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What happens when you catch a ratite? And when we simulate an attack of appendicitis? Have you ever smoked goat tobacco?

Her Place at the Table. When Molly Bloom was a little girl growing up in a small Colorado town, she watched her brothers win medals, ace tests, and receive high praise from everyone they met.

Co-host of the popular NPR podcast "Planet Money" provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit hum

Michael Lewis examines the fallacy behind the major league baseball refrain that the team with the biggest wallet is supposed to win.

Charismatic, intelligent and handsome, George Scott is unlike any other bushranger.

In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own terms Throughou

Art about the climate crisis that calls for justice and systemic change while raising funds to help tackle the problem. We are in a climate emergency.

The first book to tell the story of Toronto's massive influence on popular music.

How did farmers' markets, nose-to-tail, locavorism, organic eating, CSAs, whole foods, and Whole Foods become synonymous with 'good food'?

In Garage Criticism Peter Babiak eviscerates and deflates some of the cultural hot topics of our time.

Against Death: 35 Essays On Living articulates the personal experiences of each author's ""near-deathness,"" utilizing fresh and inventive language to represent what "

In these essays, Sheema Khan - Canadian hockey mom and Harvard PhD - gives us her insights on being a modern and liberal, yet practising, Muslim, especially in Canada.

In this memoir, Lamees Al Ethari traces her transition from an idyllic childhood in a large extended Iraqi family to the relative stability of family exilic life in Canada.

Andrew Moodie's Riot is a dramatic and often humorous look at six black Canadians of diverse backgrounds who share a Toronto house.

This account of the Sigfusson Transportation Company details how it was unfairly treated by the Government, in attempting to create a network of winter roads in northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saska