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| Title | The Big Thirst | Author | Fishman, Charles | Sub-Imprint | Free Press | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Nature | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781439102084 | US Price | $18.99 | CDN Price | $25.99 | Pages | 416 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| Praised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirst is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives. |
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| Title | The Boom | Author | Gold, Russell | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Business & Economics | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781451692297 | US Price | $17 | CDN Price | $20 | Pages | 384 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| The “best all-around book yet on fracking” (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: “Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporary journalism” (Booklist). |
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| Title | Food Matters | Author | Bittman, Mark | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Cooking | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781416575658 | US Price | $17 | CDN Price | $22 | Pages | 336 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| From the award-winning champion of culinary simplicity who gave us the bestselling How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian comes Food Matters, a plan for responsible eating that's as good for the planet as it is for your weight and your health. |
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| Title | Inside of a Dog | Author | Horowitz, Alexandra | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Pets | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781416583431 | US Price | $18.99 | CDN Price | $25.99 | Pages | 384 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| The #1 New York Times bestselling book from the author of The Year of the Puppy that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human. |
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| Title | The Soul of an Octopus | Author | Montgomery, Sy | Sub-Imprint | Washington Square Press | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Nature | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781451697728 | US Price | $18.99 | CDN Price | $25.99 | Pages | 272 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year “Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk did for raptors.” —New Statesman, UK “One of the best science books of the year.” —Science Friday, NPR Another New York Times bestseller from the author of The Good Good Pig, this “fascinating…touching…informative…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) book explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. |
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| Title | What the Dog Knows | Author | Warren, Cat | Sub-Imprint | Touchstone | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Pets | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781451667325 | US Price | $18.99 | CDN Price | $25.99 | Pages | 368 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| A firsthand exploration of the extraordinary abilities and surprising, sometimes life-saving talents of “working dogs”—pups who can sniff out drugs, find explosives, even locate the dead—as told through the experiences of a journalist and her intrepid canine companion, which The New York Times calls “a fascinating, deeply reported journey into the…amazing things dogs can do with their noses.” |
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| Title | The Soul of an Octopus | Author | Montgomery, Sy | Sub-Imprint | Atria Books | Format | Hardcover | Category 1 | Nature | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781451697711 | US Price | $28.99 | CDN Price | $38.99 | Pages | 272 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction New York Times Bestseller “Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk did for raptors.” —New Statesman, UK Starred Booklist and Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick “One of the best science books of the year” —Science Friday, NPR A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of 2015 An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. |
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