Growing, Harvesting
Patchouli is mostly known for its sensual, earthy fragrance, but India, China and the Arab region have used it as an aphrodisiac and for medicinal purposes. This perennial member of the mint family has square, hairy stems and oval leaves, growing ... [... more]
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Around the World on a Bicycle
 Superb: San Francisco to Boston, England to the Balkans, Turkey to Afghanistan, India, China and Japan: Stevens boldly cycled where no bicycler had gone before! On the recommendation of a friend, I've been looking for this book for years. So I was [... more]
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Late Victorian Holocausts
El Nino and Imperialism: A Tragic Combination: Late Victorian Holocausts is a double investigation, first of the role played by ENSO, the El Nino Southern Oscillation which affects much of the world's weather in the devastating famines which marked the [... more]
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Story Of The World 03 Early Modern Times
Continuing in the same great tradition: Volume three arrived in the mail last week, and I read it in two sittings. It follows the same approach as the first two volumes. The author, Susan Wise Bauer, has targeted this book at young children. It is a [... more]
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Nurturing Children: A History of Pediatrics
Not so much a history as a bibliography: It's difficult to criticize a volume that is the product of a prodigious amount of research, but I'm afraid that the Colons have failed to deliver what the title promises. Nuturing Children is not a history of [... more]
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Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World
Very Good Compilation -- Should Have Been More Readable: Having studied these four views previously, I was disappointed after finishing this particular title. All of these authors could have made their arguments much more concise and readable, but none [... more]
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Buddhist Sutras
Origins and historical movement of the Sutras: "Buddhist Sutras" is an erudite, yet accessible, account of the origins and historical movements of Buddhist scripture, throughout Asia; the book covers some 2,500 years, ending in the 20th century. [... more]
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A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political ...
Political opinion is like a bowel movement; we all have one.: This book's value is in it's exploration of the history of political philosophy. It explores the ideas that have been offered but in a way less obvious and to the point as Francione's HOW TO [... more]
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Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race
Wonderful insights imbedded in almost inpenetrable jargon: Comment on "COLONIAL DESIRE" by Robert J. C. Young by Jan HaagHow dare you make sex so boring? When all you want to point out is Europe's attraction to the beautiful, often willing, [... more]
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Henri Cartier Bresson The Man The Image And The World
From Amazon.com: Henri Cartier-Bresson spent four decades traveling the world as a photojournalist in search of what he called "the decisive moment"--the instant when visual harmony and human significance coalesce. Published in honor of his 95 [... more]
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Negara: The Theatre State in 19th Century Bali
Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth Century Bali: Geertz, a social anthropologist at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, is a prolific scholar on Balinese and Indonesian political and state organization. "Negara" is a [... more]
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Growling Tiger, Roaring Dragon: India, China, and the ...
Author: David Smith Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 330.95106 EAN: 9781553653349 ISBN: 1553653343 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: 2007-09-13 [... more]
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