Product Description: An unprecedented take on cancer and recoveryWhy does cancer have such a deadly hold over our collective imagination? Why do we fear it above all else, even bankruptcy, crime, and sudden death? And why is our dread intensifying, despite the fact that many types of cancer are less common than ever, more curable, and far better understood?Because cancer has become our malignant metaphor, a billboard for our secret sins...read more

Product Description: This thought-provoking catalog presents Carbon 12, an exhibition of five international artists who have collaborated with scientists to study this building block of life and the complexities of climate change. The body of work created by this collaboration explores themes of complexity, fragility, and power within humanity’s habitat...read more

Product Description: We have long lorded over the ocean. But only recently have we become aware of the myriad life-forms beneath its waves. We now know that this delicate ecosystem is our life-support system; it regulates the earth’s temperatures and climate and comprises 99 percent of living space on earth...read more

A combination of scientific analysis and travel literature examines not just the origin but the ultimate fate of our world, taking a tour through the world's environmental hotspots, including the island of Madagascar, the Arctic desert of Banks Island, and the Galapagos archipelago, and profiling the individuals working to preserve these endangered areas.

Product Description: It has become fashionable in the past decade to say that Canada is changing, becoming more urban, ethnically mixed, competitive, secular, and media-savvy. Ask anyone under 30, though, and you’ll hear that the country has changed already...read more