Steven Sherrill
Benny Poteat is, among other things, a tower jockey, his life defined by up or down. Working hundreds of feet in the air repairing tension lines and replacing burned-out lightbulbs, he observes the world from above. Benny has seen a lot of things ... [... more]
Random House |
Pushkin's Children: Writing on Russia and Russians
 wonderful: This is a wonderful collection of essays. Tolstaya is sharp, opinionated, and savvy. Full of insight into contemporary Russia -- its leaders and its people. Self loathing Russian: There is a certain kind of well-educated, privileged Russian [... more]
CDN$16.95
Amazon CA |
Colin Humphreys
Colin Humpreys is a renowned Cambridge University physicist who has received considerable publicity for his ideas and research, which span many fields from computer chips to microprinting, eternal lightbulbs, and computer chips in the brain. His ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
If It Aint Broke...Break It!
So easy to misapply: More so than any other business-advise book I have come accross, this one lends itself to misinterpretation and mishandling by the well-intentioned but dim or by the unscrupulously mischievous. If you are, and know you are, an [... more]
CDN$22.99
Amazon CA |
You Can Make It Heaven: How to Enrich Your Life with ...
Places of the Heart: I am 53 years of age and have read many self help books and have experienced hours of therapy. I thought I had heard it all until I picked up this book. First, seeing the picture in the "Magic Eye" image, I knew I was about [... more]
CDN$16.67
Amazon CA |
Reading Between the Signs: Intercultural Communication ...
You Must Read This Book!: I was a little skeptical as to whether I should even buy this book, as it is tauted specifically for interpreters and I am still learning ASL, but this book transcends ASL and Deaf culture to provide a great sociological field [... more]
CDN$37.95
Amazon CA |
Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?
A clear winner of the Darryl Award: Fantastic book, despite the nit-picking in one of the editorial reviews above. This book really helps little kids come to grips with the idea of relative size. My preschool and kindergarten ESL students will founder [... more]
CDN$23.95
Amazon CA |
Reading Between the Signs
You Must Read This Book!: I was a little skeptical as to whether I should even buy this book, as it is tauted specifically for interpreters and I am still learning ASL, but this book transcends ASL and Deaf culture to provide a great sociological field [... more]
CDN$37.00
Amazon CA |
Accidental Masterpiece
This masterpiece is no accident: A friend of mine purchased this book, and I picked it up from her table to read the first page, and found that I simply could not put it down. 'The Art of Life and Vice Versa', the subtitle said - something I have long [... more]
CDN$35.00
Amazon CA |
Flicker Flash
Poems and other shapes: This is a delightful collection of shaped poems all dealing with the theme of light. Candles, lightbulbs and lightening are just a few of the shapes used with wonderful words and images to create poems for children, parents and [... more]
CDN$7.95
Amazon CA |
Comprehensive Wound Management
Finally a book that helps me!: I have read several different wound books before. Either I can't really read it because it is just a review of literature or is all chopped up because it is written by several different authors who obviously never talked to [... more]
CDN$55.95
Amazon CA |
W. C. Fields: A Biography
From Amazon.com: James Curtis's W.C. Fields is the finest biography of the bulb-nosed comedian ever published, allowing the real Fields (1880-1946) to emerge after decades of obfuscation. Fields was always presumed to be the same boozy, child-hating [... more]
CDN$53.00
Amazon CA |
