Alamein
 Well-balanced treatment of the battle.: The Battle of El Alamein is bound up in considerations of the dominant general on both sides, Montgomery for the British and Rommel for the Germans and Italians. Latimer describes the battle at a level of detail [... more]
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Information: The New Language of Science
An informative book on information, beautifully written....: What a delightful surprise to stumble across this book on Amazon a few months ago, before it had even been released. Since I was familiar with and greatly admired von Baeyer's book on Maxwell's [... more]
CDN$18.23
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On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition
Answer to "Some concepts should be revised and corrected": Some idiot wrote a review of this book as if it were a contemporary scientific publication, as if Darwin were still alive to rewrite another edition! Darwin was a great writer who used [... more]
CDN$20.32
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Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics
not a "textbook" on macro...: This is basically a handbook of mathematical methods necessary to study dynamic economic modells. As such it does a very good job, since as the authors note, just presenting the applications without developing the [... more]
CDN$76.06
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The Parthenon
When beauty was in style -- and how it was trashed: One chilly February morning, just as dawn was arriving and the shops and offices were still clad in the cold grey of the fading night, I saw by the dawn's golden glow the full splendour of the Parthenon [... more]
CDN$20.79
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Who Owns Native Culture?
long overdue, but something awry: How much we need a book that looks with unjaundiced eyes on the issue of cultural ownership and cultural appropriation. This is that book, but with a caveat: there is something slightly out of balance here, with the [... more]
CDN$20.32
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The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built ...
Bringing the Outside In: In _The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures_ (Harvard University Press), J. Scott Turner gives plenty of surprising examples to show that animals indeed use the environment outside in ways that would [... more]
CDN$66.16
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Why the Wild Things Are: Animals in the Lives of Children
Wild about "Wild Things": Why the Wild Things Are is a long needed, wonderful, thoughtful and comprehensive review of child animal relations. Author, Gail Melson has reviewed and integrated research from a variety of disciplines including [... more]
CDN$18.56
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Who Owns Native Culture?
long overdue, but something awry: How much we need a book that looks with unjaundiced eyes on the issue of cultural ownership and cultural appropriation. This is that book, but with a caveat: there is something slightly out of balance here, with the [... more]
CDN$38.55
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Imperial China 900-1800
From Amazon.com: A major preoccupation of this work by Princeton's highly respected professor emeritus, Frederick W. Mote, is the interplay between China and Inner Asia, a region that includes Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet. This is an [... more]
CDN$28.13
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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic ...
not an easy read,: This book is excellent and the informative. The stregnth of this book is also its greatest weakness -- the author's errudition. I liked the way that he marshaled historical facts and etymology in his account. But I did not like the way [... more]
CDN$36.47
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Body Heat: Temperature and Life on Earth
Thoroughly Enjoyable: This is a thoroughly enjoyable book. The publisher's weekly reviewer's criticism is misdirected. I guarantee that you will enjoy this book, and annoy the hell out of your friends/family quoting them little tidbits. I particularly [... more]
CDN$17.56
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