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181 pages including index, bibliography and black and white plates. The first book in a series of Concise Guides to various campaigns. A short guide to the whole war. Includes among the appendices a complete key to the British cavalry and infantry regiments with their titles i n1854, 1900 and 1971. Illustrations lean heavily upon the well-known engravings from the drawings by William Simpson. Usual library markings. Moderate lean to spine. Above average but not excessive wear. Pocket removal from front endpaper has caused some peeling. Book
185 pages. "Presents proven methods to turn pain into power, stiffness to strength and aching into action!" - from back cover. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy working copy. Book
44 pages. Glossy colour illustrated boards have some rubbing and bumping to corners and spine ends. Once corner has a quarter inch tear. Contents are very clean and only lightly worn. The adventures of Mickey and Goofy as they encounter a flying car. (ISBN 0792454041) Book
297 pages including selected recommended readings. "A caring and compassionate journey. Michael Gurian teaches us to separate the threads of our mothers' influence on our lives - the parts we love, as well as the parts we hate - and to claim all the power contained in the mother-son bond." - Warren Farrell, author of The Myth of Male Power. Occasional markings/underlining to contents. Average wear. Reading creases to spine. Good working copy. Book
176 pages with charcoal drawings. Major sunning to portion of front cover plus spine and back cover. Story of a Nova Scotian fishing village, based on the true episode of Joe Cracker, a young boy from Herring Cove, and His Royal Highness, Edward, Duke of Kent. Author has attempted to make this book as historically accurate as possible. The facts, as given, have been painstakingly checked with diaries, newspapers, and histories of the period. Book
168 pages including index. Jailed and tried for seditious conspiracy, Heaps went on to become a close friend and confidant of two Prime Ministers. Moderate wear. Spine of dust jacket sunned. Usual library markings. Book
260 pages including index. Bodywork has emerged in the past decade as the most sophisticated process for restoring the body to its maximum state of well-being. As is Rolfing, the Alexander technique, and other forms of bodywork, Hellerwork is designed to reverse the negative effects that physical and emotional traumas have had on any body *in the course of a lifetime.* Moderate wear. Unmarked. Some fading to spine and covers. Book
182 pages. Includes many black and white illustrations. A practical study of ocean passage-making, using a cruise across the Atlantic as a case history. Far more than just another cruising story, includes plans, preparations... the nitty gritty details of gear, supplies, preparations, and boat handling. It's also a great cruising yarn. Small tear to top corner of dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with minor lean to spine. Book
480 pages including index. Asks "Can we create and implement useful ideas fast enough to solve the very problems - environmental, social, and technological - we've created?" Pinpoints the ingenuity gap as the critical problem we face today. "Reading the meditations that his travels around the world prompt in him (the author) is addictive." - National Post. Underlining and marginalia throughout. Extensive handwritten notes on pages following index. Reading crease and moderate lean to spine. Average wear. Book
Unpaginated. Large black and white photographs throughout. Gendarme was to be a Police Horse, but he was big and awkward and slow to learn, and it seemed he would never be a trooper's mount. His trainer called him "Ugly Duckling", but he liked Gendarme's calm, quiet nature and patiently began to train the horse. The true story of how Gendarme learned the ways of a Police Horse. Average wear. Blue boards moderately bumped. Dust jacket well-worn with three inch tear at top of front panel near spine and some smallish chunks missing. Despite this, the brightly illustrated dust jacket has the potential to be quite attractive, given some tlc and the addition of a glossy protective sleeve. Book
Very faint musty smell. Gilt titles upon front board and spine with some wear but still quite legible. Written as a gift from author to the Alumnae Association of the School. Contains the text of original documents bearing on the establishment of the School and shows how the nursing needs of Winnipeg were met as the demand arose. Complete with a variety of archival black and white photographic reproductions. Book
4" Piece of orange adhesive across spine suggests this is an ex-library book, but there are no other marks. 1" tear to bottom of front cover at spine. This book is well-travelled. A collection of poems celebrating the joys of mudpuddles, imaginary friends, the first day of school, and other events in the lives of children. Book
