In a Japanese Garden
 Book Description: Lovers of Japanese meditation gardens, tea ceremonies, exquisite rice papers, and finely-bound collections of haiku will be charmed by the look and feel of handmade paper in the jacket and endpapers, and the tranquil Eastern sensibility [... more]
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Feng Shui For Beginners: Successful Living by Design ...
THE best book I've have ever read for the novice.: An absolutely wonderful book full of useful information. The author has put together an easily read text with practical advice. Not confusing like most feng shui books. It is THE best beginner's book on [... more]
$13.95
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Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from ...
Amazon.com Review: An authoritative history of what has become the prehistory of the computer industry: pre-PC. It's particularly strong in its treatment of the creation of ENIAC. very disappointing: The very first sentence of this book is "This [... more]
$13.00
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Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture (Dover ...
a classic and a good reference: This book is rated the classic reference on Ancient Egyptian building techniques. It covers all aspects of construction from mathematical procedures to the ways the Ancient Egyptians drilled granite and other hard stones. [... more]
$16.95
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Advanced Unix Programming
Good Coverage: This is an exceptional introduction to Unix features that most people won't see in every-day programming. The feature that Rochkind starts with may be the most problematic: portability. There have historically been dozens of Unices (sp?), [... more]
$35.95
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Grain of Truth: The Ancient Lessons of Craft
Not what I'd hoped for: When I saw this book I thought it would be a "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" for woodworkers. I was even more interested when I noticed a chapter of refurbishing an old boat. Since my occasional hobby is [... more]
$23.00
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Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Gather the Fragments...: "Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts back to mythology" (xviii). This statement is likely one of the most explosive philosphical theses penned in the 20th century, for not only did it give [... more]
$24.95
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Peppers: Vegetable and Spice Capsicums (Crop Production ...
Good book: I developed an obsession with growing peppers over the last year and I have found this book to be very informative on this subject. This book is written for scientists but I believe anyone should be able to follow it pretty closely. Author: P. [... more]
$59.00
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How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book)
Must Read!: This book has greatly helped me. I think this should be required reading in any school, be it home or public. I will certainly have my new born read it (well, once she is old enough). Now I have so many more tools available to me while [... more]
$16.99
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The Poetics of Space
Amazon.com Review: This is a deep, magical, densely captivating book about space, our homes, how we live in them, and how dwellings and space affect us; it is as much a book of philosophy as a work of serious literature. It requires careful, preferably [... more]
$16.00
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History and Class Consciousness
The Root of Critical Theory: The grand and celebrated critiques of capitalistic techno-rationality that emerged from the Frankfurt school are all rooted in the dialectical emphasis of Lukacs. Hegelian notions of reification and alienation that Lukacs [... more]
$32.00
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Just a quick note: I have nothing to add to the reviews below except to note for scholarly interest that the essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' included in this collection is not Benjamin's final version. (Neither is this title [... more]
$15.00
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