John Vachon's America: Photographs and Letters from the ...
 Nice Try: Mediocre writing,mediocre design,mediocre printing.Vachon's letters and journal entries are the reasons to buy this book.Document footnotes are few, far between-- and not very helpful. The book is a good start,but not equal to the artist or his [... more]
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Eating Apes
A family affair: Sometime far in our past, humans took up rocks and sticks to hunt food instead of scavenging from other predators. With our meat available today in shrink-wrapped containers it's easy to lose sight of that long-standing tradition. Others [... more]
CDN$18.70
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Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in ...
Outstanding: I originally purchased this book under the presumption that it would some nice lite reading to add to my knowledge about Roman society only to be delightfully surprised that this was an indepth, accurate and insightful look into not only the [... more]
CDN$30.05
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Cuneiform
Reading the past more easily...: C.B.F. Walker's book on Egyptian Hieroglyphs (part of the 'Reading the Past' series put out by the British Museum in cooperation with the University of California Press) is an excellent primer to the subject of this [... more]
CDN$16.62
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American Bison: A Natural History
On being a Bison: This slim book provides a very thorough and scholarly, yet slyly humorous, and beautifully written summary of what modern biological and behavioral scientists have discovered about the American Bison and how they live their lives. The [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Introduction to Attic Greek: Answer Key
Finally an Attic Greek grammar for the serious.: I'm not sure how to answer the chap who thinks learning a language ought to be a distractingly entertaining experience. But let me try. Language learning can indeed be accompanied by merriment at times, [... more]
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The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To ...
From Amazon.com: In April 1943, a young physicist named Robert Serber stood up before a small group of fellow scientists in a laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and, as one attendee later recalled, began to speak in "a hazy, uncertain voice" [... more]
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Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn about Sex ...
Reconciling feminism and evolutionary biology: University of California, Riverside biology professor Marlene Zuk, whose specialty is insects, especially crickets, makes two main points in this modest volume. One, what is "natural" as observed [... more]
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ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age
One of the best books of this century: Gunder Frank have really helped to open up the eyes of people, who have long gotten used to reading books and literary works written with Eurocentric bias. He conclusively proves that Europe's success was nothing [... more]
CDN$27.59
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Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement
Racist Hate, Female Style: Kathleen M. Blee wrote _Women of the Klan_, which covered the 1920's. Because readers of that work were curious about women in the contemporary Klan, she began researching her current book, _Inside Organized Racism: Women in [... more]
CDN$22.02
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Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the ...
Splendid: Billows has written an excellent book. Not only does he succeed in clearly illuminating a period of history too little studied - the wars of the Diadochoi, the Macedonian dynasts who had served Alexander and then fought over the remains of his [... more]
CDN$34.33
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Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, ...
Surprisingly Dull: I had high hopes for this book. The volumes in this series on the origins of cinema, the Twenties and the Forties are very good. This book, however, proved a chore to get through. The big problem for me was that Balio seemed more [... more]
CDN$29.97
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