New York Times bestselling author Alex Hutchinson gives a fresh, provocative investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk shape our behaviour and help us find meaning in his latest book, The Explorer’s Gene.

This much-anticipated follow-up to Alex’s bestseller Endure refutes the myth that, in our fully mapped digital world, the age of exploration is dead. Instead, the itch to discover new things persists in all of us, with the latest neuroscience suggesting that exploration in any form is an essential ingredient of human life. Exploration isn’t merely a hobby — it’s an innate part of being human.

From paddling the lost rivers of the northern Canadian wilderness to the ocean-spanning voyages of the Polynesians to the search for next-generation quantum computers, The Explorer’s Gene combines riveting stories of exploration with cutting-edge insights from behavioural psychology and neuroscience, making a powerful case that our lives are better — more productive, more meaningful, and more fun — when we break our habits and chart a new path.

In her new book, Defund, Sandy Hudson — an activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Canada — gives a fiercely argued, deeply informed examination of why defunding the police is the only way to support a model of security and protection that increases public safety overall

Over the last few years, calls to “defund the police” have increasingly rung out across the world. But this is not a trendy new movement — Black activists have been sounding the alarm on the dangers of policing for decades.

In Defund, Sandy examines the origins of commonly held ideas about police and safety to show how police-related social policies are based more on a sensationalized idea of safety than on outcomes and data. She demonstrates the destructive effects of policing on scores of people, arguing that investment in community resources and infrastructure rather than law enforcement is the key to making us safer.

Clear-eyed and hopeful yet incisive and pragmatic, Sandy paves a clear path forward and demonstrates that a future without police is not only entirely possible, but necessary.

Funny, conversational, and relatable, Try Hard is for anyone looking to make sense of their own creative pursuit or bring more creativity into their life, offering a framework for how to do it and where to begin.

Sharing one-of-a-kind tales drawn from his career as the dynamic frontman of rock’n’roll band Arkells, Max Kerman has created a companion to your creative work in progress. He breaks down the “mystery” of being a creative person, which isn’t that mysterious at all, he says. It’s just exploring ideas with an enthusiastic and determined curiosity, over and over and over again.  

With a brick-by-brick attitude, Max explores his own growth in the craft of storytelling and performance, the pleasure to be found in collaboration, and the creative spirit required in sharing your art.