A Home for Herbs
Fresh herbs dried at home are incomparably better than store bought dried herbs! Some practical how-to's and a tangent or two on the delights of home-dried herbs. I like to imagine that in a different century I lived in a cottage just outside a ... [... more]
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Oxford Russian Dictionary
 An excellent reference: As a Russian translator in the U.S. military, I have used this edition as well as earlier ones in my work, and I have to say that this is an improvement upon the others, which were already very good. A question for the reviewer [... more]
CDN$71.95
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Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom
Ogam firmly in the 21st Century: I read this book with a non-practising interest in Celtic Reconstruction (CR) paganism, but I am convinced that if you are looking for a guide to help you deepen or energise your CR paganism, or simply want to expand your [... more]
CDN$22.57
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Almost Famous Untitled: The Bootleg Cut (Widescreen ...
The real deal: I got this director's cut edition because I so was so intrigued by the original theatrical release. I wanted more. What I didn't expect was how very the new material (typically extended scenes though there are a few new scenes as well) [... more]
CDN$21.98
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Waning Of The Middle Ages
From Amazon.com: In 1919, Johan Huizinga revealed in the original version of this book that the ideals, aspirations, and behaviors of humanity in history were dramatically different from those in present day. In Herfsttjj der Middeleeuwen, he recalled [... more]
CDN$20.03
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Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the ...
This new volume is the best that I have discovered.: After more than three decades of searching out the top books on leadership and sales, I must say that this new volume is the best that I have discovered, especially in these times when genuine care and [... more]
CDN$21.00
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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
Good, but not up to the hype: I read numerous glowing reviews of Trilling's work in the press, and so was eager to get this book. But the book itself was something of a let-down. Trilling is said to be "brave" simply for observing that certain [... more]
CDN$20.79
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The Alchemist: In the Footsteps of Giordano Bruno
Strength of Love: I really enjoyed reading The Alchemist. It's the kind of book that you want to read to the very end without stopping. I think its secret is the author's ability to awaken not only our adventurous imagination but a sense of justice and [... more]
CDN$15.04
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Mefisto
Stunner...: Banville is certainly one of the most exciting writers of the last 30 years, and this is a mesmerising display of his talents. On one level this is a book bristling with symbols, wherein a young man attempts to reconcile the opposing forces [... more]
CDN$22.47
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Bob Hope My Life in Jokes
a list of jokes: i love bob hope hence the purchase of the book...i was disappointed in the fact that it was a small hardcover book, and simply a copy of his jokes for the various times of his life...i believe that very little effort went in putting the [... more]
CDN$26.95
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Jacobs Ladder
worth reading and rereading: I picked up this book by chance at a secondhand bookstore, and found it an extremely satisfying reading experience. There are books that you read that are merely good, and books from the first page that are great in [... more]
CDN$15.05
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Swim-Two-Birds
From Amazon.com: In a 1938 letter to a literary agent, Flann O'Brien described his first novel as "a very queer affair, unbearably queer perhaps." The book in question was At Swim-Two-Birds--and if we take queer to mean diabolically eccentric, [... more]
CDN$35.95
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