How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics
 this book is astonishing: With enormous learning, grace, and brilliant insight into the arts of anicent poetry, Calvert Watkins illuminates whole areas of human linguistic experience. Time and again a small detail in an ancient text, under his patient [... more]
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Early Music
From Amazon.co.uk: Don't get too comfortable with this disc's opening minutes, which sound convincingly like a well-tuned consort of viols performing two short pieces by Machaut and Tye. These two works from the 14th and 16th centuries quickly give way [... more]
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Consciousness: An Introduction
Comprehensive, Clear, Well Written: I am glad to find a complete book dealing with all aspects of consciousness in CLEARLY written format, with graphs and tables to facilitate comprehension. The book covers everything I had seen before from Artificial [... more]
CDN$58.50
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X-Files: Season 4
From Amazon.com: In season four, The X-Files continued to expand the breadth and complexity of the mythology established in the previous two seasons while developing a deeper, romantically ambiguous relationship between its photogenic leads, FBI Special [... more]
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Course In General Linguistics
The origin of structuralism: This book is the manifesto of structural linguistics. But it has been widely read outside linguistics for it served as corner stone of structuralism. It was not intended to be published. In fact Saussure never wrote any book. [... more]
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The God Of Small Things
From Amazon.com: In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and [... more]
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Laudes De Sainte Ursule
From Amazon.com: At first glance, one might wonder why Harmonia Mundi has brought out simultaneous releases focusing on the Office of St. Ursula: Anonymous 4's 11,000 Virgins and this disc. But in fact the recordings have little duplication, since Marcel [... more]
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2003 Festival In The Desert
From Amazon.com: Throwing an enormous Woodstock-style music festival in the middle of the Sahara desert--the gorgeous photos included in the booklet to Festival in the Desert make clear--isn't exactly easy. Held during the last three years in the [... more]
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Cognitive Neuroscience
Not for those without background: This book is not intended for the general reader, reader with cellular neuroscience background, but has a target audience of advanced undergraduate or graduate level students with relevant background. Also would be [... more]
CDN$114.38
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
My review...: Good book on the subject, the physics part in the middle with super-fluid was difficult when stoned. This is one of the first books which is leading to the convergence of science and religion ( science being the religion of cause and effect [... more]
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What Shape Is a Snowflake?
From Amazon.co.uk: For years Ian Stewart has been wrestling with the mathematical underpinnings of the natural world. In his new book What Shape is a Snowflake? he explains his fascination with nature's numbers and explores the fruits of his quest so far. [... more]
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Cheyenne Autumn
From Amazon.com: Cheyenne Autumn is a beautiful title to grace John Ford's final Western, but the film falls short of the occasion. The great director's ambition to tell the story, for once, from the Indians' point of view is only partially fulfilled. He' [... more]
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