Random Acts of Beautification
Be a modern Johnny Appleseed and sow your extra seeds where they will bring beauty instead of bareness - even if it's in an alley or an unkempt parking lot. The other day I was hauling my tools and a few plants to a new area of the property that ... [... more]
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The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature
 Fine for the Arteest on the Go: This is a pretty complete little volume. When you get it, you really do have to assume some knowledge and practice of making art and the media, however, she goes over materials and techniques, which can serve as a good [... more]
CDN$31.00
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Caribbean Sampler Caribbean
From Amazon.com: In 1962, as many Caribbean islands threw off the yoke of colonial rule, ethnomusicologist-folklorist Alan Lomax boarded a plane for the Caribbean, hauling a tape recorder and a pair of three-foot-high loudspeakers. His plan: to travel [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Black's Law Dictionary
Rebuttal to other reviews: Do not believe those reviewers who say that 1L's do not need this dictionary. I have struggled for almost a month now with my Mirriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law and other online dictionaries because these dictionaries do not [... more]
CDN$60.15
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Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929
Wha' Happ'n?: "No era ever vanished so suddenly, so completely, as the twenties." -- -- David Dempsey, _New York Times_, Feb 15, 1970 This is a quick run-through of the Crash, with a little pop-sociology about America in the Twenties. It's [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Breakers: New and Selected Poems
Violi has a voice: Paul Violi's work in Breakers shows imagination, wit and sincerity. He tackles subjects such as family and age pondering his fortieth birthday in "Little Testament" to travel in "Harmatan", a play by play of talking [... more]
CDN$18.00
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Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage
From Amazon.com: Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 2000: Robert Morgan's Gap Creek opens with one wrenching death and ends with another. In between, this novel of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life works in fire, flood, swindlers, sickness, and [... more]
CDN$25.95
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A Thread Across The Ocean
Persistence of vision: The first transatlantic cable was a Victorian era triumph that enchanted the world with its glory. The story is one of the courage and persistence of its director-in-charge, Cyrus Field, born in 1819 to a prominent family of [... more]
CDN$28.50
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The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
Amazon.ca: It's not surprising that authors/partners Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon's attempt to eat locally for one year--that is, consume only foodstuffs cultivated and harvested within 100 miles of their Vancouver pad--became a sensation first on the [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Robert Polidori: Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
Extraordinary Work: I won't endeavor to describe this book any more than Amazon's editors. But, I will say that I've collected photography books for close to twenty years and this is one of the most beautiful I've seen. The work is extraordinary, both [... more]
CDN$78.14
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Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato ...
a WONDERFUL book!: A wonderful portrait of a small fishing village through examination of its buildings and - especially! - words of inhabitants. Also interesting to see how a small town deals with encroaching effects of globalization and the dramatic [... more]
CDN$25.99
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Hauling
Artist: Jawbone Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5029432006126 Format: Import Original Release Date: 2006-08-14 Release Date: 2006-08-21 Tracks: Dose of Powder Doney Holler Bullcat Drop Down Low Jump Jump John Said Low Dang Discount Jesus Teenage Blues Trouble on [... more]
CDN$27.99
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