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230 pages. A blueprint for a vibrant, meaninful life-style, just as it was created with challenge and joy at Canada's most remarkable educational commune. Twin Valleys is a spiritually-based educational commune. First few pages loosening. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
86 pages including index. An inexpensive guide to those fishes most likely to be seen by the average person. Draws heavily upon the comprehensive "Fishes of the West Coast of Canada" by Clemens and Wilby, to provide a less detailed account of the common species. Numerous black and white illustrations. Moderate wear, yellowing and age spotting. Unmarked. Book
302 pages. Provides the most comprehensive convenient commentary on the Christian year currently available. Anyone using the Common Lectionary as the basis for preaching will appreciate the unique benefits offered by each volume in the series Book
136 pages including index. Explores, in the figure of St. Catherine of Siena, the growing awareness of common sisterhood with all women of the church. Reflects upon the necessary qualities for apostolic religious women to realize the power of their sisterhood. Book in lovely clean, unmarked condition with faintest wear. Dust jacket price-clipped and sunned at spine and top. Nice copy. Book
116 pages. Glossary. Wonderfully illustrated with colour and black and white photos. Printed on glossy stock. Contents include: Non-Infectious Diseases; Infectious Diseases - Root and Butt Rots, Dwarf Mistletoes, Stem Diseases - Sap Rots, Needle Blights and Casts of Coniferous Trees, Foliage Diseases of Broadleaved Trees, etc. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding tender but intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
247 pages. Blames 'permissiveness', an ideology which holds that common sense and limits on behaviour will stunt a child's development and creativity, for a range of problems with today's children and young people. Provides timely advice and case studies showing children need a balance between freedom and structure to equip them for happy, secure and successful lives. Author is a professor at York University. Book
58 pages including references. Deals with four families of aerial feeding birds - goatsuckers (Poor-will and Common Nighthawk), swifts (Black, Vaux's, White-throated), hummingbirds (Black-chinned, Anna's, Rufous, Calliope) and swallows (violet-green, tree, barn, cliff, bank, rough-winged, Purple martin). Includes a variety of drawings. Former owner's name written on front cover. Minute tears to top and bottom of cover fold. Very clean inside. Book
128 pages including index. 16 pages of color plate illustrations. "My Book of Insects, Seashore Animals and Fish describes the habits and characteristics of sixty-seven insects, twenty-one common seashore animals and nineteen fish. With its beautiful paintings and lively text, the book is an encouraging and instructive reading book, and children will be eager to verify and increase the knowledge gained from picture-study and reading, by actual observation." - from preface. Bright and unmarked with minimal wear and sound binding. Book
94 pages. "For years the American Medical Association has conducted a war against those in the field of wholistic healing. The common denominator has been practitioners and professions that do not employ pharmaceuticals in their practice. The drugless arts have been targeted by the AMA for extinction. This book is about one of those professions - chiropractic." - from page 3. Clean, bright and unmarked with no wear. Gift quality. Book
325 pages plus many pages of colour plates. Index. "A description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains... With numerous reproductions of water color and monotone studies of bires, and complete musical notations of bird songs by the author." - from title page. Prior owner's details upon back of front free endpaper. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy of this wonderful reference. 1970? Book
63 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Chapters include: the neck or cervical spine; common causes of neck pain; exercises; when to apply the exercises; general instructions. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy of this helpful work. Book
252 pages including bibliography and glossary. Subject is a young Guatemalan peasant woman, already famous in her country as a national leader, whose life vividly reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Markings/highlighting to a handful of pages. Average wear. Bit of writing inside front cover. Average wear. Book
144 pages including index. A detailed and well-illustrated explanation of the technical terms and rules of blazon and of the science of Armory. Explains how individual coats of arms properly interpreted can be a valuable source of historical knowledge. Chapters include: heralds and heraldry; tinctures, partitions, ordinaries and sub-ordinaries; common charges; the rules of blazon; differencing and marshalling of arms; crests, crowns and coronets; the description of the achievement, and some famous arms; ecclesiastical heraldry; arms of heiresses, and hatchements; the seal; the badge; banners of arms, standards and flags. Average wear. Usual library markings else unmarked. Minor lean to spine. Book
206 pages with glossary and suggested reading list. Copyright date 1976. With introduction by Rabbi Menachem Schneerson. Seeks to bring to the attention of the Jewish woman a variety of Jewish subjects and topics of special interest to her. All articles have one aim in common - to encourage the Jewess to understand the special destiny of the Jewish People and the unique and elevated status allocated to the Jewish woman within the framework of Judaism. Written with confidence that a Jewess who thinks must only move closer to G-d and the practice of His commandments, and influence her family and the larger family of the Jewish People to do the same. Large closed tear to front of dust jacket. Book
