, grandparents, mentors and teachers. Inside this inspiring guide, you'll find life lessons from remarkable individuals, committed parents, and compassionate children. Contributors include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mia Farrow, Jane Fonda, Robert Kennedy Jr., Jason Mraz, and Dr. Jane Goodall. Read revealing stories and insights from the not-so-typical childhoods of Craig and Marc Kielburger. The brothers, whose work now inspires more than a million youth every year, share groundbreaking lessons on teaching kids to care. Discover how small actions every day can make the world a better place. Find out how those same small actions can have a lasting influence on your child's life. After all, it's a proven fact that doing good for the world does a world of good for friendships, grades, and self-esteem.

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My Maasai Life

$18.95

Growing up in suburban Illinois, Robin Wiszowaty leads a typical middle-class American life. Hers is a world of gleaming shopping malls, congested freeways, and neighborhood gossip. But from an early age, she has longed to break free of this existence and discover something deeper. What it is, she doesn't quite know. Yet she knows in her heart there simply has to be more. Through a fortunate twist of fate, Robin seizes an opportunity to travel to rural Kenya and join an impoverished Maasai community. Suddenly her days are spent hauling water, evading giraffes, and living in a tiny hut made of cow dung with her adoptive family. She is forced to face issues she's never considered: extreme poverty, drought, female circumcision, corruption and discovers love in the most unexpected places. In the open wilds of the dusty savannah, this Maasai life is one she could never have imagined.

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Clara and the Man With Books in his Window

$19.95

This is the story of my mother and her friend Juan, of how she discovered books and he the light of day.

So begins Clara and the Man With Books in His Window. In this beautifully illustrated book, set in rural 1920s Argentina, Hans Christian Andersen Award–winning author María Teresa Andruetto shares the true story of how her mother, Clara, the daughter of a poor laundress, meets Juan, a wealthy and bookish recluse who never leaves his house because he is afraid society will not accept who he really is.

A powerful tale about friendship and about the world available to us when we open a book, but also when we have the courage to be our true selves, Clara and the Man With Books in His Window was selected by the ALIJA and the Fundación Cuatro Gatos as the best book of the year. Now available for the first time in English, it is destined to transfix readers young and old.

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Almost Human

$24.95

“Alternately joyous and heartbreaking...” —Jane Goodall

A moving and revealing biography of Norway’s most famous chimpanzee.

Julius is a national celebrity, the inspiration behind pop hits and bestselling books.

He’s also a chimpanzee, born in captivity, but raised in a zookeeper’s home after his own mother rejects him. Julius’s new parents change his diapers and comfort him when he has nightmares, and their daughters play with him. But soon they must reintroduce Julius to the zoo, a challenging task that brings new learnings on primate behavior and the dangers of animal celebrity.

Alternately humorous and heartbreaking, Almost Human shows that primates are more like us than we once thought possible. It also charts the transformation of one zoo over time: from a small operation of animals behind bars to a fast-growing attraction coming to terms with twenty-first-century views on animal rights and welfare.

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This Table

$18.95

For fans of Sophie Blackall’s Farmhouse comes a gorgeous story of one table and the life that grows around it.

This moving picture book traces a table and its transformation: from a seed to a tree to a treasured object in a home. Strong and stable through the years, the table becomes a space for being together: for birthday parties and science projects, and meals big and small. With captivating text and lush illustrations, This Table will inspire conversations about the everyday, ordinary objects in our lives, and their role in creating lifelong memories.

The table was strong and stable.
It was placed in the middle of a room in the middle of a house, and life grew up around it.
It was perfect for birthday cakes
and catching a slice of morning light,
for drawing imaginary worlds, and unfolding maps to discover real ones.

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Behind Putin's Curtain

$16.95

"Journalist Orth delivers a jaunty description of his travels...[that] armchair travelers will enjoy."
—Publishers Weekly

“Funny, insightful, and mind-bendingly entertaining. Stephan Orth is a fearless and fabulous tour guide to the real Russia and its people."
—Lisa Dickey, author of Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys across a Changing Russia