The Making of a Gardener: How Plants become Addictive
Just what is it that makes us brake for nurseries and salivate at seed racks? Perhaps last week I appeared to be making fun of myself, and many other gardeners who can't pass up an interesting plant without having it leap into the shopping cart. ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Katharine McEwen
In this thrilling and amusing Gaskitts story, Mrs. Gaskitt finds a very peculiar package, Mr. Gaskitt loses a baby in a shopping cart, Horace the cat... While Tom Farmer naps in the haystack, his animals take over the farmhouse. There are cows in ... [... more]
Random House |
Peter
 Still great, a decade after its first publication: One of the glories of Kate Walker's "Peter" is the distinctive, realistic voice of its 15-year-old narrator. Peter is every bit the teenaged firecracker, making the kind of observations that [... more]
CDN$6.95
Amazon CA |
Penguin Classics Twenty Love Poems And A Song Of Despair
weak neruda: Now I like Neruda. I think he is an important poet, and I fully expected to love this collection. But as I read it I found that I didn't really like any of the poems. There were a few that were almost passable, but only a couple. I don't [... more]
CDN$12.00
Amazon CA |
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the ...
To understand this company's success, first understand its DNA: I read this book when it was first published in 2004 and recently re-read it, curious to know how well Jeffrey Liker's explanation of Toyota's management principles and lean production [... more]
CDN$28.00
Amazon CA |
Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization
Walking the Talk: What a wonderful book! After reading it, I had so many question, I felt the need to talk with author in person. After tracking down his number, I gave him a call (noting how odd it was to be talking with an "anarcho-primitivist& [... more]
CDN$14.50
Amazon CA |
PHP Professional Projects
From Amazon.co.uk: The authors of PHP Professional Projects have solutions to some of the big problems that creators of dynamic Web sites encounter in PHP. This book has considerable merit: The pages explain how to write product catalogues, shopping [... more]
CDN$56.95
Amazon CA |
The Accidental Gourmet: Weeknights: A Year of Fast and ...
How to Laugh your way through dinner.: I could hardly wait for the new cookbook by the gals that wrote A Dinner A Day. I come home from work and open their new book and laugh as I prepare one of their complete meals. Sometimes my children get in on the [... more]
CDN$35.99
Amazon CA |
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A ...
Wonderfully Bizarre: A great entry in the "Warped Coffee-Table Books" category, for those that just can't have normal things sitting out for the guests to see. Lovely photos and documentation of this large species of "urban wildlife". [... more]
CDN$27.95
Amazon CA |
The Amazing Game Board Book: More Than 50 Games and ...
Level: I believe you be misleading purchasers on the age levelappropriateness of this book/game. It is not for baby-preschool, butrather K-1st and 2nd grade. Even with the new standards the comprehension of the games are beyond the baby-preschool level [... more]
CDN$21.99
Amazon CA |
Cool Moonlight
Poetic Page-Turner: Nearly-nine-year-old Lila lives in the dark, forced out of the sunlight by a skin condition. She has a plan for getting into the light, though, with the help of two mysterious friends. Who are Alyssa and Elizabeth, and why do they [... more]
CDN$8.99
Amazon CA |
Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on ...
From Amazon.com: Adeline Yen Mah scored a big hit with her autobiography Falling Leaves. Now she follows up by filling in some of the details of Chinese thought and culture that have been important in her life. Commenting on the language, philosophies, [... more]
CDN$32.95
Amazon CA |
