Lentil Tomato Pasta
I tend to cook in a haphazard, "that looks about right" way without documenting what exactly I've done, so this in an approximation - but it went over well with my non-veggie family. 1. put lentils in small sauce pan with 1 1/2 cups water, [... more]
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The Gathering
 This is a complicated book: One that requires more than one reading with which to fully come to grips. There's a lot going on here, about family, about the ties that bind, about the fact we can never escape the past. Everyone will not like this book, it' [... more]
CDN$25.00
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Process Of Weeding Out (Mini)
This grows and grows and grows on you: When I first got this record in 1985, I'll admit I didn't know what to think, but I'd spin it once in a while and I found parts of it captivating, others tedious or bizarre. 19 years later I can safely say this was [... more]
CDN$13.99
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Medicine in China: A History of Ideas
Medicine in China: A History of Ideas: By now most Americans accept acupuncture as a medical treatment of medical treatment. Very few if any can give a thorough explanation as to why TCM works. This appears to be a good book understanding the historical [... more]
CDN$33.98
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Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics
Where are the pictures?: This book promises to introduce the world of mathematics to the layman but doesn't quite deliver. It has a great premise and raises many interesting questions but fails to answer them in a concise manner (and one that the average [... more]
CDN$19.95
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The Girls
Amazon.ca: In 29 years, Rose Darlen has never spent a moment apart from her twin sister, Ruby. She has never gone for a solitary walk or had a private conversation. Yet, in all that time, she has never once looked into Ruby's eyes. Joined at the head, & [... more]
CDN$12.99
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Stereo (Bonus Cd)
From Amazon.com: As frontman/songwriter for the late, great indie rockers the Replacements, Paul Westerberg was anointed the voice of a generation. And while that might look nice on the résumé, it can have its drawbacks; over the course of [... more]
CDN$20.99
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1944-45 British Soldier
5 stars for Volume 1; 3-and-a-half stars for Volume 2: Bouchery's two volume set on the Late War British Army is very useful for wargamers, historians and reenactors. Volume 1 is especially good, with its mind-boggling number of full colour photographs [... more]
CDN$49.96
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GTK+ /Gnome Application Development
From Amazon.com: Part of the open-source initiative, the GNU Network Object Model Environment, or Gnome, provides a powerful development framework for building applications in Linux/Unix using C. When combined with GTK+, a user interface library that [... more]
CDN$59.95
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On Chesil Beach
Amazon.ca: As powerful as it is slender, Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach--a gripping rumination on what the pact of marriage really means--is proof that even in this electronic age, few things are as captivating as a good story that's told well. Laid across [... more]
CDN$27.00
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On Chesil Beach
Amazon.ca: As powerful as it is slender, Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach--a gripping rumination on what the pact of marriage really means--is proof that even in this electronic age, few things are as captivating as a good story that's told well. Laid across [... more]
CDN$25.08
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Computers & Typesetting, Volume A: The TeXbook
Excellent. The definitive work on th subject.: Whatever you might think of TeX (work of genius to heinous hack seems to be roughly the range of common views), this is the definitive work by the designer of the system. It also contains jokes, which is [... more]
CDN$65.95
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