Thad Carhart
Walking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris neighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign-Desforges Pianos-he enters, only to have his way barred by the shop's imperious ... [... more]
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Imperious Delerium
 Artist: Saints Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0823566416227 Original Release Date: 2006-11-13 Release Date: 2006-11-07 UPC: 823566416227 Tracks: Drunk in Babylon Declare War Trocadero Je Fu**in' T'Aime Other Side of the World So Close Getting Away with Murder [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Andre Kertesz
A wonderful collection of photographs: "Andre Kertesz," a book in the Aperture Masters of Photography series, brings together a rich collection of photographs by Kertesz. The book also includes the following: (1) an essay, written by Carole [... more]
CDN$35.00
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Media Spectacle
Little new here: "Media Spectacle" presents Douglas Kellner's critique of contemporary high-tech, media-driven society which, he proposes, is dominated by the phenomenon of spectacle. The whole notion of "spectacle" as the dominant [... more]
CDN$52.12
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Natalie Merchant: Live in Concert (New York City)
avoid the live DVD, buy the studio recordings: I was very disappointed in this DVD, so much so that I returned it. The audio quality is poor, with enough audible distortion that I found it unlistenable, and I am not an audiophile, just a mainstream [... more]
CDN$34.99
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The Violent Bear It Away
Grotesque?: O'Connor defended the grotesque element in her fiction this way: "The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an [... more]
CDN$15.50
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The Secret Garden
From Amazon.com: Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor [... more]
CDN$43.99
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His Girl Friday
Amazon.com Essential Video: The Front Page, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's classic 1928 newspaper play, has had three official film versions and contributed structural DNA to half the movies ever made about professional camaraderie and fierce love- [... more]
CDN$10.99
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SOM Evolutions: Recent Work of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
From Amazon.com: In the smart Q & A roundtable that opens this stylish monograph of new and in-progress projects from the long-established megafirm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the principals notes, with mixed sentiments, "We have been [... more]
CDN$88.56
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1951 Gotterdammerung Bayreut
From Amazon.co.uk: It's still easy to imagine the anticipation that must have attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1951 when it reopened for the first time since the war. This was the epoch-making summer when Wieland Wagner began to unveil a bold rethinking [... more]
CDN$75.99
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Morgan: American Financier
From Amazon.com: As Americans cope with the social and industrial changes wrought by the computer age, we seem ready to view with more sympathy the men who shaped the similarly disruptive economic revolution at the turn of the last century. Less than a [... more]
CDN$30.37
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10 Things I Hate About You
From Amazon.com: It's, like, Shakespeare, man! This good-natured and likeable update of The Taming of the Shrew takes the basics of Shakespeare's farce about a surly wench and the man who tries to win her and transfers it to modern-day Padua High School. [... more]
CDN$11.99
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