Garden Envy: All Gardens Aren't Like Those in Garden ...
Garden Envy: All Gardens Aren't Like Those in Garden Magazines Garden envy. No, you won't find it in any medical journal, but -- you can bet your favorite hand pruner -- that it exists. Look through any fancy garden magazine or coffee table book ... [... more]
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Noah Tall from HarperCollins Publishers
Noah Tall is a longtime subscriber to The New Yorker and other magazines that people leave on their coffee tables when they want to look smart. He has also been a member of NAMES, the dyslexic branch of MENSA, since 1598. He is the author of the ... [... more]
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The New Alchemists: How Visionary People Make Something ...
 Pictures of Success - the ultimate coffee table book: In medieval times, alchemists set out to transmute base metal into gold, discover a universal cure for sickness, and find the means of infinitely prolonging life. And if the tales we read are true, [... more]
CDN$41.95
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Manhattan Dawn and Dusk
The definitive New York pictorial: If you're looking for just one volume of photographs of The Big Apple, you've found the one to buy. I've just completed my 6th visit to New York since 1997, and I'm so glad I found this book. Believe me -- I'm really [... more]
CDN$60.00
Amazon CA |
Mid-Century Modern
Designers of the 50's: My sister has just bought a 1950's ranch home with some original features. I was hoping this book would help celebrate the house and give some ideas as to decor. Instead, it is a good overview of the furniture designers who [... more]
CDN$31.98
Amazon CA |
Porsche Boxster
Wishing for more: This is a coffee table book, a quick read with lots of pictures. In that sense it is a good book, but for those who are seriously considering a boxter, this book leaves more questions than answers. BOXSTER S INSIGHT: WHEN I PURCHASED [... more]
CDN$31.95
Amazon CA |
Top Ski Resorts of the World
Coffee Table Only: I would love to visit all of the ski areas mentioned in this book, but the book does not describe or illustrate any of them well. Each resort has been given approximately 4 pages of space in the book. There are a few pictures of slopes [... more]
CDN$26.04
Amazon CA |
Trilobites of New York: An Illustrated Guide
Outstanding: For anyone interested in trilobites, this is a fantastic book. The photography is superb, many of the specimens pictured are incredibly complete and masterfully prepared. It is amazing how many species of this extinct creature are preserved [... more]
CDN$65.59
Amazon CA |
The Coffee Table, Coffee Table Book
You've got to be kidding.: This is amazing. There is no credit given to "Seinfeld" anywhere in the text, not even in the full page of acknowledgments. The writers attempt to pass this off as their own idea, having assumed, I guess, that they [... more]
CDN$69.95
Amazon CA |
R.Crumb Coffee Table Art Book
From Amazon.com: Robert Crumb, world-famous illustrator and definite pervert, got his start in the underground comics scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book is a collection of his best work from the last 50 years (it' [... more]
CDN$34.06
Amazon CA |
Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
a bad book for architects: One of the most damaging books that has ever flooded architectural education. The book is the dullest and uninspiring compilation of platitudes without any critical referent. To the problems of architecture and architectural [... more]
CDN$53.99
Amazon CA |
The Private Life of Plants
Interesting and fascinating book of an fore me unknow world: David Attenborough describes the interesting life of plants in a very interesting way, and that makes the book to my number one. He is telling us about the evolution and how it developed the [... more]
CDN$36.07
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