This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard tells of the journey from...
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Wim Hof has a message for each of us: "You can literally do the impossible. You can overcome disease, improve your mental health and physical performance, and even control your physiology so you can thrive in any stressful situation."...
- Auteur:Macintyre, LindenSommaire:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary." —Postmedia
A Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean's Book of the Year
In the vein of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm and Dead Wake comes an... - Auteur:Sandel, Michael J.Sommaire:
This program is read by the author.
The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?
These are dangerous times for... - Auteur:Paul, RichardSommaire:
The Thinker's Guide to Intellectual Standards details and analyzes the ways by which reasoning is judged in skilled thought. The fundamental goal of this book is to illuminate the importance of explicitly mastering intellectual...
- Auteur:Cook, Tim.Sommaire:
There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics. Less attention has been paid to the daily lives of the combatants, how they endured the unimaginable conditions of...
- Auteur:Letts, ElizabethSommaire:
The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion "...
- Auteur:Tong, ZiyaSommaire:
Shortlisted for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize
From one of the world's most engaging science journalists, a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways.... - Auteur:Mead, Walter RussellSommaire:
In this bold examination of the Israeli-American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists have fostered over the years. He makes clear that Zionism has always been a divisive...
- Auteur:Haverkamp, MichaelSommaire:
A handbook for advanced design. Synesthetic design strives to develop products that systematically incorporate all five senses. In future, the current wealth of medical technical insights in psychology, physiology, motor functions, and...
- Auteur:Smarsh, SarahSommaire:
The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland focuses her laser-sharp insights on a working-class icon and one of the most unifying figures in American culture: Dolly Parton. Growing up amid...
- Auteur:Lee, PhilipSommaire:
Entre le Québec et le Nouveau-Brunswick s'étend une rivière majestueuse aux eaux d'une rare transparence, aux imposantes berges boisées, où foisonne une population de saumon qui en a fait un lieu prisé des animaux et des hommes...
- Auteur:Bowen, LynneSommaire:
When two thousand British bank clerks, butchers, housewives, saleswomen, remittance men and ex-Boer War soldiers followed the charismatic but inept Anglican minister, Isaac Barr, to the Canadian prairies in 1903 their rallying cry was "...
- Auteur:Mizrachi, Avi.Sommaire:
A multitude of books have been written about both the horrors and the heroes of World War II. Legacy of Hope: Hidden Heroes from Generation to Generation, though similar in general topic as some of those other World War II books, is...
- Auteur:Zia, HelenSommaire:
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today.
“A true page-turner...
- Auteur:O'Reilly, BillSommaire:
Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln , page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history. The basis...
- Auteur:Iduma, EmmanuelSommaire:
A deeply moving, lyrical journey through the author's homeland of Nigeria, in search of the truth about his disappeared uncle and the history of a war that shaped him, his family, and a nation In inimitable, rhythmic prose, the...
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Auteur:Cooper, GwenSommaire:Once in nine lives, something extraordinary happens... The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. Then Gwen's veterinarian called...
- Auteur:Chang, DavidSommaire:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious —an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that...
- Auteur:Côté, André-PhilippeSommaire:
Il faut bien rendre à la COVID ce qui appartient au corona: le virus qui a mis notre monde sans dessus dessous est la grande vedette de ce 23e album. Ce qui n'empêche pas Côté de saupoudrer son festin annuel d'un zeste de Labeaume, d'...
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