74 pages. Features include: Air Intelligence - what is new in the military aerospace world; Corsairs for Two - The TA-7C is now in production and, along with a profile of this new warplane, we look at some of the previous 'two-holers' from Vought; NAS Sigonella - A visit to the Navy's vital air base in the Med; Richy Stops a Convoy - Flying in the back seat of an OV-10 can be hadardous to your health; NATO at Newbury - large warplane display at RAF Greenham Common; Target Practice in the BUF - Flying a mission in the ancient B-52D Stratofortress; World War Two Miscellany - Camouflage and markings of World War Two aircraft; KC-10 Extender - New McDonnell Douglas tanker is rolled out for test flying. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
82 pages. Features: Captured Nazi warplanes; oldest Hercules still flying (City of Ardmore); Two-seat Thunderbolt; Biggest military air displays - Paris and Greenham Common Coverage; First Netherlands F-16s. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Magazine
Features: War Babies - Trauma haunts the lives of children growing up on the Gaza Strip... Can a caring science heal their souls?; Roses from Rock - Against all common sense, a Flin Flon mine has become Canada's top greehnouse, producing a bounty of valuable plants in a place where the sun never shines; The Haunting Powers of God's Dog - the coyote... why does this mythical marauder trigger the beast in us?; The Body Electric - scars, tattoos, and piercings are actually as old a practice as the human race; Lessons from the Loneliest Lab - Scientists grinding their way to the North Pole do ice-breaking work on the Arctic's withering wonderland. Light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: Dune Blasters - Off-road vehicles are causing permanent damages to fragile terrains - the situation is worst on Canada's east coast; Lions of the Algal Jungle - The Lion Nudibranch is a top curiosity on the west coast; The World at My Window - Lyn Hancock combines writing witha room with a view; Cacti in Canada - discovering prickly pears and pincushions; The Mysterious Life of the Common Loon. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Cordell Bank - an underwater island; Preserving a common heritage - Treatment of marine artifacts; Tiger of the sea whips; Queen conch at the crossroads; Bermuda mystery waves; Garadiavolo - the devil monster hoax; Save the babies - Strategies of marine animals; there was a Moby Dick; The fuzzy sea butterfly. Sound copy. Book
160 pages. Features: The Nunes Brothers' Boat and Ways Company; Chainsaw Lumbermaking - Natural Knees - Will Malloff explains how to cut your own crook timber; The Shipsmith's Art - Turning your hand to forge work; A New ERA - Vic Carpenter's idea of a perfect runabout; Reviewing TARNE's Keel, Part II - the final steps in fitting, fastening, and fairing it in; Inside the Wood Block - a maintenance guide; Jack Tyrrell - a fourth generation boatbuilder; Irish Hookers; The Galway Bay Pucan - a new 'little hooker'; Ancient Curraghs - they may never become extinct!; Improving the classic dinghy - eliminating some common problems; Hardtack's Running Moor - practical sailorizing from times past; Lashmanship - keeping things in their proper place; Boatbuilding in Grenada - a last bastion of wooden boat building with hand tools alone. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: The BOWDOIN Project - Admiral MacMillan's Arctic Schooner; Common Sense and the Energy 48; Boat Plans and the Public Domain; Rowing the Maine Coast in a Matinicus peapod; Building MARTHA's Tender, Part III; Ceilings; On Deck - details that look good and perform well; Old Wooden Thistles provide stiff comptetion for their fiberglass competitors; The Vineyard Haven 15; Keeping a Cutting Edge - Handsaws; The Barnegat Bay Sneakbox; Getting the Old Girl Back in Shape - an ingenious resteaming method for easing the tension in new frames. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
80 pages. Combines excellent photographs, some in colour, of the most common prairie weeds with a brief and interesting description of each. Sixty-seven weeds are discussed including the following: old witch grass, barnyard grass, green foxtail, wild oats, couch grass, wild barley, dock, knotweed, wild buckwheat, tartary buckwheat, lambs quarters, saltbush, spear leaf goosefoot, Russian thistle, Russian pigweed, pigweed, prostrate pigweed, purslane, corn cockle, night-flowering catchfly, bladder campion, cow cockle, white cockle, stinkweed, and many many more. Concludes with 4 very useful plates which show the various seeds of the weeds discussed. Book
247 pages. Introduces a revolutionary new system designed to help you connect with your creativity and power, and to help you actually find specific solutions to specific problems. "By common agreement, the father of the modern dreamwork movement is Henry Reed." - Jack Maguire, quoted from Night and Day, Using the Power of Your Dreams to Transform Your Life. Gift greetings upon front flyleaf else unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
354 pages including index. A study of the relations between men's ideas about the universe and the institutions of law and government. Binding loose but intact. Hinges intact. Moderate quantity of markings. Tears to spine. Useful reading copy. Book
330 pages. Prepared primarily to meet the needs of the layman or one casually interested in seaweeds and their natural history. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. A sound working copy of this excellent reference. Book