Raccoons - A Common Urban Wildlife Species
Raccoons are common animals in the city and can be pests in the garden. Raccoons are one of the wild mammals that urban dwellers can easily recognize. They may hear the clattering of garbage cans at night as raccoons search for food. Apartment ... [... more]
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Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of ...
 One part fact, one part rant: The first half of this short book is a relatively informative overview of the responsibilities and functions of major aid and development agencies, although the statistics are now well out of date. That said, little of any [... more]
CDN$14.59
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Blindness
From Amazon.com: In an unnamed city in an unnamed country, a man sitting in his car waiting for a traffic light to change is suddenly struck blind. But instead of being plunged into darkness, this man sees everything white, as if he "were caught in [... more]
CDN$28.00
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The New Apartment Book: Inspiring Ideas and Practical ...
From Amazon.com: There comes a time for most young urban dwellers when they tire of futons on the floor and brick-and-board bookshelves. That's when they discover that decorating an apartment comes with a unique set of problems. Most people don't want to [... more]
CDN$45.00
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Brand New
From Amazon.co.uk: In Brand New, Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn looks at six entrepreneurs and the extraordinary brands that they built including Josiah Wedgwood, Henry Heinz, Marshall Field, Estee Lauder, and Michael Dell. What interests [... more]
CDN$43.95
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Reporting Vietnam American Journalism Part Two 1969to1975
From Amazon.com: In the predawn morning of May 9, 1970, Richard Nixon left the White House and went to the Lincoln Memorial to speak with a handful of antiwar protesters, most of them college students. The nervous president, who, an assistant later said, [... more]
CDN$44.00
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Sidewalk
From Amazon.com: "I've had the luxury--if you can call it the luxury," says Hakim Hasan, "of working in the formal economy, and of working at certain companies that required a certain level of training, however rudimentary, and a certain [... more]
CDN$18.95
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Hed Kandi: Winter Chill V.2
Series at it's best: I first heard the Winter Chill 2 compilation through a friend, and it was my first experience (that I was aware of) of listening to "chill out" music. I must say that having purchased all the Winter Chill albums released by [... more]
CDN$27.99
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China: A Century of Revolution
Monumental doucumentary. Sweeping in scope and detail.: This documentary is excellently produced and I can easily watch all 6-hours of it in one sitting. It is just that compelling and fascinating to see the history of China over the last century unfold [... more]
CDN$52.07
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Urban Eden: Grow Delicious Fruit, Vegetables and Herbs ...
What a breath of fresh air: Living in a small space with no bed to call my own I picked up this book and read it. It was wonderful! Lots of information on gardening specifically for the urban dweller. The photographs were wonderful, as was the writing. [... more]
CDN$26.04
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The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture
Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture: This book was recently reviewed on the Sunday Arts program on ABC television in Australia. The book presents an authoratitive overview of the origins and development of Aboriginal Art and Culture in Australia. It [... more]
CDN$171.95
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Concrete Jungle: A Pop Media Investigation of Death and ...
Urban life...: A great book, with a general overview of the urban dwellers and the habitat they transform by interactions beetween species, space, history and the human perpective of the life in the cities. Its real achivement is the explorations in to [... more]
CDN$24.95
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