Thanksgiving: 'Turkeys' in the Garden
It's Thanksgiving again. Time for my annual column on turkeys! No, we're not talking about the gobbling kind here, but plants that I perceive to be turkeys. In the past, such garden mainstays as Monterey pine (pitch canker disease) and eucalyptus ... [... more]
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Guerrilla Warfare
 Radical Chic at its Chicest: It's all so long ago. I remember sitting under an eucalyptus tree in Ethiopia in 1982 and listening to Marxist-Leninist Internationalism and how peasants who had never seen an industry or a capitalist were being exploited by [... more]
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Driving Lessons
Rupert Grint and Julie Waters find something else to do together besides "Harry Potter": Like many I checked out "Driving Lessons" because it has Rupert Grint doing something other than Ron Weasley in a "Harry Potter" movie. [... more]
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Secrets of Aromatherapy
Discover the ancient secrets of aromatherapy: Once you have chopped fresh rosemary and used it in cooking, you will never view herbs in the same way. Rosemary can also help improve mood. In "Secrets of Aromatherapy" you will find the botanical [... more]
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Guerrilla Warfare: Authorized Edition
Radical Chic at its Chicest: It's all so long ago. I remember sitting under an eucalyptus tree in Ethiopia in 1982 and listening to Marxist-Leninist Internationalism and how peasants who had never seen an industry or a capitalist were being exploited by [... more]
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Guerrilla Warfare
Radical Chic at its Chicest: It's all so long ago. I remember sitting under an eucalyptus tree in Ethiopia in 1982 and listening to Marxist-Leninist Internationalism and how peasants who had never seen an industry or a capitalist were being exploited by [... more]
CDN$11.93
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
From Amazon.com: In An Army at Dawn,, a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the campaign was, along with the battles of Stalingrad and Midway, where the "Axis ... forever lost the [... more]
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Cavorting in the canopy: They're almost impossible to see properly. If you're near the base in a neck-cricking stance, the tops are lost in a maze of foliage. At at distance, its cousins and offspring surround the one you want to consider. One redwood in [... more]
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Cavorting in the canopy: They're almost impossible to see properly. If you're near the base in a neck-cricking stance, the tops are lost in a maze of foliage. At at distance, its cousins and offspring surround the one you want to consider. One redwood in [... more]
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943)
From Amazon.com: In An Army at Dawn,, a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the campaign was, along with the battles of Stalingrad and Midway, where the "Axis ... forever lost the [... more]
CDN$41.00
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Tactical Emergency Care: Military and Operational ...
uneven quality: tho re-issued in 1999 (with corrections), this book is not very well edited. For example, the index is often off by a couple of pages, figures are miss-captioned, & I'd love to be there when the unsuspecting reader applies eucalyptus [... more]
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The Scent of Eucalyptus: A Missionary Childhood in Ethiopia
Contrasting The Zanzibar Chest with The Scent of Eucalyptus: If you were born in Africa of foreign parents or spent most of your childhood years in Africa, you owe it to yourself to read these two books. Whether your experiences were positive and you [... more]
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