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Features: Dieudonn M'Bala M'Bala; No way to run a recession; How to Fix Canada's Parliamentary Question Period; The Soaring cost of Asper's Dream - the Museum of Human Rights; The People of Pakistan - pawns in a fatal game; Sarkozy's U.S. Love-fest hits a few snags; China's youth swallow the 'official' account of Tiananmen Square; Why Canadians have to wait for the latest gadgets; Game Guru - Don Mattrick of Microsoft; GM dealers remain positive; Sex, Drugs and Acrobats - a new expose on the rise and times of Cirque du Soleil billionaire founder Guy Laliberte; NHL Fitness Test; Woody Allen and Larry David; Gordon Ernest Thomas - Obituary; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
78 pages. Features: Selling Potash?; F-35 Controversy; Condoleezza Rice in Conversation; Who is the real Omar Khadr?; Mid-term madness for Obama and the U.S.; Why Meg Whitman couldn't buy California; The Rise of Glenn Beck; China's huge military buildup; Educating today's youth to save and invest, rather than spend; Can carmakers sell consumers on new compact models?; Conan O'Brien in exile; Nigella Lawson; Ralph Ronald O'Neil - in memoriam. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
177 pages. Contents/Features: Toward Authentic Participatory Research in Health; Community Memberships - Considerations for New Zealand Health Research; Considerations in Working with Persons of First Nations Heritage; Our Blood is Sweet - the Wampum Belt Journey; Background to the Nunavik Commission Health Recommendations; The conditions of Sustainable Food Security; Toxic Contamination Undermining Indigenous Food Systems and Indigenous Sorereignty; An exploration of smoking cessation and prevention interventions for Aboriginal Youth; Intercultural Research - Australia and Canada; The Celine Knowledge Centre; Healing Our Spirit Worldwide. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
149 pages. "The dramatic testimony of Janet Horbas. Explains how God set her free from the bondage of Satan. Janet has a full-time ministry of evangelism, discipling, and counselling and speaks at conferences, youth groups, and churches" - from back cover. Black and white illustrations. Negligible wear. Minor crease to each cover. Clean, bright and unmarked. Lovely copy. Book
201 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "The moving account of an eccentric Canadian youth who was probably the most deadly-accurate marksman of all the pilots who flew the Spitfire in battle... well-told, diligently researched." - Major-General Richard Rohmer, CMM, DFC. Half-title page removed. Average library markings. Above-average but not excessive wear. Useful reading copy. Book
344 pages. The true, riveting and extraordinary story of a young man born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Lothar Orbach's family was proud of its German military and cultural heritage, but that was no help to a Jewish boy coming of age in Hitler's Berlin. A story of amazing courage and excitement in a world gone mad. At its center is the astonishing Lothar/Gerhard, street thug, romantic youth, and survivor, clinging to his humanity and his irrpressible spirit soars underground. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket shows very light signs of handling. Excellent copy. Book
307 pages. A compact collection of readongs on the topics of policing, the courts, corrections, youth justice, and special topics in criminal justice. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
306 pages. "Navigating among the co-ordinates of time, place, and language, foraging through flea markets, scrolling through microfilmed documents, deconstructing stray photographs and anecdotes, Sante creates a superb work of remembrance and history...Brilliantly proposes a template for everyone's autobiography." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked. Lightest wear. Excellent copy. Book
216 pages including index. Author employs his thorough understanding of history to put past youth ministry into perspective and offer a prophetic vision for future efforts to reach young people. Average wear. Unmarked. Good working copy. Book
352 pages. A delightfully illustrated nostalgic youth text covering such topics as: Teen Troubles, Understanding Yourself and Others, Living in a Family, Your Health Questions, Living Safely and Looking Ahead. Revised for Canadian Schools by Harold P. Johns. Well worn and soiled. Usual school markings. Book
187 pages. Two week retreats. A four day camp. A week-long camp. Designed to strengthen students to become fully devoted followers of Christ. Unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
151 pages. Contains nine weeks of Bible-based devotions written by youth and for youth. The writers know the joys and struggles young people face, because they are living them. The devotions are ideal for personal daily use or for reading and discussing with others. Gift greetings on half-title page. Book
185 pages. A comprehensive resource on including children and youth with disabilities in general education classrooms from K to 12. Book
261 pages. "This splendid book will make a difference. Calm, reasoned, superbly-documented and powerful, it will lead the way to new systems to safeguard the lives of children in Canada. For humanity's sake, it must." - June Callwood Cuts a comprehensive path through the tangle of forces, including family breakdown and social-service failure, that accelerate the tragedy of Canada's runaway's. Suggests measures that might help more of them beat the streets. Covers show wear with some page corners folded. Book
403 pages including notes, index and black and white illustrations. Portrays the children of America's past as historical actors in their own right. Clean and bright with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
Tours, Ad. Mame et C.ie, 1839, in-16, bella leg. coeva in pieno vitello marmorizzato, piatti inquadrati da filetto "a merletto" in oro, dorso liscio con titolo e ricchi fregi neorococò in oro, sguardie e tagli marmorizzati, pp. 179, [1]. Con antiporta incisa in acciaio. Bell'esemplare.
