Naturally Gardening
Lovely as formal gardens can be, it is these informal schemes, in which boulders form so important a part, that appeal so tremendously - Edna Walling Edna Walling was born in 1896, and she is quoted as saying, "My father thought I would be a boy ... [... more]
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Gould's Book of Fish
 From Amazon.co.uk: With a title such as Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan's Commonwealth Prize-winning third novel, expect something wonderfully slippery and self-conscious from one of the finest talents to have emerged from Australia since Peter [... more]
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Earthrise
Total Flop: This has to be one of the worst science fiction books ever written. The plot and the characters are pathetic. Powerful aliens virtually wipe out the human race and destroy all semblence of infrastructure. Under the very noses of the [... more]
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It Came From Outer Space (Full Screen)
An early Sci-Fi Gem from the fifties...: The great thing about 1950's sci-fi movies is the way in which they took the psychological fallout from the Soviet-USA Cold War confrontation that dominated the decade (paranoia, McCarthyism and the "Red [... more]
CDN$19.98
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The Silver Chair
Prince Rilian, Lost Forever or Found: The book The Silver Chair, by C. S. Luis is a great adventure story that is part of a seven-book series. The story has two main characters; Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole. Eustace Scrubb is a schoolboy who goes to [... more]
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The Gospel of Corax
From Amazon.com: The Gospel of Corax is the autobiography of a young man raised by a Roman apothecary after his father, a mercenary soldier, is captured and sold into slavery. The story opens with Corax fleeing across the Mediterranean, his master dead [... more]
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Starfish
From Amazon.com: Peter Watts's first novel explores the last mysterious place on earth--the floor of a deep sea rift. Channer Vent is a zone of freezing darkness that belongs to shellfish the size of boulders and crimson worms three meters long. It's the [... more]
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Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes ...
From Amazon.com: Everything changes. The great 19th-century battle between catastrophists and uniformitarians seemed to end with the notion of global cataclysms being dismissed as a back door to the supernatural. But the catastrophist theory has [... more]
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The Follies and Garden Buildings of Ireland
No Folly in Howley's Book on Follies: James Howley has done us a great service in writing about these unusual architectural sites in Ireland. We are surrounded by built things, but so many of them built with the severity of practical needs: domestic [... more]
CDN$37.12
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Toyota: Corolla 1988-97
Worthless manual: How do I dislike thee? Let me count the ways ... - Which picture is it that relates to the instruction I just read? - And in that murky photo, which one of the shadowy images is the part taht I need to replace or adjust? - Some parts [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish
From Amazon.com: Gould's Book of Fish, an extraordinary work of fact-based fiction by Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan (Death of a River Guide) is a journey through the fringe madness of Down Under colonialism. Set during the 1830s in a hellish island [... more]
CDN$20.95
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Blood on the Boulders: The Journals of don Diego de ...
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 978.902092 EAN: 9780826318671 ISBN: 0826318673 Number Of Pages: 1243 Publication Date: 1998-06-01 [... more]
CDN$156.00
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