Doubleday imprint: 393 books
by Jason Tetro
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Since the dawn of the human race, germs have been making us sick. Whether the ailment is a cold, the flu, diabetes, obesity or certain cancers, the likely cause is germs. Our ancient enemies have four families - bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa - and many names: Ebola, E. coli, salmonella, norovirus,...
by Red Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
One of Canada's greatest inventors appraises his peers, with mixed results.
The author of How to Do Everything and Red Green's Beginner's Guide to Women has never been afraid to take on jobs doomed to failure. This latest project is perhaps the nearest he has come to a triumph. In The Woulda Coulda...
by Rebecca Eckler
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Apple is the opposite of her outspoken mother and gossipy, chatty best friends; she’s always been the cool, calm, and collected one. But her life is about to spiral out of control. Apple’s super-sized, secret crush on her friend Zen leads her into major trouble. And she’s realizing it might...
by Rebecca Eckler
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Apple is back for another story filled with plenty of drama, boys, gossip — and, of course, angst.
Things in Apple's life are slowly getting back to normal: her friendship with Happy seems to have survived her Crazy Girl Moment (i.e. sabotaging Happy's relationship with Zen), she has a new...
by Clifford Whittingham Beers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In the groundbreaking book, Clifford Beers tells what it was like to be institutionalized at a time when mental illness received little attention or respect. A Mind that Found Itself is Clifford Beers's own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological distress and were all confined...
Mrs. Hunter's Happy Death
Lessons on Living from People Preparing to Die
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What is the secret of people who die contented and fulfilled? What makes it possible for them to attain such spiritual heights as they approach their physical demise? What enables them to make death a completion of life, rather than a tragic end? And what can they teach us about life and death, love...
Hurts Like a Mother
A Cautionary Alphabet
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Amy overdid the Pinot at the parent potluck
Brenda was concave from a post-partum nip/tuck
At last—the book that truly feels your pain...
Whether you’ve had a kid for decades or a few minutes, you know it can hurt— physically, emotionally, and, let’s just say it: like a motherf*&^%!...
Bartlett
The Great Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
This is the story of the greatest Canadian ice captain who ever lived--the greatest, by general consent, of any nationality in this century. Robert Bartlett took ships to the north coast of Ellesmere Island, sledged to within 150 miles of the North Pole, made twenty-two voyages into the Canadian Arctic,...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded
The Full Text of Lewis Carroll's Novel with its Many Hidden Meanings Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This gorgeous 150th anniversary edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is also a revelatory work of scholarship.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--published 150 years ago in 1865--is a book many of us love and feel we know well. But it turns out we have only scratched the surface....
The Right Chemistry
108 Enlightening, Nutritious, Health-Conscious and Occasionally Bizarre Inquiries into the Science of Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A big part of Dr. Joe's job as director of McGill University's Office of Science and Society is persuading people that the pursuit of science knowledge is a potential source of wonder, enlightenment and well-being for everyone. And as a chemist, he's particularly keen to rescue chemistry from the...
Pushing the Limits
How Schools Can Prepare Our Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
How do we prepare children for a future we can't even imagine?
Across Canada, a debate swirls around what our children will need to know in the face of huge technological, economic, social and political change. The question has become an ideological battleground, and there is a hunger for a...
by William Safire
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Good news! America’s master wordsmith strikes again with a new collection of erudite, witty, provocative, sometimes barbed, frequently hilarious “On Language” columns. Published in The New York Times and syndicated in more than three hundred other newspapers, these opinions from the “Supreme...
What If This Were Enough?
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
***A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018*
*A Bustle Best Nonfiction Book of 2018*
*One of Chicago Tribune's Favorite Books by Women in 2018*
*A Self Best Book of 2018 to Buy for the Bookworm in Your Life*
By the acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist behind the popular "Ask...
Dr. Joe's Health Lab
164 Amazing Insights into the Science of Medicine, Nutrition and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The bestselling author of Brain Fuel and An Apple a Day reveals the science of being well, eating well, and staying well clear of "alternative therapy" charlatans.
Health Lab's theme is the most popular of Dr Joe's specialities. There are riveting and sometimes hair-raising vignettes from the...