A Botanical Pioneer in South West China.
Handel-Mazzetti's is a fascinating and accurate account written by a man who was first and foremost a scientist wishing to record details of his work. This might sound dry and matter-of-fact, but with considerable skill he manages to inject a ... [... more]
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Grande Defense
 Chronique amazon.fr: Contrairement à Immortal, dont l'implication philosophique a toujours avoisiné le zéro absolu, Marduk fait preuve d'une intégrité (ou plutôt d'un intégrisme) au-dessus de tout soup& [... more]
CDN$26.99
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Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold(CD)(Unab)
First Terry Brooks Book I ever read,: Way back when I first started into fantasy, this one caught my eye. To buy a Kingdom was a cool idea. Of course at the time they don't explain all the 'bad' things which go with it and that you have to leave this [... more]
CDN$35.95
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Bringing Down The House
From Amazon.com: Lonely white yuppie lawyer meets woman on internet. Woman is street-smart soul-sister ex-con who teaches white boy a thing or two about Respect and Love. Much hilarity ensues. (Well, two out of three ain't bad.) But just as the odd [... more]
CDN$20.99
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The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ...
any interest in lbos, this is your guide: KKR was the first name I heard while researching the Private Equity marketplace for a college paper. It also became the name heard mostly afterwards and rightfully so. Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis and George [... more]
CDN$34.95
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Television
Very good, but not Marquee Moon: It was certainly a good thing to see one of the truly great post-punk guitar bands of the late seventies get together again after a ten-plus year hiatus. But since Television was responsible for one of the greatest [... more]
CDN$14.99
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Pavel & I
Excellent writing from a new novelist. Worth reading twice.: "Pavel & I" is a meticulously crafted novel, intelligent and engaging. Vyleta's careful research and attention to the details of time and place make the city of Berlin in the [... more]
CDN$25.03
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Please, Baby, Please
From Amazon.com: Filmmaker Spike Lee and wife Tonya Lewis Lee join the ranks of other celebrity kids' book writers with their sweet, rhythmic read-along about the endless energy of a toddler blasting through a busy day. The Lees' diapered dynamo starts [... more]
CDN$8.99
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Skip Across the Ocean: Nursery Rhymes from Around the World
An interesting book to add to your children's shelf.: I bought this book to get a more worldly view of nursery rhymes. I wanted to read some of the rhymes that are told to children in other countries, and wanted to expose my future kids to other cultures. [... more]
CDN$7.98
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The Teachers of Gurdjieff
The book that launched a thousand quests...: 'The Teachers of Gudjieff' is one of those rare books that touches people so deeply that it can really be said to transform lives. It's astonishing how often I meet people who say: 'I didn't really know what I [... more]
CDN$20.83
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Bento Boxes: Japanese Meals on the Go
hooray for bento!: This book is especially cool because it gives recipes that are in a Japanese cookbook I have only, you know, in English. Which means I don't have to take 3 hours to translate a recipe (my Japanese is pretty lousy) and can just dive in [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Zizek!
From Amazon.com: Though focusing exclusively on the contemporary Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, as an eccentric individual prone to brilliant ranting, Zizek! presents an interesting paradox: that of the documentary filmmaker's relationship to the [... more]
CDN$31.25
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