Herbs as "Companions"
Many have heard of herbs used for culinary, medicinal and craft purposes, but there is another important use. Strategically placing herbs in your garden can be used as a natural method of pest control for your garden vegetable plants. Companion ... [... more]
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All That Matters
 Amazon.ca: What matters most in Wayson Choy's elegant second novel can be summed up in one word: "values." This understated coming-of-age tale, set in Vancouver's Chinatown during the 1930s and '40s, details the surprising ways in which one [... more]
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Where the Wisdom Lies: A Message from Nature's Small ...
Where the Wisdom Lies: Where the Wisdom Lies is a fable about one woman's fantastical journey that sets her upon an environmental/ spiritual quest crusade. The adventure starts off on a seemingly normal day. The author is walking her dog in the woods, [... more]
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Christgaus's Consumer Guide: Albums Of The '90s
losing focus but still the best: I challenge anyone out there to outdo Christgau. (Please don't bring me pretentious Greil Marcus, who is not really writing in the same genre anymore.) At this stage of the game he can afford to be less focused (hell, his [... more]
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The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia ...
Learning From the Interests of Children: The Hundred Languages of Children presents a fascinating and comprehensive overview of the remarkable schools of Reggio Emilia, Italy. It can also serves as an example of what learning can be like for children [... more]
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Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
From Amazon.com: For more than a decade following the end of World War II, Eric Newby toiled away in the British fashion industry, peddling some of the ugliest clothes on the planet. (Regarding one wafer-thin model in her runway best, he was reminded of & [... more]
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The Outlaw Demon Wails
She'll Do Anything To Save Those She Loves: There's no doubt about it. Harrison has done it again and raised the stakes ever higher with her latest and greatest Hallows book. It's hard to believe this is only book six; it feels like Rachel's character [... more]
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Taunton's Home Storage Idea Book
At least one idea for everyone: This book's title is absolutely accurate. It is chock full of ideas, both in the text and the pictures, for innovative storage all over the house. Another important thing to me is that the writers of this book realize that [... more]
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Chronique amazon.fr: Avec Harnoncourt, nous ne risquons pas de découvrir une nième version de cette Symphonie ! Dans le premier disque, nous écoutons la conférence qu'il donne avec exemples à l'appui sur la [... more]
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Hendrix (2000)
From Amazon.com: Most television movies about real-life rock & roll heroes are a deadening mix of biographical bullet-points and sensational recreations of outré behavior. Rarely does the essence of a pop artist, great or otherwise, come into [... more]
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Decoding Mark
Lots of Good and Interesting Ideas Well Presented: As a journalist, John Dart has a nice, easy to understand and charming style. He presents a hypothesis that he's obviously excited about, and it is a hypothesis well worth considering. He suggests that [... more]
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Another Important Book
From Amazon.com: The companion title to Goodnight Moon creator Margaret Wise Brown's 1949 classic, The Important Book, was published for the first time in 1999, with wonderful illustrations by Caldecott Honor recipient Chris Raschka of Yo! Yes? "Yo, [... more]
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