Alphabetic Labyrinth
informative, insightful and well written: This book is truly a history of the alphabet. The author is very informative. She gives a good historical background and overview of written language. I especially liked Chapter VI The Kabbalah. The author writes [... more]
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
Read the whole thing.: If when reading this book, you find that the author is completely one sided and biased, it's because you didn't read the next paragraph. The author shows the liberal view first, and gives the reader credit to keep reading to see [... more]
CDN$30.09
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Finding Your Canadian Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide
The new definitive guide for genealogical research Canada-wide: This is the new definitive guide; it should replace the late Angus Baxter's In Search of Your Canadian Roots which predates most internet resources. The first author is Sherry Irvine, an [... more]
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American ...
Read the whole thing.: If when reading this book, you find that the author is completely one sided and biased, it's because you didn't read the next paragraph. The author shows the liberal view first, and gives the reader credit to keep reading to see [... more]
CDN$18.99
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Hitlers Willing Executioners
From Amazon.com: In a work that is as authoritative as it is explosive, Goldhagen forces us to revisit and reconsider our understanding of the Holocaust and its perpetrators, demanding a fundamental revision in our thinking of the years between 1933-1945. [... more]
CDN$26.04
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Greek Qabalah P
True Roots of the Tree of Life: Barry's new book from Weiser is incredibly insightful and well researched in terms of tracing the historical roots of the practical forms of Qabalah (ie: isopsephy or gematria, notaricon, arithmology, alphabetic symbolsm, [... more]
CDN$21.95
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American Magic and Dread: The Fiction of Don DeLillo
some things are better than others: There's nothing like talking about the universe of the DeLillo. It's nice even uttering a few superficial lines about it. Let alone going fully crazy into the magnitude of textual depth that is possible, and even [... more]
CDN$69.00
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History of Writing
Great intro to epigraphy and the history of scripts: Remarkable for its breadth, this work presents a concise history of writing authored by a linguist well known for his work on the Rongorongo script of Easter Island (Oceania's only pre-twentieth [... more]
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Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
nice, unconvincing at points: The book is overall nice. There are two kinds of things here: facts and theoretical speculation. I enjoy the facts part: a lot of beautifull sketched letters as found on tablets, a lot of definitions of the various systems [... more]
CDN$48.95
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Monograms and Alphabetic Devices
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 745.61 EAN: 9780486223308 ISBN: 0486223302 Number Of Pages: 226 Publication Date: 1970-06-01 [... more]
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A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic ...
Author: Gregorio Del Olmo Lete Author: G. Del Olmo Lete Author: J. Sanmartmn Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 492.6732 EAN: 9789004136946 Edition: 2 Revised ISBN: 9004136940 Number Of Pages: 1006 Publication Date: 2004-01 [... more]
CDN$366.22
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Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name Alphabetic ...
Author: Francine Johnston Author: Marcia Invernizzi Author: Donald R. Bear Author: Shane R. Templeton Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 372.632 EAN: 9780131838130 ISBN: 013183813X Number Of Pages: 120 Publication Date: 2003-06-09 [... more]
CDN$21.95
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