Rethink Redesign Reconstruct
great idea, inspiring work: The best part about this book is the interviews done with each designer, revealing aspects of their personality that often doesn't come through in their professional work. Not just another pretty picture book. For the most [... more]
CDN$37.99
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The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier ...
Essential Travelogue, could have been better presented: I have read this book while traveling in China by train. It is a very interesting description of past times, and essential reading for those interested in historical geography. Several points need [... more]
CDN$28.95
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Verso Classics Reading Capital
Althusser's masterpiece: It's almost impossible to understand Marx's specific theoretical and methodological positions 150 years after. Not because they're exceptionally difficult, rather that they've been obfuscated by generations of pro- and anti- [... more]
CDN$23.00
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Choosing My Religion: A Memoir of a Family Beyond Belief
From Amazon.com: "Choosing My Religion," Stephen Dubner's 1996 cover story for The New York Times Magazine, described his conversion from Catholicism to Judaism. The drama and complexity of Dubner's conversion were intensified by the author's [... more]
CDN$17.50
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20th Century Age Of Innocence
From Amazon.com: Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The [... more]
CDN$14.99
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The Stories of Alice Adams
From Amazon.com: The late, great Alice Adams mastered the art of the short story. In the posthumous collection The Stories of Alice Adams, Adams masters something more significant in the genre--the backstory, the carefully realized context in which a [... more]
CDN$26.95
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Prisoners: Murder, Mayhem, and Petit Larceny
a provocative story and compelling photographs: The story of how Arne Svenson found the glass negatives used to produce the images in his book Prisoners is wonderfully told. He discovered a few in an antigue store and was able, over the next few years, [... more]
CDN$26.95
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Chronique amazon.fr: Avec Harnoncourt, nous ne risquons pas de découvrir une nième version de cette Symphonie ! Dans le premier disque, nous écoutons la conférence qu'il donne avec exemples à l'appui sur la [... more]
CDN$23.99
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Journal of the Dead: A Story of Friendship and Murder in ...
From Amazon.com: "The man of knowledge," Nietzsche is said to have remarked, "must not only be able to love his enemies; he must also be able to hate his friends." Indeed, it's a thirst for existential knowledge and adventure that [... more]
CDN$16.50
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The Blackwater Lightship
From Amazon.com: In the opening pages of The Blackwater Lightship, a stranger drives up to Helen O'Doherty's Dublin house to tell her that her brother Declan is in the hospital and needs to see her. At his request, she joins him at the creepy seaside [... more]
CDN$17.99
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Fundamentals of Fixed Prosthodontics
Student`s review: Excellent book featuring: * "picturesque" explaining (almost like a comic book), no clinical photography present though * step by step instructions how to do it, with every material, bur or other used instrument explained in [... more]
CDN$60.95
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Rip It!: How to Deconstruct and Reconstruct the Clothes ...
Not Bad, but...: When I ordered this book, I also ordered, "99 Ways to Cut, Sew, Trim, and Tie Your T-Shirt Into Something Special" by Faith Blakeney, "Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt" by Megan Nicolay and "Sew [... more]
CDN$21.00
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