"The best-selling guidebook, updated and expanded for 2024. For years, Dale Dunlop and Alison Scott's Nova Scotia Bucket List has been the authority on the best experiences in the province. This new edition, updated for 2024 travellers, features three new experiences and up-to-da...
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"The truth about the deadliest criminal incident in Canadian history has remained untold--until now. How does one tell a story that nobody involved is willing to talk about? Investigative journalist Paul Palango’s #1 national bestselling 22 Murders examined in forensic detail the...
Machines with human-like capabilities have long been the stuff of science fiction. Until now. Meet the world's most advanced humanoid robots as they leave the lab, battle real-world challenges, and endeavor to become part of everyday lives.
Humans are the most innovative species on Earth. See how engineers are supercharging our abilities, reaching beyond our horizons, and altering our environment. Engineering is all around us, and we humans have been doing it forever. But how does it actually work? Find out by watch...
"30 dangerous paths. 30 minutes to escape. YOU choose the path to survive! Readers choose their own path as they dodge obstacles like deadly quicksand, giant sea monsters, double-crossing villains, hungry great white sharks ... and maybe even a Canadian Bermuda triangle! You're o...
Jean Grey has been going toe-to-toe with some of the universe's toughest foes, but now a new threat is brutally asserting his dangerous reputation: none other than Thanos.
In October 2009, a striking portrait of a young woman in Renaissance dress made world news headlines. Though it had been purchased two years earlier for around $20,000, the portrait is now thought to be an undiscovered masterwork by Leonardo da Vinci worth more than $100 million....
"Send us your tired, your poor," says the inscription at the base of the great statue, "your huddled masses yearning to be free." But the future of the colony planet, Terra Nova, and its relations with Old Earth is far more a case of "boot out your tired, your poor, your dissid...
"In 1892, John E. Garrett (1865-1937) and his father, Frank, began to design and sell printed burlap patterns out of their home in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. John's three sons, Frank, Cecil, and Arthur, later joined Garrett's, and by 1926, their patterns came to be known as "Bluen...
Mars Curiosity. It could be NASA's last chance to set wheels down on Mars until the end of the decade: last August, a rover named Curiosity touched down inside Mars' Gale Crater, carrying 10 new instruments that will advance the quest for signs that Mars might have once been suit...
"Molly has been fighting to free the spirits, but she fears her rebellion is only putting people and spirits in danger in this novel for middle readers."-- Provided by publisher.
Deadliest Tornado looks at the scientists striving to understand the forces at work behind last year's tornado outbreak. Could their work improve tornado prediction in the future? NOVA also talks to people whose lives have been upended by these extreme weather events in an effort...
Hallucinogenic drugs, popularly called psychedelics, have been used by human societies for thousands of years. Today, scientists are taking a second look at many of these mind-altering substances, both natural and synthetic, and discovering that they can have profoundly positive ...
"In the magic realm, magic is everything--everyone can use it, and one's skill determines their social status. Deep in the forest, oblivious to the ways of the world, lives Mash. Thanks to his daily training, he's become a fitness god. When Mash is discovered, he has no choice bu...
"In the magic realm, magic is everything--everyone can use it, and one's skill determines their social status. Deep in the forest, oblivious to the ways of the world, lives Mash. Thanks to his daily training, he's become a fitness god. When Mash is discovered, he has no choice bu...
The human story has always been one of perseverance -- often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their...
Miya, an illegitimate child, has been living with the Kounokura family since her mother passed away. With her stepmother and two stepsisters at her side, Miya experiences her fair share of firsts: visiting a department store, watching over the house alone, and even hosting a spec...
"Meet Viola Desmond, community leader and early civil rights trailblazer! On the night of November 8th 1946, Nova Scotia businesswoman Viola Desmond stood up for her right to be in the "unofficial" whites-only section of a New Glasgow movie theatre ... and was arrested for it. Su...
"The most ferociously political and prophetic book of Burroughs's "cut-up" trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space the better to see our burning planet and the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As the new edition demonstrates, the shortes...
Scientists investigate floods occurring in the remote past that evidence shows to have been of a magnitude far greater than even the more extreme floods of today. The possibility of such floods recurring and the connection between cataclysmic floods and climate change are discuss...