James Surowiecki
In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant-better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to ... [... more]
Random House |
The Best of Robert Benchley
 From Amazon.com: "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous." --Robert Benchley Such wildly inaccurate self-deprecation is typical of Robert Benchley. In [... more]
CDN$16.98
Amazon CA |
Snare
Snare Failed To Capture My Interest: Despite an intriguing premise, Snare was ultimately a disappointment. Katherine Kerr is an accomplished writer and I've enjoyed both her Deverry fantasy series and her occasional forays in science fiction such as [... more]
CDN$10.99
Amazon CA |
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
excellent translation of Spivak into vernacular: can the Subaltern read Spivak? No! But Stephan Morton can! if you've read anything by Spivak, you may be wondering what language you should know to read it. Stephan Morton is fluent in Spivakian and [... more]
CDN$22.87
Amazon CA |
How History Made the Mind: The Cultural Origins of ...
A huge disappointment: Where did reason come from? How did we learn to think in an orderly, sequential, rational fashion? This question has fascinated many for years, I among them. Clearly, we weren't rational when we were clumping around the African [... more]
CDN$30.95
Amazon CA |
In Desert and Wilderness
Wow! Literature doesn't get better than this!: I think people who read this book and see nothing but a kids story are totally missing what this book is all about! However, the plot is so strong that one can easily understand how it could be read for [... more]
CDN$31.20
Amazon CA |
Futuring: The Exploration of Tomorrow
A very important book: Thinking ahead is the great need of our times as the rapid pace of technological and social change affects work, home, education, health, amusements, environment and even religion. Futuring helps to understand trends, identify [... more]
CDN$20.79
Amazon CA |
Prelude
Great beginning to a new BJ Hoff series!: I ordinarily prefer contemporary novels and hadn't read a BJ Hoff book in many years, but after finishing PRELUDE I will be reading anything she's written that I can get my hands on! This book had everything-- [... more]
CDN$14.50
Amazon CA |
5 Paths to Persuasion
The best of times - the worst of times: OK, I know it's Dickens, but it really does apply to this book. The "best of times" refers to Chapter 1-12 and 15-16. The "worst of times" refers to Chapters 13 and 14. Now, you might think that [... more]
CDN$20.03
Amazon CA |
Suite Francaise
Two Unfinished Facets of a Gorgeous Diamond in the Rough Set in World War II Tragedy: Suite Française contains two unfinished sections, Storm in June and Dolce, of a planned five-part work about the invasion and occupation of France in World War [... more]
CDN$15.58
Amazon CA |
A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
Footnote in History: As time moves on, fewer and fewer people have any knowledge of a "little war" that took place in the shadows of the outbreak of WWII in Europe. Those who were old enough to remember the Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40 [... more]
CDN$17.95
Amazon CA |
Jesus At 2000
The Gospels Reflect A Developing Tradition: The historical study of Jesus and Christion origins is discussed by six well-known scholars. In two succinct essays and the book's introduction Marcus Borg gives us some basic tenets of modern Jesus scholarship. [... more]
CDN$25.00
Amazon CA |
