A Minnesota Garden
We moved into our "slice of heaven" in 1990. At the time, I knew next to nothing about landscaping, gardening or houses in general. Our corner lot had 12 mature trees on it (from pines to maples). The problem: too much shade, not enough air [... more]
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Empires - Napoleon
 From Amazon.com: Until someone invents a time machine, history buffs and more casual viewers have to time travel by watching productions like Napoleon, a rich documentary about one of the most compelling figures in history. This four-hour historic drama [... more]
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Gravitational Forces
From Amazon.co.uk: Robert Earl Keen always delivers his quota of rambling songs. The beautifully crafted Gravitational Forces, however, turns around stories of guys whose ropes have run out. On his first album in more than three years, the singer- [... more]
CDN$17.99
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Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
The greatest jazz album: This was the second book I have read by Ashley Kahn. The first being "A Love Supreme." Kahn does a great job in providing new information that you don't read in the many other biographies about Miles. Truly one of the [... more]
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The Way of a Warrior: A Journey into Secret Worlds of ...
Get real!: Assuming I'm not mistaking this book for a different "way of the warrior", I must say that this book teaches dirty fighting alone! Excellent Yarn!: To those who dont know yet, read MARTIAL MUSINGS or one of Smiths interviews in [... more]
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Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
One of Japan's great cultural contributions to the world: Tsukiji, Tokyo's huge world-famous fish market, is a major attraction for foreign tourists to Japan, which is odd since there's not much for a tourist to look at or to buy. (Would you take home a [... more]
CDN$27.04
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Star Trek - The Original Series: Season 1
From Amazon.com: In 1965, Star Trek set out to boldly go where no series had gone before, beginning a three-year mission that led to a franchise that would last decades. Here at last is the first season of the original series all in one box, 29 episodes [... more]
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Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on ...
From Amazon.com: If Michael Lewis (The New New Thing, Liar's Poker) or P.J. O'Rourke (Holidays in Hell, Parliament of Whores) had spent the 1990s in Moscow, they might have produced a book like Casino Moscow--a dizzying first-person account of the wild [... more]
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Reform School Girls
Yow!: I watched this dvd last night and here are ten (10) observations: 1. This film is probably not going to inspire anyone to do anything. No one is going to say "Gee, seeing 'Reform School Girls' was the turning point in my life and that's why I' [... more]
CDN$9.99
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Homosexuality in French History and Culture
Wonderful - The Right Thing at the Right Time: On the cultural front, the French and we don't understand each other too well. Their nation has the gall to pick which wars it gets involved in, which American pop celebrities to lionize (Jerry Lewis?), and [... more]
CDN$41.62
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Programming Microsoft DirectShow for Digital Video and ...
Not exactly "just the SDK" but still not great: I bought this book several months ago but I've held off writing a review as I have been trying to learn DirectShow. It is not exactly just the SDK documentation in a paper binding but it isn't a [... more]
CDN$72.99
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The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's ...
From Amazon.com: Most Westerners will know next to nothing of the Yamato, Japan's current imperial family. Neither do most Japanese. Much of Japan's modern history has been erased from postwar textbooks, and a whole generation has grown up knowing [... more]
CDN$34.00
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