Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated
 From Amazon.com: Biologists have a dirty little secret: while practically everyone knows of The Origin of Species (and owes much to it), almost nobody has read it. British geneticist Steve Jones wants to make the arguments contained in that great text [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Evil Genius
Cool but - ooh la la - violent: You know how teenagers always feel they're alone, unique, and misunderstood? Well, 14-year-old Cadel Piggott is that times 10, plus he's beyond bright. One problem: his real father, he discovers, is a murderous psychopath [... more]
CDN$18.95
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Sixty-Six To Timbuktu: The Very Best Of (2CD)
From Amazon.co.uk: Sixty Six to Timbukto offers the listener two CDs worth of solo Robert Plant hits, key album cuts and obscurities, beginning with his vinyl debut in 1966 (a precocious cover of the Youngbloods' hit "You Better Run") and [... more]
CDN$44.79
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Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy ...
My Introduction to World War II: I happened upon this book at work over seven years ago and started it for lack of reading material. This book started my education into the world of the World War II. Ambrose not only tells you what happened in a time [... more]
CDN$47.50
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Birnbaum's Walt Disney World for Kids, by Kids 2004: ...
Truly for Kids!: I purchased this book after quickly previewing it in the local bookstore and finding that it had A LOT of pictures for my four year old son to look at. I thought that it would be a great bedtime read for us as we anticipate our trip. [... more]
CDN$13.49
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Angels In The Infield
From Amazon.com: Three's a charm in this latest installment of Disney's angel franchise, which also includes Angels in the Outfield and Angels in the End Zone. While this family film never misses a chance to be stereotypical in its depiction of celestial [... more]
CDN$24.99
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Mammoth Book of Chess
Chessboard or smorgasbord?: This is sort of a buffet of a chess book. There's a little of everything, and not a lot of depth in anything, but what's there is fun, though in some spots Burgess seems to be writing for everybody: there are arcane references [... more]
CDN$16.02
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Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels
Trites writes eloquently for her intended audience: The previous reviewer criticizes the book for not being accessible to youthful audiences. It's quite clear that Trites is writing for a professional, adult audience. In doing so, she provides a [... more]
CDN$18.70
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Bootstrap Methods: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers
Essential for Resamplers: Anyone with a serious interest in resampling will want to have this book in his or her library. The reference listings, invaluable for researchers, are the most complete currently available for bootstrappers. The material is [... more]
CDN$131.99
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Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD
For new SysAdmins or those who want to build a server: This is a book for people who want to use FreeBSD as a server -- for mail, web services, DNS, etc. It's not a book for those who want to use FreeBSD as a desktop machine. FreeBSD makes a perfectly [... more]
CDN$61.95
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Elementary Stochastic Calculus
Perfect bridge to higher financial math: Not having a strong theoretical mathematics background hindered my ability to read advanced stochastic finance. I found most "introduction to financial mathematics" for derivatives either too elementary [... more]
CDN$40.50
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Franklin's Reading Club
It's Not a Bad Story... But: This isn't a bad story, pretty good as far as the "Franklin First Readers" go. Franklin finds a special way to share with his friends a book that they all want to read. The dialogue is just right for the intended [... more]
CDN$14.95
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