Search Results: Authors starting with G from JKL Books

North Vancouver, BC: Presentation House Gallery, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, unmarked pages. Some wear to edges of cover and small nick on front cover. Catalog of an exhibition held Nov. 13-Dec. 20, 2003 at the Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Grosse Île is "an island on the St. Lawrence River where immigrants from Europe seeking a new life were detained for medical assessment, prior to entering Canada. It operated from 1832 to 1937" and was Canada's primary point of immigration from Europe for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows minor wear only.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1968. Soft cover. Good. Clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows wear to edges, rubbing, and scuff marks. 472 pages; includes b&w photographs, charts, maps, and tables. "Here in one volume, for the first time, we have a relatively complete statistical picture of one single district of pre-Communist China taken not from the generally unreliable files of the bureaucracy but obtained by personnel much better trained and directed in a modern scientific sense" -- Frances L. K. Hsu (back cover).

2011. Hardcover. New/New. Still in shrink wrap. 136 pages. Contents: The new public security model: the federal government strategy to transform the public security-system -- The design of a new public security legal framework -- Development of technological infrastructure for police intelligence -- Police Comprehensive Development System -- Re-structuring the Federal Police -- Creation of a new federal prison system -- Complimentary public security responsibilities -- Final considerations. BAY 35.

London: Chelsea Physic Garden, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Staple bound (20 pages). Cover shows minor wear. Well illustrated with numerous colour photographs.

Outremont: Carte Blanche, 2008. Soft cover. Fine. Like new with very slight wear to cover.

Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1991. Soft cover. As New.

Macmillan, 1919, 1919. Hardcover. Fair. Three volumes. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Clean, unmarked text; firmly bound. Covers of vol. 1 shows significant wear - split down sides of spine, frayed corners. Vols 2 and 3 in better condition, although vol. 3 has some chipping at top of spine. All covers show some fading. End papers of vols 1 and 2 are tanned with previous owner's name in pencil on front end paper of vol 1. Ex-library (seminary).

U.S.A.: Springer Pub, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows slight wear only. Near-new condition.

Ottawa: Dovehouse, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows slight wear only. No dust jacket.

Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Dust jacket shows only slight wear. 189 pages. Contents: Introduction - 'Making Do' and 'Getting By' - A Home of Their Own - 'Keeping Yourself to Yourself': Private Lives and Public Spectacles - Servant and Mistress: The Case of Domestic Service - Afterword.

Random House, 1960. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-library, published in 1960. Spine rebound. Clean, unmarked text, firmly bound.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Cover shows slight wear only. 349 pages. California Series in Public Anthropology. Contents: Introduction: Hard Laughter -- 1. Laughter "Out of Place" -- 2. The Aesthetics of Domination: Class, Culture, and the Lives of Domestic Workers -- 3. Color-Blind Erotic Democracies, Black Consciousness Politics, and the Black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna -- 4. No Time for Childhood -- 5. State Terror, Gangs, and Everyday Violence in Rio de Janeiro 6. Partial Truths, or the Carnivalization of Desire -- 7. What's So Funny about Rape? BAY 38.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clean, unmarked pages. Dust jacket shows minor wear and spine has faded significantly. "In 1978, Vladimir Golyakhovsky, along with his aged parents, his wife, and their teenage son, came to New York from the Soviet Union, turning their backs forever on their homeland as well as the status and material comfort he had amassed there as a renowned surgeon, inventor, and writer" (dust jacket).

London: Croom Helm, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Dust jacket shows minor wear only. Editor's name handwritten on front free endpaper. 199 pages. Contents: Deterrence and de?tente / Geoffrey Goodwin -- Theological method in the deterrence debate / G.R. Dunstan -- A Christian unilateralism from a Christian background / Bruce Kent -- In defence of deterrence / Arthur Hockaday -- Deep cuts are morally imperative / Barrie Paskins -- The case for negotiated disarmament / Roy Dean -- International humanitarian law / Geoffrey Best -- Concluding comments / Ronald Hope-Jones.

Canada: McElhanney Group, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Like new, with very slight wear to dust jacket.

Delta, BC: Sono Nis, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Dust jacket shows minor wear to edges; 1/2" closed tear at top front edge. "It would be a sweet simplification to say mankind can be gathered into two groups: men civilized and men savage. But, looking around, it's clear enough there are only savages, with a few exceptions who prove the rule. Certainly one of the greatest ironies ever to confront historiographers is the prospect of so-called 'civilized man' sending out gaggles of missionaries to minister unto the so-called 'savage' . . . " (dust jacket). R. Gordon Hepworth was a Vancouver urologist who lived for a year on a prairie Indian Reservation which is where he completed the research for this novel. BAY 30.

Manohar, 1979. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages, beginning to yellow. Dark spot on front free end paper from removal of label.

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2014. Soft cover. As New.

Toronto: Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 1974. Soft cover. Good. Clean, unmarked pages for the most part; around 10 pages have red ink underlining/notes. Binding is firm. Cover shows some wear and grubbiness. Former owner's name has been scratched out at top right corner of front cover. 410 pages, including b&w photographs, illustrations, and charts. A good reading/research copy.