Amazing Circus Trees part 1
Amazing Circus Trees part 1. Grafted in the 1920s, these living trees have been featured in Life magazine, Ripley's Believe It or Not and the Guinness Book of World Records. Some may have heard about California's newest amusement park, Bonfante ... [... more]
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Arianne Cohen
Arianne Cohen practices her home-repair skills in apartments all over the world. She works for Life magazine and has been featured in All You magazine and the New York Times. She lives in an obsessively well-maintained apartment in New York ... [... more]
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Marjorie Harris
Marjorie Harris is the national gardening columnist for the Globe and Mail and the editor-at-large of Gardening Life magazine. She is the author of several gardening books, including In her witty and accessible style, Marjorie Harris--who has ... [... more]
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Lisa Grunwald
Lisa Grunwald, a freelance journalist, is a former Contributing Editor for Life magazine and former Features Editor of Esquire. She is the author of the novels New Year's Eve, The Theory of Everything, and Summer. Grunwald and Adler live with ... [... more]
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Katherine Ashenburg
Katherine Ashenburg has worked as an academic, a CBC Radio producer and the Arts and Books editor of the Globe and Mail. She has written about travel for the New York Times and architecture for Toronto Life magazine. Her books include A work of ... [... more]
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Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing
 From Amazon.com: Outdoor Life magazine columnist Patrick McManus has been compared to Mark Twain. Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing demonstrates that he isn't, but McManus will suffice until the next Twain comes along. In this book, the outdoorsman [... more]
CDN$18.95
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Half Past Autumn
From Amazon.com: Gordon Parks is one of the 20th century's greatest multitalented cultural treasures: a writer, poet, musician, composer, filmmaker, and photographer. In this book--the companion volume to a traveling retrospective--the full flower of [... more]
CDN$95.00
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The World Trade Center: A Tribute
The Best Tribute So Far: This is easily the best of the WTC tributes out so far since it covers (in words and pictures) not just recent events but the whole history of the WTC (and the adjacent plaza and buildings) from its planning before the 1964 World' [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Promised The Moon
Amazon.ca: It's hard not to feel indignation reading Globe and Mail reporter Stephanie Nolen's detailed account of 13 fearless, extraordinary '60s-era women known as the Fellow Lady Astronaut Trainees, or FLATs. That's saying something, considering the [... more]
CDN$35.00
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Dream Street
Wonderful, especially if you can't see the gallery: The Pittsburgh project gallery (shown in Pgh and other cities this year) is a fantastic display of nearly 200 prints that comprise one of the most important works of a great photographer. While [... more]
CDN$45.00
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Slightly Out of Focus
From Amazon.com: Robert Capa, the great photojournalist who is perhaps best known for his searing images of WWII, infused his autobiography with the same brio and warmth that he expressed in his now classic photographs. "Victory was pleasant and [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
From Amazon.com: Battleground Berlin is the product of an unprecedented collaboration between two veteran intelligence officers--one with the CIA, the other with the KGB--who worked on opposite sides in postwar Berlin. With the help of journalist George [... more]
CDN$26.05
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