Jerome Adams
Many North Americans are unaware of the history and politics of Latin America, and Latin American Heroes goes a long way to redress this lack of knowledge. These profiles of twenty-three history makers offer a unique view of Latin America through ... [... more]
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A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political ...
 Political opinion is like a bowel movement; we all have one.: This book's value is in it's exploration of the history of political philosophy. It explores the ideas that have been offered but in a way less obvious and to the point as Francione's HOW TO [... more]
CDN$23.00
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Ten Days That Shook the World
From Amazon.com: The situation in St. Petersburg was growing more and more tense. The People's Revolution had begun by overthrowing the corrupt Tsarist regime in March 1917, but the workers and the peasants felt the revolution had much farther to go. [... more]
CDN$46.11
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Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, ...
Not keeping the Sabbath Holy: Ms Dawn has written an account of her Sabbath keeping, not God's. Neither the day, nor her practices, are of the Lord's making. Sunday cannot be called the Sabbath because it is not the 7th day but the 1st day of the week - [... more]
CDN$18.99
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Designing, Building, and Testing Your Own Speaker System ...
Too basic to be useful: The author covers a variety of subjects but too lightly to be useful. Too much effort is spent on things that are useless. For example, Testing of Loudspeakers - part of the book's title - is barely 13 pages and is so basic as to [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Muhammad and Jesus: A Comparison of the Prophets and ...
Poor scholarship: The concept for this book is great. To compare and contrast the central figures of the worlds two largest religions.Phipps starts out well enough, reviewing the gross distortions and outrageous accusations that have been made about [... more]
CDN$30.95
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Encyclopedia of Nutritional Supplements: The Essential ...
great resource: My uncle, who has been taking vitamins for years, recommended this book to me when I asked him for a single reference that would tell me about vitamins, minerals,EFAs, as well as some of the non vitamin/mineral supplements. This book has [... more]
CDN$34.95
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An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to ...
A disappointing, self-indulgent gust of wind: I bought this book based on my desire to gather as many perspectives on Applied Linguistics as possible, but wound up being deeply disappointed. The let-down was founded just as much on the book's lack of [... more]
CDN$28.13
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Nighttime Parenting Revised Edition
Supportive of one parenting style ONLY: This book is focused on breast feeding and co-sleeping. It starts out by advising parents to experiment to find the sleeping arrangement that works best for their family - an idea I agree with. However, it becomes [... more]
CDN$19.50
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Sunshine sketches of a little town
Amazon.ca: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is one of Canada's classic works of literature, and perhaps its most complex work of satire. A series of linked stories chronicling life in the fictional community of Mariposa--modelled on Orillia, Ontario-- [... more]
CDN$15.04
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North American Clone Brews: Homebrew Recipes for Your ...
Worth Buying: I'm glad I read my copy of North American Clone Brews before reading the reviews in this column. Give a guy a break! The book is fine. It does what it purports in a concise and readable manner. So, yes, "White Plains", Mr Russell' [... more]
CDN$15.58
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Color of Water
From Amazon.com: Order this book ... and please don't be put off by its pallid subtitle, A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, which doesn't begin to do justice to the utterly unique and moving story contained within. The Color of Water tells the [... more]
CDN$16.02
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