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Features: Pakistan - from a smuggler's paradise comes hell; William Shatner in ad for Kero-Sun heaters; Nice Schenley Awards ad; War Machines do not bring Peace, by John F. Godfrey; Cover Story - Marc Lalonde's New Deal; Unsuspecting victims of a collapsed economy; Marc Lalonde's Board of Economic advisors; Ocean Ranger disaster inquest begins; Manitoba doctors' strike; Painting 'The Tribute Money' - not a Rembrandt?; The Socialists conquer Spain; $25 Billion MX missile decsion; Shake-up in the espionage trade - death of Kevin Mulcahy; Guatemalan terror; Canada confronts the Robotis age; K-Tel enters the publishing business; Dan Colussy to take over CP Air; Peter C. Newman on Dome Petroleum; NFL players association; Normand Leveille of the Boston Bruins almost dies of bleeding in his brain during game in Vancouver; Canada's leaking immigration lifeboat - our 'remarkable openness' may come to an end; The amazing recovery of Lise Gauthier; Education - the return of the strap - corporal punishment; Halley's comet returns to earth; Fallibility in the computer; Cash register kickbacks; Challenges to WCB in Ontario; Too few organs available to be transplanted; Nice ad for the 1983 Ford Mustang GT; Rough Trade - Carole Pope and Kevan Staples - article with colour photo; Movie reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features include: Capital Punishment is not a bowl of cherries; Ronald Reagan, Pen Pal (Part 3); Foto Funnies; Off the Subject; Eggboiler; Hello Jesus (a play on "Hello Kitty"); PT-69 - the debauched adventures of Ted Kennedy in World War II (colour comic format); The Whole Earth Catalog of Sex Tools; Allelulia!; Out of Write Field; Glenn Eichler's Magic Tips; Spring into Spring - baseball uniform art; Dave Winfield's beans a bird; Where were you on the day Thurman Munson died?; The All-American Barbie Dreamhouse Theatre - with Mr. T; and more. Average wear. Bit of soiling to front cover. Slight waviness to top edge from moisture. Three-hole punched along left margin. A sound copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Nuclear energy in Canada - Potential and problems; Sanctuaries of the Woods; J. Sharkey Thomas; A Child's World of Nature; The Untrodden Earth - Early Nature Writing in Canada; and more. Discard stampt atop front cover else clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Appointment with Halley's Comet late in 1985; An unexpected flower show amidst the sand flats of a high arctic island; Terra Nova National Park - a naturalist's-eye view; Tree Rings tell us much more than just the age of trees; Salt enlivens the avian diet; Images of Ellesmere. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Greatest Navy on Earth provides a pageant of power for Truman policy outline - with photo of commissioning of giant carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt; Photo of a million people in Central Park listening to the President; Zionists assail 'ambiguity and delay' on Palestine at a New York Rally - with photo and text; Detroit Mayoralty Race - Gerald L.K. Smith, Jeffries, William Z. Foster, Frankensteen; Red Army's odd ways in peace tilt course of Russian Diplomacy; Photos of tough market life in Warsaw, Poland; Japanese Zaibatsu to be abolished; President Achmed Sukarno of Indonesia; Outer Mongolia now 'independent'; Services war unity flies apart under shock of the atom bomb; Discrimination against blacks in Britain; photo of car down lakefront ravine in Scarborough, Ontario; Labor-Management parley to fix labor strife re: wage-hour questions; Meter, Yard or EII? - Swedish compromise would shift measurement unit to end conflict; and more. Average wear. Address label on front cover. Evidence of moisture exposure to last ten pages or so. A sound copy. Book
