Miriam Engelberg
Miriam Engelberg was forty-three when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Like anyone faced with a life-altering personal trauma, she sought out a coping mechanism. While fellow patients championed the benefits of support groups and ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Greek Vegetarian Cookery
 Has some of everything: We recently returned from a trip to Greece and although it was a bit tough to find vegetarian food when I did it was good and I was inspired to do some cooking when I got back. So I sought out a few cookbooks, this being one. This [... more]
CDN$27.00
Amazon CA |
On the Trail of the Women Warriors: The Amazons in Myth ...
From Amazon.com: Readers who associate "Amazon" primarily with a South American River or an online retailer are in for a big surprise. In On the Trail of the Women Warriors, Lyn Webster Wilde investigates the original Amazons, independent women [... more]
CDN$38.99
Amazon CA |
Lee Krasner
From Amazon.com: At nearly every stage of her 15-year marriage to the universally recognized Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner was quicker to respond to stylistic innovations in the art world than her husband. Pollock either didn't catch on to the art-world [... more]
CDN$30.00
Amazon CA |
Without Fail
From Amazon.com: What better way to test the security surrounding a U.S. vice president-elect than to hire someone skilled in the killing arts to penetrate his protection? Assassination strategy, though, is only part of the assignment facing Jack Reacher [... more]
CDN$29.95
Amazon CA |
C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse
Very Enlightening!: I picked this up because I had read several books by Hesse and was interested in Mr. Serrano's personal experiences with the Master. I found his writing to be quite engaging, and felt as if I had met Hesse myself. The section on Jung [... more]
CDN$17.61
Amazon CA |
Valley of the Kings
Weeks does more damage than good: Weeks' excavation techniques are totally atrocious. He has caused a great deal of damage to be done in the Valley of the Kings by allowing expanded limestone, painted walls to contract too rapidly, thus making the walls [... more]
CDN$90.22
Amazon CA |
Hiroshige: Prints and Drawings
Superlative Art Book about Superlative Artist.: Quick, stop reading this review and buy this Hardcover book in New or Like New condition now, while you can. For, this is one of the greastest modern so-called 'coffee table' art books that I have come [... more]
CDN$31.20
Amazon CA |
Stoosh
Surprised myself with this one!: I first heard Skin's voice on a collaboration with Tony Iommi, and thought "Wow, she's the only girl who can hang with the Black Sabbath crowd...instant admiration." Plus she had great range and feeling on that [... more]
CDN$30.72
Amazon CA |
Gone, Baby, Gone
From Amazon.com: Cheese Olamon, "a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty-pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who'd somehow arrived at the misconception he was black," is telling his old grammar school friends Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro why [... more]
CDN$10.99
Amazon CA |
Change Your Mind, Change Your Weight
Okay book - unbelievably poorly edited: I bought D'Agostino's book, "Living La Vita Dolce," and loved her style so much that I sought out "Change Your Mind, Change Your Weight." The information in the book is nothing new but her style [... more]
CDN$14.00
Amazon CA |
Projects for Prada Part 1
From Amazon.com: Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas's firm, OMA, and Italian fashion house Prada have a lot in common: They both existed for years before they became the pets of the American moneyed elite in the mid to late 1990s. They both eschew conventional [... more]
CDN$60.20
Amazon CA |
