The Lollipop Shoes CD
 A Sumptuous Box of Chocolates: Think of free spirit Vianne personified in the film version of "Chocolat" by the lovely Juliette Binoche blowing into a small French village on the north wind, tempering the richest, darkest bittersweet chocolate, [... more]
CDN$42.50
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On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture
On becoming russian: after 1959: This book helped me very much as a source of data on events that happened way before my time, mainly because in Castro's Cuba most of this has been distorted, or in many cases, access has been totally impossible. I found [... more]
CDN$25.50
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Blow Fly
Waste of paper: The early Scarpetta novels were ground breaking. Since the appaearance of the WolfMan and his jolly family, this series has gone down hill and beyond. It is doubtful that had this been an unknown author's work, any publisher would have [... more]
CDN$39.00
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Looking for Atlantis
They loved it!: I just spent a week at the beach with my two grandsons, ages 4 and 5. We read this book over and over and over and over again. Searching for objects and moving through tiny doors to each new magical page, their interest never waned. I [... more]
CDN$10.00
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Strategic Choice and International Relations
A Better Explanation for Alliance Formation: How does this book fare against the neorealist godfather? The "strategic choice" approach of Lake and Powell, unlike that of Waltz, is strongly predicated on methodological individualism and the [... more]
CDN$28.00
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Home and Exile
From Amazon.com: Based on three lectures distinguished Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe gave at Harvard University in 1998, this short but trenchant work does not pretend to be a full-fledged autobiography. Instead, Achebe makes forceful use of his [... more]
CDN$16.02
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Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine
TROPICAL MEDICINE: I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE DURING A MONTH LONG STINT IN A MISSION HOSPITAL IN TOGO, WEST AFRICA. THIS BOOK IS CONCISE AND WELL ORGANIZED AND THOROUGH. IT IS EASY TO USE AND SMALL ENOUGH TO CARRY IN YOUR POCKET. FOR [... more]
CDN$56.95
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The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory ...
excellent: "No study of acculturation in colonial America would be complete," writes James Axtell in The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America, "without giving equal consideration to the question of [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Errata: An Examined Life
a profound, passionate and humane thinker: First off, I should mention that I'm new to the work of George Steiner and this review will perhaps be most helpful to other newcomers. Having spent the better part of the past 20 years immersing myself in music [... more]
CDN$42.14
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The Movement and The Sixties
From Amazon.com: "We were young, we were reckless, arrogant, silly, headstrong--and we were right. I regret nothing!" So spoke Abbie Hoffman, recalling the '60s 20 years later. Anderson memorializes Hoffman's words, along with quotations from [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the ...
Culinary and Historical: A reader does not have to have the infatuation with caviar the author has, nor for that matter even have tasted the roe of various fish to enjoy this book. You must have a serious gastronomic love, or perhaps lust, for a given [... more]
CDN$35.95
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The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of ...
Kirkus Review of THE CORPORATE PLANET sucks: Globalization is, obviously, a complicated, misunderstood, and nuanced process. And while THE CORPORATE PLANET is not the last word on that process, or on the dynamics by which corporations are emerging as key [... more]
CDN$24.00
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