Features: Reprint of "Recollections of Old Milestown" by S. Gordon; Sky of Brass, Earth of Iron - reprinted from the book 'Western Vision' by David Lavender; World's Greatest Slaughter! - the appalling slaughter of the American buffalo; Buffalo Comeback - the Canadian Government preserves a portion of Canada's once mighty buffalo population; Circuses and Contests; Before the days of Libel - when a newspaperman could say anything he durned please; Renegade Battalion - they deserted Fort Brown to join the Mexican Army only to be killed when the Americans stormed Monterrey in 1846; Travesty Town - the story of old Millerton; When Panic Took Over! - smallpox epidemic at New Tacoma, Washington Territory, 1881; Apache Gold - Buck Adams; Conquering the Rockies with a camera - William H. Jackson; Pioneer Mother - escaping the Indians; Old Cornucopia, Oregon and its gold mine; 'Bet-a-million' Gates - Magician - he turned barbed wire into a lead pipe cinch!; Death at Christmas - Frank Rochas; Lost Camp - from 'Homestead Years' by Lloyd I. Sudlow; Pawnee Bill - "Little Giant of Oklahoma'; Some men need it lonely - Archer B. Gilfillan, sheepherder; His eccentric highness - Joshua Norton, 'Emperor of the United States'; friend to no man - Ben Cravens used partners to commit crime... but didn't need their help to spend the proceeds; the courthouse went by train - moving a Nebraska courthouse by rail; Hellgate to Tonopah - early Nevada memories; Luckiest Cuss in the Klondike - Clarence J. Berry. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
24 pages. Contents: Venom of Snakes Lends Encouragement to Cure for Disease; How Socialism has Spread Over the Earth in One Century; Too Many Train Wrecks; Blight Hits Elms; Detroit Bank Probe; Admiral Byrd Going South again (with small photo); Split in the German Protestant Church; Lost Canadian Balloon crews found; Death of King Feisal el Husein of Iraq; Cuban Junta Quits with Grau San Martin Provisilnal President; Current Events - with photo of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; Marion Bergeron of West Haven, CT. crowned Miss America 1933; Photo of Norman Thomas, who has been Socialist candidate for President multiple times; Photo of Senator Bob LaFollette of Wisconsin; Capital Chat - with photo of Senators aboard capital monorail subway train; Photo of King Boris III of Bulgaria; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: New Tiny Revolver-Like Steam Auto Engine; Smothers Brothers - Crazy for Wheels; Wheel Allignment Bunk; Boating 1966 - 20 colorful, exciting pages; How to color metal chemically; Comparing Ford-Chevy-Plymouth Wagons; Blackout - can it happen in your town?; Dr. Werner von Braun article - Practicing Moon Landing on Earth; Average wear. Book
Features: The shadow market in housing - renovation versus new construction; Engineering Voyager 2's encounter with Uranus; Studying the earth by very-long-baseline interferometry; RNA as an enzyme; The Higgs Boson; Antarctic fishes - they survive by synthesizing potent glycopeptide antifreece molecules; Features and objects in visual processing; Galileo and the spector of Bruno. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
152 pages. Features: Marihuana (Marijuana/Cannabis); New Methods for Approaching Absolute Zero; The Rise and Fall of Arabia Felix; The Mechanism of Photosynthesis; Dermatoglyphics; Measuring Earth Strains by Laser; How an Instinct is Learned; The Peculiar Distribution of First Digits; A New Year Greeting. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
180 pages. Features: Migration between the core and the periphery; radar images of the earth from space; the development of maps and stripes in the brain; personal computers; samples of the Milky Way; the interaction of moving water and sessile organisms; the search for prime numbers; the lamps of Cosa; and more. Bit of writing to front cover and page 3. Covers partially detached from staples. Many nostalgic color photo ads, including an early Microsoft ad which incorporates their early green logo. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
