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30 cm, rilegatura editoriale illustrata, titolo al piatto e dorso; p. 338; numerose illustrazioni e foto a colori, alcune tavole ripiegate
208 pages including index and bibliography. Virtual slaves, these children were uprooted from their villages in central and southern Italy to perform as barrel-organists, harpists, violinists, fifers, pipers, and animal exhibitors. "This extremely, unusual study, enlivened by photographs, throws a floodlight on ethnic prejudice, cultural constructs of childhood, Tammany Hall politics and 19th-century immigration and working conditions." - Publishers Weekly. Very light wear. Glossy laminated covers. Clean and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
76 pages. Lavishly illustrated in color. Features: Catharine Ellis - Innovative Cloth Constructions; Sherri Smith - Science as Inspiration; Image, Structure, and Emotion - Lia Cook's recent work; Lissa Hunter - Finding Her Truth; Joan Livingstone - Corporeal Dynamics; Gail Resen - Patterning Light; Yvonne Morton - A Dorset/Congo Connection; Kim Kamens - String to the Nth Degree; Mind + Body - Reflections; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
565 pages including index. Provides students with a firm foundation in the traditional topics of plant physiology while placing the major concepts in the dynamic context of contemporary biology. Moderate quantity of light pencil underlining and marginalia. Moderate wear overall. Solid, attractive copy. Book
113 pages. The personal story of one of Canada's leading anti-nuclear and peace activists. Her quest for truth about the nuclear industry - and its complicity in her husband's death and the lengthy cover-up that followed - eventually led her to a determined campaign of civil disobedience to alert the public to "an extremely dangerous, expensive and carelessly operated technology." Gift inscription upon half-title page, else unmarked. Very light wear. Illustrated glossy covers. Book
84 pages in light green card covers. Author's third book of published poetry. He lives on Arbutus Bay, British Columbia. Contains: Crossing the Strait Enroute to Parksville; City-vs-Country Life; Thunder in the Bay; Mountains...Sea...Glaciers...Forest Silences...; Island Flowers; Herons...Eagles...Gulls...Crows...Squirrels...; A Deja-Vu of Parksville and Maui Beaches; Olga. Book
115 pages. ... The stuff of MCC volunteer life in the Indonesian archipelago. From a place too dangerous to accommodate foreigners in 1948, in intervening years to 1998, Indonesia eventually hosted a total of 164 Mennonite Central Committee volunteers. For the 50-year anniversary celebration of MCC in Indonesia, some alumni wrote stories about: mixing sulfa with vaseline for patients in the 1950's; balancing on slippery logs in Kalimantan; weathering a coup d'etat; visiting Birdshead Anabaptists in Irian Jaya; and much more. Very light wear. Some soiling to title page else unmarked and in fine condition. Excellent copy in glossy decorated boards. Book
64 pages. A collection based on the tumultuous and brave history of the Chinese immigrants to Canada. Drawing upon the real background of the Chinese role in the gold rush, the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the settling of the west coast in the nineteenth century, Yee has created eight original stories that combine the rough-and-tumble adventure of frontier life with the rich folk traditions that these immigrants brought from China. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Very light wear. Lovely copy of this attractive volume. Book
219 pages including bibliography and black and white illustrations. "Rich in information about our past, from European discovery to settlement, the creation of the townsite, incorporation, and the development of the modern town, while preserving its village character." - Jack Collins, Mayor, Qualicum Beach. Clean and unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
64 pages. Features: This issue features, for the first time, cover art by James Hill of Hamilton, featuring an actual scene of a snow sleigh being painted in Dundas, Ontario during a light snow; Great colour ad for Allis-Chalmers Rumely, Ltd. inside front cover features their equipment mining uranium ore ungerground; Household Finance ad features photo of Mr. S.B. Kelly, Manager of the Richmond St., London, Ontario office; One-page two-colour ad for Thor household appliances; Nothing Sacred About the Two-Party System (Editorial); Column on B.C.'s Socred government; Nice colour ad for Canadian General Electric features six of their clocks; Canada's best-loved Governor-General, Lord Alexander, becomes Defense Minister of Great Britain - article with many photos; Benny's Happy Family - nearly four hundred veterans and their wives, and fourteen hundred children live at Benny Farm, a huge apartment development in Montreal's suburb of Notre Dame de Grace - article with five photos; Keep Away from Laura - fiction by Morley Callaghan; The Mysterious Kingdom of the Saguenay - photo-illustrated article (including photo of Madame Gunder Olsen sitting outside her home; How Mackenzie King Won His Greatest Gamble - the fantastic events of 1926 showed him as a true political genius; They're Looting Our History - American collectors and tourists armed with shovels are carting away the story of Canada's dim past from Manitoulin Island - article with photos; When Sears Joins Up with Simpson's - great photo-illustrated article on this important Canadian department store merger; Why the Braden's Don't Come Home - Photo-illustrated article on Bernie and Barbara Braden, once of Vancouver, who now have jobs in British TV, radio, stage and movies; Colour Sweet Caps (Caporal) ad features puffing majorette; Colour centrefold ad for Westinghouse home appliances; Prest-O-Lite ad features photo of Boston Bruin Milt Schmidt in action; Interesting illustrated ad for film "Androcles and the Lion" with heading "Barbaric revelry to fire the senses of the world... in the story of history's most sin-swept era!"; Nice colour ad for Aylmer Golden Corn; Nice colour ad for Champion spark plugs features boy throwing snowball; Uncommon Stelco ad features photos of their new 673-foot ore unloading bridge at Hamilton, their new blast furnace at Hamilton Works, and their new Open Hearth Furnace at Hamilton; Nice two-page Buick ad; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. A high-quality copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
50 pages. Features: Let Them Be Canadians - encouragement for new Canadians to learn English so they may rise above manual labour jobs; Coming Up - The Light Metal Age - how aluminum, stainless steel and magnesium will change our world's face; Flying Circus in Africa (part 1 of 2) - article and photos of the 57th Fighter Group; What (Characteristics) Will Your Baby Inherit From You?; This is the Army - with eight photos from this wartime movie; King Solomon Knew Women; Soo-Flay; High Hook!; Wheel of Fortune - part 3; Colonel Stoopnagle's Fictionary; Liberty Goes to the Movies; Woman-Talk; and more. Colour ad for Mercury socks for men on back cover: Interesting ad (#7) by John Labatt Limited in comic-style encourages readers to support government price ceilings. RCAF recruiting ad for women. Center page loose but present, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A nice wartime issue. Book
28 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Statehouse Remodeling - a costly snafu; Chicago's mad, mad lighting - color it orange - the orange sodium vapor light; The Barr residence, Hinsdale, by Laurence Booth and an Evanston residence designed by James Nagle; and more. Small squiggle to botton of front cover, otherwise unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
12mo, 269 pages, illustrated. Inscriptions of a previous owner on the prelims. Covers soiled. eng
237 pages including index. With illustrations from thirty-two photographs. Spine missing. Past moisture exposure to bottom inch of book resulted in fading to that portion of blue cloth boards and very light staining to contents which are otherwise mildly yellowed and in good condition. Hinges intact. Minimal markings. Very good reading copy. Book
138 pages including index. Does your landscape just dry up sometimes? Do you spend hours watering your lawn and garden? If so, then you need this book! Water-saving and money saving options. Pros and cons of different water sources. How to use gravity, not pumps. Plumbing how-to. How to buy and install underground lawn sprinklers. Simple descriptions of pumping systems. How to get maximum growing results. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
84 pages. Multi-page fold-out timetable. Archival black and white illustrations abound. Gift greetings atop title page else unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Worthy reference copy. Book
112 pages. With step-by-step instruction on landscape and seascape painting including: The Beginner's Basic Materials; Paints and Brushes; Drawing Boards and Easels; Kit for Painting Outdoors; Techniques for using all the Major Media - Watercolour, Oils, Acrylic, Couache, Pastels, as well as Sketching in Colour and Black and White. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 16 pages ob coloured plates; pictorial buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
240 pages including index. Presents the history of British Columbia in all its exciting contrast with almost four hundred illustrations. Spans the whole range from the age of the dinosaurs to the politics of the 1980s. "The pictures are well chosen so the reader comes away with a good idea of what life was like during the different periods of B.C.'s development. Woodcock's text, which is always quick and readable, completes a production that could serve as a model for others of the sort." - Books in Canada. Gift greetings upon front endpaper. Light wear overall. Some sunning to spine of jacket. Nice copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Ad for the Grumman turboprop Gulfstream; Hughes Helicoper two-page ad; Small Unit Operations - Counterguerrilla War (part 2 of a series); One-page illustrated ad for the FMC 'winged' amphibious landing craft, LVHX2; Soviet Military Problems - An Informed Assessment; Night Close Air Support (CAS) - what to do when the sun goes down?; Moonlighting - Night CAS work; Tanks Light the Way - tank-mounted searchlights; Tanks at Night - the crushing shock action of armor will shake up the enemy even more if delivered at night - article with photo of flame tanks of the 2dTkBn at Guantanamo Bay lighting the night sky; Night Juncture - how to avoid danger to the other friendly force; Vo Nguyen Giap on Guerrilla War - part 4 - The Fall of Dien Bien Phu; Marines at Work (Thailand Branch); Promotions and Transfers; Back cover color ad for the Phantom II fighter; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195 pages including index. Examines how culture creates and sustains our definitions of caring, determines who cares along gender lines, and assigns the diminished value that caring has in our society. Prior owner's name inside front cover. Clean. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
405 pages including index. In a wry, absorbing and often sureal narrative, she relates the horrors that led to her disillusionment with the "worker's paradise." Creates an extraordinary portrait of the world's most populous nation. Book is clean, unmarked and shows negligible wear. Dust jacket shows light soiling and wear. Very nice copy. Book
197 pages. "A new opportunity for a wider audience to engage head and heart with a provocative and important thinker... Perhaps a warning should be placed on the cover: This book could change you." - Christian Century. Minor quantity of high-lighting else unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
62 pages. Light curl to lower corner of front cover. Light wear at edges. Why do some schools and districts thrive in a decentralized environment while others simply go through the motions? To determine what factors foster improved school performace through school-based management (SBM), reserachers at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles spent more than four years studying schools and districts in the United States, Canada, and Australia. They report their findings - based on visits to 40 schools, interviews with 400 people, and archival and survey data - in this concise book. Book
256 pages. An extremely comprehensive illustrated listing of everything the model railroader could ever want. Spine leans to left. Light sticker adhesive upon front cover. Craft seller's rubber stamp in appropriate spot upon back cover. Bit of writing in pen in top corner on backside of front cover, else no other marks noticed. Book
