Demon-Haunted World
 From Amazon.com: Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of [... more]
CDN$21.00
Amazon CA |
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and ...
From Amazon.com: Northrup explores the mind/body connection from a personal, entirely female perspective. She presents the facts about the female body, its strengths and illnesses, in a clear, intelligent and caring way. She teaches us to look deep [... more]
CDN$19.74
Amazon CA |
Deep Sky Companions: The Messier Objects
From Amazon.com: Steve O'Meara has been called "the best visual planetary observer of modern times." The first to spot Comet Halley on its return in 1985, the first to determine the rotation period of Uranus, he now turns his amazing visual [... more]
CDN$48.95
Amazon CA |
What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind ...
From Amazon.com: Though not for the impatient, What's Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life will undoubtedly make you a better parent. It is thick, detailed, and scientific. But it is also accessible to parents [... more]
CDN$27.00
Amazon CA |
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandries
Humorous Scientific Book: This book is entertaining to read as the author gives a sophisticated and deeply knowledgeable presentation. Each country was acknowledged for its scientific discoveries over the last 200 years and the people who made them. [... more]
CDN$30.05
Amazon CA |
Broca's Brain
Sagan all over the place: Broca's brain is a difficult book to rate, because Sagan is really all over the place with it, covering tons of different topics. I gave it four stars because a lot of it is fascinating and amazingly written (easily 5 stars), [... more]
CDN$10.99
Amazon CA |
Earth Science
Awesome, not quite college level: I'm using this book for a high school freshman year Earth Sci class, and I love it. It's very readable and clear, with appropriate diagrams that help understanding. It also avoids doing what lots of high school textbooks [... more]
CDN$88.19
Amazon CA |
The Peace of Mind Prescription: An Authoritative Guide ...
Tremendously Helpful Book: This book is very helpful for anyone suffering from anxiety or depression. I highly recommend it to anyone struggling with mental illness or knows someone who is. Not Helpful for Long-Term Patients: I am in the middle of [... more]
CDN$28.95
Amazon CA |
The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores ...
Beautiful, introspective, and poetical: This is a wonderful book. Loren Eisley is an anthropologist who writes like John Donne. I went to the University of Pennsylvania in the 1960s when Loren Eisley was Professor of Anthropology. He was then recognized [... more]
CDN$14.00
Amazon CA |
Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a ...
Unusual and interesting: This book is a collection of short pieces about every conceivable type of insect. A few are complete essays, but most are excerpts from longer works. At least one is a one-panel Gary Larson cartoon! Most of the selections are [... more]
CDN$62.50
Amazon CA |
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
the last 2 chapters were my favorite: This is an excellent book to read if you are interested in the history of printing. Eisenstein's thesis is that the advent of the printing press is the most logical point at which the medieval period of European [... more]
CDN$22.95
Amazon CA |
Earth Science
Awesome, not quite college level: I'm using this book for a high school freshman year Earth Sci class, and I love it. It's very readable and clear, with appropriate diagrams that help understanding. It also avoids doing what lots of high school textbooks [... more]
CDN$128.35
Amazon CA |
