Key to Rebecca
 no good: this book was not interesting at all. It went on and on and never came to a climax. The conclusion was the biggest piece of crap. I would not reccomend this book and I would never read again. Prolific author's Egyptian thriller: sex, spies, and [... more]
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Diocletian and the Roman Recovery
Wonderful: The first English language biography on Diocletion and a very well written one at that. Stephen Williams is not a professional Roman historian instead he is a professor of philosophy and therin lays the books strength. Williams writes for the [... more]
CDN$38.08
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Green Mars
From Amazon.com: Kim Stanley Robinson has earned a reputation as the master of Mars fiction, writing books that are scientific, sociological and, best yet, fantastic. Green Mars continues the story of humans settling the planet in a process called " [... more]
CDN$11.99
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A Brief History of Everything
From Amazon.com: This account of men and women's place in a universe of sex and gender, self and society, spirit and soul is written in question-and-answer format, making it both readable and accessible. Wilber offers a series of original views on many [... more]
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Hunting Warbirds: The Obsessive Quest for the Lost ...
Read the story...: I think this book was terriffic. Of course there are going to be some mistakes in the technical areas of the planes...the author never claimes to be an expert of every part of every plane that is covered...get over it. The book lets [... more]
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To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864
To the North Anna River: A Necessary Bridge: Gordon Rhea continues his study of Ulysses S. Grant's grinding Overland Campaign against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The third volume continues where his the first two volumes left off. Like the [... more]
CDN$62.95
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Glorious Appearing: The End of Days
This book is an embarrassment: I'm sorry, but after reading a few pages of this book, it is apparent that the authors are merely cloaking their brand of racial and ethnic intolerance as pseudo-pious narrative. The book's depicitons of violence and [... more]
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With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of ...
The women beyond the burqa: This is a timely and important illustration of the history of the struggle of the women of Afghanistan. Brodsky describes a "cosmopolitan" Afghanistan that many Westerners are unaware once existed. Once, a society [... more]
CDN$39.95
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An American Childhood
From Amazon.com: Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap back; it lay dead across her [... more]
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Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin
strikingly readable: after wading through _writing and difference_, this nice little book was a most pleasant surprise. In comparison to W & D, _The Monolingualism of the Other_ is a very readable book and there are plenty of ideas presented in this [... more]
CDN$21.83
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Milosevic
A deep understanding of the past and future: The disintegration of Yugoslavia into a horrible series of wars and battles that pitted formerly peaceful neighbors against each other is a very important part of modern European history. It tested the [... more]
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The Late Great Planet Earth
To everything there is a season...: We believe what we want to believe. There, he said it. Quoting Demosthenes at the very outset of the book, we've been put on notice. The mystery is, why do people want to believe this? I remember 'The Late Great Planet [... more]
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