Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and ...
 PURE ADVENTURE!!: Great Book! Written by the explorer himself, the story comes 'straight from the horse's mouth' telling of the his expedition to Greenland in the early 1900's. Seeing inside the lives of Mikkelsen and his companion, Iversen during this [... more]
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High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey
A tragic topic, an impressive writer: A sad book. High Latitudes focuses on the disintegrating culture of North Canadian Natives. Much of the book is transcription of the natives in their own words and gives excellent insight into their plight. An [... more]
$15.95
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Open Lands : Travels Through Russia's Once Forbidden Places
Amazon.com Review: Mark Taplin went to Russia in 1984, a junior-level diplomat sent deep into Cold War land. He tells of the map he studied, colored green for the few cities where foreigners were allowed, and omnipresent red for "Stay Away." In [... more]
$18.00
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Pass the Polenta: And Other Writings from the Kitchen, ...
Amazon.com Review: Pass the Polenta is a collection of essays about home cooking, which is to say it's a book about home and family and tradition and the unspoken connectedness that comes of people pushing their knees under a table and passing plates of [... more]
$24.00
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Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide Between East ...
Read this book and climb out of the PC rut: First of all, the brouhaha over the title simply proves the author's point: Asians and Westerners view things differently. If you care at all about the world, READ THIS BOOK. Really, it's OK. Just treat it like [... more]
$14.00
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Such Sweet Thunder: A Novel
Captivating Coming of Age Story: SUCH SWEET THUNDER is a posthumously released novel written in 1963 by Vincent O Carter. Several publishers rejected Carterýs orginal manuscript and Carter died before he could see his work published. However, the [... more]
$25.95
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Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine
A Courageous Man: Shehadeh's book is perhaps the only one to lay out the multi-faceted nature of the Israeli-Palestinian-Arab conflict. Or, as Shehadeh, puts it so eloquently a conflict between Palestinians, Israelis, the "inside" and the " [... more]
$25.00
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Farley: The Life of Farley Mowat
A hard-to-put-down biography of a great writer: There are many sides to Farley Mowat, and this biography touches on all of them. James King presents Mowat as an ambitious writer, a proud Canadian, a melancholy husband, a mischievous only child, and a [... more]
$27.95
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Maiden & the Jew: The Story of a Fatal Friendship in ...
Author: Christiane Kohl Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092243324 EAN: 9781586420703 ISBN: 1586420704 Number Of Pages: 200 Publication Date: 2004-09-14 Release Date: 2004-09-14 [... more]
$23.00
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Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery
What a treat...: What a treat to find this hardbound collection of the work of Mary Catherine Bateson. Her prose is eloquent. Her ideas are rich and diverse. Her thinking is open, creative and, at the same time, intensely logical. There are selections [... more]
$27.00
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Yiddish: A Nation of Words
Amazon.com Review: "Positive, upbeat, practical, deeply rooted in Jewish history. That's our language. That's Yiddish." These words refer to the first recognizable Yiddish sentence extant, dated 1272, translated as "A good day will happen [... more]
$26.00
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The Lifetime Health Journal
It's about time....: It's about time someone published a book that makes it possible for me to keep track of my health records. I have moved around a lot in my life and my doctors and health care records are in four different states. I have had surgery [... more]
$24.95
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