Search Results: Titles starting with G from JKL Books

U.S.A.: Indiana University Press, 2009. Soft cover. Near Fine. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Slight edgewear.

Scottish Academic Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows no shelf-wear. Dust jacket shows slight wear to edges only.

London: Viking, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Like new, but with slight wear to upper edges of dust jacket, including one tiny closed tear. 304 pages; 8 pages of colour photographs. "'The time has come to face up to a reality which eventually dawns on a great many music lovers at a certain time of their life, namely that I am a failed rock star. Furthermore, it has recently occurred to me that only through a process of failing to become a rock star have I become a writer.' Gig is a highly entertaining successor to Armitage's best-selling memoir, All Points North. Like its predecessor, Gig relishes the humour, vitality and occasional absurdity of life at home and 'on the road' -- seen this time through the prism of music and poetry" - dust jacket.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows wear: two creases across top corner and along spine. Edges worn. 142 pages, including b&w photographs. "With the coming of glasnost to the Soviet Union, filmmakers have begun to explore previously forbidden themes, and distributors are releasing films that were suppressed by pre-glasnost-era censors. Soviet cinema is in the midst of a revolution, one that mirrors and helps interpret the social revolution taking place throughout the USSR" -- cover. BAY 34.

Prague: International Council of Unitarians/Universalists, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear only. Former owner's name on title page. Proceedings of a Theological Symposium, 25th-30th June, 2001. "Seven principal speakers addressed the theme [Unitarian Thought at the Dawn of the 21st Century] by each reflecting on the cultural context which has shaped and is shaping their religious community" -- preface. BAY 32.

Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2002. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Like new, but front free endpaper has been removed (no text missing) and dust jacket shows slight wear. "Researchers and policy-makers are taking a new look at public policies to find broader grounds for assessing their economic and social impacts on individuals, families, communities, and nations. This book introduces this new research on social capital and well-being and applies it to key issues facing individuals and governments in the age of globalizatio" -- dust jacket. BAY 37.

Toronto: MacMillan , 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Dust jacket shows minor wear to edges. 237 pages. "I didn't set out to write a crusading novel. I just wanted to tell a few good stories about some interesting people who live in a senior citizen's hotel. But along the way I found myself engaged in a fight against prejudice. Many people, I discovered, are convinced that only the young are capable of feeling passion and falling in love. It just isn't true" -- dust jacket.

Toronto: New Press, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is acceptable. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Dust jacket shows wear to edges; 3/4" x 1/4" tear at top left near spine; and price has been clipped. 159 pages. "Jeremy Sadness, a graduate student in New York State, victim of peculiar sexual and academic difficulties, decides the time has come to 'head west' in emulation of his childhood her, Grey Owl -- the Englishman who disappeared into the Canadian bush and emerged a famous Indian" -- dust jacket. BAY 27.

Victoria, BC: Agio Publishing House, 2012. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows minor wear only. "World leaders have not been able to find solutions to the growing problem of global insecurity associated with failed and failing states in many regions. Governance and Security As A Unitary Concept is the first compilation of contemporary commentaries - from twenty contributing authors on six continents - to examine governance and security together rather than as complementary yet separate entities" (back cover). Contents: Establishing structures --Dimensions of security -- Perspectives on resource security -- States within states and states of co-operation -- Rules to ensure good governance and security -- Challenges to assuring security -- Non-European governance -- A comprehensive approach -- Summary of our aspirations. CDN BAY 18.

Vancouver, B.C.: City Planning Department (Vancouver, B.C.), 1975. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, staple-bound. Cover shows minor fading at edges. Includes b&w photographs, maps, and graphs. BAY 36.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Dust jacket shows some wear to edged; corners are bumped. 10 pages have tiny 1/2" tears/crease at bottom. 340 pages, including b&w photographs. Contents: 'Write down everything just as you know it' -- Victims of the times, heroes of their lives -- Driving towards death -- Dear Ruth: this is the story of Maggie Wilson, Ojibwa ethnologist -- Casting light on women in the shadow of the law -- From Bovarysme to Automatisme (and beyond) -- The wrong time and the wrong place -- Settling the score with myths of settlement -- Anna of Intola: a Finnish-Canadian woman with Sisu -- Soaring to new heights -- Marion Hilliard -- 'By title and by virtue' -- Elizabeth Allin -- 'Out of a cardboard box beside our bed like a baby' -- Evelyn Garbary. BAY 33.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. Like new, but with slight wear to cover. 340 pages. "An intriguing collection of short biographical sketches, memoirs, and essays about Canadian women of the twentieth century from all walks of life" (back cover). BAY 35.

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.

Auckland, NZ: Tandem Press, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Minor wear to edges of cover. "For the thirty-six contributors to this important and compelling collection, the experience of growing up Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand is as diverse and complex as each of the individuals featured" -- back cover.

Victoria, BC: British Columbia Provincial Museum, Dept. of Recreation and Conservation, 1972. 4th Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Staple-bound. Cover shows minor wear only. Illustrated with Latin names of plants and brief descriptions. Handbook no. 20. CDN BAY 9.

Kew, UK: The National Archives, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Like new, but with slight wear to dust jacket. 192 pages. "Guy Fawkes, James I, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Robert Catesby -- just the more well-known names among the wide case of an astonishing real-life drama: the 1605 Gunpowder Plot" -- dust jacket.

Macmillan; Reprint edition (1904), 1904. No Binding. Good. MICROFICHE. 5 sheets, each in own envelope. Microfiche produced by Lost Cause Press, Louisville, 1981.

London: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1923. Soft cover. Fair. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Cover shows wear and some soiling. Advertisements at front and rear. Ex-library. Contents: Foreword: Who takes up the Challenge? by the Right Rev. G. L. King, D.D., the Secretary, S.P.G. I. "A Great Challenge" -- II. Canada -- III. The West Indies; and Central and Eastern South America -- IV. Africa -- V. India -- VI. The Far East -- VII. Australia and Polynesia -- VIII. Europe-Chaplaincies -- Can we meet it? An Applications' Sub-Committee -- A special order form " A Great Challenge" -- A special contribution form -- Home Activities -- Summary of workers assisted through the Society's grants to the diocese -- Table of overseas dioceses assisted by the Society's grants, with bishops, commissaries, total grants, etc. -- Officers of the Society -- Financial Statements. 18 pages of black & white photographs. LC -022.