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208 pages including glossary. "Describes clinker and cold-moulded construction methods for sailing, rowing or powered boats up to 20 feet in length. Covers every stage in the process from preparation, tools, materials, plans, keel structure, planking, frames, centreboards and decks to finishing off the hull, masts and oars. Includes specifications for 3 clinker boats which can be built at home by the amateur." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with minimal wear and some foxing to top edge. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Book
Features: Canada's Modern Heritage - Time to Act; The Economuseum - sharing know-how to ensure its preservation; Beacon on Lake Erie - the Coast Guard's Point Abino lighthouse; Modern Classics - Care with 20th-Century Materials; Canadian Terminals on the Underground Railroad; Discreet Heritage - An Architectural Endeavour in Old Montreal - the Zone Building. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
52 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Black and white photos, charts, tables, map. Extensive reference list. Contents include: Historical review of pinniped food studies in British Columbia waters; Methods and materials; General habitat description; Distribution, numbers and migratory behaviour; Feeding habits; Effect of seal and sea lion predation upon British Columbia's commercial fishery. Stiff, protective library boards over original card covers. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Otto Duecker Cover Illustration; Combining materials can lead to special techniques; Otto Duecker; Shirley Sturtz-Davis experiments with landscape painting; Jane Culp; Perfect Values for Pastels; Jane Sutherland's New Works; Virginia Artist Anthony Watkins; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Contents include 9 chapters, each by a different author: Design of Wood Structural Elements: and Overview, Structural Wood-Based Materials: Applications and Design Properties, Design of Beams -- Solids & Laminated, Design of Composite Beams, Design of Columns, Design of Connections, Analysis and Design of Wood Trusses, Design of Wood Diaphrams, Design of Curved Members. Ex-library book with usual marks, stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and unmarked.
Numerous figures and tables. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Minor softening to tail of spine. Lightly bumped top corners of boards. Soiling to bottom corner of page block. Library plate on front inside cover, library stamp on prelims, some pages (with no obstruction of text), back inside cover and page block. Text and illustrations are clean, bright and tight throughout. Ex-Library
192pp., with 131 illustrations in colour, publisher's binding in purple cloth, illustrated dustwrapper, 32cm., good condition, C96755
170 pages including index. Provides a practical and easily understood background to assist the beginning and mature teacher in his/her efforts to master new techniques which are demanded by the physical materials with which he/she is being provided and from which children are expected to learn about their environment. Average wear. Unmarked. Illustrated Book
188 pages including notes. Combines existential interpretation of learning and teaching with the theory of socialization developed by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann to raise a number of important questions including: What taken-for-granted cultural assumptions are transmitted in the classroom?; How accurately do curricular materials reflect social and environmental conditions?. "Starting with the understanding of education as a genuine dialigue between teacher and student this book elucidates in direct and vivid prose that combination of 'psychosocial moratorium' for the student and existential maturity of the teacher that is necessary if the hidden human image is to be revealed by education rather than obscured." - Maurice Friedman, author of Touchstones of Reality. Minimal markings. Average wear. Binding intact. Good working copy. Book
279 pages with index. Book
126 pages including index. Undated - circa 1980?. A humorous guide to professional drinking. "Spirits are meant to go with good times and good friends. Entertaining today is very much an art and as the artist you must know about the basic materials and techniques. This book has been written to help you acquire some technical skills you need to entertain in style. Give the best you have - especially the best of yourself - and you are guaranteed to always succeed." - from Introduction. Sections include: Your basic bar requirements; Technique and Measurements; Drink Definitions; Enigmania - what is it?; Drink Recipes; Enigmania answers. Moderate wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Book
Features include: Some Experiences of an Amateur; Gamma Ray Irradiation of Orchid Seeds; Oncidium splendidum; Germination and Growth Response of Cattleya Seeds as Influenced by the Use of Certain Organic Materials in the Nutrient Media; Australian Cymbidium Species; Studies in Oncidium: Oncidium pusillum and Its Allies - I; A Record on a Vanda Ellen Noa; and Beginners' Handbook: Orchid Hybrids. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
46 pages including selected bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Chapters include: The History of Papermaking; The Enemies of Paper; Matting and Framing; A Note on Restoration; Materials and Services. Minimal library markings. Light wear. Nice clean working copy. Book
414 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. Colour plates including frontis. Prepared for students 12 to 16 years of age. Units include: Man's Mastery of Plants; Man Utilizes the Materials of the Earth's Crust; The Earth's Crust Yields Substances of Great Importance; Applying Scientific Principles to Building Construction; Propagating Useful Plants and Animals. School stamps and card pocked to endpapers else unmarked. Average wear. Nice copy of this informative text. Book
289 pages including index. Offers a range of practical methods for teaching and facilitating learning geared to the day-to-day realities encountered by professionals in the human services. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
88 pages including index. Black and white illustrations. Recaps methods for preserving flowers and lists plant materials most suited to each method. Explains how to set about designing your first simple plaque or picture, the secrets of colour-scheming, selecting a suitable background and the successful combination of different plant materials. Excellent reference. Price-clipped from dust jacket. Light to moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice solid copy. Book
180 pages. "A unique guide to how contemporary designers interpret ethnic style, captured in over 300 stunning color photographs." - from dust jacket. Heavily worn former library copy with usual markings. Book
492 pages. Describes a rich variety of approaches to teaching. Minimal markings. Top corner of front endpaper clipped. Very light wear. Nice bright copy. Book
162 pages including index. Through art, children learn discipline, aesthetics, and much more. This marvelous, practical book tells how and why. Clean. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
162 pages including index. An evocative collection of photographs and archival materials depicting the so-called "Golden Age" of British Columbia, the post-war years of 1945 to 1975, a period during which B.C.'s industries grew to unprecedented heights, and with it a new sense of economic social prosperity. Unmarked. Faint wear. Excellent copy. Book
30 pages. Illustrated. Includes notes to discussion leaders. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
135 pages. Contains Four papers which describe recent research in the compaction of soils. The second part presents the transcription of a panel discussion in which the members of the panel address four basic questions 1. Why compaction? 2. Why do we test ? 3. How do we test? 4. What do we do with test results? Average bumping to corners of boards but contents clean and bright. Book
Features: Everlasting Oasis - Canadian Archaeologists unearth 200,000 years of human habitation in Egypt's great Western Desert; Beluga Hunters - 'from time immemorial, this has been our life'; Traditions in Wood - hand-carved wildfowl decoys lure a new generation of collectors; Muddy Waters - Lake Winnipeg's rich fisheries and folkways face a stormy future; History's Lessons - a new atlas provides a fascinating vision of Canada and its development; The Daedalus Factor - Space-age materials replace the mythical wax and feathers in today's human-powered vehicles. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: "Stopped at the Border - Plant Quarantines"; Description of Materials available; and more Book
Features: An investigation of head-sea parametric rolling and its influence on container lashing systems; Effect of longitudinal bulkheads on damage stability of model RO/RO ferries; Innovative structural designs of tankers against ship collissions and grounding - a recent state-of-the-art review; Options for nonindigenous species and their economic impact on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway - a survey; Optimium structural design of high-speed surface effect ships built of composite materials; Considerations in the design of primary treatment for ballast systems; Spreadsheet modeling to determine optimum ship main dimensions and power requirements at basic design stage. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book