Graham Rice -- An English Garden Writer
This is the start of a two part interview with Graham Rice, a British Garden Writer I've dreamed of becoming a garden writer for the last 5 years. For three of those years I've had the privilege of writing for www.suite101.com as the Enabling ... [... more]
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Margaret Truman
Margaret Truman won faithful readers with her works of biography and fiction, particularly her ongoing series of Capital Crimes mysteries. Her novels let us into the corridors of power and privilege, and poverty and pageantry, in the nation's ... [... more]
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Christopher Plummer
A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of today's greatest living actors. He was born a Canadian on a Friday the thirteenth in 1929-the year of the Crash. His boyhood was one of privilege: an ancestor was a Governor ... [... more]
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Susan Meissner
Leaving a life of privilege to strike out on her own, Lauren Durough breaks with convention and her family's expectations by choosing a state college over Stanford and earning her own income over accepting her ample monthly allowance. She takes a ... [... more]
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Ross Douthat
ROSS DOUTHAT is the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class and is an associate editor at, and blogger for, The Atlantic Monthly. How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream In a provocative ... [... more]
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Miriam Horn
When the women of the Wellesley class of 1969 entered the ivory tower, they were initiated into a rarefied world. Many were daughters of privilege, many were going for their "MRS." But by the time they graduated four years later, they faced a .. [... more]
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Duty, Honor, Privilege: New York City's Silk Stocking ...
 Very good: Being a native New Yorker and a lover of history I was pulled into this book. With few "unit histories" of the Great War, this one is a must for any serious reader. The unit, made up from the elite of NYC, and men of more humble [... more]
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Privilege, Power, and Difference
Making a difference: This book is powerful! Simply put this is by far the most honest book I have ever read regarding privilege and power. A definite must read for those concerned about race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and social class issues. In his [... more]
CDN$34.38
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Love's Labor Begins
It's time to start up the chores in your old OR new garden. Here are some basics to help you... Last week, I had the privilege of attending a wonderful flower arranging workshop at National Cathedral. The thirty-odd students spent the week ... [... more]
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White Privilege, Second Edition: Essential Readings on ...
A good primer on whiteness: In White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Race, Rothenberg has compiled and reduced some very important and complex discussions on whiteness from a variety of social contexts. In White Privilege, whiteness is [... more]
CDN$32.04
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The Privilege of the Sword
Don't believe the hype!: I didn't buy this book when it was initially released because it appeared to be a sure miss for me. Then followed praise and rave reviews, and still I declined to pick it up. It is only when it was nominated for the World Fantasy [... more]
CDN$8.99
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A Life of Privilege, Mostly: A Memoir
It will leave you weak with laughter: The two photographs on the cover of Gardner Botsford's extraordinary memoir explain the "Mostly" in the title: While the book gives a funny, detailed description of life in the top tier of New York society, [... more]
CDN$36.95
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