G Company's War: Two Personal Accounts of the Campaigns ...
 Perhaps the best account of war as fought at this level.: Among the mind numbing number of books on world war two, this book is in my top ten. Written from two perspectives within the same company, it is a lucid, real and above all believable account of [... more]
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest ...
From Amazon.com: Into Thin Air is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob [... more]
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We Are Not Alone: A Teenage Boy's Personal Account of ...
Author: Jade Angelica Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1536 EAN: 9780789009272 Edition: 1 Is Adult Product: 0 ISBN: 0789009277 Number Of Pages: 102 Publication Date: 2002-01-23 [... more]
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest ...
From Amazon.com: A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. [... more]
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Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa
Harmattan is a wonderfully written travelogue: I came across a review of Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa in a Canadian Literary magazine, subTerrain. The word Harmattan immediately caught my attention. I had not heard this word since I was a child [... more]
CDN$19.95
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How It All Began: The Personal Account of a West German ...
Destroying What Destroys You: Perhaps one of the most important nonfiction books of the Cold War, "How It All Began" is the rare story from the terrorist's unapologetic point of view. The June 2nd Movement that Michael Baumann took part in and [... more]
CDN$19.95
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of ...
From Amazon.com: "Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders," writes James Watson in The Double Helix, his account of his codiscovery (along with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick [... more]
CDN$16.50
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Ghosts!: Personal Accounts of Modern Mississippi Hauntings
a keeper: A wonderful book -- low key and well written. The stories speak for themselves without author intrusion or fictionalized "oo-wee-spooky" add-ins. The Hubbards obviously enjoyed this project, and it shows. If you want ectoplasm [... more]
CDN$9.98
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Rhythms of Academic Life: Personal Accounts of Careers ...
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 378.120973 EAN: 9780803972636 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0803972636 Number Of Pages: 536 Publication Date: 1996-01 [... more]
CDN$70.18
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Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
useful confirmation of the general view in 1940's: This book contains a lot of documented information that confirms the view held immediatly after WW11 that most Germans knew what was going on. This was a belief held both in Britain and in the former [... more]
CDN$33.95
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Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on ...
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2 EAN: 9781572736016 ISBN: 1572736011 Number Of Pages: 344 Publication Date: 2004-12-30 [... more]
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Doctor on Everest
why this review is seperate from my others?: I have already written a reviw of this and Eiger dreams and wonder why these reviews are not with my others. I wrote them on my computer at home and perhaps this is the reason. Can you place them with the [... more]
CDN$38.07
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