204 pages. Features: Gas-colled nuclear power reactors; the decay of the proton; the beta-lactam antibiotics; archaebacteria; the allocation of resources by linear programming; the regulation of temperature in the honeybee swarm; the formation of the earth from planetesimals; lead and silver in the ancient Aegean; and more. Nostalgic colour photo ads. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Capturing Satellites in Space looking back at earth; Waiting for a Vision; Exploring Earth's Life Support System; Hunting Wildlife with Pen and Palette; Ecuador's Forest Refuge; The Rock Art of Cape York Peninsula; Indian Sites of the Alaskan Islands; Why we do it; The Great Horned Owl. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: On Wildlife - Education - the key to Understanding; Mission Planet Earth - the future of Underwater Exploration; Diving Solo to 1,000 Meters and Beyond; Ocean Everest - Reaching Earth's Greatest Depths; Arms Race of Antiquity - a Quest for Naval Supremacy. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Cover illustration of British soldier on skis in North Russia. Illustration of the French deliverers in Saverne (Zabert). War Reputations Lost and Won - article by Hamilton Fyfe. British Ships Against Bolshevism in the Baltic - 3 photos including the H.M.S. Calypso and Caradoc plus H.M.S. Angora and Wakeful. U Boat U44 Salvaged - 4 photos. Under the White Ensign in Kiel's Black Waters - 3 photos including the H.M.S. Hercules. Some of the Naval Inventions Employed in the War - article. Photos of the famous German Battle Cruiser Goeben. Two photos of Allenby and his men in Cairo. The Price in Blood and Treasure - article. Photo of earth removal at the base of the Vendome Monument in Paris. Several interesting photos of British mines and the mine-layer 'H.M.S. Wahine.' Four sensational photos of the Handley Page 'Giant'. How Paris & Dunkirk suffered by Bomb and Shell - two maps. Three photos of Holzminden, the worst camp of all. Hun Inhumanity to Helpless Men - some facts about German Prison Camps. Photos of Winners of the V.C. in the last weeks of the war. Demobilising the V.A.D.'s. Some soiling to covers. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboaord a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Buring Ship - An attempted rescue during a fire at sea; The Ju-Ju Snake - a West African tale; Sea Lion Islands - the author visits Sea Lion Rookeries on islands off British Columbia at breeding time - photos; Under Two Flags - a Brit on leave on the French Riviera is mistaken for a French deserter and ordered to perform 18 months military service in France!; Unlucky Mica - a prospector's story about the discovery and abandonment of a rich deposit of Mica in Nigeria; The Hottest Place on Earth - Death Valley, California - photos include one of a 20 mule team; The Regimental Ghost - strange happenings with a famous unit of the Indian Army; Canadian Loggers - describes Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1950s - a fascinating historical backdrop to the problems which currently plague the area; The World's Richest Treasure Store - Fort Knox Depository, Kentucky; A bed of bayonets; The Gibraltar Apes; A Hippo with Toothache - a hippo turns nasty; and more. Small chip from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Faint signature atop front cover. Quality copy. Book
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboard a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Burning Ship - An attempted rescue during a fire at sea; The Ju-Ju Snake - a West African tale; Sea Lion Islands - the author visits Sea Lion Rookeries on islands off British Columbia at breeding time - photos; Under Two Flags - a Brit on leave on the French Riviera is mistaken for a French deserter and ordered to perform 18 months military service in France!; Unlucky Mica - a prospector's story about the discovery and abandonment of a rich deposit of Mica in Nigeria; The Hottest Place on Earth - Death Valley, California - photos include one of a 20 mule team; The Regimental Ghost - strange happenings with a famous unit of the Indian Army; Canadian Loggers - describes Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1950s - a fascinating historical backdrop to the problems which currently plague the area; The World's Richest Treasure Store - Fort Knox Depository, Kentucky; A bed of bayonets; The Gibraltar Apes; A Hippo with Toothache - a hippo turns nasty; and more. Small chip from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Features: Destination Unknown - one of the most remarkable narratives of one-man pilgrimage ever - the adventures of Peter