Jane Kurtz
Jane Kurtz grew up in East Africa and has recently traveled and spoken at schools in both East and West Africa. On two childhood visits to the United States, she found many things to worry her. (One was black widow spiders, which she was sure ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Gordon Grice
Gordon Grice's writing about the black widow spider has appeared in High Plains Literary Review and Harper's. It has been anthologized in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Essays 1996 and in college readers. Grice teaches humanities and English at ... [... more]
Random House |
The Incredible Shrinking Man
 From Amazon.com: Some people will remember The Incredible Shrinking Man as a movie with great special effects and a surprisingly good script, given the ridiculous title. Matheson's classic novella is the reason for that. As Scott Carey -- husband, father, [... more]
CDN$17.25
Amazon CA |
The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
From Amazon.com: Gordon Grice, a young essayist from rural western Oklahoma, writes winningly of insects in all their glory, basing his narrative on lifelong observations of creatures such as the black widow, praying mantis, brown recluse--and the [... more]
CDN$28.00
Amazon CA |
Out Of The Past
SUPERB NOIR CLASSIC.....: Among the spate of b & w noir films recently released by Universal and Warner's is this classic. Directed on a somewhat higher budget than most noirs of the 40's, Jacques Tourneur used his considerable skill honed on his 40' [... more]
CDN$24.98
Amazon CA |
How Come?: Every Kid's Science Questions Explained
Really cool book!: This is a really cool book! I always wondered why drops of water cling to the inside of a glass when you turn it over, and this book finally answered my question. I also found out that pandas aren't really bears (they're more like [... more]
CDN$14.95
Amazon CA |
Animal-Wise: The Spirit Language and Signs of Nature
O.K. if you live in Africa or Australia -- but not for USA: I was looking for a book that would be a guide to animals that I see. For example, today I saw four white-tailed deer and wondered if this book would provide a message of why they appeared today. [... more]
CDN$20.79
Amazon CA |
All the Classic Sides 1928-1937
****1/2: Finally! All of Big Bill Broonzy's classic and hugely influential prewar sides gathered together. 128 sides recorded for labels like Paramount, ARC and Perfect Records, and featuring Big Bill as a solo performer, as well as leading various small [... more]
CDN$32.99
Amazon CA |
Time Out! Time in for Them
Them's Psychedelic Swan Song: While "Them" or a band called Them put our more records after this featuring sole original member bassist Alan Henderson, this is the last record by a real group that had any ties to the Van Morrison led Them. [... more]
CDN$22.99
Amazon CA |
Juke Box Shuffle A Proper Int
Artist: Lowell Fulson Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0805520060424 Format: Best of Original Release Date: 2004-04-06 Release Date: 2008-03-17 UPC: 805520060424 Tracks: Three O'Clock Blues River Blues, Pt. 1 River Blues, Pt. 2 Crying Blues Crying Won't Make Me [... more]
CDN$9.99
Amazon CA |
Mean Genes: From Sex To Money To Food: Taming Our Primal ...
From Amazon.com: "Don't trust your instincts." Hardly the standard self-help fare, to be sure. Arguing that Darwin has a lot more to tell us about ourselves than Freud, Mean Genes is high on evolution and low on inner child. Deemed " [... more]
CDN$36.50
Amazon CA |
Cold Snap
From Amazon.com: Thom Jones may be one of the few authors whose acknowledgments thank not only his dog, wife, and agent, but also Wyeth/Ayerst Laboratories and Stuart Pharmaceuticals, manufacturers of Effexor and Elavil--"drugs so good they feel [... more]
CDN$16.04
Amazon CA |
