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TitleFathoms
AuthorGiggs, Rebecca
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Nature
ISBN-139781982120702
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages352
Title StatusAS
Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other species.
TitleThe Code Breaker
AuthorIsaacson, Walter
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781982115869
US Price$20.99
CDN Price$27.99
Pages560
Title StatusAS
A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
TitleThe End of Everything
AuthorMack, Katie
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Science
ISBN-139781982103552
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages256
Title StatusAS
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE ECONOMIST * NEW SCIENTIST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * THE GUARDIAN

From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an “engrossing, elegant” (The New York Times) look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology.
TitleExtraordinary Insects
AuthorSverdrup-Thygeson, Anne
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Science
ISBN-139781982112882
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages256
Title StatusAS
This enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we could not survive without them is “a joy” (The Times, London) and “charming...Highlighting them in all their buzzing, stinging, biting glory” (The New York Times Book Review).
TitleA Lab of One's Own
AuthorColwell, PhD, Rita
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781501181290
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages288
Title StatusAS
A “beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have take to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system.
TitleThe Language of Butterflies
AuthorWilliams, Wendy
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Nature
ISBN-139781501178078
US Price$17
CDN Price$23
Pages256
Title StatusAS
In this “deeply personal and lyrical book” (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the lives of one of the world’s most resilient creatures—the butterfly—shedding light on the role that they play in our ecosystem and in our human lives.
TitleThe Math of Life and Death
AuthorYates, Kit
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Mathematics
ISBN-139781982111885
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages288
Title StatusAS
Brilliant and entertaining mathematician Kit Yates illuminates seven mathematical concepts that shape our daily lives.
TitleOne Giant Leap
AuthorFishman, Charles
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1History
ISBN-139781501106309
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages512
Title StatusAS
The New York Times bestselling, “meticulously researched and absorbingly written” (The Washington Post) story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic Apollo 11 moon mission.
TitleThe Soul of an Octopus
AuthorMontgomery, Sy
Sub-ImprintWashington Square Press
FormatPaperback
Category 1Nature
ISBN-139781451697728
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages272
Title StatusAS
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.
TitleThe Tangled Tree
AuthorQuammen, David
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Science
ISBN-139781476776637
US Price$19.99
CDN Price$26.99
Pages480
Title StatusAS
In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology affect our understanding of evolution and life’s history.