Roots: The Saga of an American Family
 Heritage Regained: Alex Haley's monumental tribute to his forebears provides not only the perfect antidote for Blacks in a society that perpetually miseducates us about our ancestral homeland, but also an unblinking and unflinching view of slavery. This [... more]
CDN$62.46
Amazon CA |
Africa A Continent Self-Destructs
telling it like it is: Like many Americans, I scan the news of the third world more than I read it. So I opened this book in part to see if the sweeping generalizations about sub-Saharan Africa I'd come to believe, more through osmosis than analysis, [... more]
CDN$23.95
Amazon CA |
Sugar And Rum
From Amazon.com: The central situation--an aging, slightly dotty, blocked novelist going to seed amid the blight of late-Thatcher Liverpool--sounds irredeemably depressing, and yet by some narrative miracle Barry Unsworth makes Sugar and Rum a work of [... more]
CDN$19.99
Amazon CA |
Paradise Alley
From Amazon.com: Paradise Alley, Kevin Baker's follow-up to Dreamland, makes full use of his skills as a top historical researcher. Paradise Alley concerns a tumultuous moment in the record of the Civil War: the 1863 New York riots that followed [... more]
CDN$39.95
Amazon CA |
Fencer of Minerva 2: The Tempest
The worst film I have ever seen: The entire film plays like an adolescent boy's wet dream. A spirited princess escaped a forced marriage only to be captured by slave traders and given as a sexual slave to her childhood friend. Because she loves him she [... more]
CDN$11.99
Amazon CA |
Paradise Alley
From Amazon.com: Paradise Alley, Kevin Baker's follow-up to Dreamland, makes full use of his skills as a top historical researcher. Paradise Alley concerns a tumultuous moment in the record of the Civil War: the 1863 New York riots that followed [... more]
CDN$17.50
Amazon CA |
Fencer of Minerva 1: The Emergence
The worst film I have ever seen: The entire film plays like an adolescent boy's wet dream. A spirited princess escaped a forced marriage only to be captured by slave traders and given as a sexual slave to her childhood friend. Because she loves him she [... more]
CDN$20.99
Amazon CA |
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
From Amazon.com: The BBC Radio production of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a delightful two-hour sail on the most fabulous ship in Narnia. Lucy and Edmund, with their dreadful cousin Eustace, get magically pulled into a painting of a ship at sea. [... more]
CDN$8.99
Amazon CA |
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
From Amazon.com: The BBC Radio production of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a delightful two-hour sail on the most fabulous ship in Narnia. Lucy and Edmund, with their dreadful cousin Eustace, get magically pulled into a painting of a ship at sea. [... more]
CDN$19.50
Amazon CA |
His Majesty O'Keefe
Burt in All His Glory!: If you like Burt Lancaster, you gotta love this movie. It's even strangely politically correct for its time. One of the themes boils down to not messing around with indigenous cultures to satisfy the White Man's greed. Meanwhile, [... more]
CDN$18.74
Amazon CA |
Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and ...
Historicising Rawls: Janna Thompson provides a sophisticated and parsimonious theory of reparative justice. This is situated in relation to a more extensive theory of justice, according to which reparative claims based on past injustices must be balanced [... more]
CDN$32.99
Amazon CA |
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Digest PB
From Amazon.com: The BBC Radio production of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a delightful two-hour sail on the most fabulous ship in Narnia. Lucy and Edmund, with their dreadful cousin Eustace, get magically pulled into a painting of a ship at sea. [... more]
CDN$9.99
Amazon CA |
