Si Sheppard
Immortalized in Shakespeare's play on the life and death of Julius Caesar, the battle of Philippi was the final battle between the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian against the forces of Caesar's assassins Brutus and Longinus. Si Sheppard takes ... [... more]
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Mary McCarthy
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death. Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of ... [... more]
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Kathryn Gregorio Palmer
Finding the time and energy to maintain a healthy diet and exercise program is a challenge for any parent-but it can be a matter of life and death for parents with diabetes. Diabetes in pregnancy, if poorly controlled, can increase the risk of ... [... more]
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Rachel Bespaloff
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death. Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of ... [... more]
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Conversations with Woody Allen
Eric Lax is the author of On Being Funny: Woody Allen and Comedy, Life and Death on 10 West, and The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, and coauthor (with A. M. Sperber) of Bogart. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Vanity ... [... more]
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Simone Weil
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death. Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of ... [... more]
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Life & Death
 It's Alive!!: One of the first mountains a beginning Go player has to climb is deciding when a group of pieces has a living shape and what do to get a group into shape. Until this is mastered one is playing 'accidental' Go. In other words, lacking a [... more]
CDN$18.06
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Ellias Lonsdale
Inside Star Vision is a landmark astrology book for the twenty-first century and centuries to come. It views human destiny and the life and death travels of individual souls as part of the larger journey undertaken by the universe itself in ... [... more]
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Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
From Amazon.com: This heartbreaking and inspiring book goes a long way toward fulfilling the wish one of its authors, LeAlan Jones, makes in his epigraph: "You must learn our America as we must learn your America, so that, maybe, someday, we can [... more]
CDN$25.53
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Life and Death
One of the Most Compassionate Books Ever Written: If I were to try to find fault with this book (and I would have to try hard to do so) it would be a certain degree of repetition. This is a fault of the format rather than the writing, since these [... more]
CDN$29.50
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Broken Harts: The Life And Death Of Owen Hart
Amazon.ca: In the end, it was a $68 nautical clip that defeated Owen Hart, a 229- pound World Wrestling Federation star, and sent him plummeting eight stories into the ring. Just over 30 minutes later, the youngest member of a legendary wrestling family [... more]
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First ...
When was the last time a book made you cry?: I heard Richard Moe on National Public Radio promoting this book. Having heard of the First's heroism in Ken Burns' "The Civil War" I was curious. Did 262 frontiersmen from Minnesota really save the [... more]
CDN$44.09
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