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157 pages. Turn your local copier into a personal arts and crafts center. Make personalized, inexpensive greeting cards, T-shirts, fabrics, presentations, prints and much, much more. Light wear. Unmarked. Many illustrations, some in colour. Book
189 pages including index. No matter where you live, be it a city high-rise or a brand-new subdivision, the book is overflowing with ideas on how to make life better for Canada's wildlife. While your efforts may not be complex, costly, or require a team of wildlife biologists to carry out, they're every bit as important to the bears, butterflies, bobcats, bees, and bats with whom we share this planet. Chapters include: Create a backyard habitat; Community action for wildlife; Plant for Wildlife; Build for Wildlife; Conserve Special Species and Habitats; Deal with Problems; Beyond Your Backyard. Unmarked. Light wear. Only defect is that some of the spiral binding rings have torn through the back cover. Remains a lovely copy. Book
Over 350 pages. Originally published in 1894. Fitzgibbon was one of the greatest and most venturesome leaders in the War of 1812. The commander of a troop dubbed the Bloody Boys, he practiced a form of guerilla warfare, at the time considered highly unconventional. Book clean and unmarked with very light wear. Bookplate upon front endpaper. Slight twist to spine. Book
144 pages including index of plates and selected references. Coyotes, cougars, pronghorns, badgers, bison, bears, jackrabbits, herons, hawks, cranes, and pelicans are only a few of the species portrayed in this work. Over one hundred exceptional colour images make this one of the most beautiful natural histories published in recent years. All photos were taken over a five-year period, during which the author spent hundreds of hours hidden in blinds, recording the intimate day-to-day activities of the wild. Small openings at corners through light wear rather than bumping. Unmarked. Two tears under one inch long at top of spine area of attractive illustrated dust jacket. Two scratches to back panel of dust jacket. Book
179 pages including notes and index. "Has Atlantis finally been found?... Presents some startling - and convincing - evidence that it has. That, in fact, Antarctica is the lost continent of Atlantis." - from dust jacket. Rand Flem-Ath's Signature and inscription upon half-title page. Discard stamp upon front endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket in protective cover neatly taped to book. Excellent copy. Book
156 pages including bibliography. A love story between the author and her home, Hammerstone tells the story of Hornby Island - from its molten birth in the South Pacific, to the present. In a carefully woven, eloquent narrative, Fletcher writes of a special island in the Gulf of Georgia on the West Coast of Canada. The story starts nearly 3050 million years ago. It has not ended. "...talk about a fascinating overview of how our West Coast came into being. The findings in Fletcher's deeply researched work are nothing short of mind boggling as she weaves us through the gigantic warps of geologic time." - Bob Fortune, CBC. Small 'discard' rubber stamp atop half-title page else clean , bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
242 pages including index. The hidden power behind The Family Channel, the Christian Coalition, The 700 Club, and The Ice Capades. Usual library markings. Surprisingly light wear. Binding solid. Nice copy Book
160 pages including many black and white photographic plates. Shows how a luxurious garden can be created without constant labour. Covers garden design, hedges, rock gardens, the growing of annuals and perennials for cutting, roses, trees and shrubs, and a great variety of other useful subjects. A book for those who enjoy being in their garden rather than working in it. Price-clipped dust jacket. Light wear overall. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
351 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon front endpaper, else clean and unmarked. "I find this encyclopedia a fascinating and wholly valid exploration of Cajun and Creole cooking. If you really care about those two concepts - and I do - I would consider this an imperative addition to your kitchen and/or library." - Craig Claiborne, The New York Times. Light wear to glossy illustrated yellow boards. Excellent attractive copy. Book
211 pages. Documents a 50 day Father and son flying and sightseeing saga of a lifetime. The richly detailed account of a "Round the World" adventure. Records with dramatic realism such anecdotes as the lonesome 15 hour trans-Pacific flights, and the tense moments when intercepting an Iranian pilot's transmissions after he had been hit by gunfire over the Persian Gulf. Takes you behind the scenes to such tantalizing and remote places of the world as Bali, Burma and Bangladesh. Includes fascinating pictures. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
158 pages. Light wear to covers. Wonderfully illustrated with black and white photos plus some colour. "Denying Charlie the Mekong Delta was a nightmare task assigned to the men of the hastily assembled Brown Water Navy. Using every conceivable coastal craft, including converted Boston Whalers, and Hovercraft, they took the Viet Cong on at their own game in a bizarre and savage war where every turning could conceal an ambush or a submerged mine." - from the back cover. Book