Pinney; Ocean Feud - the dramatic story of a bitter feud between two Norsemen, and of a "Yank" - great photos; The Terror at 16 Fathoms - Divers rate the groper, 800lb, as the deadliest fish in the seas; Horned Heroine of the Himilayas - the black goat; Nitchie's Grizzly - a Canadian Parks Officer describes an experience with a Grizzly Bear; The Ju-Ju Tree - an African story; A Ship with a Secret - an unsolved sea mystery - the Carrol A. Deering; The Kidnapped Crook - Part II - the concluding instalment of the amazing adventure of Clement Passal - alias the Marquis de Champaubert; The Wettest Place on Earth - Cherrapunji, a village in Assam; and more. Chips from back strip. Back cover loose but present. Average wear. Book
96 pages. Features: One-page ad for Sony high-fidelity tapedecks; Gerald LeDain and the Ledain Commission on drugs; Photo of Leonard Cohen as he works with Marshall McLuhan to name the Anik satellite; Harvesting trout in Manitoba; Royal Trust moves into the TD Center and a spacious 'leafy look' office layout; The politics of polarization in the US; Spiro Agnew's attack against the media bosses; Parades for peace and patriotism; Washington rally organized by Professor Charles Moser for Nixon's unsilent supporters; Arrest of Samuel Melville, George Demmerle and Jane Alpert after dynamite blasts in New York City; Edward Johnson and Willie Smith charged with murder and rape after the savage deaths of Hermine Rohs, Willy Rohs and Marilyn Rohs of St. Louis; The Apollo 12 mission; Nice one-page ad for Toronto's Royal York Hotel; The Start of SALT talks; Solzhenitsyn remains true to his credo; Election in India; Japan seeks return of Okinawa and Ryukyu island chain from U.S.; Victory for Marcos in the Philippines; Rare two-page colour-photo ad for Wardair - Canada's largest jet charter airline; The Suez Canal's Bleak Centennial; The New Feminists - Revolt against 'Sexism'; One-page ad for the ill-fated IOS, Investors Overseas Service, Ltd.; The art of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, America's greatests sculptor; Suddenly Washington, DC has no law to prevent doctors from performing abortions; Whole Earth Catalog; Fordham's administration building messed up; Passing of Donald J. McParland, Iskander Mirza, Ferdinand Eberstadt and Harry Scherman; Time to squirm for military contractors of the U.S. Navy; Price of Hershey Bar raised from 5 to 10 cents; Merger of Northweset Orient with Northeast airlines; Nickel shortage; Interesting 4-paragraph article on the price of gold; Ad for the Peugeot 504; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Ohio's polluted Cuyahoga River - with photo of it on fire; Colour photos of President Nixon welcoming the Apollo 11 astronauts back to earth; The Mysteries of Chappaquiddick; Photo of Nixon with President Marcos of the Philippines; Stories on the aftermath of Apollo 11; Suez battles; The Chosen Prince of Spain; Kikuyu Suspect Njoroge; Color samples of pastel art by Robert Natkin and Richard Diebenkorn; Ruler of the Road - auto racer Jackie Stewart; Article on Japan's ascendancy; Photo of Laotian troops studying Mao; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
46 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: Washington & Old Dominion Railway; Center Entrance Cars for KC & St. J.; Express & Freight Traffic in Providence; Boston's Two Rooms & Bath Articulateds; Illinois Traction Freight House at Springfield; Erie Railroad Electrified Branch; The Oregon Electric Railway; New Double Deck Cars for Pittsburgh; Track Reconstruction in San Francisco; Express Car for Auto Shipments (NOT&L); Center Entrance Cars for Memphiis; THI&E Terre Haute Terminal; New Cars for Michgan United; Chicago's Oil Delivery Car; Recent Passenger Stations in Los Angeles on PE; also other items, plans, maps and charts. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Two Daylights Daily - Southern Pacific's West Coast streamliners carry 1,500 passengers a day; Greatest Show on Earth - New York Division P RR; Washing Locomotives - article and photos; David Moffat's Dreams Come True - his life work - a transcontinental railroad west from Denver; Grizzly Flats Railroad; Please note: we believe this is the January, 1942 issue, not January 1941 as stated on title page. