Rhonda's Gardening Journals
Here's a time-tested model garden journalist: Thomas Jefferson. This man kept a detailed account. He was a serious gardener and a prolific correspondent, and that's how we are fortunate to know so much about his gardens at Monticello as well as ... [... more]
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Victor Brombert
Francis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man turns himself into one of the world's ... [... more]
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Karen Traviss
For the first time, fans of the blockbuster Gears of War video games get an in-depth look at Delta Squad's toughest fighters-soldier's soldier Marcus Fenix and rock-solid Dominic Santiago-as well as a detailed account of the pivotal battle of the ... [... more]
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Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces
 great practical text for applied statisticians: George Box and Norman Draper have written an outstanding text on model building and response surface methods. This is an excellent companion to Box's text with Stu Hunter and William Hunter on experimental [... more]
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Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan ...
The story of Afghan genocide at the hands of the Soviets.: A professor of history at the University of California at San Diego, Hassan Kakar's scholarly work on the dark days of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan reveals the horrors of the war for [... more]
CDN$28.08
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The Blind Assassin
From Amazon.com: The Blind Assassin is a tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages. The survivor, Iris Chase Griffen, initially seems a little cold-blooded about this death in the family. But as Margaret [... more]
CDN$37.99
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Animal Transgenesis and Cloning
A good overview: The subject of animal transgenesis is both interesting and controversial, and its ramifications for all life on Earth are awesome. Once a highly specialized area in biology, and employing very unreliable experimental techniques, it has [... more]
CDN$83.99
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Beating The Odds: This is one man that knows what beating the odds is all about. He has been close to death, yet, his courage and determination to survive is remarkable. He writes with poetic justice and you can almost see the scenerios he paints. Highly [... more]
CDN$39.00
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Malay Archipelago
a nineteenth century masterpiece: "The Malay Archipelago" is Wallace's most celebrated book. It went through fifteen editions during his own life alone, and has been translated into every major language (and a number of minor ones). It is [... more]
CDN$27.95
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
You Too Can Be Turned to the Dark Side!: In "Star Wars", the Jedi knight, Anakin Skywalker, gets turned to the dark side and becomes the notorious Darth Vader. The story is told in such a way that the subtle changes leading to his conversion [... more]
CDN$34.95
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Louis Comfort Tiffany
Chronique amazon.fr: Créateur visionnaire, l'artiste industriel Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) a révolutionné l'histoire des arts décoratifs du monde entier. De sa famille on connaît s urtout son père, pour les [... more]
CDN$11.99
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The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea
From Amazon.com: In October 1962, the United States government demanded that the Soviet Union remove long-range tactical missiles that it had positioned in Cuba, a short flight from targets like Washington and New York. After nearly a week's wait, during [... more]
CDN$38.50
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