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Great Events Of Our Century
Good, affordable documentaries: The Great Events of Our Century DVD set is a 5-disc set, each disc comprising of 2 1-hour documentaries relating to a theme of the past century (actually, up until the late 90's). While the documentaries are well- [... more]
CDN$46.99
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Sepharad
We Are of a Time and Place: Sepharad is a collection of chapters that make us question who we are in this time and this place. The poetic lyricism of the language is mesmerizing, pulling us back and forth from the 1940s to the present day, to the 1600s, [... more]
CDN$34.11
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20th Century Death In Venice
Mann's Afternoon of a Faun: "Death in Venice" is so many wondrous treasures. It is the sound of a great heart breaking. And the search for beauty which is the sensuous pathway to something beyond us that enriches and restores. It is the aloof [... more]
CDN$16.50
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Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy
the musical crevices and fault-lines are probed with Adorno: If you know anything about Theodor Adorno, you might well be familiar with the entire edifice of western cultural and philosophic thought; Kant,Hegel,Kierkegaard,and Marx,the history of art, [... more]
CDN$18.75
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Red River
Amazon.com Essential Video: Talk about epic grandeur! This magnificently photographed account of the first cattle drive on the Chisholm Trail has everything you could ever want in a western: gunfights, stampedes, Indian attacks, hangings, betrayal, [... more]
CDN$11.98
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Penguin Classics Black Sheep
BRING ON THE IRONY: In his preface to this book, Balzac makes an interesting observation about 19th century France that seems to be a preoccupation of our century as well. Balzac states that young men who grow up without a significant male role model are [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Superman II (Widescreen)
Amazon.com Essential Video: Director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night) took over the franchise with this first sequel in the series, though the film doesn't look much like his usual stylish work. (Superman III is far more Lesteresque.) Still, there is [... more]
CDN$24.96
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at ...
The Sharp Contrasts of Roman Society.: Reading Jérôme Carcopino's timeless account of life in ancient Rome brings the reader back to the dark, narrow, crowded Roman streets, flanked on both sides by teetering, five-story tenements. Although [... more]
CDN$18.06
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The Tin Drum
From Amazon.com: Meet Oskar Matzerath, "the eternal three-year-old drummer." On the morning of his third birthday, dressed in a striped pullover and patent leather shoes, and clutching his drumsticks and his new tin drum, young Oskar makes an [... more]
CDN$31.00
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Mandarins
Excellent book, terrible introduction by Doris Lessing.: This is a wonderful and captivating, if not necessarily easy to read, book. A few of the previous reviews have commented on it being melodramatic, or overly long, or unfocused. To these claims I [... more]
CDN$17.01
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Silences
a way to get the book: It is an embarassment that this title is out of print. As a woman, mother, writer, I am reading it now + find it to be an important tool. SO here is my suggestion for obtaining a copy, which may be awful but nonetheless it is how I [... more]
CDN$50.50
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D028507 Arius: Heresy &
nice source for history, but the majority is theoligy: This book is divided into two sections. The first section deals primarily with history. The second(which is by far the majority of the books contents) deals with various views of theology pertaining [... more]
CDN$42.95
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