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The next title in a new series of short nonfiction books modeled after 18th century political pamphlets-compare with Penguin's Great Idea series, but instead of reprints, these are original essays, 20, 000 to 35, 000 words, by contemporary writers and thinkers about contemporary issues. The S21 titles respond specifically to the George Floyd protests and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. On the Origin is longform investigative journalism ex...

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The Second Tree documents a biological revolution that will change the way you think about the material world, your own life and even the inevitability of your own deathGenetic scientists are busily pushing back the boundaries of the humanly possible, climbing the branches of a tree of life that has been grafted by man, not God. Elaine Dewar chronicles the lives, the discoveries, and the feuds among modern biologists, exploring how they have c...

Scientists not so long ago unanimously believed that people first walked to the New World from northeast Asia across the Bering land bridge at the end of the Ice Age 11, 000 years ago. But in the last ten years, new tools applied to old bones have yielded evidence that tells an entirely different story.In Bones, Elaine Dewar records the ferocious struggle in the scientific world to reshape our views of prehistory. She traveled from the Mackenz...

How control of Canada's iconic publisher, McClelland and Stewart, was transferred over to a foreign-owned corporation.

Bones"--the remains of ancient New World natives now lying in museums and university laboratories across the Americas--are at the center of the scientific and cultural battles described in this provocative book. Dewar explores the politics of archaeology, history, law, native spirituality, and race relations at work in this scientific battlefield.