No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, ...
 Looking at the ways iconic photographs matter in the United States: This summer I have been having to constantly update the section of content pages in my Pop Culture class dealing with the "Media Lolitas," and I was thinking of just forgetting [... more]
CDN$30.10
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Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
The greatest jazz album: This was the second book I have read by Ashley Kahn. The first being "A Love Supreme." Kahn does a great job in providing new information that you don't read in the many other biographies about Miles. Truly one of the [... more]
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Culture Shock! USA: A Survival Guide to Customs and ...
Not a good guide: I have read six other Culture Shock books. Those are interesting and well researched. However, Culture Shock USA is the opposite. It deals far more with everyday life, than with the USA. I have read a few other interesting and well [... more]
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In The Mind S Eye
Technology set me free!: As a dyslexic myself, I find reading somewhat difficult, still at times I could not put this book down. I found it more than thought provoking and often had to stop to reflect on what I had just read. This of course was no fault [... more]
CDN$37.50
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Backstreet Boys: The Official Book
From Amazon.com: Why has this collection of scads of photographs of the Backstreet Boys proved so insanely popular? It is filled with intimate revelations about the band, but then, so is What You Wanna Know: Backstreet Boys Secrets Only a Girlfriend Can [... more]
CDN$22.95
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The Ancient World in the Cinema: Revised and Expanded ...
Fun and Intelligent Introduction to a Wondeful Genre: What a cool book. The title says it all, and this new revised and expanded edition of Jon Solomon's THE ANCIENT WORLD IN THE CINEMA, first published in 1976, is even more fun and pleasant to read. So [... more]
CDN$48.16
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David Suzuki: The Autobiography
A look into the extraordinary life of one of the most passionate and visionary people on the planet: XXXXX "Why would anyone else be interested in my life? I know people like to delve into the hidden parts of the lives of people who have acquired [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Special Forces: War on Terrorism in Afghanistan
Riddled with errors: Well in addition to getting most of the operational details incorrect in this book many of the photos (of the US SOF at least) seem to be randomly attributed to different units operating on the line. His section on Delta Force and [... more]
CDN$62.46
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What A Hippopota-Mess
Wonderfully entertaining and educational: My seven year old grandson's reaction to 'Hippopota-mess' was great! Joshua is not normally a book person, being more of a sports guy. When I got the to the part where Sal says she eats little boys, Josh's eyes [... more]
CDN$6.95
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Programming Microsoft DirectShow for Digital Video and ...
Not exactly "just the SDK" but still not great: I bought this book several months ago but I've held off writing a review as I have been trying to learn DirectShow. It is not exactly just the SDK documentation in a paper binding but it isn't a [... more]
CDN$72.99
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The Americans
From Amazon.com: Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time [... more]
CDN$41.62
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Full Moon
From Amazon.com: In Full Moon, one of the best science photography books ever published, Michael Light presents a voyage in images to the Moon and back. Light took NASA's master negatives of photos taken by Apollo astronauts and scanned them [... more]
CDN$75.00
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