Gardening Together
Imagine my horror, when, on taking my daily walk through the garden, I found most of my most treasured plants shrivelled up and half dead For forty years Kees and I have gardened together. We were married in Ottawa, Canada, in February 1958, and ... [... more]
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Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
 You're playing host today: You didn't possess a single one when you were born. Now, there are trillions of them, mostly enjoying the warm hospitality of your gut. If you are recently born, they may have been put into you on purpose. They are the famous/ [... more]
CDN$30.00
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Jewelry Studio: Wire Wrapping
FANTASTIC: I teach wire wrapping in Ottawa, Canada and Quartzsite, AZ, if I was to write a book it would be like this one. I am ordering more for my students. Fantastic clear concise instructions, wonderful pictures. Wonderful projects. Thank you for [... more]
CDN$25.95
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The Eye
Anableps anableps, what do you see?: There are a good many creatures in Nature with multiple eyes. Few of them, however, are blessed with eyes perceiving the world of air and water at the same time. Known as the "four-eyed fish", they actually [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Making Money
Not Terry's best: While this may not be Pratchett's best book, any book featuring a guy named Moist von Lipwig gets my vote. A graduate student introduced me to Pratchett's Disc World novels, and I have read and reread them over and over. That was a bit [... more]
CDN$11.99
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Blue Shoes and Happiness
Happiness is a nice warm McCall Smith novel: This is book seven in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, and although it doesn't shine as brilliantly as book one, it's still as delightfully amusing as ever. Mma Ramotswe of course remains the [... more]
CDN$13.49
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Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed ...
Amazon.ca: South Africa and its diamonds, the Congo and its rubber, Nigeria and its oil. The call of riches on the continent of Africa beckoned many a European gentleman--and savage--to seek their fortune. With them they brought high hopes of diamond- [... more]
CDN$37.95
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The Time Meddlers
Excellent.: Sarah Sachs is in the sixth grade. She and her dad moved from large Toronto to small Ottawa. As Sarah walks to her new school she is surprised to see a boy walk into the street without checking for oncoming vehicles. Her surprise turns into [... more]
CDN$15.58
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Light at the edge of the world: A journey through the ...
Amazon.ca: Ethnobotanist and anthropologist Wade Davis has spent his career studying the world's remaining indigenous peoples, whose distinct cultures are being wiped out by the forces of globalization and modernization. Light at the Edge of the World: A [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Evolution of Culture
Great insights even for nonprofessionals: This is a great book for anyone seriously interested in questions about the evolution of human behavior, especially questions about how human cooperation, altruism, culture, and language could have evolved. It is [... more]
CDN$48.19
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The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century ...
A host of Heinrichs: In September, 1959, in utter disregard of the strictures of the Cold War, one Gerd Heinrich - then living in Maine - posted a letter to the Warsaw Institute of Zoology. The note was accompanied by a map of a location in the Polish [... more]
CDN$17.25
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Live in Ottawa, Canada
Not worth it!: I bought this as I live in Ottawa but had not been able to attend the concert. I'm glad I didn't. The music is insipid to say the least - a far cry from their earlier improvisational days (but still better than the bubblegum techno-pop TD [... more]
CDN$17.99
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