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Telling the dramatic story of the quest to find "dark matter" and "dark energy," Panek offers a portrait of the  rivalries and collaborations, the eureka moments and blind alley

The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified.

This book takes listeners alongside ultramarathoner Ed Ayres as he prepares for, runs, and finishes the JFK fifty-mile race at a then record-breaking time for his age division--sixty and older.

This funny and poignant memoir is written by a woman who, at the age of nineteen, is told she'll be blind by thirty and how she chooses to hide her blindness--until she no longer can.

Months after plunging into a healthy, plant-based diet and a lifestyle that prioritized daily training, Rich Roll morphed from out-of-shape midlifer to endurance machine.

Imagine you're a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country.

The brutal battlefields of Europe during World War II were the testing ground for the young men of the 1st Battalion of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment.

Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775.

Harry L. Gill, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940 at the age of 18.

Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie.

In 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in northern France, and a myth grew that Canada — as a nation — was born on its slopes.

Since the last Ice Age, the only safe route into Canada's interior during the winter started at the Bay of Fundy and followed the main rivers north to the St.

Almost since Champlain's men first settled on St.

The word "pirate" conjures up many Hollywood images, but Trimming Yankee Sails by Faye Kert paints a very different picture.

In the early 1860s, Irish immigrants in the United States were eager to help the Fenian brotherhood overthrow the British in Ireland.