The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885

6 best books like The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 (Pierre Berton): The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't, The Cure for Death by Lightning, John A: The Man Who Made Us, Peterson Field Guide to Animal Tracks, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

Author

Nate Silver

One of Wall Street Journal's Best Ten Works of Nonfiction in 2012

New York Times Bestseller

"Not so different in spirit from the way public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith once shaped discussions of economic policy and public figures like Walter Cronkite helped sway opinion...

The Cure for Death by Lightning

Author	Gail Anderson-Dargatz
ISBN	1860493874

"The cure for death by lightning was handwritten in thick, messy blue ink in my mother’s scrapbook, under the recipe for my father’s favourite oatcakes: Dunk the dead by lightning in a cold water bath for two hours and if still dead, add vinegar and soak for an hour more."

So begins Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s...

John A: The Man Who Made Us

Author

Richard Gwyn

The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.

The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his...

Peterson Field Guide to Animal Tracks

Author

Olaus Johan Murie

Roger Tory Peterson's unique identification system explains exactly what features to look for to tell one species from another. In each Peterson Field Guide, an author with expertise in the subject and an experienced artist work closely with the editors to ensure that both text and illustrations...

Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

Author	Richard Gwyn
ISBN	0307356442

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.

John A. Macdonald, Canada's...

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

Author

Darrell Bricker

From the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape.

For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning...