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Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1997. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0803214707 . Signed by Editor; Only slight wear; Inscribed by Don Smith on title page, DJ in Mylar ; American Indian Lives; 1.01 x 9.53 x 6.32 Inches; Copway was a Canadian Ojibwe writer born Kahgegagahbowh and among the first Indians to rise to prominence in American culture in the middle 1800s. He preached as a Methodist minister, published a newspaper for Indians, and spoke on Indian rights, temperance, and other issues. This edition of the 1847 original includes scholarly notes. .
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Life, Letters and Speeches
by (Kahgegagahbowh), George Copway (author); A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff & Donald B. Smith (editors)
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Salt Spring The Story of an Island
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Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing. Very Good+. 2001. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 155017262X . Light edgewear to card covers ; A bright, solid book ; B&W Illustrations; 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches; 344 pages; "The largest of BC's southern Gulf Islands, beautiful Salt Spring Island has long been a favoured holiday destination and a prized real-estate area for those in search of an idyllic rural residence. Because of the island's rugged geography, the early story of Salt Spring is largely the story of hard-working people in small isolated communities industriously carving farms out of rough terrain. Many of the settlers who followed came to find a place where they could live their lives free of the constraints of most societies. This was as true for the African-Americans, many of whom were among the first non-aboriginal settlers to arrive in 1859, as it was for those fleeing conventional middleclass life and for Americans seeking to avoid the Vietnam War. And it's…
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Of Flesh and Blood
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New York: Forge Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0765321416 . Light spotting bottom page edges; A bright, solid book, DJ is clean and crisp. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.30 X 6.30 X 1.50 inches; 445 pages; "A hundred years ago, Dr. Evan McGrath realized his dream of establishing a hospital in the Pacific Northwest, a hospital that would never turn away a patient in need. But the personal cost was steep: Evan lost the love of his life while making a powerful enemy of the hospitals financier, Marshall Alfredson.Today, the Alfredson Medical Center is internationally renowned for its care. The two founding families remain faithful to Evans vision, but their history is clouded by forbidden love, conflict, and betrayal. Crisis is besieging the Alfredson. A decision by Dr. Tyler McGrath, a child cancer specialist, leaves a young patients family shattered. Dr. Jill Laidlaw, Tylers wife, is a…
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Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety
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New York: Pantheon. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 067944243X . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 278 pages; "argues that we are a society intoxicated by the irrational: religion, spirituality, and popular therapies threaten to replace rational thought with supernaturalism and impassioned but unexamined personal testimony. Ranging from our fascination with angels, aliens, and near- death experiences to the rise of junk science, the recovery movement, and the digital culture, Kaminer points out the amusing and ominous effects of our deference to spiritual authorities and resistance to critical thinking." .
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The Second Long Walk The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
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Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0826305490 . Boards show light shelf wear only, DJ shows heavy shelf wear with tears, chipping along top edge. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Illustrated with B&W photos ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 239 pages; The author tries to clarify the issues in the dispute in question. "''THE SECOND LONG WALK'' covers the tragic conflict between two tribes of American Indians who inhabit the northeast quarter of Arizona. Some 8,000 Hopis live on a small reservation surrounded by the much larger reservation of an estimated 150,000 Navajos. The Hopis are farmers by tradition and, until recently, lived in medieval-looking stone villages built, for reasons of defense, on the tops of cliff-rimmed mesas. According to their own mythology, the Hopis have been here forever; according to anthropological research, they have lived here…
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500 Essential Graphic Novels: The Ultimate Guide
by Kannenberg, Gene
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New York: Collins Design. Very Good+. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. 0061474517 . Remainder mark on bottom page edges.; A near-fine volume. B&W and color images throughout ; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 528 pages; "The first of its kind, this book focuses on each graphic novel separately, honing in on art technique, style and prose, plus an age rating system so parents will know what is suitable for their children. Chapters are divided by genre, complete with individual plot synopses and star-scaled reviews for each book, providing the reader with a concise and balanced understanding of today's best graphic novels." .