Paris, Colombier, s.d. (vers 1860); in-4, environ 80 pp., cartonnage romantique d'éditeur. Partition illustrée de 10 lithographies. Bon état.
Gr. In-8, 238p. Quatrième édition. Illustré de 21 gravures. Ex-dono en page de garde, sinon exemplaire en parfaite condition.
SECHSTER JAHRGANG - THIS VOLUME ONLY. This book contains riddles, narrations, plays, reports and poems about Jewish and Zionist issues. Also includes several illustrations to the stories and four plates depicting interior views of a Synagogue, children's dolls and portraits of important personalities in literature and Zionism. 170x209mm. 100 pages. Illustrated Hardcover rebound with red cloth spine. Cover yellowing, stained and rubbed/scratched. Cover corners bumped and worn. Cover edges worn. Ink inscription of previous owner's name (Ruth Levy) and year (1937) on front endpaper and whitepage. Another name appears in Hebrew ("Rivkah Levy") with an address in Jerusalem. Several pages slightly age stained and/or rough-cut (as published). Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book is overall in good condition.
This author is best known for a series of girl's stories set in New Zealand, but in this novel the feisty young heroine is described as she settles into a new school, and makes new friends in a community on Georgian Bay, Ontario c.1950 There a sequel to this story in "Nancy, Young Canadian" Illus. B & W with frontispiece and 3 plates by Septimus Scott. 287p.[6 copies found in WorldCat] Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, back cover has a bump to the lower corner, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior has some marking over about 10 pages only. 221 pages with writing from Frances Mc Cue, S.J. Weinberg, Jose Angel Ventura, Morgen White, Stacey Levine, Barbara Earl Thomas, Tom robbins, Laura Lichenstein, David Shields, Kaiz Esmail, Kidus Solomon, Brenda Peterson, et al.
205 pages. Author's signature upon title page. Black and white illustrations. This book was "conceived in the campfire glow of four big-game hunters in the mountains and forests of British Columbia, and grew slowly over the twenty years they hunted together.... Shares not only the beauty and challenges of this beautiful land, but also the tales they told as they whiled away the fire-lit evening hours of their hunting years - of their youth in the dust-stormed depression years on the Canadian prairies; roding the rods; ice train hauling freight in the frozen north; wartime from the standpoint of an infantry platoon commander and a Navy sub-chaser; the real life of an underground coal and hardrock miner; high lead on big timber logging; commercial fishing on the Pacific, and much more." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
72 pages. Circa 1982-83. Perhaps the first book to be written by workers on the question of Canada's entering the second depression. Their dismay at finding another generation of young families faced with the same prospects of unemployment, has prompted them to compile an outline of world and national development leading to recurring crises in private enterprise systems. The authors have used a historical materialist approach in attempting to make the history and background of depressions understandable to the average working class reader. Gift greetings inside front cover else clean and unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy. Book
Approximately 110 pages. Black and white illustrations. "... Because these words were born of the visual images and impressions of a child and teenager, I beg you indulge the juvenile slant of these vignettes, excuse the fragmented and often chronologically disjointed record, and perhaps join me in returning to these simpler, kinder and happier days." - from back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reading copy. Book
215 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "The official history of the Canadian Hostelling Association." - from back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
