Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline
 Wowsers!: Great book for you plant nerds out there...a book edited by the late great Richard Schultes?...what more can you ask for? All about Ethnobotany: This book is a great compilation from leading ethnobotanists, describing the field, and bringing [... more]
CDN$56.95
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The Didymus Contingency: A Time Travel Thriller
Didymus Contingency!: Best book I've read to date. As soon as I started I couldn't put it down. It's fast paced, but at the same time thought provoking. Given the subject matter I expected something totally serious, but the book has a sense of humor on [... more]
CDN$15.04
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Spiritual Junk Food: The Dumbing Down of Christian Youth
My Suspicions Have Been Confirmed: The authors have confirmed that Secular Humanistic material exists in the church. I noticed things myself when teaching Sunday school to 7th & 8th graders several years ago and could not believe my eyes. I admire [... more]
CDN$17.05
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Color Vision: Perspectives from Different Disciplines
Interesting book covering recent research in color vision.: Different experts summarise the research up to now (e.g. amino acid variation in visual pigments). Contains attractive color pictures and graphics. Favorable Review by Vision Scientist: Today, [... more]
CDN$80.23
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Living Orthodoxy in the Modern
Overlooked Publication: We should thank St. Vladimir's Seminary Press for this one. This book will help dispel the myth that the Eastern Orthodox Church needs to be dusted off for practical use in modern society. Each chapter stands on its own, although [... more]
CDN$26.95
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Selected Works
Badly organized and edited book: The 3 stars are for the lousy editing and organizing of the book, not its actual contents, which is a collection of the more important works of I understand one of the world's greatest writer. Books like this should be [... more]
CDN$45.00
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Arming The Future
An excellent and even-handed analysis: THis edited book covers all the major issues of American defense planning, procurement, the military-industrial complex and so on. The range of views represented here covers the gamut pretty well, from the anti- [... more]
CDN$31.95
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Intergrated Primary Care
Great book about a concept with some flaws.: Health care providers are familiar with the trend to lower costs. The resulting vocabulary of the 90's has become household words to all health professionals: Managed Care Organizations, medical necessity, [... more]
CDN$50.00
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You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys
The Best I've Seen Yet: I work with an online magazine with teenage writing as the primary content. When I got my hands on a copy of this book, I thought it was right up my alley, and it was. I never expected the quality and scope of the selections. Some [... more]
CDN$7.01
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Sams Teach Yourself GTK+ Programming in 21 Days
a good investment: Having read the first few chapters of the book, I can already tell the purchase has been a good investment. The material is well structured and enjoyable to read (like all good books should be!). Another good thing about the book is [... more]
CDN$43.99
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The Crimson Fairy Book
impressive: The Crimson Fairy book is just another superb fairy tale book edited by Andrew Lang. Unlike most of the Fairy books edited by Lang this one has color illustrations as well as black and white. This book contains 45 black and white, and 8 color [... more]
CDN$16.00
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Marvelous introduction to Kandinsky: Written in 1911, Kandinsky provides a treatise on the meaning of modern art. It is a very subjective and very compelling view of the direction art should take, avoiding the superficial pitfalls that were all so common. [... more]
CDN$6.75
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