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Pendulum, a Journey; quasi-unabRidged
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Vancouver, BC: Solspace21 Publishing Company. Very Good+. 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by Author; Light edgewear to corrugated cardboard covers ; Inscribed by author on half title page, #209 of 250. This is obviously published by a small press with limited release, the binding is a light corrugated caedboard, bound with twine ; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339 pages; This appears to be entries in a diary using different fonts and different styles of writing. .
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The Black Pit...and Beyond
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Burnstown ON: General Store Publishing House. Near Fine. 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 1894263197 . Signed by Author; Only slight wear. ; Signed and inscribed by author 'Mumford' on title page. ; Trade PB; 8.90 X 5.90 X 0.50 inches; 138 pages; "J. Gordon Mumford was born outside London and trained as a radio operator for the British Merchant Navy in 1942. He first went to sea in 1942 on a Danish collier which met an untimely end which we read about in occasional flashbacks. We first meet 17-year old Mumford on the SS SCOTTISH HEATHER which sailed in convoy ONS 154 from England bound for New York. The 'Black Pit' referred to by the title is what is also known as the 'Air Gap' -- the part of the North Atlantic beyond reach of Allied aircraft where German U-boats waited like hungry wolves for defenseless sheep. There is an unusual twist to the adventures that befall Mumford and his fellow SCOTTISH HEATHER crew after they are torpedoed. His next ship, the EMPIRE…
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman Witchcraft in Colonial New England
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New York: W W Norton & Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 0393024784 . Some shelf wear present on DJ and boards, DJ is sun-faded on spine, short tear base of spine. Small bump to bottom edge of front board. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8.20 X 5.80 X 1.30 inches; 360 pages; "Confessing to "familiarity with the devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. The case of Ann Cole, who was "taken with very strange Fits," fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events at Salem. More than three hundred years later, the question "Why?" still haunts us. Why were these and other women likely witches vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession? Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social…
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Karsh Canadians
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0802023177 . Some edge wear to dust jacket, especially head of DJ spine ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar. Silver cloth covered boards as new ; B&W Photographs; 1.1 x 12.1 x 9.9 Inches; 208 pages; Yousuf Karsh 'He grew up during the Armenian Genocide where he wrote "I saw relatives massacred; my sister died of starvation as we were driven from village to village." At the age of 16, his parents sent Yousuf to live with his uncle George Nakash, a photographer in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Karsh briefly attended school there and assisted in his uncles studio.' Coming from the terrors happening in Armenia, Canada must have seemed like heaven on earth. This is Karsh's book of praise for the country he loved best .
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Techniques for Electron Microscopy
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Oxford, UK: Blackwell Scientific Publications. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1965. Second Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards show some shelfwear, 1/4" tear to bottom of spine, small chip on bottom front foredge. Prev. owner's name has been taped over on FFEP, and stamped on top page edges. ; A tight solid book, text unmarked. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 560 pages .
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Children Of Earth And Sky
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Toronto: Viking. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 2016. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0143192620 . DJ and boards show some shelf wear, bottom page edges have moisture damage and rippling. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 571 pages; "From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a young artist traveling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his requestand possibly to do moreand a fiercely intelligent, angry woman, posing as a doctors wife, but sent by Seressa as a spy. " .
