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The Seed Farmer

By (author) Daniel Brisebois
Categories: Sustainable agriculture

Save seeds, save money, and increase profit from your small-scale farm or market garden

The Seed Farmer is required reading for any grower who cares about being part of a truly sustainable local food system. ...

How Birds Fly

By (author) Peter Cavanagh
Categories: Physics: Fluid mechanics

Bird flight is a mesmerizing spectacle, yet its intricacies remains largely shrouded in mystery for most. Even after over a century of study, certain aspects of bird flight continue to baffle the public ...

The Internet of Animals

An illuminating account of animal migration and the stunning new science that reveals the source of their infinite, untapped knowledge.

What do animals know that we don’t? Why do rats flee before an ...

Plundering the North

The manufacturing of a chronic food crisis

Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay ...

Against the Seas

By (author) Mary Soderstrom
Categories: Climate change

An incredible read.… While unflinching in her analysis, Soderstrom nevertheless gifts us with a message of hope and resilience. — MAUDE BARLOW, activist and author of Still Hopeful: Lessons from ...

Why Am I Taller?

What happens in space that causes the body to change? Learn about life in space from astronauts

Is the human body built for Mars? NASA’s studies on the International Space Station show we need to fix ...

Dinner on Mars

“This culinary cosmic outing is as creative as it is informative.” — STARRED review, Publishers Weekly

From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge ...

Mon année martienne

By (author) Farah Alibay
Categories: Space exploration

Après avoir passé 687 jours les yeux levés vers la planète rouge, Farah Alibay partage ses découvertes fabuleuses. Le 18 février 2021, l'astromobile Perseverance atterrit sur Mars après avoir parcouru ...

Taming Fruit

By (author) Bernd Brunner
Translated by Lori Lantz
Categories: Botany and plant sciences

A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, perfect for readers of Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire. Throughout history, orchards have served many sacred purposes: they are sites ...

A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

By (author) Steven Earle
Categories: Climate change

A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate is an accessible, illustrated, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth’s climate over 4. 6 billion years, how and why human-caused global warming ...