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Vanished Spas in the Wilderness - 3 locations on Washington's Olympic Peninsula; Palomino Spirit Horse - had to be killed; Christmas was slim in Bullfrog (Rhyolite, Nevada); "If I live to be a hundred - true stories shared by old cowboys and their horses"; Ghost Town of the Indians - Doaksville, capital of the old Choctaw Nation; Terrible Jim McLaughlin - a story from Yale, British Columbia; Trementinans Hoed Their Own Row - Nevada history; King of the Yukon - Jack McQuesten; If I were young again - living in hard times; Burro Schmidt's Tunnel -perhaps an unequaled one-man mining venture; One Green Acre of the Dreary Earth - Glen, South Dakota; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy Magazine
br. Pensate al luogo più a nord che conoscete. Fissatelo nella mente, poi proseguite ancora e ancora, attraversate centinaia di chilometri di ghiaccio e neve, oltrepassate vulcani chiazzati di bianco e cascate di cristallo, scivolate tra branchi di renne e orsi polari, smarritevi nel buio gelido della notte artica inseguendo i bagliori verde-porpora delle aurore boreali. Ecco, a quel punto - e solo a quel punto - vi accorgerete di essere entrati in una zona al di là di ogni confine: un regno in cui la natura assume i contorni del mito e in cui gli uomini si confrontano ogni giorno con il proprio limite. Eccovi, infine, al cospetto del Grande Nord. Sabrina Mugnos ci conduce in un viaggio scientifico e sentimentale in Lapponia e Groenlandia, nelle isole Svalbard e in Islanda, alla scoperta dei loro incredibili paesaggi e delle popolazioni che li abitano: da Ilulissat, la capitale mondiale degli iceberg, all'area termale di Geysir, sede dei geyser che da questo luogo prendono il nome; dalle spettacolari luci aurorali che rischiarano i fiordi attorno a Tromsø alla piccola isola di Magerøya, dove si trova il leggendario Capo Nord, uno dei punti da cui ammirare il «sole di mezzanotte»; dal cimitero senza corpi - a causa del permafrost che rende impossibili le inumazioni - di Longyearbyen ai fenomeni ottici noti come «spettri di Brocken», visibili nella calotta vicino a Kangerlussuaq. Quello di Mugnos è un racconto in prima persona tra flora e fauna, scienza e folklore, che attraversa la spiaggia dei puffin di Reynisfjara e le piste percorse da slitte e mute di husky tra Svezia e Finlandia, il turistico villaggio di Babbo Natale a Rovaniemi e l'inquietante leggenda islandese dei tredici «Babbi Natale» - orripilanti troll dall'aspetto umanoide -, il patrimonio culturale dei sami, che vivono in Lapponia da millenni, e l'antica società degli inuit groenlandesi. "Atlante del Grande Nord" è un'avventura all'estremo dell'umano, una mappa narrativa di come appare il mondo al di là delle colonne d'Ercole delle nostre trafficate e congestionate metropoli. Una fotografia dell'Ultima Thule terrestre in tutta la sua candida, immacolata meraviglia.
brossura Sotto le accoglienti acque del nostro mar Tirreno, nella cornice di uno dei paesaggi più suggestivi del mondo, si nascondono grandi tumulti geologici, che hanno originato colossali strutture sommerse di cui ci siamo accorti solo in tempi recenti. Il primato di vulcano attivo più grande d'Europa, per esempio, non appartiene all'Etna, bensì al misconosciuto Marsili che se ne sta appollaiato sulle piane abissali del Sud, a poche decine di chilometri dalle coste. La buona notizia è che nessuno di essi è in eruzione. Nondimeno, si stanno accumulando prove a favore di una consistente attività idrotermale, da cui il timore che possa innescare crolli di ampie porzioni degli edifici e, di conseguenza, tsunami. Tale scenario è preoccupante per il nostro piccolo mare, dove le onde raggiungerebbero le coste in brevissimo tempo senza alcun preavviso, poiché non esiste ancora un sistema di preallarme. Nel frattempo, il vorace fabbisogno energetico, unito alla necessità di attingere da fonti pulite, vede questi enormi vulcani come potenziali caldaie da sfruttare. Ma occorre valutare con attenzione il rischio nell'andar a stuzzicare "il can che dorme", seppur con le dovute precauzioni.