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The Golden Calm An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi
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New York: Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670344001 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, with 1/2" tear on top front edge of DJ. Page top edges foxed, not affecting page surfaces. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 20 X 20 X 20 inches; 217 pages; "Emily Anne Theophila, Lady Clive Bayley (née Metcalfe; 18301911), was an English memoirist. In 1844, her father sent her an illustrated book which he had commissioned. The book is currently housed in the British Museum. A book of her reminiscences was published in 1980. Edited by M. M. Kaye, it was called The Golden Calm. Bayley was born Emily Annie Theophila Metcalfe, the daughter of Grace and Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet, a British civil servant in India known as the British Resident (de facto Ambassador). She was born in India, but raised in England before rejoining her father in Delhi at the age of seventeen." This memoir contains…
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Beyond the Aegean
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New York: Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679425659 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.0 X 6.5 X 1.6 inches; 449 pages; "The First World War has barely ended. Greek forces are reclaiming Anatolia from the Turks. And Stavros Topouzoglouwho twenty years earlier, escaping oppression of Turkish rule, fled to America only to discover the venality of his dream of an American lifedisembarks to reclaim his homeland. Here he will recast his life and rid himself of his obsession with the elegant American woman who has become for him the ultimate symbol of success. He will marry an Anatolian girl who will treat him like and agha. He will have the life his father had. Stavross energy and arrogance propel him to an astonishing success in his war-torn country. Deep in the interior of Anatolia, he meets the woman who he thinks will complete this new…
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The Newspapering Murrays
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Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Biographee; DJ is scuffed, chipped, a couple of short tears, bookplate on front pastedown ; A gift inscription by Margaret 'Ma' Murray on title page and signed by author, her daughter. A tight solid book. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; B&W Photographs; 224 pages; "Ma" Margaret Lally Murray and her husband George dominated the interior of British Columbia, she as a journalist and he as a politician. This biography was written by their daughter. .
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The Book of War 25 Centuries of Great War Writing
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New York: Penguin Putnam. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670888044 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 9 X 5.80 X 1.80 inches; 492 pages; The author reviews key war episodes through history, from the Heroic Greek era to todays modern warfare. .
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We Will Remember Them The lives behind the Richmond Cenotaph
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Richmond BC: City of Richmond Archives. Very Good-. 1998. Paperback. 0969003137 . Some edge wear and creasing of the heavy card covers, corners creased, bottom fore corner bumped. ; A tight solid book. ; Trade PB; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 72 pages; Archivist, Mary Keen, has researched the lives of the soldiers commemorated at the Richmond British Columbia cenotaph and in this book gives a brief biography of each and in some cases a photo. Their deaths occurred in WWI and WWII. .
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Duncan Polite The watchman of Glenoro
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Toronto: F.H. Revell Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1905. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with stamped design and titles front and spineshow light edge wear and soil, no fraying. ; A tight solid book. The only date is for the Revell publication in 1905 ; 306 pages; A charming rural story set in Scotland. .
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A Thoroughly Wicked Woman Murder, Perjury and Trial by Newspaper
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Halfmoon Bay BC: Caitlin Press Inc.. Very Good+. 2010. First Edition. Softcover. 1894759486 . Signed by Author; Card covers show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, inscribed by the author on half-title page.; 7.9 X 5.5 X 2.2 inches; 230 pages; "On a foggy evening in November 1905, 48-year-old Thomas Jackson returned to his home on Melville Street in Vancouver after nine months of prospecting north of the Skeena. Jackson was happy because he had made an important gold strike. Four days later he was dead from strychnine poisoning. What followed was a series of hearings and trials in the city's courtrooms with fledgling lawyers trying to make their names in combat with the celebrated defence counsel Joseph Martin, KC. At the same time the newspapers, which were locked in a deadly circulation war, tried desperately to trump each other with juicy bits of information, all of it splashed on their front pages week after week. In the end the two women served time in the BC…
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Sea-silver Inside British Columbia's salmon-farming industry
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Victoria, BC: Horsdal & Schubart. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. 0920663435 . Only slight wear to pictorial card covers ; A bright, solid book.; B&W Photographs; 8.40 X 5.10 X 0.40 inches; 138 pages; From the back cover: "Supporters point out that fish farms produce food, create jobs and boost the local economy, as well as earning millions of dollars in export sales. Critics say they contaminate the ocean, spread diseases and harm seals and whales, and that Atlantic salmon escaping from the pens threaten the survival of the remaining wild Pacific salmon stocks." .
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