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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NerveLessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First |
Candid and insightful perspectives on the dilemmas and opportunities women confront as they take on leadership positions. Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera had vastly different career paths on … | Indira Samarasekera; Martha Piper | 320 | 2021 | View |
OverrunDispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis |
Intelligent investigative writing meets experiential journalism in this important look at one of North America’s most voraciously invasive species. Politicians, ecologists, and government … | Andrew Reeves | 387 | 2019 | View |
NEW! Saved by ScienceThe Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology |
How can we accelerate the development of vaccines? How do we feed three billion people when 12 million died of hunger in 2019? Does synthetic biology hold the answer? With all the advances in … | Dr. Mark J. Poznansky | 226 | 2020 | View |
NEW! Shifting the BalanceHow Top Organizations Beat the Competition by Combining Intuition with Data |
Digital transformation expert Mark Schrutt reveals how the world’s top companies are using vast amounts of data to inform their decisions, disrupt industries, and get closer to their … | Mark Schrutt | 253 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Still HopefulLessons from a Lifetime of Activism |
“Canada’s best-known voice of dissent.” — CBC In this timely book, Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that … | Maude Barlow | 240 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Take Back the TrayRevolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions |
Good food generally doesn’t arrive on a tray, but Chef Joshna Maharaj knows that institutional kitchens have the ability to produce good, nourishing food, because she’s been making it … | Joshna Maharaj | 258 | 2020 | View |
The "Mr Big" StingThe Cases, the Killers, the Controversial Confessions |
How the police create an imaginary criminal gang to trick homicide suspects into a confession and a prison cell. There are people in prison who got away with murder until they told the boss of a … | Mark Stobbe | 226 | 2021 | View |
NEW! The Case for Climate CapitalismEconomic Solutions for a Planet in Crisis |
A warming climate and a general distrust of Wall Street has opened a new cultural divide among those who otherwise agree we must mitigate climate risk: anti-market critics such as Naomi Klein … | Tom Rand | 274 | 2020 | View |
NEW! The Environmentalist’s DilemmaPromise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis |
For readers of Ronald Wright, Rebecca Solnit, and Yuval Noah Harari, comes a compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity’s latest and greatest calamity. In the … | Arno Kopecky | 266 | 2021 | View |
NEW! The Things I Came Here WithA Memoir |
“Does it hurt?” When you’re a tattoo artist, that’s the most universal question. For Chris MacDonald, the answer is simple: hurts less than a broken heart. Those words are … | Chris MacDonald | 264 | 2022 | View |
NEW! The Trauma BeatA Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News |
A groundbreaking and thorough examination of the trauma caused by the media covering crimes, both to victims and journalists, from a respected journalist and victim advocate In The Trauma Beat, … | Tamara Cherry | 332 | 2023 | View |
NEW! This Is Your Captain SpeakingStories from the Flight Deck |
For everyone from frequent fliers to aviation geeks, travel buffs to nervous travellers, Captain Doug Morris tells you everything you want (and need!) to know about flight Captain Doug Morris has … | Doug Morris | 278 | 2022 | View |
Whose Water Is It, Anyway?Taking Water Protection into Public Hands |
The Blue Communities Project is dedicated to three primary things: that access to clean, drinkable water is a basic human right; that municipal and community water will be held in public hands; … | Maude Barlow | 161 | 2019 | View |
NEW! Woman, WatchingLouise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay |
Referred to as a Canadian Rachel Carson, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence lived and worked in an isolated log cabin near North Bay. After her husband was murdered by Bolsheviks, she refused her … | Merilyn Simonds | 416 | 2022 | View |
From NEW! An IntroductionFrom: In Praise of Retreat |
Introduction | Kirsteen MacLeod | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
From An Introduction to Mr. BigFrom: The "Mr Big" Sting |
The chapter begins with descriptions of a series of murders where a Mr. Big strategy was later used. Mr. Big is an undercover operation in which police attempt to trick a suspect to disclose a … | Mark Stobbe | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |