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155 pages including index. The first book to deal expressly with this complex and important subject. Answers questions such as: why do some women become bulimic and others not?; Are certain personality types more vulnerable?; How is it treated?; What are the medical risks?; What can family and friends do to help?; and many more. Offers practical information and hope. Book clean and unmarked with very light wear. Only defect is small water stain at top of spine which affects a small portion of pages and endaper. Minor water stains to dust jacket near top of spine on back panel. . Moderate wear to dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
50 pages. Features: Color Purina Chicken Chow ad inside front cover; One-page photo of old elm tree which has been saved with concrete, chain and iron rods; The House That Was a Barn - article with photos; Fall Planting for Spring Blooms - now is the time to prepare next year's bulb garden - with page of suggested varieties from which to choose; Now is the best time to plant peonies for the best results; Get Your Family Roots into Your Own Soil; Photos of how Shrubs and Flowers Add to Your Home; Homes of Famous Americans - photo-illustrated article on William Penn House, Fairmont Park, Philadelphia; How Insulation Provides Comfor and Health in Your Home - article with photos; Landscape Planning Service; A New England Colonial Home; The Renaissance of the Fireplace - aritcle with photos; Lighting the Garden - photos; Relaxing after meals - article and photo in which the dishwashing problem is made light of; Storage of Fruit and Vegetables - article with diagrams; How to Buy and Cook Meats; The What and How of Beef; Back Yark Fruit Experiences; Nice 2/3-page illustrated ad for the Kalamazoo Stove company; From Garden to Table; A Backyard Poultry Flock - article with photos; Nice 1/3-page photo ad for the Blue Streak Coaster Wagon; Your Children's Music Lessons; Embroidery Designs; The Garden Seat - photo-illustrated article; Nice color ad for Congoleum Art-Rugs inside back cover; soiled Colgate dental cream ad on back cover. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
193 pages. Discusses: what sort of businss should I have? what are the pros and cons of working at home? how do I avoid family disruption? what are the legal requirments? what professional advice will I need? how do I handle expansion? and much more. Author grew a home-based business into an enterprise of 300 people. Light wear. Few light pencil markings. Nice copy. Book
134 pages. Answers such questions as: what sort of business should I start?; What are the pros and cons of working at home?; What are the legal requirements?; What professional advice will I need and where can I get it?; How do I market my product?; and many more. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy. Book
285 pages. Creative ways to increase the income of your institution.. Author is perhaps the nation's leading consultant and authority in the development of planned giving programs for nonprofit organizations. He has substantially aided organizations including: The Red Cross, Billy Graham, The Salvation Army, and many more. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Tears to dust jacket. Book
48 pages. This glamorous publication brought New York women important information including: news of the choicest fashion, entertainment, current happenings, where to go, what to see, and how much to pay. Features: Color cover photo features lady applying lipstick amongst a throng of well-dressed football fans; Nice Franklin Simon's one-page ad featuring Persian (wool) Prestige; Super half-page photo ad for Best & Co. features 'Sequins for Glamour'; Nice Macy's full-page ad features photo of four fashionable kids disembarking the 'Normandie'; Full-page ad for Macy's Little Shop features elegant lady in evening gown; The tragic case of Elizabeth Smith, convicted of second degree manslaughter in the death of her newborn; Great one-page Singer sewing machine ad encourages readers to make the $4 dress illustrated; Several photos commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty; Photos and brief article on new diaper service (which some readers thought was a fiction!); Flaming Youth - Sixteen Years Older - "The Younger Generation" that made the 1920's such hectic years grows old and conservative, and its bearded prophets tell how they grew up - article with before and after photos of H.L. Mencken and F. Scott Fitzgerald; "Dear Martha Deane" - brief article with nine photos of radio broadcaster Mary Margaret McBride; 'Mama Martinelli and her Soup of Vengeance'; Photo-illustrated three-page article on Gloria Vanderbilt; Article on John Perona's 'fashionable hellhole' El Morocco - including photo of Jack Dempsey and Perona; The Fashion Ediitor's Diary; Two nice full-page color fashion photos; Review of some New York hair salons; Color-illustrated centerfold features Football Fashions; So Much To Buy - So Much to Spend; Evening accessories; Skin products; There's a difference in light bulbs - photo-illustrated article compares American with foreign bulbs; Color photos of fine china and sparkling crystal tableware; We Shop the Town; Hearty Dinners for Cold Days; Photos and article on the movie "Libeled Lady" which starred Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy; Schaefer beer one-page ad mentions Empire City horse racing, Oct. 19-31; Maisonette Russe is opend with the blessing of Archimandrite Inna - brief article with photos; Manhattan Date Book; Nice color-illustrated Kotex ad inside back cover features fashionable ladies; and more. Unmarked with modest wear. A quality copy of this great vintage depression-era item. Magazine
112 pages. Features: Grandfather, Bolster Your Immune System with Benevolent Magic and Living Prayer!; Release Outgrown Circumstances; The Heart of Mary Magdelene; Beacons of Light against the Tsunami; and much more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
295 pages including index and some black and white illustrations. "Some of the proceedings described in the following pages seem unjust to us, but we have to remember that these trials took place about 160 years ago. Many important reforms have been introduced both in England and France which have gone far to establish and safeguard the rights of the accused. One aspect has not changed; a criminal trial in France is more dramatic, more akin to the theatre, than in England, both in its setting and in the display of emotion." - from Foreward. Several cup rings upon back board. Small rubber stamp upon front endpaper else contents clean and unmarked. Light to moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
820 pages. This indispensable guide to travel worldwide features articles on every imaginable aspect of travel, including: the student traveler; travelling with children; advice for women travelers; traveling with the elderly; traveling by freighter; travelers with disabilities; visas; travel insurance; medical considerations; and much more. Plan your next trip ahead using this encyclopedic guide. Includes comprehensive charts, tables, and lists that cover: worldwide climates; public holidays; driving requirments; travel associations; and more. Unmarked. Light wear. Crease to front cover. Solid attractive copy in colourful laminated covers. Book
270 pages including footnotes. Rejects the current cliches and myths about masculinity. Author's brilliant insights challenge most of the popular assumptions about today's man including Freud's Oedipal theory. With vigor and wit, he tells men how they can pull themselves out of the swampy confines of their outdated thinking. Examines why so many men are emotionally isolated, feel guilty about their sex drive and are driven to succeed in everything but love. Men will find out why women withdraw from them sexually or leave them. Informative and startling. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy. Book
227 pages including bibliography. A firsthand account of rare eloquence and immediacy, a remarkable story of raw human courage and - ultimately - indominable hope. "Birger Sellin has broken through a wall between unbearable worlds, and what he has written is nothing other than the poetry of the human soul." - Carolyn Forche, author of The Angel of History. Remainder mark upon bottom edge. Unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
Features: Select Proper Binoculars; My Handgun Saved My Life - Bob Blackmore of Kaslo, BC; You Quit Trapping a Thousand Times... But...; Camera lore; About Muskrats; Trained Shooting Dogs; Lake Trout on Light Tackle; Moonshine and Daydreams - by Kerry Wood of Red Deer, Alberta; Photo of fully-developed moose leg with two feet!; C-I-L Ammo ad inside back cover features photo of woodchuck in crosshairs; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece and photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
409 pages. Dr. McClure's attractive signature upon half-title page. "This book started out to be a full biography of Dr. Bob McClure from his birth in 1900 up to the present time. It gradually transformed itself into something that may seem to fall halfway between an adventure story and a history of China through the first half of the twentieth century." - from Foreward. Prior owner's neatly written gift greetings upon half-title page which has a small piece cleanly clipped from top corner. Maps printed upon endpapers. Contents clean and unmarked. Light wear. Excellent copy. Book
126 pages. "Recalls Scott Fitzgerald's dictum that all good writing is swimming underwater and holding your breath. This deeply ironic monologue shows the heroine floundering in a patriarchal society bounded by set expectations and cliched responses." - from dust jacket. Some markings and underlining. Very light wear to book. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
184 pages. Learn of the diverse ways that social workers are using groups in health care to meet the needs of patients and their families. Will advance your understanding of how groups can facilitate more caring, responsive delivery of health services by illustrating state-of-the-art practice in social group work. Prior owner's name atop front flyleaf. Rubber stamp upon title page, otherwise clean and unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
48 pages lavishly illustrated with colour photographs. Unmarked. Light wear. Attractive illustrated glossy black covers. Please note: Text entirely in German Book
217 pages including bibliography. "...arms readers with an edge and a sense of humour. It is an essential tool for first time job hunters." - Jonathan Torrens, CBC's Jonovision. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
61 pages. Les livres de R. Scarry ont depuis des annees deja un succes certain. Non seulement les tout-petits mais aussi les enfants et les adultes sont attires par les nombreux personnages crees par R. Scarry. Unmarked. Light to moderate wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Lovely copy. Book
228 pages including index. Presents a ground-breaking approach to language acquisition which lays the foundation for the next generation of innovative materials for language instruction. Individual learner differences are emphasized. Task-based instruction is employed. Theme-based instruction allows for relevant, natural, and stimulating use of the language. Focus on the relatedness of skills emphasizes that although the skills are often treated instructionally as separate entities, these components of the language are unified in actual communication. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
176 pages. A new, nontoxic effective treatment plan for stubborn cases of head lice. The safe five-step solution that will free your family of head lice. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Very nice copy. Book
335 pages including index and some illustrations. Traces the growth of the Euroamerican societies in the Western Hemisphere during the eighteenth-century perioed of European expansion. Light wear. Minimal markings. Tight and square. Solid copy. Book
342 pages including index. "A remarkably thoroughgoing critique of folly. The spectacle of Saul blasting away at the conventional wisdom of left and right alike has the intellectual kick of Akira Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo'." - Newsweek. Very light wear. Prior owner's address label atop half-title page. Excellent copy. Book
215 pages. "At last, after years of fictionalized RCMP stories, we now have the real thing, told by the real men who were there." - Betty Kennedy. Reveals the disparity in living conditions then and now - the hardships, tragedy, discipline and humour, all in sharp contrast to the contemporary environment of their successors. Unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book