Lock Up
From Amazon.com: With vanity projects like 1989's schlocky Lock Up to his credit, it's a wonder Sylvester Stallone survived to make some better movies in the '90s. This is a brutal dose of macho action that Stallone squeezed in between Rambo III and [... more]
CDN$10.40
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The Enormous Room
must for cummings fans, but read the poetry first: The Enormous Room (1922) is the only novel written by e.e.cummings, is autobiographical with surreal interjections, and relates his experiences during the latersocalled first world war. Other than the [... more]
CDN$65.21
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Rats, Lice And History
nsight, Insight, Insight (with Apologies to "Location, .)..": In an apparent effort to explain not ony typhus, but epidemic disease generally, to the educated lay reader, Zinsser has gone one better. By explaining the infection mechanism and [... more]
CDN$33.95
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Running With The Demon
From Amazon.com: Terry Brooks's Running with the Demon is billed as "A Novel of Good and Evil," but he could've called it "A Novel of Here and Now." The fantasy master behind the Shannara series switches his focus from neo-Tolkien [... more]
CDN$19.45
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The Paltinis Diary: A Paideic Model in Humanist Culture
Unspoken Truths: There were many forms of resistance under communism and we don't know them all yet. Liiceanu's Paltinis Diary constitutes such an example no doubt. Articulated as a reverential homage to Constantin Noica, Liiceanu's master, this book is [... more]
CDN$28.95
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A World of Rings: Africa, Asia, America
Needs a different title!: First, this book has a misleading title. "Rings of Africa and Asia" would be more accurate (the few pages of rings from America hardly seem worth mentioning). I purchased this book for the library in our college [... more]
CDN$77.00
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Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America
Heaven on Earth: With text and one photo on each spread 'Sweet Earth' follows in the same format as Sternfeld's previous fascinating book 'On This Site' rather than the straight photobook style of 'American Prospects' or 'Stranger Passing'. The Editorial [... more]
CDN$65.22
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Mathematical Problems and Proofs: Combinatorics, Number ...
A Basketful of Gems: This is a very interesting book. If you have mastered the bare essentials of set theory (through the upside down A for "for all" and the backwards E for "there exists"), AND either 1) the bare essentials of [... more]
CDN$134.16
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Vegas Heat
a cuddle up and forget all your problems book: Fern Michaels newest book, Vegas Heat, brings all the Coleman clan back along with new characters, The Thornton family. This book one in a triology, that only Fern Michaels can write with such humor, sadness, [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Edgewise
From Amazon.com: If James Taylor is a watered-down imitation of Paul Simon, and Graham Nash is a watered-down imitation of Taylor, and Dan Fogelberg is a watered-down imitation of Nash, and Lowen & Navarro are a watered-down imitation of Fogelberg, [... more]
CDN$16.99
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The New Kids
close to home: For a B movie, this film is great. The only reason I saw it was because it was filmed across the street from my house and at my highschool. The film was suspenseful and entertaining. I plan to add this movie to my collection. I think it is [... more]
CDN$14.95
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A Saint and His Lion: The Story of Tekla of Ethiopia
This is a lavishly illustrated children's book: The editorial review fails to mention that this is a lavishly illustrated picture book, with the drawings by Cecile Sharratt, who also illustrated Shalinar's Song, also published by Paulist Press. Author: [... more]
CDN$10.37
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