Ken Setterington
Experts select the very best of Canadian children's books in English This is an entertaining and easy-to-use guide to the very best in Canadian children's books for parents, grandparents, teachers, librarians, and anyone else interested in the ... [... more]
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A Guide to Canadian Children's Books in English
 Amazon.ca: The editors of A Guide to Canadian Children's Books are highly thought of in children's literature circles. Deirdre Baker has not only taught children's literature at various universities but is the children's book columnist at The Toronto [... more]
CDN$34.99
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Deirdre Baker
Experts select the very best of Canadian children's books in English This is an entertaining and easy-to-use guide to the very best in Canadian children's books for parents, grandparents, teachers, librarians, and anyone else interested in the ... [... more]
Random House |
Confucius Lives Next Door
T.R. Reid is the author of five books in English and two in Japanese. Through his reporting for The Washington Post, his syndicated weekly column, and his light-hearted commentary from around the world for National Public Radio, he has become one ... [... more]
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Harry Potter y El Prisionero de Azkaban = Harry Potter ...
great story, horrible translation: The third Harry Potter book is awesome. The author really lets the characters evolve and be more real than the previous two books. She lets them have more emotional depth and it's great. The translation, however, is not [... more]
CDN$18.70
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Ayurvedic Healing, 2nd Revised and Enlarged Edition: A ...
One of the best books in English on Ayurveda: ~I have read dozens of books on Ayurveda published in English; this stands out as simply the best of what I have read. It is sensitive, sympathetic to the conditions discussed, and lucid. A great work. So [... more]
CDN$22.95
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The Treatment of Modern Western Diseases with Chinese ...
A Gem of Clarity: There have been other books in English elaborating the Chinese medical pattern identification and treatment of biomedically-defined diseases, but none so meticulously researched and presented as this one. The writing is organized, [... more]
CDN$260.62
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Mozart
Can you read Spanish?: It was not totally obvious that this book was written in Spanish. Okay, now that the book is in our home, and I have taken a second look at the picture of the cover, I wonder if I should have known when I ordered. On the other hand, [... more]
CDN$7.99
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The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English
Useful, Engaging, periodically irritating: I bought this book just before Christmas hoping to learn a little about a English illustrator and children's book writer called Gladys Peto, whose work I collect in a small way. She escaped Mr. Watson's [... more]
CDN$103.95
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Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal / Harry Potter and ...
How can you miss?: I had read the complaints about the translation, and so I didn't buy it, but it is now at our local library in Spanish! Ha! And I wondered, is my Spanish good enough to read this book? And is my Harry Potter quotient high enough to [... more]
CDN$10.41
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Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
unreadable: I tried to read this book, but got so frustrated by his rambling, flowery writing that i returned it to the public library (good thing i didn't buy it...). He does a good job of making Classics inaccessible to the average reader. I'm reminded [... more]
CDN$15.63
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Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
The Biography Nabokov Deserves!: In my review of Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years, I say that "I am grateful to Boyd for his serious scholarship, his lively prose, and his close analysis of Nabokov's oeuvre." That comment applies [... more]
CDN$51.05
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