254 pages including index. Practical ways to balance your energy needs and expenditures so you can do more, feel better and get more out of life every day. Author's "whole person" approach to chronic tiredness brings exercise, nutrition, sleep therapy, motivational change and cognitive therapy to bear on the problem, offering a variety of winning combinations to revitalize you and restore your energy and zest for life. Light wear. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
127 pages. Shares the experiences and reflections of over 20 members of communities as diverse as First Nations, religious orders, rural communes, activist camps and urban neighborhoods. Offers practical advice and inspiring visions about ways to reconstruct circles of mutual caring and support - and to relearn the wisdom that comes with enduring relations of people and places. Offers, through the community, a culture of hope. Unmarked. Light wear. Book
120 pages. "Exposes how the national interest continues to be sacrificed to the demands of Quebec, and provides a startling look at just how close Canada has come to dissolution." - William Trench, author of Only You Can Save Canada. Gift greetings upon title page else unmarked. Light wear. Book
41 pages. Author's inscription and signature upon title page. "The forest community of Huckleberry Hollow welcomes a newborn family to the Hollow, a family of snowshoe hares. One of the young ones is especially frisky and daring; always using his long strong back legs to their fullest potential!" - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Glossy illustrated boards. Very nice copy. Book
281 pages. Future historians may well agree that Martin Exeter led one of the great lives of the twentieth century. He shaped circumstance through the transcendance of the ordinary human condition. At the age of 21 he left the life of the British aristocracy and moved to the Cariboo region of British Columbia where he honed the strength of character that would eventually make him a source of inspiration to thousands of people worldwide. He founded the town of 100 Mile House B.C. and went on to lead a body of people known as the Emissaries to what could be called today an unprecedented force for the spiritual restoration of the planet. Light wear to book which is unmarked. Light edgewear to attractive glossy dust jacket. Book
406 pages including index. Covers the entire field of virology. Readers concerned with only animal, plant, or bacterial viruses can find their subject matter covered in specific chapters. Light to moderate wear. Clean. Minimal underlining and high-lighting up to page 12 only. Solid copy. Book
218 pages. Author's signature upon title page. Inspired by John Aubrey's "Brief Lives", the seventeenth century classic of intimate biography, this volume is a delightful and provocative collection of sketches of famous Canadians (and those who deserve to be.) Book is clean and unmarked. Minor lean to spine. Light wear to maroon dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
143 pages. Index. Beautiful colour photography throughout. "Inventive menu suggestions invite you to prepare healthy, balanced meals that the whole family will enjoy. Handy nutrition charts help you keep track of the calories, sodium, fat and cholesterol in each serving of every recipe." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
216 pages including bibliography. Moderate wear. Light soiling. Some yellowing to contents. Gives a first hand description of the Moonies Boonville indoctrination camp, which the aughor himself visited; and it tells Benji Miller's story of his own indoctrination - a powerful nightmarish account of a human mind taken apart then put back together at someone else's direction. It tells the thrilling, moving, sometimes funny story of a six week transcontinental odyssey to rescue a friend. Describes the deprogramming of Benji Miller; an eye-witness account of a virtual exorcism. Looks behind the mask of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his growing political and financial empire. Above all, offers a serious, penetrating look at cult 'brainwashing' techniques and their relationship to our society. The first book to look at what cults do to people... and how it can be undone. Book
142 pages. Offers five case studies to help explain the funtions of schooling as they relate to its cultural purposes. Light wear. Unmarked. Very good copy. Book
286 pages including index. The one book that shows you how to compete with other managers in the corporate productivity arena. Shows you how to make the HR function more responsive to organizational changes, and prove your contribution to the bottom line. Modest wear to book which bears a moderate quantity of light pencil markings. Average wear to dust jacket. Binding intact. Solid working copy. Book
182 pages including references. A practical guide. Shows how you can make a fortune, without laying out a penny or taking any risks. Unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy. Book
480 pages including index. " A real and memorable tribute to the universal need to express love, fear, loss, sensual and spiritual joy, the inevitability of death, and the poignant, metaphysical quests of this generation's poets. Who can say which of them will rise to the challenge of greatness?" - From the Introduction. Light wear. Unmarked. Book
495 pages. Subject has transformed the role of Chinese Buddhism in the modern world. Abundantly illustrated. Rubber stamp upon front flyleaf else unmarked. Negligible wear. Excellent bright clean copy. Book