Thomas Cahill
THOMAS CAHILL's appealing approach to distant history has won the attention of millions of readers in North America and beyond. Cahill is the author of five volumes in the Hinges of History series: How the Irish Saved Civilization, The Gifts of ... [... more]
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The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads ...
 From Amazon.com: Thomas Cahill, author of the bestselling How the Irish Saved Civilization, continues his Hinges of History series with The Gifts of the Jews, a light-handed, popular account of ancient Jewish culture, the culture of the Bible. The book [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Sun Dancing: A Vision of Medieval Ireland
entertaining and illuminating: Fun for anyone with even slight interest in history, Christian religion, etc. Part story, part historical text, very clever and interesting. I got bored about halfway through, which is why I didn't give this book a better [... more]
CDN$28.13
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Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and ...
From Amazon.com: Desire of the Everlasting Hills is another present from the pen of Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews. In this third volume of the bestselling Hinges of History series, he knits together [... more]
CDN$35.95
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Pecked to Death by Ducks
Fascinating Journeys: I was recommended to read Tim Cahill's books as a huge fan of Bill Bryson. While both writers discuss their adventures in traveling, their styles are very different. Bryson's books tend to be coherent pieces about one specific trip [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Lonesome Touch
slow recording bad recording: This cd had great potential. However, it didn't seem to take off. The pacing is lazy. Not that it should be fast paced, but this recording lacked energy. Music can be as slow as it needs to be, but you've got to have energy. [... more]
CDN$13.99
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Murder in the CIA
the queen stays unbeaten when it comes to murder.: Who did it? ask the president's daughter. She can simply say who is the murder. Great suspense. Wonderful characters to get along with. You will not want to stop reading any of her books. I wanna read 2 [... more]
CDN$9.99
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Cahill: US Marshall
From Amazon.com: After the late-career high of True Grit, only The Cowboys and The Shootist escaped the curse of half-baked scripts, recycled material, and lackadaisical filmmaking that characterized John Wayne's last half-dozen years in movies. Cahill [... more]
CDN$9.93
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The Best American Travel Writing 2001
Not romantic, but rivetting: Anyone who's read Paul Theroux's travel books - "The Old Patagonian Express," "The Happy Isles of Oceania" - knows he's not in it for the fun. His selections for the best travel pieces of 2000 (for this 200 [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Cahill: U.S. Marshal
From Amazon.com: After the late-career high of True Grit, only The Cowboys and The Shootist escaped the curse of half-baked scripts, recycled material, and lackadaisical filmmaking that characterized John Wayne's last half-dozen years in movies. Cahill [... more]
CDN$9.93
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The General (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Best known for Deliverance (1972), John Boorman produced what is arguably his greatest film with Point Blank (1967). In that ambiguous gangster flick, set in a pastel L.A. wasteland, Lee Marvin may or may not be a walking dead man, [... more]
CDN$30.95
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of ...
From Amazon.com: In this delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little-known "hinge" of history, Thomas Cahill takes us to the "island of saints and scholars," the Ireland of St. Patrick and the Book of Kells. Here, far [... more]
CDN$28.00
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