Market Timing: Should You Attempt It?
This is a popular debate on our site. This article looks at some of the ins and outs of market timing. This is a popular debate on our site. Conventional wisdom is Nobody has successfully timed the market with multiple occasions of getting in and ... [... more]
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Paul Ewald
According to conventional wisdom, our genes and lifestyles are the most important causes of the most deadly ailments of our time. Conventional wisdom may be wrong. In this controversial book, the eminent biologist Paul W. Ewald offers some ... [... more]
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Terry Copp
For decades, it's been the conventional wisdom that "brute force" alone beat the German army at Normandy. Now a definitive new... Shelagh Whitaker, Dennis Whitaker and Terry Copp The Real Story [... more]
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Shelagh Whitaker
For decades, it's been the conventional wisdom that "brute force" alone beat the German army at Normandy. Now a definitive new... Shelagh Whitaker, Dennis Whitaker and Terry Copp The Real Story [... more]
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Gabriel Cousens MD
Diabetes has become a seemingly unstoppable national epidemic, affecting more than twenty million Americans. Conventional wisdom calls it incurable, but renowned Dr. Gabriel Cousens counters that claim with this breakthrough book. There Is a Cure ... [... more]
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1776
 1776 and all that...: David McCullough is fast becoming the most popular historian of Americana in the country. His books are the sort that run counter to publishing conventional wisdom - he regularly puts out large, thick 'tomes' on figures, places or [... more]
CDN$32.06
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The Hidden Face of God
From Amazon.com: The Hidden Face of God is a record of biblical scholar Richard Elliott Friedman's attempts to understand why, after God tells Moses in Deuteronomy, "I shall hide my face from them," God proceeds to disappear from the face of [... more]
CDN$20.50
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The First World War, Vol. 1: The Eastern Front 1914-1918
The Unabashed English View of the War - Part Two: Peter Simkins, a former senior historian at the Imperial War Museum, picks up in this volume of Osprey's Essential Histories series where he left off at the end of 1916. As in the first volume, Simkins' [... more]
CDN$72.93
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Red Seas Under Red Skies
Fun and entertaining sequel!: As was the case with me, I'm persuaded that most of you are curious to see if this one lives up to the expectations generated by its predecessor, The Lies of Locke Lamora. Hence, let me put your mind at ease. With Red Seas [... more]
CDN$23.08
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Puzzles of Finance: Six Practical Problems and Their ...
Of limited interest: The puzzles in the book are of little practical value. If you have much previous reading in finance you would already be aware of these issues. You may also find the tone of the book annoying - "look how clever I am". Like [... more]
CDN$46.50
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Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II
An intriguing analysis: This book is well written and thought out. The focus is on key figures and actions of the early part of the 2nd world war. The author provides a brief overview of what actually happened and introduces the major figures of the [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Fall Planting in the North
How to plant those late season bargain perennials, trees and shrubs so that you will have the greatest chance of success. I just came home from a road trip with a load of terrific end-of-season sale perennials. The conventional wisdom used to be ... [... more]
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