Sissinghurst Castle - Part Twelve
Sissinghurst's Moat Walk is one of the most restrained parts of the garden, but it has a complex design. This is the 12th in a series of articles about the gardens that Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson created at Sissinghurst ... [... more]
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Innocence And Impropriety
Diane Gaston's Feel For the Era is Marvelous!: As a die-hard Regency romance fan, I am always delighted when an author displays a feel for the manners and customs of the time. Of late, such extensive author attempts are increasingly hard to find! [... more]
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Blue Guide Turkey
Travel Guides Don't Get Any Better Than This: The first thing to understand about Blue Guides is: they're not for everyone. In particular, they aren't for people who only want to have to take along a single guidebook when they travel. Although in recent [... more]
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Surrounded: Dualdisc Brick
Some techincal info: This review is for people who know and have most of the material, and are considering the purchase entirely based on the new surround mixes. If you go to amazon.com and check the reviews there, you will see some bickering about the [... more]
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Widow's Walk
From Amazon.com: It's good to see private eye Spenser back in Boston, after his ludicrous imitation of a frontier lawman in Robert B. Parker's Potshot. But he's getting nowhere investigating the gunshot murder of banker Nathan Smith in Widow's Walk. The [... more]
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Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of ...
From Amazon.com: This original and provocative book is certain to raise emotions. Its justification of America's war in Southeast Asia directly contradicts other recent studies, such as Fredrik Logevall's Choosing War and Robert S. McNamara's Argument [... more]
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84 Charing Cross Road
From Amazon.com: 84, Charing Cross Road is a charming record of bibliophilia, cultural difference, and imaginative sympathy. For 20 years, an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller carried on an increasingly touching [... more]
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Comparative Mythology
Pithy overview of Indo-Europian mythology.: Dr. Puhvel's writing is a breath of fresh air. He makes occasional pithy use of modern colloquialisms ("hit parade") to clearly and simply describe the relevance and context of elements of archaic [... more]
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When We Were Orphans
From Amazon.com: When 9-year-old Christopher Banks's father--a British businessman involved in the opium trade--disappears from the family home in Shanghai, the boy and his friend Akira play at being detectives: "Until in the end, after the chases, [... more]
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The Italian Job
Amazon.com essential video: This little-known cult caper is about as depraved as they come. Michael Caine, ever the enterprising swinger and swindler, has an ingenious plan to steal a huge cache of Chinese gold to be shipped to Turin as collateral for a [... more]
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The Very Thought of You
Amazon.ca: Canada certainly has produced a healthy collection of females singing loungey jazz covers in the last decade (Diana Krall may well be the matriarch, with Holly Cole and Sophie Milman following behind) so the question remains... how does Emily- [... more]
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The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward ...
Hard Hand of War: The thesis of this study of Union military policy toward Southern civilians during the Civil War boils down to "it wasn't all that bad, and here's why." Grimsley sets out to study what the combination of severity (for example, [... more]
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