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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven Levitt
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Mar 31 2005
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Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that e...
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Collapse
Jared Diamond
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Jan 4 2005
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Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, ...
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You: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger
Michael F. Roizen
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Harper Collins Canada
April 21 2005
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Anti-aging guru Roizen and celebrated heart surgeon Oz combine their popular approaches to patient-centered care in this assessment of how much, or more to the point, how little, readers know about their bodies. After taking the quizzes in the book, reader...
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
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Little, Brown and Company
Jan 11 2005
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Starred Review. Best-selling author Gladwell (The Tipping Point) has a dazzling ability to find commonality in disparate fields of study. As he displays again in this entertaining and illuminating look at how we make snap judgments—about people's intentions, the authenticity of a work of art, even military strategy—he can ...
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The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas L. Friedman
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Jan 1 2005
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Starred Review. Before 9/11, New York Times columnist Friedman was best known as the author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, one of the major popular accounts of globalization and its discontents. Having devoted most of the last four years of his column to the latter as embodied ...
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On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt
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Princeton University Press
Jan 10 2005
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"One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit," Harry G. Frankfurt writes, in what must surely be the most eyebrow-raising opener in modern philosophical prose. "Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. Bu...
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Real Estate Investing in Canada: Creating Wealth with the ACRE System
Don R. Campbell
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April 22 2005
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Finally--A Proven Strategy for Real Estate Investment Do you wonder if the real estate market has passed you by? Or perhaps you think prices can't go any higher and the real estate bubble is about to burst? Maybe you're of the opinion that ...
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Start Late, Finish Rich: Canadian Edition
David Bach
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Jan 4 2005
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"It's only too late if you give up," promises David Bach in the Canadian edition of ...
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Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments; Volume II: The Endgame
Dan Harrington
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Two Plus Two Pub.
Jun 1 2005
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Making Money in Real Estate: The Canadian Guide to Profitable Investment in Residential Property, Revised Edition ePDF
Douglas Gray
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Mar 28 2005
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Douglas Gray is Canada’s bestselling real estate and small business author. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have relied on his books for their comprehensive information, insider tips and practicality. Here is what the critics have said about his real estate guides: ...
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Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes
Giada De Laurentiis
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Clarkson Potter
Feb 22 2005
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With its cover image of the fetching de Laurentiis wearing a low-cut top and its promise of easy, tasty Italian recipes, this cookbook is sure to draw in home cooks who don't know how to make a basic marinara sauce and want to be introduced them to the bea...
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The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
Peter C. Newman
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Random House Canada
Sep 12 2005
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Former Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard was "erratic" and "extraordinarily vain." The Ottawa press gallery was packed with "myopic, incestuous bastards." Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell spent too much time "screwing around" with her boyfriend while her 19...
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The Game
Neil Strauss
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Aug 25 2005
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Are you just another AFC ("average frustrated chump") trying to meet an HB ("hot babe")? How would you like to "full-close" with a Penthouse Pet of the Year? The answers, my friend, are in Neil Strauss's entertaining book ...
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Doyle Brunson's Super System II
Doyle Brunson
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Cardoza
Feb 1 2005
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The Most Anticipated Book In The History of PokerSuper System 2 gathers together the greatest players, theorists, and world champions and expands upon the original with more games, new authors, and most importantly, more professional secrets from the best in the business.Poker's Greatest Players Share Their SecretsThis superstar lineup ...
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Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
Matthew R. Simmons
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May 27 2005
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Investment banker Simmons offers a detailed description of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the U.S and our long-standing dependence upon Saudi oil. With a field-by-field assessment of its key oilfields, he highlights many discrepancies between Sa...
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Your Call Is Important To Us: The Truth About Bullshit
Laura Penny
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May 10 2005
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Penny's Your Call Is Important is comprised of the usual earnest lefty convictions; it's full of outrage, and striking blows against the omnipotent and uncaring empire. Through the book she faces down her Goliath with a canny admixture of slander, righteo...
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Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover: An Accelerated Program of Exercise and Nutrition for Maximum Results in Minimum Time
Bob Greene
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Dec 21 2004
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Fitness is a lifetime commitment, but you can accelerate results and transform your body in 12 weeks, says Bob Greene, best known as Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer. Not for the "move a little" crowd, this program is intense and challenging, whatever your...
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Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind
T H Eker
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Jan 27 2005
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“GIVE ME FIVE MINUTES and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life.” So says T. Harv Eker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. Eker’s revolutionary approach reveals the missing link that explains why some people create financial success while others do not. ...
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End Of Poverty
Jeffrey Sachs
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Mar 22 2005
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Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individuals around the world ...
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Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
Mark Leyner
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Three Rivers Press
Jul 26 2005
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Urban legends and perennial wonders get a witty treatment in this lighthearted guide to largely inconsequential yet intriguing aspects of the human body. Leyner, a novelist whose writing appears regularly in the New Yorker and GQ, and New York physician Go...
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The Power of Giving: Creating abundance in your home, at work, and in your community
Azim Jamal & Harvey McKinnon
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Mar 1 2005
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Terry
Douglas Coupland
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Mar 10 2005
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Equal parts coffee-table-style picture book and vivid retelling of one of Canada's most enduring stories, ...
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Winning
Jack Welch
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April 5 2005
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Starred Review. One oft-heard comment about Welch's generally praised (and bestselling) 2001 memoir, Jack: Straight from the Gut, was that the book skimped on useful business advice. The respected but controversial former chief of General Electric pays readers back double here. Written with Welch's wife, a onetime editor of ...
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The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine
New Yorker
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Sep 20 2005
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EVERY PAGE OF EVERY ISSUEON 8 DVD-ROMS, WITH A COMPANION BOOK OF HIGHLIGHTS. A cultural monument, a journalistic gold mine, an essential research tool, an amazing time machine.What has the New Yorker said about Prohibition, Duke Ellington, the Second World War, Bette Davis, boxing, Winston Churchill, Citizen Kane, ...
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My Life So Far
Jane Fonda
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Random House
April 5 2005
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At 67, Fonda looks back on a full life with insight and more than a tinge of regret. The actress-cum-activist-turned-aerobics instructor (and now philanthropist) has a lot to say and, for the most part, it's interesting-if readers can hang on through the t...
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