The Distinctive Home: A Vision of Timeless Design
 Don't buy it if you suffer from serious house-envy...: ...if you are the sort of person who dreams of building your perfect house some day, this book will give you conniption fits, and leave you absent-mindedly drawing little floor plans on napkins in [... more]
CDN$34.95
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The Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War, 1625-1860
Very detailed, but not well-presented.: While this contains almost everything that one could possibly want to know about rigging a British Man-o-war, it is not well- presented. Understandably there is a lot of jargon, that is not my quibble, it is the [... more]
CDN$62.46
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A Model World: And Other Stories
Each story seems unfinished: Michael Chabon is a very talented author, but you don't get the impression by reading this weak collection of stories. Each story is written with no apparent finale. When it does have an ending, it tends to baffle the reader [... more]
CDN$16.50
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