10 page board book created specially for very young children. Babies and toddlers will enjoy the beautiful illustrations scenes taken from some of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Pre-schoolers as well as school-age children will learn from imaginative adult readers how Shakespeare understood man's changing roles through life depicted in this famous speech. Well worn with some chipping to base of spine. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
Undated. Circa 1980? Spine missing. All pop-ups working enough to please a child except number two which may be missing a piece. Assorted damage and imperfections but book is still charming with its unusual 'full-page' motion design. Book
Unpaginated. Quite attractive in colour glossy boards lightly worn and soiled. It appears that a child has ripped the title page up halfway along its joint with the spine. The tear then goes on a diagonal for two inches into the page. This has been mended with invisible tape. Sir Squirrel holds the party of the year! Book
435 pages. For twelve arduous but captivating years, Raymond de Coccola was, for all intents and purposes, a Barren Land Eskimo. An unforgettable portrait of adventure, of murder, of sexual mores. It is Father Raymond's touching first-person revelation of birth and of death, of patience and of fatalism; and it is a staggering account of his people's tragedy and loss. It is also a story of survival and hope. Bookplate upon front flyleaf. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Reading creases along spine. Includes a large assortment of excellent black and white plates. Book
158 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon front flyleaf. Author's first book. Discusses Indians without pain, built or embarrassment. Refuses to take a tragic view of Indian life. His view is unrepentantly comic and his stories are extremely funny. Unmarked. Average wear. Minor lean to spine. Book
242 pages with index. Spine is leaning. Water stains to top inside inch of front cover and first 20 pages. The first cookbook of its kind - meatless recipes created with an eye for giving active people the competitive edge. The 150 recipes are written with the beginner book in mind. Nutritional breakdowns are provided with separate information fo rmen and women. Book
178 pages including bibliography and colour plates. A series of picaresque adventures set against the backdrop of a Japan still closed off from the rest of the world. "...Opens a wonderful window into the real-life conditions of a down-at-the-heels lower-middle level samurai." - Susan Matisoff. Average wear. Moderate lean to spine. Decent copy with usual library markings. Book
261 pages. This revolutionary new look at vision will broaden your understanding of how you see and how you can see without your glasses or contact lenses. "I can attest to its effectiveness. It's fabulous: It opened my eyes" - Ray Floyd, Professional Golfer. Contents unmarked and lightly worn. Binding open at page 113. Spine leaning. Average wear. Decent working copy. Book
206 Pages. Illustrated with line drawings. Covers creased, scratched and worn at edges with half inch opening at foot of spine. Sticker remnants at top corner of front cover. Owner name inside front cover. Reading crease to spine. Gift inscription on front flyleaf. The recollections and reflections of a group of senior citizens to bring to life an extremely interesting and significant period in Canada's history, the nineteen years from 1895 to the outbreak of the first World War. The automobile, home electricity, the airplane and x-rays all had their beginnings in this period. Book
157 pages. Book #8 in the series. Brad has just settled into a job in his father's London office when he is engaged in a hunt for a missing person whose disappearance means the loss of a scientific secret of urgent national importance. Large tear to base of spine. Scribbing upon endpapers, etc. Writing upon front board has been coloured in with blue pen. Well-worn. We could go on, but all pages seem to be here and binding remains intact. Book
316 pages. Reminiscences of this influential woman. "... I cannot look back without regret. I can see too many places where I could have been more obedient to the heavenly vision, for a vision I surely had for the creation of a better world. But I hope I am leaving at least some small legacy of truth." - from the introduction. Gift inscription on back of half-title page, else unmarked. Average wear. Spine leans to right. Book
Some high-lighting in chapter seven. 2" red stain on rear cover has soaked in 2 pages. Spine is leaning. Price sticker on rear cover. Explains how the news media represents crime. Crime news focuses on the sensational and unusual, quite often reinforcing biases and stereotypes. Thus a fear of crime is created which is out of proportion to the actual risk of victimization. Book
296 pages including bibliography and index. Black and white photographic plates. A major reference work, and the first complete music history in B.C. Its well written style will appeal to the general readership, as well as students and other lovers of culture. Book in fine condition but for ink mark on top edge and peeling to front endpaper where pocket removed. Library sticker on dust jacket spine which otherwise shows moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
