Melting Pot (Rm) (Enhanced)
 5 stars is not enough: In all honesty, there aren't enough stars to rate this stellar album. Unfortunately, the last by these four members of Booker T. & the MGs. Booker T. Jones plays his B-3 organ with unbelievable fire and passion. Steve Cropper's [... more]
CDN$17.99
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Indestructible Beat of Soweto
From Amazon.com: This is possibly one of the most important collections of South African music to be released off the continent. Before Paul Simon, Sting, and Peter Gabriel started their explorations and exploitations of African music, this stunning set [... more]
CDN$18.99
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Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook
Relevant, Consistent, Lucid & Enormously Important: Just finished reading Dan's book. It was a breath of fresh air to read a book that is clear, consistent and to the point. No BS, ever! It was impressive how Dan takes the reader logically through [... more]
CDN$36.45
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Arctic Crossing: A Journey Through the Northwest Passage ...
From Amazon.com: When Jonathan Waterman set out to cross the Arctic Circle by way of kayak, cross-country skis, and a dogsled, he was less interested in conquering the 2,200 miles between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans than in learning to live as the [... more]
CDN$39.95
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
What an intro to the quirky little Belgian: I've always preferred Agatha Christie's early mysteries to those published late in her life. Somehow the most recent works feel cranked out rather than thought out. "Styles" reeks with atmosphere, and [... more]
CDN$5.75
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The Red and the Black
Raffel's translation sings!: I put off reading this novel for 30 years because I could not get past the first page in prior translations. Raffel has created a highly readable version which moves without getting bogged down in Victorian hyperbole. His [... more]
CDN$37.95
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Tales of Old-time Texas
The untold history of Texas: Forget about the Alamo, San Jacinto and the heros that have made Texas famous throughout the world. Here are the stories only the real Texans know about. These are the stories my grandmother used to tell me when I was a kid. [... more]
CDN$24.95
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News from Down to the Cafe: New Poems
warm up my cup, please: Did you ever sit at the counter of a small coffee shop, where everyone not only knows your name, but your life story as well? That's what reading David Lee's latest is like. The poems are the stories of the people , alive and dead, [... more]
CDN$17.00
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Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of A Pure ...
There is indeed no such thing as "pure" standard English: John McWhorter convincingly argues that there is no such thing as an absolutist standard English forevermore etched in stone. The very first section of this beautiful book is aptly [... more]
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
From Amazon.com: There are a few books that belong on the shelf of every Civil War buff: James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom, one of the better Abraham Lincoln biographies, something on Robert E. Lee, perhaps Shelby Foote's massive trilogy The [... more]
CDN$19.50
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Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg: General Joshua L. ...
Invaluable reference, and well-told to boot: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain did history a great favor by recording the events that happened on Little Round Top during the second day of the battle of Gettysburg. Thanks to him we have an eyewitness account of [... more]
CDN$6.97
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago
mildly interesting: There's something really disconcerting about reading the nonfiction of Tom Wolfe and John McPhee wherein they describe events at which they are clearly in attendance but write in the third person. Someone must be overhearing the [... more]
CDN$16.95
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