How to Dissect
 This book should be made a compulsory school text!: I am a privileged owner of the 1961 edition of this book, having bought it in a jumble sale in 1984 for a mere Singapore 70 cents (less for U.S.). Open-ended & with great science projects, this book [... more]
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Underworld (2003)
From Amazon.com: Blade meets The Crow and The Matrix in Underworld, a hybrid thriller that rewrites the rulebook on werewolves and vampires. It's a "cuisinart" movie (blend a lot of familiar ideas and hope something interesting happens) in [... more]
CDN$40.99
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Spillane
From Amazon.com: Before John Zorn broke with the Nonesuch label to form his own record companies, he recorded a series of excellent titles there, of which Spillane may be the best. The title cut temporarily removes the moratorium on the use of the phrase [... more]
CDN$22.99
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Unrest
Alison thinks there is something wrong with her corpse...: The one thing I can say for sure about "Unrest" is that if you ever thought it would be a good idea to strip down to your underwear and jump into a tank filled with corpses floating in [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Sixth Form
"Ethan was to him the person he might someday become, to absorb the wisdom of Ethan Whitley": Framing his story around the legendary fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, Tom Dolby's The Sixth Form is about how two young men cope with pivotal moments [... more]
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Penny Dreadful
The After Dark Horrorfest 2006 film with the most original situation: Actually, I thought "Penny Dreadful" was the most innovative film from the After Dark Horrorfest and certainly not the worst (that would be "The Hamiltons," hands [... more]
CDN$15.61
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Runaway Hearts
Sstarts off great, but loses steam.: Mary Lou Finch is not a woman to sit by and allow her future to be ruined. So when Pierce Thorndike's prize racehorse Damien's Curse mysteriously disappears before a major horse race, she takes it upon herself to [... more]
CDN$8.99
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Pillow Book The
From Amazon.com: Peter Greenaway's Pillow Book is Sei Shonagon's tenth-century story redux. Shonagon's protagonist is recast as Nogiko, a beautiful young writer. As a child, Nogiko was affected by two seminal experiences--her father writing on her face [... more]
CDN$43.95
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The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz
From Amazon.com: Observing that Leibniz "could manage simultaneously all the sciences," Bernard de Fontenelle half-seriously proposed that the student of his work should "make several savants from only one Leibniz." Fortunately, the 13 [... more]
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Fat Man in a Middle Seat: Forty Years of Covering Politics
From Amazon.com: It's impossible not to like Jack W. Germond, the veteran journalist who became a household name for political junkies during his 15 years on The McLaughlin Group. He's a reporter's reporter, the kind of fellow who knows that for every [... more]
CDN$21.00
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By Night in Chile
A wondrous reverie - rich and strange.........: Roberto Bolano, alas, died this year. BY NIGHT IN CHILE is his only work translated into English (very sensuously and beautifully by Chris Andrews) despite the fact that he wrote nine novels, short stories [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Wrigleyville: A Magical History Tour Of The Chicago Cubs
Wonderful for any fan: As a life-long Cub fan, I always wanted this book. I finally got it for Christmas a couple years ago and had it finished in 3 days. I was lost in this book, from the early days of the White Stockings, right up to the Ryne Sandberg [... more]
CDN$27.95
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